Maggie Mash

Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed. Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very...

A man, wearing his daughter's wedding ring, is found in front of his fireplace, a bullet hole in his chest. A funeral director searches desperately for his brother - a man who doesn't seem to be missed. A woman struggles to protect her children and her life as her husband turns ever more dangerous. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht believe that these three cases are totally unrelated. until they uncover a connection between these three people that changes...

January 1945, West London. The Waterway Girls are flourishing in their roles aboard the Marigold and have quickly established themselves as an invaluable and popular crew on the cut. But the VI and V2 rockets come increasingly too close just as someone from their past intrudes on their lives. It is then that Sylvia is torn between her promises and her love for those closest to her. Polly and Verity, who are still waiting for their sweethearts' safe...

MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process. Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternity group. Will their informant turn tail?

Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and grandmother of monarchs. Mary Douglas, Conuntess of Lennox ranked high at the court of her uncle, Henry VIII, and was lady of honour to five of his wives. Beautiful and tempestuous, she created scandal, not just once, but twice, by falling in love with unsuitable men. A born political intriguer, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London on three occasions,...

Bryony and Hannah are sisters, but they couldn't be more different, and war has brought even more of a rift between them. Hannah is young and headstrong. No one will stop her from doing what she wants, and she wants to stay in Jersey. But Bryony is happiest amongst her family and loved ones, and at Combe Lodge everyone is pitching in. The family home has filled with evacuees and Bryony has joined the ATA, helping to ferry planes across the country,...

Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife.

Tom Reid, war hero, winner of the Victoria Cross and local celebrity, is discovered to be a prominent member of Red April, the fast advancing national party on the extreme right. Tough reporter Claire Maplin is assigned to find out what has made Reid reject the country he nearly died for.

This nostalgic London saga from well-loved Victor Pemberton brings together a wounded soldier and a young nurse.

Desperately trying to shelter from the events of her recent past, Karen Sharpe has been working simple fraud and theft cases in West Yorkshire CID. But the brutal murder of a young pregnant woman threatens the precarious balance she has built around her.