When their mother dies, Cora and her little sister are lovingly cared for by Eliza, their mother's great friend. Cora's father, whom she hardly knows, is unaware of what's happened. But just before WW2 their father unexpectedly reappears wishing to make amends. Is it to late?

Called brilliant by USA Today, Robert Alexanders historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputineldest of the Rasputin childrenrecounts her infamous fathers final days, building a breathless...

Fran hates Ash Mountain, and she thought she'd escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway. She returns to her hometown to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town of Ash Mountain, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem, she falls in love for the first time, and her demanding dad tests her patience,...

An enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult. At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother or shoplifted books for years, or why I was afraid of the dark and had a compulsion to rescue people, without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us, and the Rapture they told us was...

The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter 11-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it.

Penny Leighton, TV Producer and wife of the local vicar Simon Canter, is struggling to cope with motherhood. The couple have had their only child Jenna, while Penny is in her forties and it's been a big shock to her system. When Simon engages the services of a nanny, Ella, as a way of helping Penny, it only serves to push her further away from him and from Jenna. After Penny's sister arrives in the village after the death of the woman Penny called...

Maria Venegas has been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from the US to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence - from the final conversations he had with...

'I THINK YOU MIGHT BE MY FATHER.' When first-year student Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and tentatively says these words, he is left reeling. His entire family is affected by the arrival of this stranger - his wife Caroline, with whom he has an increasingly fragile relationship, and their two children Robbie and Holly. Though no one quite knows who Zoe is, she is soon entangled in their lives. Yet her stories don't ring true,...

This guide is packed with tips and advice about conveying just the right message to your daughter and her husband-to-be, understanding what is expected of you, establishing a good relationship with your future in-laws, getting the best value for your money, defusing any tension, making a speech, and much more.

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is writing a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, his world fractures. Parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery; clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage; sex and...