In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs - including Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend...

Laurie loves a challenge. Especially if it involves anything beautiful, baked and frosted. The brief is simple: with three other women, Laurie will board a London bus - kitted out as an English tea shop - on a deliciously different road trip of the USA. Their mission: To bring home-grown classics like Battenberg, Victoria sponge and scones to the land of cupcakes, whoopie pies and gold-leafed chocolate sundaes. And to show them how a real cup of tea...

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries.

Harvey Cheyne is the spoilt son of a millionaire. On an ocean voyage off the Newfoundland coast, he falls overboard and is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman. It comes as rather a shock to Harvey when he's forced to work with the crew for the summer.

Kerouac's long-lost second novel is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realises how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might...

Quarantine, the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus. The hospitals cannot cope and civilisation is breaking down. Staying inside is the only way to keep safe. But paediatrician Ramola Sherman can't stay safe - when her friend Natalie calls, her husband is dead, she's eight months pregnant, and she's been bitten. So begins a desperate race to save Natalie and her unborn child.

Fleeing the end of an affair, and troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley comes home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident? Over the weeks that follow, as she comes to recognise her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, and tentatively...

They are sociable, articulate and unhappy, they enjoy sailing, and skiing, they play word games in the evenings and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, they are part of a competitive club feeding on petty rivalries & secrets.

Ethan Frome is a poor New England farmer who lives a downtrodden existence with his wife in this story of pessimism and tragic waste from one of America's great authors.

Full of warmth and humanity, 'Run' is a story about our fragile hopes and fears for our children and the lengths we will go to to protect our families.