In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, Ishvar and Omprakesh Darji, tailors who have been forced from the country into the city, and young student Maneck Kohlah are painfully putting together a new life, and making a family of sorts amidst crisis.

'Crow Lake' is a slow-burning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart. Kate, now a zoologist, can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her emotional life. She thinks she has outgrown her family, but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood.

As a young woman, Anne Elliot became engaged to the handsome Frederick Wentworth, but was persuaded by her vain, aristocratic family to break off the engagement due to Wentworth's inferior social and economic standing. Seven years later, still unmarried, Anne meets Frederick once again. Now a decorated naval officer, Captain Wentworth finds with mixed feelings for the woman who rejected him, a decision Anne Elliot soon comes to regret. Persuasion,...

Emma Woodhouse, spoilt and self-willed, is convinced she knows what is right for other people, especially in matters of the heart. She is, of course, invariably wrong. Wrong about Robert Martin and the pretty, empty-headed Harriet; about Harriet and the young vicar; about rich Frank Churchill and poor Jane Fairfax. While scheming and flirting, Emma nearly loses the one person who has always loved her, and it is a very contrite heroine who thankfully...

This engaging story of two attractive and mutually devoted sisters was first published in 1811. Romantic Marianne with her unrestrained enthusiasms, which lead to disillusionment and despair, makes a perfect foil to the unselfish Elinor, who brings a quiet self-control to her own heartbreak. The sentimental education of the two heroines is conducted with a fine regard for all the varying shades of romantic attraction, and in the end it is Marianne...

The newcomers flocked to Victoria Square, a parcel of land that had once belonged to Victoria Macara's family. Rachel, having escaped a terrible tragedy, decides to hold a barbecue and invites the whole square. The event becomes a time for truth-telling and the uncovering of old secrets.

Fannie Flagg is back - together with the unforgettable residents of Elmwood Springs, Missouri - with another cocktail of humour and poignancy, wit and nostalgia, a feelgood novel that takes you right to the heart of American life.

The War had ended and Scotland Road was left to count the cost. Abbie married her sweetheart Mike, who joined the Liverpool Police Force. Hannah moved into Ashenden Hall to nurse Richard, Earl of Ashenden, which brought her happiness, and heartache.

First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new and expanded edition includes many new contributions, and features Bill Bryson on seaside piers, Michael Palin on crags, Eric Clapton on Newlands Corner, Bryan Ferry on Penshaw Monument, Sebastian Faulks on pub signs, Kate Adie on deer parks, and many more.

It's May 1941 and Liverpool is being hammered by German air raids, during which young Mary Bradshaw is dealt a cruel blow by fate. But she has her friend Eileen to help her through the knocks, and soon she finds that when one door closes, another one really does open.