Sometimes, when you've read a book and loved it, it's hard to pick up other books by the same author. You want to read them, yes, you know you do, but at the same time you don't want to risk any sense of disappointment. Having loved Small Island, that's how I felt about The Fruit of the...

Private eye Leo Street is on the trail of an adulterous husband when her clapped-out car causes her cover to be blown. It's time to draft in Ciara Gillespie, the teenage tearaway whom she befriended on her last case. At first, Ciara's methods of surveillance leave a lot to be desired, but soon...

Synopsis (from Amazon) FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco's mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle, an impoverished lady-in-waiting. The most powerful...

I' ve been a Philippa Gregory fan for quite a while now and have been especially fond of her Tudor series. Philippa has been responsible for my historical educaction given that English history did not feature much on my History O Level syllabus. The Red Queen was to be the second of a trilogy, the...

Cora Cash has grown up in a world in which money unlocks every door. Her coming-out ball promises to be the most opulent of the gilded 1890s, a fitting debut for New York’s ‘princess’. Yet her fortune cannot buy her the one thing she craves – the freedom to choose her own destiny...

“Plucky Taylor Greer grows up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. She succeeds on both counts when she buys an old car and heads west. But midway across the country motherhood catches up with her when she becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she...

"In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's...

From Fantastic Fiction: But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy....

Synopsis from the inside cover: When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with...

This book is about a man who has been washed up on a Spanish beach and appears to believe that he is Christopher Columbus. With no clue to his real identity, he is admitted to a mental institution. Here he grows close to a nurse who becomes fascinated by him and by trying to establish his true identity...