Black Swan

This novel#8230;should also find an audience on this side of the Atlantic....

Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman? Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel finds that control is slipping away and she can no longer rely on her role as undisputed matriarch. Other people seem to be becoming more important to her children than she is. A...

Kate Atkinson, winner of the Ian St. James award for her short stories, has written a first novel about the life of Ruby Lennox, a Yorkshirewoman, and her eccentric family. This novel won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1995. ...

From Ben Elton, author of the hugely successful Past Mortem, a gut-wrenching historical drama which forces us to handle the truth.Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he was recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although...

Weaves together the tragic stories of two families, hauntingly linked by whispers across the centuries. This story is of Colt and Francie, who in looking for a place to call home, find themselves instead....

Mattie Fiona Blue, recently widowed and filled with grief, spins a tale of her beloved husband Nick - his birth, his love of the sea, his haunted fear of drowning, their romantic and devoted love for each other, and his death - a death always, as it seemed, foretold by family legend....