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Forced to accompany her uncle on a voyage to Calcutta, Sita attempts to throw herself overboard. She is saved by a mysterious stranger.

Bettina, unwanted by her mother, is sent to a missionary aunt. There the dangers she faces are overcome with the help of a tall dark stranger.

A powerful romance of three generations of Cornish folk and their sometimes imprudent need to love and be loved.

Pregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves - a bug-ridden boarding-house attic in Fulham.

Homeless, penniless, lonely Lucy Leighton finds employment as companion to eminent journalist Clarissa Bourke-Rathbone.

MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a trouble-making gunrunner is shot down in front of him.

It's only 24 hours into a new case and PI Cliff Hardy's already been heavied; you know that the job is going to get his full attention.

Series: The pageant of England, Volume 2. Roger Bacon, Simon de Montfort and others made the long reign of Henry III into a period of vital advance in science, politics and art.

Romance. France Bradbury takes the post of campanion/secretary to a couple living in a remote part of Wales and learns the peaceful atmosphere of surroundings is illusory.

Humorous autobiography of the West Coast Eagles player and now media personality.

This powerful and enthralling novel spans more than three decades, from the 1880's to the First World War, and tells the story of Ward Gibson, his family, and those whose destiny is influenced

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.

The story of a blazing star-crossed love affair and a dangerous game involving the fate of nations. Suspense stretched almost to breaking point.

When Cleve went after the rustling syndicate, he did not consider the cost or the risk.

Fascinating life story of a man whose unique methods reveal the depth of communication that is possible between man and horse.