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Even as a child, Gabriella Harrison's only escape is through the stories she writes. Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world.

They are the most unlikely friends. Now Cecile has married her talented architect, Amanda has married Norma's brother and Norma has found a niche working as a teacher.

A weak monarch was a disaster for any nation, but no country needed a firm hand more than Scotland, with its feuding clans and the ever-present threat of an English invasion.

Fragile, quietly pretty Jane Hamilton is tougher than she looks. She has learned about men the hard way, from an absentee father.

Handbook for the blind, partially sighted, their families and friends. Explains what it is really like to be blind and how the sighted can make the lives of the blind easier.

In the shadows of the City of York illegitimate cousins Louisa and Edward Elliott are bound by the past, until dashing Irish officer Robert Duncannon appears.

Historical romance set against the Tuscan countryside.

Her boyfriend Roger's mother's attitude to her family and herself, upsets Stephanie.

Having no son, the Marquess of Walstoke makes his nephew Harry his heir.

A French foundling and a royal Englishman - could the gulf that separated them be bridged by love?

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.