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During the hazardous years of the Depression, Christine Winter, with the indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession, meets a stranger and finds her life changed beyond recall.

Hannah Massey is the matriarch of her family but her daughter, the apple of her eye, creates an explosive situation.

Matthew lies in a hospital bed, wondering what place there is for a blind man in the new social order of a Britain adjusting to post-war austerity.

Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household.

John Kendall agrees to write the biography of a National Hunt racehorse trainer.

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.

Catherine Cookson's own story; of her mother and her harsh childhood growing up in a poor English family.

An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships.

Thriller set in the world of horse racing, Thomas Lyon, a film director, finds himself caught in a moral dilemma when a close friend confesses to him on his deathbed, mistaking Thomas for a priest.

Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops.

Joseph Rooney, dustman, is looking for lodgings. Ma Howlett welcomes him but he feels strange and shy. Then he meets Nellie and suddenly things are not so bad.

When Fred suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. A series of disasters threaten to ruin their holiday.

Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist lives a calm and ordered life. That is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion.

When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape.