The Finest Type of English Womanhood

Rachel Heath

A sensational debut based on a real-life murder case.It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell offers her the chance to alter the course of her destiny...

A Dragon In a Wagon

Lynley Dodd

This story by the author of Hairy Maclary and Friends about a girl who wishes she had a more exciting pet has delighted children for generations.'But just for once it might be fun if you changed from dog,' she said.'To something HUGE or something FIERCE or something ODD instead.'When Susie Fogg takes he...

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now

Peter Mayle

Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h...