A stunning repackage for a book that wowed a generation, Lady of Hay has sold over a million copies worldwide.

This is a collection of 30 stories by Barbara Erskine: most contemporary, a few historical, some spooky or humorous, many of them love stories. This is the second volume of stories created for the women's magazine market over recent years, including a number written especially for this volume.

This is a collection of 40 stories to illustrate the author's talent for capturing the spirit of a place. The stories include A Face in the Crowd and A Step Out of Time . Barbara Erskine is the author of Lady of Hay and Kingdom of Shadows .

In this fifth novel in the medieval crime series, all is not well in Hawkenlye Vale. A decomposing body has been discovered and Josse, Yves and the Abbess, watched by the strange prince's magister, become embroiled in a mystery whose roots stretch back further than the Second Crusade.

Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'.