The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, anything to alter the tedium of her days. But there is another Dona who longs for a life of honest love - even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees London for remote Navron, finding there a hunted pirate.

'The most controversial book in Britain' Jeremy Paxman

On a Monday night in October in a seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. She was not an obvious victim. She just wasn't, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the type to have something happen to her. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess' world of nappies, school runs and baked beans begin to unravel.

A personal and moving account of two children; a girl living in Regency England and Julie's own troubled son.

This is the true story of what it's like to be an achingly careful parent, with hopes and dreams for your precious progeny, and what happens when those same bundles of joy grow up into adolescents stuffed full of angst, attitude and alcohol

Portrays the clash between an impulsive, artistic family and a calculating, aristocratic one.

A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb.

It's the summer holidays. And suddenly there's a strange boy at the bottom of Flynn's garden. Soon, she and her wayward brother Sam are walking out of the house in the middle of a hot summer's night and crossing four fields to find him again. But as well as the boy, Flynn and Sam find a whole gang of runaway kids.

When Flynn and her brother Sam find a strange boy at the bottom of their garden, they walk out of house in the middle of night to find him. But they find a gang of runaway kids. There's also someone else they're all running from. Escaping him, they stumble on a house which seems to offer safety and meets their desires and needs - or does it?

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their often fascinating lives.

Rosy has just lost a child in a terrible, careless accident, and Tom, her partner, has taken her to Paris to forget about things, to start again. This book presents an account of this woman trying to get by as a mother, a wife, while falling in love with a man from a memory.

From the author of Me and the Fat Man and Home comes a gripping historical novel set in Victorian London. This is a tale of murder and love -- and the tragic extremes of loss and need.

Tells the story of a girl who lost a race - who has always lost all races. PE is a ruthless aspect of school experience which shapes us all and leaves its traces in unexpected and lingering ways. Part of the Yellow Jersey Shorts series, this book explores the ecstasy, but mostly the agony, of school sports and PE.

The eighth month of pregnancy proves difficult for Susan. Her unhappy father has committed suicide, and Susan is haunted by the ghost of him as a boy. Emotionally immature herself, Susan has drifted her life, detached from those around her. Shocked out of her detachment by her father's death, Susan begins an affair with a sexually enticing artist.

When Donna, Will and Gayle find Frank Chapman, a self-proclaimed healer and maverick Christian, lying on the ground on Clapham Common, they feel drawn to help him, and a connection is forged that threatens to upset the careful balance of their lives.

In this mostly light-hearted yet occasionally devastating exploration of her school life, Myerson attempts to answer the question with all the energy and courage she never quite managed to put into school PE.

Myerson's third novel, her most uninhibited and powerful, is Amy's story -- a journey of sexual desire and her strange relationship with the fat man who rescues her from the past.

At the hotel desk there's a note for Rosy: 'I'm waiting for you X.' And he is, sitting in the corner of a cafe. They talk. He touches her. She turns away and when she looks again, he is gone. Was he there? Had she dreamed him? This is an account of a woman trying to get by as a mother, a wife, while falling in love with a man from a memory.