When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas.

From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and when Sheba is discovered to be having an illicit affair with one of her pupils, Barbara elects herself as Sheba's chief defender.

The women in Willy Muller's life are trouble. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen, his other girlfriend, just wants more sex. Meanwhile, his oldest daughter, Sophie, wants him to finance her husband's drug habit. But it's his youngest daughter, Sadie, who's giving him the biggest headache.

A novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt in which in the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in.

This is a unique edition of Jane Austen's early burlesques; Lesley Castle, an inspired novella in letters, and is presented here alongside A History of England, and Catharine.

When the new teacher, Sheba, first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. Before too long, Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide in.

When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil.