Hazel Douglas

Delightful story of orphan Anne Shirley who goes to live with elderly farming couple in Nova Scotia and changes their life.

Elderly ladies living fantasy lives, and betrayed wives wreaking revenge are just some of the characters in these entertaining short stories.

This is the story of a little girl named Fern, who loves a little pig named Wilbur – and of Wilbur's dear friend, Charlotte, a beautiful large grey spider. When Fern's uncle decrees that Wilbur must become bacon, Fern, Charlotte, Templeton the rat and all Wilbur's farmyard friends come up with an ingenious plan to fool the humans and save their very special pig.

Joyful, funny, and deeply moving, Charlotte's Web is a story about the power of friendship, and celebrating what makes everyone special. It is rightly heralded as one of the greatest children's books ever written.

The fortunes and tragedies that beset a great Yorkshire wool trade family.

Though her parents disapprove, hairdresser Kacie Cooper believes that her life with husband Dennis is perfect. When Kacie's sister, Caroline, flees a less idyllic marriage and turns to her for help, Kacie's own life starts to disintegrate.

An orphan brought up by a Victorian spinster in Chile, Eliza Sommers falls in love with Joaquin. When he goes to California to seek his fortune in the gold rush, Eliza follows, but when she finally hears news of him she has to decide what true love is.

William, Mary and Alice, staying at Golden House for the Easter holidays, find the Magician waiting to guide them on their Great Task, but everything seems different. Badger baiters and their dogs have arrived in the valley and something must be done to stop them.

Whilst Uma, a plain spinster, lives in India smothered by her overbearing parents, her over-indulged younger brother Arun is studying in Massachusetts. He is bewildered by the freedom and culture he finds in the home of the Patton family.

The author's memoirs of growing up in southern England in the 1930's, remembering everything from being the Angel Gabriel in the school Nativity play, to the family's latest acquisition - an up to date privy that was fit for a duchess!

On her way to an audition in London, Gemma Goodeve is involved in an horrendous train crash. She can only be freed from the wreckage after her lower leg is amputated. After the accident Gemma also has to contend with mother's ambitions and a media circus from which her surgeon tries to protect her . But is this what Gemma really wants?

A young girl travels from Edinburgh to China to marry a man she hardly knows. From her diary entries it is obvious that she is very modern in her attitudes and the marriage is not happy. When she falls in love with a Japanese man she is ostracised by the Chinese community.

The author is fascinated by, and loves bread of all types and has travelled the world in searh of 'aysh', which is the Arabic word for both bread and life!

In 1911 two children develop a strong, innocent passion for each other. Later, after a lifetime spent apart they find each other again.

London Rabbi Deborah Hirsch is devastated to hear that an old school friend, Suzy Palmer, is on Death Row in Louisiana. Deborah enlists former classmates to try to prove her innocence. As they piece together what happened, Deborah realises that one of these friends has betrayed Suzy.

Trawbawn stands behind tall iron gates. It is a beautiful house but it is haunted by a dark and mysterious past. What menacing and grisly deeds caused Lydia's daughter to leave, and why does Lydia seek revenge? X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

In the final book about the March family, the further adventures, successes, and failures of the young men of Plumfield school are recounted. Book 4 of series.

Divorcee Julie Roseman and widower Romeo Cacciamani run rival flower shops in Boston. When the two meet at a seminar and then fall in love they have to contend with a long running feud between their two families.

This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. And every night Laura and her family are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa’s fiddle to send them off to sleep.

As she progresses from childhood to womanhood, Gretel Samuelson picks her way through the tragedies and absurdities of everyday family life.

Born to British parents, the author grew up in New York. She shares her memories of Manhattan and of the personalities and events that shaped the era of prohibition.

Declan Fitzgerald's obsessive determination to restore a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans leads him to discover a dark secret that has been buried for hundreds of years.

A tale of passion, jealousy and family mystery that affects the happiness of two pairs of sisters, Gemma and Daisy, their mother Estelle and her sister Shirley. Secrets from the 1950's still have repercussions on all their lives.

Lambert's lifelong friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novel 'Inside Daisy Clover'. Now he tells her story, from the urgings of her driven 'stage mother', through to her adolescence. And to her flowering as a glamorous movie star to her tragic death by drowning.

Elfrida, the clergyman's daughter, wants an attractive, sensible husband, but the attentions of rival suitors leads to tragedy.

Despite growing up a rich, privileged young woman in San Francisco, Aurora del Valle is unhappy. Haunted by nightmares and childhood memories she travels to Chile to discover what had such an effect on her early life.

Born in the era of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. She loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and Kester Woodseaves, the weaver.

Eleven year old Pip's life was touched by tragedy, when nine months earlier a terrible accident had plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. One day on the beach Pip meets Matt Bowles, an artist who teaches her to draw. Gradually Matt is drawn into the lives of Pip and her mother.

In the snow covered cathedral city of Torminster, Canon Fordyce and his family look forward to a traditional English Christmas.

In 1942 Joan Gordon married her charming, good looking fiance. As soon as the honeymoon was over he changed into a monosyllabic bread winner, who expected his wife to be a domestic paragon. Here she looks at her married life in wartime Leeds.