Rosemary Cross

When impulsive, thirty-something Fleur accidentally finds herself training for the London Marathon she hopes it will lend her life some focus. But she suddenly finds herself in prison, as her haphazard life is ripped apart.

Conflicting loyalties come to the fore when Isabel finds herself attracted to her new boss. As lust turns to love, and love to obsession the question is - can an adulterous wife be a good mother? X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Tessa and Becky, who have been friends since the beginning of their City careers, face many choices in their lives, not least the choice presented by biology - children.

When Louise and Bethany fell out with Amy she decided to find a friend on an internet chatroom. She knows it is stupid to go alone to meet someone she has been chatting to - but Zed seems so normal, what can possibly go wrong?

Anneli hates drawing, painting and anything artistic. But when she finds a picture hidden behind a secret door in her house she is drawn into an extraordinary story.

Marigold Green, 'Bilgewater' to some, thinks of herself as plain and peculiar, an idea reinforced by growing up in the boys' school where her father is a housemaster. Groomed by wise and loving Paula, but upstaged by bad yet beautiful Grace, Marigold suffers almost comically through the turbulent world of adolescence.

The survival of Golden Valley is threatened, with the animals fighting one another and the magician near death. The children manage to travel back to the magician’s time with the help of the golden pendulum and the final battle draws near.

In the Devon village of Ashleigh, David Adams meets Kate Trimble, an orphan who lives with her aunt. Their friendship develops over the summer, and David is able to help Kate after an incident which shocks everyone and emphasises the darker side of war.  Book 15 of series.

Cat knows that his sister is the most promising witch in Coven Street. They are summoned to live in the castle of the enchanter Chrestomanci, who refuses to recognise Gwendolen's talent. Frustrated she devises a scheme that threatens to destroy all the worlds of Chrestomanci.

Do all the mother's around seem to be getting it right, when you are so obviously getting it all wrong? Read Stephanie Calman's confessions of breaking all the rules and realise that you are just normal! X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Georgia has finally put her red-bottomosity to rest and chosen Robbie the Sex God over Dave the Laugh. After all, with the Sex God she'll be a pop-star girlfriend and go on tour! Besides, Dave the Laugh is now dating her friend Ellen (although that didn't stop Georgia from snogging him at a party ... ).

But when the Sex God is never around and Dave the Laugh breaks up with Ellen, Georgia doesn't know what to think! Is she doomed to be a pop-star widow, or will she take her own bottom firmly in hand and blow her cosmic horn? And will her cat, Angus (the size of a small Labrador, only mad), ever get over the shame of having his trouser snake addendums snipped? As always, in Georgia's life, nothing ever turns out as planned!

As a young noblewoman living in Venice in 1592, Donata Maoncenigo's life is governed by strict rules of etiquette. She longs to wander freely around the city, so she comes up with a daring plan to escape the palazzo.

Have you ever felt your life is like a bad movie? You think I might improve but know that it won’t. With her third screen play rejected Kit finds herself adrift. She is the manager of the Orange cinema but when it is taken over and is under threat Kate is forced to confront reality. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines.

Olly’s brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university.

Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger.

Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.

Amal is an Australian-Muslim-Palestinian, and during one summer holiday she decides to become a 'Full-timer', a girl who wears a hijab, a scarf, full time. It takes a lot of guts - will she be able to cope with the prejudice and keep her friends.

CONTENT WARNING: Contains some explicit language

Rebecca Monroe is researching her thesis, surrounded by the ups and downs of family life. The Monroes do all the normal things, but beneath the surface there are demons and secrets, which must eventually, and humorously, come out! X rated, explicit sexual content.

An outsider in a new school Phyllisia is bullied. Although desperately needing a friend she is not sure about Edith as she is very scruffy. Will a common tragedy change that feeling?

After wishing her daughter, Amy, 'Goodnight', Agnes Dodds left the family home in Islington and disappeared into the London Blitz. Amy, left to look after her brother, sisters and father, was determined to find Agnes. Eventually Amy discovers the reason why Agnes left, but perhaps this knowledge should have remained a dark secret.

Seen through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl, this is the story of the bubonic plague in London and how it affected ordinary people. Told in diary format, it covers the year before the Great Fire of London, which ended the threat of the plague.

Hazel is smart, funny and fed-up - she's also unhappy at school where the pencil-thin and gorgeous Lauren torments her. The conflict between the two girls is about to come to a head, with surprising results.

Because Katie, a doctor, is a good person, whilst her husband, David, is the 'Angriest Man in Holloway' she calculates that she has earned her affair with another man. When David suddenly becomes good, Katie's sums no longer add up! Contains some offensive language.

In 15th century France, a young peasant girl faces an overwhelming task: to save her beloved France from tyrants and restore the rightful king to the throne. To free her country Joan must leave behind everyone she has ever loved, apart from her faithful sparrow, Belami. But with huge bravery and fierce determination, she follows her calling and is finally granted permission to ride fearlessly into battle, leading the French army against the enemy.

Many years later, a lonely girl called Eloise has a very special dream about her heroine, Joan of Arc. In this moving account by master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, Joan of Arc's extraordinary story is brought to life as never before. 

Georgia has finally landed Robbie the Sex God, but he's never around, and Georgia's ex, Dave the Laugh, is starting to look quite dreamy. Strangely, so does just about every other guy Georgia meets, even the new French teacher.

In this third installment of Georgia's hilarious confessions, Georgia's "red bottomosity" is out of control! Whatever will happen next?

Patrick and Jane lead increasingly different lives. Jane walks out on her marriage and has a passionate affair in India, but has she thrown away true love by mistake?

Marta’s mother died when she was young and she is raised by her grandmother in her house in Trieste. After her grandmother's death she finds a box in the attic which may help to uncover her own past. Marta embarks on a journey to Israel, seeking what is left of her mother's family in an attempt to make sense of where she came from.

Three brilliant stories that will captivate young readers by War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.

The Marble Crusher: Does Mr Manners, the headmaster, really have a machine that crushes marbles? Albert thinks so.

Colly's Barn: Colly the owl and Screecher the swallow band together to save the barn.

Conker: Nick beats the bully, Stevie Rooster, and becomes Conker king. But can he rescue a mistreated dog while searching for the best conker?

The continuing adventures of the Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls pretending to be human, as they try to cope with a series of ardent admirers whose attentions threaten to pierce the family's veil of secrecy.

Angela Fytton, perfect wife and mother has been dumped. Once over the shock she sends her selfish teenagers to live with their father and new lady, moves to the country and waits. For she knows that sooner or later her husband will come back to her!

Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just the two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops round to check Lizzie's spellings and tell Dad he's daft. But today there's something unusual going on: why is Dad building himself a pair of wings and studying the birds to see how they fly?

Lesley Garrett recalls her life and career as a soprano so far. It includes a rollercoaster ride of ill-health, disapproval and painful choices between her professional and private life.

This story is not a story at all. It all happened.

On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too?

The waiting and hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life...

On a perfect spring day Alexander catches an early train to London, but he doesn't go to work. Instead he spends the day with Kate, a waitress he met the day before. He day-dreams about leaving his old life and starting afresh with Kate, and a twist of fate gives him the opportunity.

Only one year after the city suffered such terrible losses during the Plague, London is recovering and Hannah convinces her parents that, with her younger sister Anne's help, she can return to the city and manage the sweetmeats shop on her own. The girls are thrilled to be back in London, and Hannah even finds her old beau, Tom, alive and well and working for a magician. But her newfound happiness is short-lived as fires begin to spring up around the city and quickly move closer to their shop. Finally, Hannah and Anne are forced to abandon their home to save their lives. When the fires have abated, the girls return to find their shop in ruins. They also find Tom, beaten and injured after being chased by a mob that blamed the magician for starting the fire. Despite their losses, Hannah is sure that one day she will rebuild her shop and once again trade under the sign of the sugared plum.

Emma is persuaded by her partner, Matt, to agree to buying and restoring a farmhouse in the South of France. But their new home is not the idyll Matt promised, especially as he spends half his time in London. Time to devise Plan B.

Andrew Sherwood's curiosity is aroused when he meets Louise, an obviously frightened woman who then disappears. Later he discovers that Louise is on the run from her tyrannical husband.

Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people out of her life whenever she wants, but things are different with Geoffrey. She wants to get away, but how can she ensure it is a permanent escape?