Valerie Dodd

Casa Rossa, home of the Strada family is being sold, so Alina, a daughter of the family is packing up the house. As she does this she pieces together the family's past, and finds family secrets that collide with history. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

When psychiatrist and sleuth Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley is summoned to a convent to investigate a series of anonymous letters, the prime suspect is found drowned.

Bryony, recently bereaved, tries to adjust to her new life as a housekeeper on a Welsh farm.

John Dickie demonstrates that Italian cuisine is forged in the heart of the Italian city and in so doing takes us on a journey from medieval Milan to fascist Rome, from Renaissance Ferrara to 19th century Naples.

After buying a dilapidated castle with the aim of turning it into a B&B, middle-aged Elissa finds herself the focus of romantic attention. But are her suitors after her for herself or her assets?

A small girl runs into a wood. Two years later she is found curled up on the armchair in the house belonging to Gracie, a childless spinster. In the Cotswold village she is known as Joy. Grown up she becomes romantically involved with a fighter pilot and the mystery of her past slowly unravels.

Susanna Weber, renowned for producing the most elegant, exquisite couture in Vienna, touches numerous lives as matchmaker, comforter, confidante and passionate lover.

When eighteen-year-old Miranda dies in a sailing accident her mother, Louise, and her siblings gradually come to terms with her death, but her father Don is determined to bring someone to account. Gradually his reaction to the tragedy starts to tear the family apart.

Louise and Sarah have never been the closest of sisters. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, has always kept a distance between them. But as Louise's marriage to novelist Stephen Halifax turns sour Sara becomes her confidante and friend and discovers that, beneath the cool exterior, her sister is not quite the person she thought she was.

Meriel, Lucy, Lavinia and May were the daughters of Lord Lyttleton and the nieces of Prime Minister Gladstone. Through their diaries and letters the author presents a fascinating and detailed account of Victorian society, in fashionable London, in the country houses and on Continental travels.

Recently widowed, Rosie Hooke, realises that she will have to be very creative about fundraising if she is to pay off the loan from the brewery, otherwise she risks losing the 'Jack Cade' a Kentish pub that is her home and her business.

Book 1 of the 'Down to Earth' television series. Brian and Faith Addis lead busy but unfulfilled lives in London. After an idyllic holiday they decide to sell their home and business, a florist shop, and move their family to Devon. Little prepared for country life they meet new challenges head on!