Anne Cater

When Kylie Graham,a sophisticated Londoner, inherits the Sheila Mine in Central Africa she doesn't realise that this will mean difficulty and danger at every turn. After strange omens, mysterious sounds at night, and visits from a sinister witch-doctor she begins to feel utterly alone and fear for her life.

As the Second World War ends, Sophie Daniels quits the WAAF with nowhere to go. Eventually she finds Badgers Brook, where she meets and befriends nine-year-old Bertie, neglected and running wild. Friendly local Ryan Treweather is a welcome distraction, and potentially more, if she can just trust him with one big guilty secret. But if Sophie grows closer to Ryan, what will it mean for poor young Bertie?

When Kate worked at the Barleybridge Veterinary practice, she had thought herself in love with Scott. But that was years ago and she is over him now - or so she thinks. When she returns to the practice, she is alarmed to discover that suddenly, yet again, she is completely besotted with him.  Book 5 in series.

Eleanor and Beatrice dream of lovematches but the Dowager insists romantic love is for housemaids, not for the Graceover women. Beatrice, despatched to London to look over the current crop of bachelors, is unimpressed by the frivolities of the Season. Disturbed by the languid charm of Lord Serle and appalled by the mercenary attitudes to marriage displayed by Society, Beatrice's country innocence and unconventional behaviour lead her into some alarming situations. Meanwhile, the beautiful and headstrong Eleanor is up to mischief of her own which is guaranteed to earn the disapproval of her grandmother. A desperate struggle in the potting shed at midnight clears the air; not only does love triumph after all, but the Dowager is not displeased.

Valentina's mother had always made it clear to her that her brother, Michael, was the favourite child. So when the opportunity comes for Valentina to leave South Wales behind, and head to London, she grasps it with both hands. 1970s London is still thoroughly a man's world, but with new friends and big ambitions Valentina learns to stand on her own, and make for herself the life of which she dreams

The first book in the Swansea Girls series. On Saturday nights, the Pier Ballroom in Swansea is the place to be. As the girls and boys gather, we are introduced to the characters whose lives become the core of this novel all about the growing up of working girls in Swansea in the 50s and 60s.  Book 1 of series.

The second book in the Swansea Girls series. In the Swansea of the fifties, there is only one thing for a boy to do when he gets a girl 'into trouble' and that is to marry her - and quickly. Blighted by an unhappy childhood, passionately in love for the first time in his life, Jack can't wait to do 'the right thing'. But then tragedy strikes.  Book 2 of series.

During an air-raid in WW2, Joan gives birth to a baby boy. When the hospital is hit by a bomb panic follows, and in the chaos Joan's baby is mis-tagged - this only comes to light twenty years later.

At an impressionable age Flora falls in love with Xavier Leopardi. When he returns to his home and his family in Italy, Flora is invited to stay. Xavier is obsessed with a mystery from his childhood which surrounds his parents, and Flora is determined to find out what happened.

In 1939, evacuees arrive in the small Welsh seaside town of St David’s Wells. When Eirlys Price convinces her parents to take in three young children, she never imagined it could lead to shocking family revelations which threaten all her future plans. Amidst homesickness, local gossip and the challenges of wartime, the community must pull together and wait until summer, when the town will come alive in all its seasonal glory…