Judy Le Besque

Having had a blazing row with her boyfriend Will, reporter Rosie Harford sets off for her latest assignment: an interview with one of the residents of 'The Meadows', a local housing estate about to become the set for a reality TV show. But stepping through the front door, Rosie finds herself transported back in time to the 1950s.

Blossom has grown up surrounded by the beautiful plants and flowers from her family's market stall. The stall was started by her grandparents, Tutu and Pops, and passed on to Blossom's parents after their death. It's a magical place where customers come to find flowers for all occasions: from celebrating love to offering comfort in times of sorrow. But now the stall is at risk, with tension rising as Blossom's parents argue about the future.

Can Blossom call on the lessons she learned from Tutu and find a way to cope with the dramatic changes that are happening around her. Can she save the flower stall?

The abduction of a five-year-old boy provokes a desperate police hunt. When the child's photo is in the news, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is troubled. One of her patients has described a dream featuring a child, identical to the missing boy! And Frieda is soon at the centre of the race to find him. Book 1 of series.

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favourite patron, 10-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing Evangelical mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes.

This is the story of Liam Digby who is twelve. Not that you'd know it because he's very tall for his age and starting to grow facial hair. Liam has a desire to see all that he can of life so when he gets the chance to enter a contest that promises a special prize he has to pose as an adult.

We embark on a journey to the Gulf Coast's Shell Beach, the South that only Southerners know, and into the life of Daisy Fay Harper. Daisy is a sassy, truth-telling heroine who just can't stay out of trouble. What's more, she tells us everything.

In August 1997 two Korean baby girls are flown to Baltimore to be adopted by two very different American families. Over the years the families' lives overlap, especially at the annual party to celebrate 'Arrival Day'. A gentle and funny story of pride, belonging and love.

The engagement of Julia to Richard Beaumont is the event of the year at the Hampshire estate of Julia's parents in 1814. But for Eliza Stanhope, Julia's cousin and childhood companion, it is a matter for scorn not congratulations. Surely one should marry for love and not for social advantage? However, Richard's presence brings the unexpected consequence of meeting his younger brother, Francis. Francis is newly returned from the Peninsular war, accompanied by a delightful fellow officer and friend, Pelham Howell. In the first of these new acquaintances Eliza meets a spirit as fierce as her own, in the second a charm and devotion she never thought to receive.

Friends are baffled when investigative journalist Annie Anderson leaves her job to become a fashion editor. During New York Fashion Week she is unprepared for this new, ultra-glamorous world. When a designer is shot dead it looks like a robbery gone wrong, but Annie, back on familiar ground, believes it is murder! X rated, contains offensive language.

Cathy, Chris, and twins Cory and Carrie, had such perfect lives until their father died and they were moved into their grandmother's attic. As brutal days swell into agonizing years, they realise this cramped and helpless world may be the only one they will ever know, but their own abiding love is a solid strength. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

In 1997 the author fell in love with, and bought, a romantic ruin in Adalucia. What she hadn’t reckoned with was a new man in her life, or the struggle involved in rebuilding the house and creating a garden – all with her young son in tow.

East Africa 1903: When eighteen year old Iris Johnson is forced to choose between marrying the frightful Lord Sidcup or a faceless stranger, Jeremy Lawrence, in a far-off land, she bravely decides on the latter. But when Iris meets Jeremy, she realizes that they will never be compatible. Determined to make the best of her new life, Iris begins to adjust to the windswept plains of Nairobi, and the delightful sunbirds that visit her window every day. And when she meets Kamau, a school teacher, Iris must make a choice. But if she follows her heart, the price she must pay will be devastating.

When a mother and her daughters are butchered in cold blood, there is a wave of media outrage. But this is just the latest in a series of murders. The police have missed the vital link but cartographer William Huxley, aided by a cub reporter and Mrs P, a cleaning lady, start to solve the puzzle.

'Edna,' says the doctor, coming to stand beside her bed. 'You need to wait. It's not long now. Don't push. Just hold on, Edna!' The birth of the National Health Service coincided with the birth of one little girl in South Wales: Aneira 'Nye' Thomas, the first baby delivered by the NHS. This is the touching story of Nye's family - their loves and losses - and the launch of a treasured public service that has touched the lives of every family in the nation.

As the Great War ends Serena Fleming is due an inheritance that could free her from a bullying father. But little does she know how far he will go to prevent her leaving home. Or how desperate he is to limit her and keep his secrets hidden. When she turns thirty, Serena must risk everything to escape his iron rule.

Isamay is trying to write a thesis about grandmothers in history, but is constantly pulled towards secrets in her own family. An only child she is named after her very different grandmothers Isa and May, jealous of each other as they both want to be the main influence in her life and her affections.

Sarah Whitfield is looking back over seventy five years, as she waits for her family to arrive to celebrate her birthday. It is a journey through five eventful decades, telling a story of war, passion, international intrigue, and the strength of family through it all.

Akhila is forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk who has never been allowed to live her own life. One day she books a train ticket to a seaside town. Travelling in the all-women sleeping car, she and her fellow passengers ponder life, happiness and relationships.

The day after Paul’s mother dies he learns that his eldest daughter, who was living with his ex-wife, has gone missing in London. He sets off in search of her and meets Cora. X rated, explicit sexual content.

Meridon, a Romany girl, is determined to escape the hardship of her childhood. Riding bareback in a show, while her sister risks her life on the trapeze, she dedicates herself to freeing them from danger and poverty.  Book 3 of series.

In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from the noise of the big city. The result is two of Charmian Clift's best known and most loved books, the memoirs Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus. Mermaid Singing relays the culture shock and the sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before backpackers and mass tourism descended. On Hydra, featured in the companion volume, Peel Me a Lotus, Clift and Johnston became the centre of an informal community of artists and writers including the then unknown Leonard Cohen who lodged with them, and his future girlfriend Marianne Ihlen.

As a member of the Nolan sisters, Coleen Nolan was born into the spotlight and has stayed there ever since. She has now become one of the nation's favourite TV presenters. Here Coleen reveals the truth of what really happened during the last few rollercoaster years, truly the worst of her life.

This is the story of two disparate characters in a small Midlands town: Paul is a young, newly-qualified hospital doctor, and Netta is returning to help her family move house. When Paul vomits on Netta's shoes one morning, the consequences are not only messy but extraordinarily far-reaching.

Evie Snow is 82 when she quietly passes away in her sleep, but when she reaches the door of her own private heaven, she finds that the door won't open. Evie's soul must be light enough to pass through, which means unburdening herself of three secrets that have weighed her down for over 50 years.

Maud Powell and her cousin Diana had always dreamed of becoming nurses, but their hopes are shattered when Maud contracts TB - a death sentence in 1930s' Pontypridd. With pits closing, Haydn abandoning a steady job for a stage career, and their cousin Diana's secret burden, the Powell family are facing hard times.  Book 2 of series.

A young pianist leaves a privileged life in Boston for a Louisiana estate when her beloved grandfather dies, the estate where her grandmother died twenty-five years earlier. There the shocking discovery of a forgotten painting and her love for a Russian musician lead her into deceptions from the past, and present, which threaten her life.

On a fateful night in 1860, the dying Thadius Grady realises that he has made a fatal mistake in entrusting his daughter Emma to his sister and her conniving husband, Caleb Crowther. When Emma falls in love with a young bargee, Marlow Tanner, their love, although made in heaven, may lead them to hell. Book of 1 of series.

Barnaby Gailtin has less in life than he once had: His ex-wife left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter with her, and he has acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family in a family where black sheep aren't tolerated. Then the angelic Sophia enters his life and it seems as if all this is set to change. But can he shake off his past?

Poison is a wilful, contrary girl and she decides to go herself to rescue her sister who has been snatched by phaeries. With only her quick wits to help her she must find the Phaerie Lord, yet avoid his lethal attentions if she is to find her sister.

Laura Meredith never imagined herself appearing on TV - she's too old, too flabby, and much too busy holding things together for her son, Stanley, after her husband left her. But best friend Charlotte is a determined woman and when Laura is persuaded on to a daytime show to talk about her PMT, everything changes.

Since the age of 35, following the deaths of her parents and uncle, Hannah Hauxwell lived a self-sufficient life without electricity or running water at Low Birk Hatt Farm. This is her classic and much-loved memoir about life in remote Yorkshire in the 1970s.

In the summer of 1959 Nora moves into a quiet suburb on Long Island with her two young sons, a collection of Elvis records and a marked absence of husband. Her glamour and cheerfully chaotic ways immediately arouse the suspicions of the neighbourhood.

Charlotte Stone's terminally ill mother dies then, within weeks, two of her teenage friends commit suicide. DC Gary Goodhew sets out to investigate the deaths; are all these tragedies somehow linked to a bigger picture? And if they are, then who will be the next victim?

P I Sam Falconer’s brother Mark teaches at St Barnabas College, Oxford. Mark vanishes and their mother receives a card announcing a funeral mass for Mark. Sam fears that her father's brutal past has come back to haunt them.

The fire started with a single shaft of lightning. Connor Ford, the Smoke Jumper, braves the the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have. In the wake of the fire, Connor, reckless of a life he no longer wants, dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ...