Eleanor Bron

This novel tells the story of two warring French families from 1911 to 1940. With its themes of war, love and money the novel brings home with great clarity how close the two conflicts were.

Set against the backdrop of the New Zealand Gold Rush in the mid-nineteenth century, this is the story of pioneering immigrants Harriet and Joseph Blackstone.

Jane Moneypenny combines forces with 007 to smoke out a mole that she is convinced is in the office. But 42 years later, Miss Moneypenny's niece, Kate, suspects that her aunt's death was no accident and the clues to what happened lie in the search for the mole. As she pieces them together, she realises that there are forces determined to stop her…

Lily Bart, 29, a beautiful impoverished New York girl, needs a rich husband to support her expensive habits and safeguard her place among the social elite. As a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long, she becomes vulnerable to gossip and slander.

Set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country, the story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival.

Julia Hunter and Kate Bain both have partners considerably older than themselves. They are both supremely happy but when Kate’s partner knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle a chain of unsettling events is unleashed and fuels the discontent in both girls.

From her childhood in Kenya until her death in 1990, Jane Moneypenny led an extraordinary life. Contrary to popular belief, she was not simply a bystander whilst her colleague and confidante, James Bond, saw all the action. These are her diaries, which were never meant to be written or read.

The Secret Intelligence Service is in chaos. One senior officer is on trial for treason, and James Bond has been brainwashed by the KGB. Only a woman's touch can save them. Moneypenny soon finds herself embroiled in a highly-charged adventure infused with the glamour of the Cold War espionage game.