Rula Lenska

Teenage Ruby runs away from England to her grandmother in Cairo, where an unlikely bond forms between the two. Ruby helps her grandmother write up her memories of the Second World War and learns of the passionate affair with the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Sequel to 'Ripe for the picking' (6417). Having heard many stories from Ciccio about his Calabrian homeland, Annie, Ciccio and various members of the de Gilios clan are off to Calabria to see the ancestral home, and meet the extended family.

Miranda Meadowe, reviving a university dream, invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was tinned spaghetti hoops. Full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life.

Alice Peel and James Rooker meet on an Antarctic research station. He is a man on the run, she is escaping from a failed relationship. An epic story of love and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.

Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. She is aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence.