Anna Massey

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. She is a strange woman and seems determined to make Henry’s life miserable, but Henry manages to enjoy life and has quite a lot of fun one way and another.

Recently widowed, Matilda Poliport's meticulously planned suicide attempt is foiled. Later she in turn foils the suicide bid of Hugh, on the run from the police, and life begins again for them both. But life also throws up nasty secrets and awkward questions, both from Matilda's past and her present.

At a dig in Iraq, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist, Dr Leidner, is convinced that someone is coming to murder her. The rest of the party think she is being neurotic, but when she is discovered clubbed to death, Hercule poirot is called upon to find the murderer.

Catherine Morland’s chances of marriage to wealthy Henry Tilney are adversely affected by false reports on her family’s wealth. The novel ridicules the Gothic tales of romance and terror popular at the time.

When Maxim de Winter brings his new bride home to Manderley she is haunted by the spirit of his first wife, Rebecca. A gripping novel of love and suspense set in Cornwall.

When Laura Thornby meets twenty-three-year-old Claude Bannister, a struggling writer, she falls to the temptation of interfering with his life. What she does not imagine is that one day he will become a good writer and that she will fall in love.