Kay Morrison

10 Scotland Street - the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two centuries across the globe.

Gloria French is at first welcomed in the Cotswold village of Piddlebury. She seems like a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly. But she has a bad habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, so when she is discovered dead, poisoned by a bottle of elderberry wine, folk in the village don't mourn her passing too intently. Parish councillor Jerry Tarrant hires Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer. But the village is creepy and secretive and the residents don't seem to want Agatha to succeed.  Book 24 of series.

Set in India and Cambridge before the outbreak of World War 1, this is the story of Thomas Cavendish, a man in his mid-fifties and the obvious choice to become Master of his college. One day, walking by the river, he sees a young girl on a bridge and falls irrevocably in love with her, but the consequences are both tragic and life-changing.

The night before her wedding to Oliver, Cressida Forrest went to bed serene and happy. By morning she had vanished - without apparent cause, and without trace. A complex web of sexual, marital and financial secrets is ripped apart by Cressida's disappearance. And the question the families are all forced to ask is - who was the woman they thought they knew - perfect daughter, sister, lover and wife never to be?

A young Apache girl has to find a way to come to terms with the loss of her family. To do this she takes the most challenging route and becomes a warrior focused on having her revenge.

Friendship has bound four women for many years, taking them down paths they never expected. But all that’s about to change and this year their friendship will be tested as never before. Can the sisterhood survive the strains placed upon it and come through unscathed?

Jo attempts to unite a neighbourhood community against a property developer and becomes drawn into the lives of her neighbours.

An excellent collection, offering the reader a wide range of recent stories. Featuring: Elizabeth Baines, Ailsa Cox, Claire Dean, Jay Griffiths, David Grubb, Christopher Priest, Joanne Rush, Mick Scully, amongst others.

Billy Stuart spends hours hunting rabbits or playing fruit machines, but his one obsession is to own a dog.

Beth is an albino, half blind, and given to looking at the world out of the corner of her eye. Her neighbours in the dying Derbyshire pit-village of Blackmoor have always thought she was 'touched', and when a series of bizarre happenings shake the very foundations of the village, they are confirmed in their opinion that Beth is an ill omen. X rated, contains offensive language.

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

Astra Sharp has dropped out of college to look after her MS-stricken mum. Life's not perfect, but it's not too bad - and if golden surfer boy Luke just noticed she existed, then maybe it would be perfect after all. Then her friend Connie's little sister, Angel, shows up and everything starts to go wrong. X rated, contains offensive language.

'Fantastic' The Sunday Times

'Marvellous... Hugely impressive' Guardian

'Beautiful, brilliant, powerful' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe

Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge.

1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father, and is forever changed by the experience.

2011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese-American disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace.

The fates of both women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Violet Kupersmith's heart-pounding fever dream of a novel hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history to create an immersive, playful, utterly unforgettable debut.

'Fiction as daring and accomplished as Violet Kupersmith's first novel reignites my love of the form and its kaleidoscopic possibilities' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies's text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horácek to provide insight into the real-life experiences of refugees forced to leave their homes and previous lives behind to face an unknown future.

Devlin, Caroline and Maggie are women in their prime. They have it all; careers, success and marriage. They are the envy of their peers, but at what price? Their friendship, the enduring bonds of loyalty and love will carry them through the toughest times towards a brighter future. Contains explicit language which may offend.

Abandoned by her mother as a child, thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Afflicted by post-natal depression, she returns to her childhood home . There, as she draws ever closer to the truth about her mother, she fears she might lose even herself.

Bobbys mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, but all he wants is to get back to Dublin to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shops and racing stolen cars at night. But the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there.

The McCann boys, especially Mungo, are the first the police come for when there has been trouble. Everything changes when Col McCann rescues a boy from the Loch, Col becomes a hero. But Col saw something in the Loch which haunts him and forces him to decide between family loyalty and the need to do what is right.

The Price family, have for decades been snarled with the fate of the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. Here, Dr Lennox Price discovered a hallucinogenic moss that became the focus of a cult, and now it seems as if the whole forest can affect the minds of visitors. After Lennox is killed trying to return to his beloved wood, his widow seems to see and hear him in the trees - or is it a dark version of the Green Man that caresses her with leafy hands?

It is 1642, the Civil War is raging and a young Irish girl is separated from her family at the siege of Carrickmain Castle. When Lieutenant Robert Hammond arrives he decides to take the girl to his family on the Isle of Wight for safety. As the two form an unlikely bond it become apparent that their lives will never be the same again.

Captain David Fernley has made and lost a fortune in the whaling trade, fishing the frozen Arctic wastes from the Yorkshire port of Whitby. Then his erring wife and best friend die in an accident at sea. But whaling is the only life he knows. Determined to change his bad luck, he starts afresh in London, where he is offered command of the Hind.

The Cassidys' marriage is under pressure. Shauna wants another baby. Greg doesn't. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws who arrive at the drop of a hat and stay as long as they like. Shauna's glad to be moving abroad. She'll be free of them at last. Or will she?

Carrie, Shauna's sister, feels put upon. The burden of looking after their elderly father rests on her and she's fed up. Even though she loves her siblings, resentment builds. Can Carrie finally stand up for herself?

Shauna and Carrie's brother, Bobby, has a poisoned relationship with his father, who blames him for the death of his wife. Can they settle their differences? Or are some rifts just too painful to resolve?

The last Christmas the family got together was a disaster. Can they finally put the past behind them as they prepare for another family gathering?

Past and present merge in this poignant novel, which begins with a Scottish Presbyterian minister and his family arriving in New Zealand in 1909 and moves on to the very different lives of his descendants in modern-day London.

Elisabeth loves to paint, just like her papa. She spends hours making her own pictures of everything she sees - and the more colourful, the better!

But when she goes away to school, she finds herself in a world of grey: grey buildings, grey uniforms, grey rooms. She misses Papa and all the colours of home. And one winter morning, she gets some terrible news that makes her days darker than ever before. Will Elisabeth be able to find the colour and joy in her life again?

A touching tale about friendship, family and finding joy in the darkest of times. Inspired by the childhood of French portrait artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.

Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero - and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic figure, often portrayed as awkward, as a misanthrope, as no normal being. That's the conventional wisdom on Emily as a person, but is it accurate? Is it fair?

It's time for the real Emily Brontë to please stand up.

Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers and big money. Provided they dedicate themselves to producing the perfect baby. For someone else. Jane, a young immigrant in search of a better future, sees a chance to change her life. But at what cost?

Fen McCabe has only ever been in love once. So what if he's a long dead nineteenth century artist? She's an art historian. She calls it job satisfaction; her friends and family call it insanity. But then her path crosses not just with handsome publisher Matt Holden, but also with brooding landscape gardener James Caulfield - twenty years her senior. Fen finds herself falling for both of them in a haze of sex, art and severe indecision… Does she really have to choose?

School friends Cassie, Laura and Aileen, shared their secrets and dreams as young girls. Now they are together again, sharing their aspirations as Cassie launches her interior design business, with a legacy that is to bring out the worst and the best in her family and friends. Will they support her when she dares to make her impossible dream come true? And then there's the enigmatic David Williams, who touches Cassie's life in a way she will never forget as she finds independence and success despite family opposition.

A dramatic and vivid story of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 told through the eyes, ears and nose of a dog.

Pippa Jones seems to have it all. The only thing that she is missing is love. When she spots a gorgeous man who seems to be following her everywhere, she wonders if fate is trying to throw them together. With her job on the line can she afford to make time for this handsome, mysterious stranger? Quick Reads

When her 22-year-old daughter, Julie, went missing, Ann Ming was certain she had been murdered. Three months later she found her decomposing body behind a bath panel. Local man, Billy Dunlop, was tried for her murder but a series of blunders allowed him to walk free. Protected by the law of Double Jeopardy, he callously bragged about his 'perfect crime'. But Dunlop had not reckoned on Ann Ming…This is the extraordinary story of a fight for justice which she never gave up.

Though sisters, Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are like chalk and cheese. Sarah is married and lives contentedly with her family in a small town, whilst Maggie has spent fifteen years backpacking and avoiding any ties. Now she is back, bringing with her a secret that rocks all their lives.

Meet Ellie, Nadine and Magda. Three best friends who couldn't be more different But, when they enter Year Nine, things start to change. Especially when Nadine and Magda both get boyfriends.

Ellie, feeling left out, decides that she needs to keep up with her friends. Before she can help herself, she starts spinning a web of lies she finds hard to stop...

A case of mistaken identity leads to unintentional criminal activity when a dream family holiday goes terribly wrong in this punny comedy caper from author-illustrator Tom McLaughlin.

The Goodfellows are the perfect family. From helping the local community to scooping up prizes in school, there's nothing they can't do. And they've just won the holiday of a lifetime to the Big Apple!

When the family touchdown in New York and overhear a gentleman looking for the goodfellas, they can only assume he's there to pick them up. But soon they're involved in a diamond robbery and a gangster named Big Tony is thanking them for their impeccable work. It looks like everything for the Goodfellows is about to go very, very wrong ...

Sequel to: 'Roses Round The Door' (4754). The wheelchair bound author struggles to pursue a career as a writer whilst maintaining a home and a family.