Jenny Clay

Ellie decamps home with her broken heart, after bumping into her boyfriend - and his wife. Tea and sympathy from grandad Trevor help, as does the distracting and hunky Gabriel. But just when it looks like everything is shaping up there's a knock on the door that turns her grandad's world upside down and takes them unexpectedly back to the Welsh Valleys in wartime...

After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying haunting by her 19th century namesake ... When a series of old letters surface, Sarah discovers that nothing and no-one is as it seems, maybe not even the ghost of Sarah Grey…

One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide, all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope.

Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England, with her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke. But she can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension leads to a violent, startling climax.

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood.

When Anna discovers she's pregnant, she prepares to leave London behind for idyllic Provence, France, with her baby-to-be. But all those plans change when the baby is born less than perfect. Little does Anna know that this is the beginning of a journey of the heart, during which she learns that there is no such thing as a mouse-proof kitchen.

It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This new celebration of these letters is illustrated with portraits, facsimile letters, topographical engravings and fashion plates, and aims to bring to life the world Jane Austen inhabited. Although the book follows a broadly chronological scheme, the letters are arranged round visual themes considered particularly suitable for illustration, such as the Hampshire countryside, social life in Bath and London, domestic pursuits, paying visits and travelling by carriage. The author, who was born in Jane Austen's Hampshire village, lectures on English Literature for the Open University and the Oxford University Department of External Studies. Her special interest is 19th-century children's literature and she has compiled an anthology, "Childhood".

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably toward the interior, exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.

This new edition, edited by Saskia Hamilton, includes Bishop's four published volumes, as well as uncollected poems, translations and an illuminating selection of unpublished manuscript poems.

Agnes Day is a twenty-something sub-editor and failure extraordinaire, with a close circle of friends and a habit of falling for the wrong man. When the twin strains of a first job and a doomed love affair provoke a spiritual crisis, Agnes sets out to save herself and all those around her.

These stories examine what happens when people venture into uncharted territory, whether physically or in the mind. They may not journey far, and the ensuing displacements may be comparatively small, but the consequences are often unforeseen and considerable.

Idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, is an affluent, suburban Eden populated with successful hubbies and beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, newly arrived with her husband and children, it all seems too good to be true. But just beneath the town's flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong - and it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection.

Book 3 of the 'Levant Trilogy' sequel to 'The Battle Lost and Won', (9965). As the British fight a desperate battle against the German forces in Egypt, Guy and Harriet Pringle are involved in their own personal struggle with their marriage.

Waterstones presents this collection of stories shortlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Chosen from a wealth of entries by the finest writers published in the UK and Ireland, this book is a celebration of the power and pleasures of the short story form.

A collection of stories that explore the basic nature of friendship: how friendships are formed and deepened, how they can be betrayed and lost. Among these characters, there are friendships between married couples, sisters, women, grandparents and grandchildren, and among youngsters. Contains some content that listeners might find distressing.

Set against the Siege of Troy, this is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners.