Gabrielle Glaister

The Age of Ageing Better? takes a radically different view of what our ageing society means. Dr Anna Dixon turns the misleading and depressing narrative of burden and massive extra cost of people living longer on its head and shows how our society could thrive if we started thinking differently.

This book shines a spotlight on how as a society we're currently failing to respond to the shifting age profile - and what needs to change. Examining key areas of society including health, financial security, where and how people live, and social connections, Anna Dixon presents a refreshingly optimistic vision for the future that could change the way we value later life in every sense.

Elsie Grimshaw is desperate to escape from the drudgery of working at the local mill. Grabbing at the slim chances that come her way, Elsie emerges from the heartbreak of first love and her marriage to bad boy, Arnold Tanner, at only sixteen years old. Going under her married name of Elsie Tanner, she and Arnold move in to No.11 Coronation Street. As the Manchester Blitz grips their home town of Weatherfield, the residents must pull together to make this a Christmas to remember.

It starts with just one body - tortured, mummified and then discarded.

Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted.

This is the darkest, most complex case the police have ever seen.

This is the world of the Crow Girl.

It starts with just one body - tortured, mummified and then discarded.

Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted.

This is the darkest, most complex case the police have ever seen.

This is the world of the Crow Girl.

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely. She discovers an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard and sleeping under it for warmth, she starts to dream. Not long afterwards, she is startled by a knock at her window…

Dotty, Lucy and Annabelle all turn up for work at Coventry's department store Owen Owen at the same time as war is declared. Adjusting to life on the shop-floor at is hard enough, but as the devastating effects of war come to bear, the three form an unlikely bond, and with disaster at every turn, they're going to need each other...

Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner - and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic.

For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder.

Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse - while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.

A woman sits beside her father's bed as the night ticks away the final hours of his life. As she watches over him, she relives the past week and the events that have brought the family together. Sitting through her lonely vigil, she remembers what she saw all those years ago, the thing they found her screaming for. And as she peers through the window, she finds herself hoping it will come again.

Penny Leighton, TV Producer and wife of the local vicar Simon Canter, is struggling to cope with motherhood. After the death of the woman Penny called her mother, memories of her troubled childhood are brought to the surface. As a distraction, she finds herself drawn to the new village doctor.

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child.

While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind. Revisiting the plantation at Cinnamon Hills, she finds herself unexpectedly drawn towards the owner Leo, a rugged outdoors man with a chequered past. The plantation casts a spell, but all is not as it seems. And when Elliot's shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to...

When the residents of Trevay discover that their theatre is about to be taken over by a coffee chain, they are up in arms. The town is soon overrun by actors, all keen to show their support. But when Jess Tate, girlfriend to TV heartthrob Ryan Hearst arrives, it isn’t just her career that’s about to change…

The First World War is over and in Hampshire, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime - painting an entire chapel in memory of lives lost in the war. When Elsie Munday arrives as their housemaid, her life quickly becomes entwined with the Spencer family. As the years pass, Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptation seem set to tear them apart....

You’re back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. For now you’re crashing in your big brother’s spare room. That’s when you meet the man next door. He’s a head teacher, twice your age, extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you...

It’s every parent’s nightmare – the start of the school holidays – and instead of sitting in the sun, reading a book over a cold, crisp glass of Pinot Grigio, Mummy has two bored moppets to attend to. After frantically booking sports camps, child minder slots, not to mention time off work, Mummy is exhausted. But this is only the beginning…