Brenda Usherwood

When her drunken, jealous husband threw her out onto the streets, Mary McGann pawned her wedding ring and fled to Ireland. Once there she and her three children were befriended by Richard O'Neill a local land agent. Just as life improved, Mary was forced to return to her husband and the Liverpool slums. Could she ever be happy again?

Nellie McDonough and Molly Bennett have been best friends forever, and live near each other in a Liverpool backstreet. Over the years they have been busy helping their loved ones, and recently have received wonderful news that will affect both their families.

Amber Brown has to choose. Will she spend Thanksgiving with her Mum in Washington or in New York with her Dad? On top of that a new girl at school has a colourful name too! What will she do?

It is 1953, Sally's mother is seriously ill in hospital , her father is abroad and her big brother is in the Army so Sally has to stay with grumpy Mrs Spinks next door. Then something absolutely terrible happens - but who can she tell?

Anastasia often feels swamped by her family, but after the arrival of a baby brother serious action is called for!

Three children at Nitshill Road School are surprised when Celeste appears in their playground and from then on life there is never the same.

Mara, with her twin sister Hester, was involved with a sinister sect, and needing to recover from this, she tries to keep herself aloof from other people. But she had not reckoned on the allure of her fellow students, and with their interest she is slowly able to confront her demons. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Five absorbing stories set in the north-west of England. Meet cussed, rebellious Miss Brady, who lives with a badger on a barge; the reviled old shepherd, Reicker; Sally Beck, a topiary gardener with an extraordinary past; the reclusive Egg Man; proudly independent Jakey... and the young people whose lives they profoundly affect.

For the first 18 years of her life Lucy was bossed around by her mother. Then her husband and daughter bossed her around. After her mother's death will a new Lucy emerge?

Charlie and his friend Dodger dress up as a pantomime horse at the library Book Bonanza, with hilarious results.

High-spirited Francesca fuels 18th Century feuds when she writes a column in a local society newspaper;

Lee is in trouble at school and finds himself sorting out shoes in the cupboard, but when he meets a strange old woman the boot is on the other foot.

How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights? But Minna's whole family (including her mum's punk boyfriend, Crusher Maggot) is a bit unusual. Being the only sensible one is not easy for Minna...

Grieving for the baby she was forced to have adopted and rejected by her family, Daisy agrees to be evacuated to the Lakes. When she meets a young airman, Harry Driscoll, she hopes to have a second chance at love, but her past is about to come back to haunt her.

Career girl Millie is not happy to be asked to sort through the belongings of an aunt who had recently died. Knowing little about her aunt, Millie makes a startling discovery as she sifts through the threads of Flo's life.

In 1819, when their six-year-old son disappears, Charles and Melanie Fraser's perfect aristocratic life falls apart. In a desperate race to save Colin, they enter London's underworld, where they discover that deception and betrayal come more easily than truth and fidelity.

When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the workhouse. But can love, when it arrives, teach Cissie not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place?

Eversleigh Manor is the location for a new television show. With the crew descending on the village the locals manage to work themselves into a lather of epic proportions.

After her mother's death, Ellie keeps her deathbed promise and rejects the advances of Gideon Walker, a local craftsman. Exiled to live with her aunt and uncle, she is forced into a marriage that promises stability and status but is in fact a loveless hell! X rated, explicit sexual content.

Every once in a while, circumstance traps a group of people in a pattern of tragedy and violence from which they struggle vainly to fight free. Thus it was with the Master of Cock Shield Farm, Angus McBain, a man too easily tempted to sin, and those in and around his household.

Alex, abandoned as a baby in the stony arms of the Sphinx on London's Embankment, is adopted by a family. His happy life with them is disturbed when he inherits a lot of money, and questions of his past and real identity arise.

Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series.

In their second adventure, the Famous Five find a thief at Kirrin Cottage. They think they know who it is, but need to prove it.

Will the discovery of a very old map help uncover the true culprit?

Jo, Bessie and Fanny have a visit from snooty friend Connie. Connie won't believe in the Faraway Tree and the magical people who live there - Moon-face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man. There's only one way to prove her wrong - together the children climb the tree, and visit some of the lands at the top of it, like the Land of Secrets and the Land of Treats. And after a few adventures, Connie learns to be a nicer person altogether!

In 1943 the hundreds of US marines who arrive at a quiet Cornish town are interested in making love, and making war - a recipe for disaster. After a whirlwind romance Bette Tredennick is on her way to America as a GI bride, whilst her married sister Sara is slowly falling for officer Charles Denham.

Set in the heyday of Liverpool's shipyards, Joe and Celia's love is doomed unless they can overcome the prejudice of generations.

It's Christmas 1936, and family members are returning home for the holiday season to the Lake District where the lakes have frozen over. For two families secrets from the past are revealed, with profound consequences.

Mia Dolan was an ordinary working-class woman, who at the age of twenty-two started to hear voices in her head and experience strange phenomena. Gradually she accepted that she had a psychic gift, and today is regarded as one of Britain's most respected psychics. X rated, explicit sexual content.

After her childhood was ripped apart by German bombs falling on Liverpool, Josie Flynn thought that she had eventually found life long happiness with Jack Coltrane in New York. When life didn't turn out as she hoped she returned, alone, to Liverpool and embarked upon an unlikely but successful career.

Poised on the brink of a year's adventure in France, 18-year old Jess learns of Bridie and Jack, her mother's parents, whose love kept them together in spite of family divisions; of Granny Dorothy's daily toil in the dirt and grime of the buffing-shop; and of her parents' first meeting. And of course, there's Jess's story too.

When the Graphicat on the classroom computer screen slides out and onto the desk, frightening events are threatened.

Harry is a poisonous centipede but he’s not very brave. Harry likes to eat things that are juicy and munchy! But there are some things that a poisonous centipede must never try to eat – dangerous things like flying swoopers, belly wrigglers, furry biters and the most dangerous of all… Hoo-Mins!

Monty is allergic to ghosts, they make him sneeze. As soon as he sets foot in the Brinsley Codd School for Sensible Thought he knows it's haunted, but he cannot convince the teachers.

Louise has raised Jinnie since she was abandoned by Susan, Louise's sister. Over the years Louise and Jinnie develop a close relationship but this is threatened when Susan decides she wants Jinnie back.

From an impoverished background in Manchester, Julie Goodyear became everyone's favourite barmaid as Bet Lynch in Coronation Street. Here Julie talks frankly about her childhood, her work, being diagnosed with cancer and her personal relationships.

In June 1897 Kate happily celebrates her eleventh birthday, but her joy is short lived as tragedy strikes and she has to grow up quickly. Her spirit and sense of humour help her survive the hardship of the workhouse, but will they help restore the happiness she lost as a child?  Book 2 of series.

At the age of nineteen Kitty vows that she will live a life less ordinary than her older sisters. When things take an unexpected direction, Kitty’s resolve is tested. But, as ever, her sisters remain the constant thread running through the years.