Jenny Funnell

When Sue Jackson's teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a very dark reality. In her hunt for evidence, Sue is forced to look further, into the depths of her own past. What if she is the reason that Charlotte is in danger?

1939: After touring Europe to promote her latest book, Romily Temple returns home to Island House and the love of her life, Jack Devereux. But when Jack falls ill, his estranged family are called to his bedside. With war now declared, each member of the family is reluctantly forced to accept their new stepmother, but can Romily cope with the life that has been so unexpectedly thrust upon her?

When book lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood starts her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London, she is drawn into a web of mystery surrounding the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice, with ultimately dangerous consequences.

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car, two weeks before receiving his GCSE results. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many fates worse than death.

On holiday with friends, young historian Briony Andrews becomes fascinated with a wartime story of a ruined villa in the hills behind Naples. Briony’s grandfather had been a soldier during the Italian campaign of 1943 in that very area. Handed a bundle of letters that were found after the war, Briony begins to uncover the story, but she encounters resentments and secrets still tightly guarded.

Caz Ripley, a cafe owner from a small, ordinary town, boards the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete and a thousand fellow passengers destined for New York. The next morning, she wakes to discover that everyone else on board has disappeared. And that's just the beginning. Caz must prepare for a crossing that will be anything but plain sailing... 

When Harry Stewart dies of a heart attack, the whole village is devastated - except for his wife Karen, who knew the abusive alcoholic Harry had become. Her only comfort is William, the sympathetic local vicar. When Karen realises she might be falling in love, she flees to the seaside. A chance encounter brings William back into her life; can they persuade each other to take one final leap of faith?

Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way. 

Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer? The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day. And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth.

As she turns detective, Florrie finds herself looking back on her own life... and a long-buried secret, traced in faded scars across her knuckles, becomes ever harder to ignore.

When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition, she can’t wait to put her cooking skills to the test. But as the competition heats up, she realises she’s developing an inconvenient crush on one of the judges, and all too soon there’s more than canapés, cupcakes and cordon bleu at stake.

Historian Kathryn Hughes delves into the realms of social history, medical discourse and religious observance of the Victorian era. The result is an eye-opening, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives.