Vivien Tomlinson

All men are beasts…or so Miranda Sweet believes. As an animal behaviourist, she can get inside the heads of deluded Dalmatians and introverted iguanas, but she can’t work out why the men in her life behave so badly. But can she keep the whole male species at bay for ever? When a delicious photographer comes into her life, Miranda starts letting her guard down, but then her past starts to catch up with her. Now, she has to face up to her own behaviour, which hasn’t always been as sweet as she’d like to pretend…

London, 1920. Veronica Vale is content with her obituary writing, parties with friends, and walks with her rescue dog, Benji.

But when a shocking killing occurs at the Winter Garden Theatre and Veronica knows the victim, she finds herself doing more than writing about the death. She’s investigating whodunnit and why.

Veronica enlists her best friend Ruby Smythe, and her street-smart dog, Benji, to figure out what happened and get justice for the victim.

Can our headstrong, clever, amateur sleuth catch the killer before the police? And what secrets will she uncover when she does?

In the Wyrd Museum, cared for by the strange Webster sisters, something has come to disturb the slumbering shadows of that forbidding edifice. Ursula is determined to defend her realm as the spectral unrest mounts. Once again, Neil Chapman is ensnared in the Web of Fate. Can he and Edie avert the approaching darkness, or has the final Doom descended upon the world at last? Volume 3 of the trilogy.

Lucy is a fixer of broken things. But there's one thing she can't fix and that's her unhappy mum. Until she comes up with a plan. Along with her friend, Sandesh, Lucy is going to smash a world record. Because she's convinced that starry Paul Castellini - Record Smashers TV host and singing legend - is the answer to her mum's problems. But breaking a world record isn't quite as easy as Lucy thought. Can she learn that sometimes happiness doesn't come with a plan?

John's eyes were manufactured with the purpose of providing sight to those who have lost it. Equipped with the ability to learn, the eyes develop a sense of responsibility for ensuring John's happiness. John's eyes strive to please and, with the power to enhance everything he sees, they soon realise that they are also able to manipulate what he sees. With a skewed sense of emotional intelligence, combined with unquestioning loyalty to their master, the actions of John's eyes lead to devastating consequences.

Westmorland, England, 1970. Dark and imposing in a bleak landscape, Foulstone Manor stands abandoned on the edges of the Lake District. Reclusive Joan Goss inherited Foulstone, but her fragmented memories of her childhood there still disturb her and she keeps her distance in a cottage on the outskirts of the land.

Joan was brought up by adoptive parents after her mother died and her father abandoned her. When Joan’s niece Amanda comes to stay with her, she is finally forced to confront the secrets behind Foulstone Manor. Records show that Joan’s father committed suicide. But what happened to her mother? And why was Joan never told the truth about her childhood?

As Joan uncovers her mother’s diary, the full truth of her parents’ marriage is revealed. Can Joan come to accept the inheritance that she has always rejected?

Sitting on the top deck of a bus days before Christmas, Maya sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she looks away, and the woman disappears. Maya goes to the police, who shrug and send her away. Then a body turns up... Now convinced she is a vital witness to a crime, the police send Maya into hiding in rural Wales. She resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. Then the snow comes and no one can get out. But what if someone can still get in?

From the author of Dear Scarlett and Saving Sophia.

Faith has arranged a surprise party to celebrate fifteen years of marriage to her publisher husband Peter. They have a lot to be thankful for, with an enduring partnership that many of their contemporaries are only just themselves embarking upon. But a casual, barbed comment by her bitchy magazine editor friend Lily makes Faith wonder whether her world is as wonderful as it seems on the surface. As the kernel of unease swells and begins to burgeon inside her, Faith finds herself on a quest that leads to a shake-up of everything she holds dear – but which, in the end, enables her to reforge her life.

Providing a spectacular panoply of ever-changing colours, this collection of poems evokes the rich character and intense emotion of the changing seasons, featuring works from some of the UK's finest poets.

Providing a spectacular panoply of ever-changing colours, this collection of poems evokes the rich character and intense emotion of the changing seasons, featuring works from some of the UK's finest poets.

Loyalty and betrayal. Lovers and enemies. In the final installment in the heart-stopping Dustlands trilogy, Saba doesn't know who she is any more. Her encounter with DeMalo leaves her drawn to the man she knows should be her enemy. She has no choice but to continue to lead the fight against him. Saba knows the price of violence. She has lost too much in the quest for freedom. Now she must decide if it's worth the fight.

David Feernley is determined to escape the drudgery of his life as a Yorkshire farmhand. Setting off for the coast, he aims to join the whaling fleet at Whitby. He is followed by Ruth, his childhood sweetheart, her heart set on marriage. Yet David is drawn to another's betrothed: the pretty, gentle Jenny. And it is Jenny's bright red shawl that David searches for on the cliff-tops on his return from the long months at sea...

Cathy and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their grandfather's decaying country house, they roam the wild grounds freely with minds attuned to the rural wilderness. Lost in their own private world, they seek and find new lines to cross. But as the First World War draws closer, crimes both big and small threaten the delicate refuge they have built. Cathy will do anything to protect their dark Eden from anyone, or anything, that threatens to destroy it.

Tiffany Trott is attractive, eligible and sparky – so why is she (as her bossy best friend puts it) ‘a complete failure with men’? Stung into indignant action, she decides she’ll hunt down Mr Right herself. But as she ponders her puzzling lack of a life partner, Tiffany watches her friends face problems of their own – and begins to wonder whether marriage and motherhood is quite what she wants after all…

Phoebe always dreamt of opening her own vintage dress shop. She imagined every detail, from the Vivienne Westwood bustiers hanging next to satin gowns, to sequinned cupcake dresses adorning the walls.

At the launch of Village Vintage, Phoebe feels the tingle of excitement as customers snap up the fairytale dresses. Her dream has come true, but a secret from her past is casting a shadow over her new venture.

Then one day she meets Therese, an elderly Frenchwoman with a collection to sell, apart from one piece that she won't part with…

As Therese tells the story of the little blue coat, Phoebe feels a profound connection with her own life, one that will help her heal the pain of her past and allow her to love again.

At the end of the nineteenth century Charlotte Metcalf is a child of good fortune: a prosperous father, a loving mother, a loved brother all cocoon her from the fears of the outside world. But then her father dies… and she is plunged into poverty and the workhouse becomes her miserable home.

Yet Charlotte escapes, determined to find her lost brother, and her search brings her to Barras Hall, home of unknown relations where fine clothes, good food and wealth seem to promise her all she desires. But at night the horror begins - of sound and sense, surpassing all earthy terror. And Charlotte finds that daytime comfort comes at a price...and she must fulfil her terrible destiny.