'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN''Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race...

Confronted with an intolerable marriage to a man she cannot abide, Caprice Lambert decides to take refuge with her childhood friend and flees to Dorset and sanctuary. Dressed as a stableboy, she is determined not to return until her parents see reason and abandon their ridiculous plans. But things go sadly awry when, upon arriving at what she thinks is her destination, she finds herself in the wrong house entirely.What initally seems like a disaster actually works out far better tha...

'****[A] haunting family mystery' Sunday Times'A riveting, deeply atmospheric read' Mail on Sunday**'Just as good - perhaps even better - than Harper's excellent thrillers The Dry and Force of Nature' ObserverHe had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron's mind when he was ali...

'Agony exploded in her knee. She staggered, tried to keep going, then nearly fell as a shocking pain rushed up her leg. Confusion and fear swamped her senses, escape suddenly essential. The tuskless cow turned and hobbled away, each step agonising torture. Her front right knee joint had been shattered by the single copper-jacketed bullet. Man, her hated enemy, had just handed out a death sentence. . .'As the rangers and staff of a luxury lodge in Etosha National Park, Nami...

Lucien St James has a problem... he is far too nice a man to attract the attentions of the girl that he loves, the Season's Beauty Carisse. So when his best friend Olympia suggests he transforms himself into some thing a little more interesting, he decides to follow her advice. Suddenly, he's the most popular man in London, a devilish rake setting the girl's pulses racing, Olympia's included...Can she convince her best friend that sometimes one must look for more than beauty in a wo...

Lord Marcus Hathaway returns from France to find his birthright has disappeared with the shameful death of his father. His sisters have been provided for, thanks to a fortuitous marriage but he is at a loss to know what to do with himself. What kind of life can a penniless peer pursue? Friends and acquaintances assume he will do what most men do and chase down an heiress but Marcus is determined to make his own way forward. Unable to settle, he takes to the road, intending to spend a few m...

They wanted forever... but does forever deserve a second chance?Jag Jensen and Ellen Love were best friends their whole lives until he turned thirteen and started noticing girls his own age, but that doesn't mean he stopped watching out for eleven-year-old Ellen. By his senior year in high school, baseball had taken the front seat in his life, with a scholarship to college and a pro career looming on the horizon, when sophomore Ellen catches his attention and they strike up their f...

While Ailsa expects to be bartered into marriage to strengthen her clan's position, she never expected to be sold into the bed of an Englishman, even if it will bring peace to their warring borderlands. But escaping Lord Deverell, who is clearly delighted with his highland bride, may prove harder than leaving her beloved home behind for he is not a man to be ignored, especially in the bedroom.

Exclusive, luxurious, and secluded, the Golden Bay Hotel offers guests the perfect setting for a restful holiday – and the perfect opportunity for murder.Isobel Taverner hopes that a fortnight's holiday at the seaside will bring her closer to husband, Guy, and help mend their troubled marriage. Dodged by malicious whispers that Guy married Isobel for her vast fortune, the couple are at odds over a recent series of accidents that have imperiled the young heiress' li...

From beloved romance author Molly Harper ( Half-Moon Hollow and The Nice Girls series) comes the first title in her new rom-com women's fiction series, Southern Eclectic, which features the lives, losses and loves of the McCready family as they manage their family's generational funeral home and bait shop (you read that correctly) on the shore of picturesque Lake Sackett, Georgia.Type-A Margot Cary is the leading event planner for the crème de la crème of Chicago h...

It's not just the tropical temperatures that leave you hot and sweaty . . .VanessaMy whole life is in shambles.After my fiancé dumps me and my dreams are dashed; I run away.Cabo San Lucas, Mexico is the perfect place to hide, heal my broken heart, and get a killer tan.But you can't exactly live off of nothing, so I get a job working as a hotel maid.Sure, cleaning up luxury suites after the likes of the ri...

Sydney is full of coffee shops, but none as exciting and full of drama as the Pink Bean!In This Foreign Affair, heartbroken Zoya has a holiday romance with French tourist Camille, but is faced with tough choices when the fling turns into something deeper.Old traumas come back to haunt yoga teacher Louise when the Pink Bean hires a new manager. Water Under Bridges explores the themes of change and forgiveness, and whether people can ever tr...