Collection: Adult Fiction

London, 1988: Meredith has landed her dream job at London's most prestigious fashion house, creating beautiful gowns adorned with intricate beads and embroidery. But now Meredith is about to create a dress like no other for the most famous woman in the world: Diana, Princess of Wales. As Meredith...

"When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy - a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him. But her secure world comes crashing down when Adam goes missing after an explosion in the city square. Unable to reach him, s...

San Francisco, 1906. In a city booming with new money and possibility, two very different women seek an escape: Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, has only days to avoid an arranged marriage and Gemma, an opera singer, desperately needs to reignite her career. Together with Alice Eastwood, a fierc...

1922. Twenty-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her - to serve the upper classes or find a man to marry (preferably kind). She 'proved useful' working in a munitions factory during the war - handling explosives - but now, society is returning to normal and women ...

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity's been missing for over a month. Most people in town - even the police - think she's dead. Margaret and Ch...

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bou...

"There hasn't been a Mindwalker in the Red Kingdom in centuries... until now. But Blanche's ability is so rare, so valuable, that it must be kept secret. Because Blanche isn't just a Mindwalker, she's also the sister of the king. And every night, at her brother's command, she faithfully wanders t...

"The seven houses of the matriarchal Seaborn have plied the seas of the Fair Isles for centuries, trading among the islands and fending off the attacks by the fearsome Bone Pirate. But suddenly, out of the night sky, a common enemy appears - the Windborn, who come without warning to raid, burn, a...

The Seal Woman explores the mind of a middle-aged woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon. The prose in Beverley Farmer's second novel is marked by the suppleness of its languag...

In December 1940, the Blitz has reached Sheffield, but Hattie is more concerned about the war brewing at home between her parents. Desperate to help her mother in any way she can, will Hattie get through with the help of her factory sisters? Betty is overjoyed to learn that her fiance will be com...