"It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer,...

"Assistant professor Clara Fernsby is nothing if not driven. She's wanted to teach history since she was 14, and she hasn't let anything stand in her way - not even the love of her life. And it all paid off in the end, because she landed a well-paid position...

Young Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she catches the eye of visiting adventurer and wealthy businessman James Callaghan, her future seems brighter. Winter seas separate the lovers but the...

"The arrival of a hotshot New York composer brings a rare touch of glamour and excitement to the peaceful country town of Fig Tree River. For Leonie, Madison, Sarita and Chrissie, four women involved in the local musical theatre, it's a welcome distraction...

"From madmen to matriarchs, stooges to heroes, eye-watering bungles to sweet justice - strap yourself in for a masterclass in storytelling from Australia's most formidable crime reporter. True crime icon John Silvester has been reporting on Australia's...

"When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice hotel, dark secrets unravel and not everyone who checked into the hotel will check out again. Signora Loretta Bianchi, the world famous cook at Venice's Hotel Il Cuore, is...

Noni Hazlehurst is an icon. A household name, our best-loved actor, she's graced our screens and theatres with her presence for over 40 years - and won our hearts and our respect in the process. From hosting Playschool for more than two decades to acting in...

"Jessica Sabatini had everything she ever wanted until a tragic accident only hours before her wedding sent her world spinning out of control. In a haze of grief, she ran as far from Silverton Shores as she could. It took her a long time to put the pieces of...

"John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's joined them ... As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his...

"In the dead of night, a man's body is found strapped to a chair in Glasgow's Elder Park, his identity unknown. As forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod examines the scene, the violence on display suggests a gangland feud could be the cause. At the post-mortem, a...

When she hears the baby crying, she knows she has to do something to keep it safe. To protect it from its terrible parents. Even though the father of the child is Melissa's own son... When Melissa Crawford snatches a crying baby from outside a house, she knows...

Murder behind the scenes... When Iris Woodmore visits Winchester for their annual pantomime, murder is the last thing she expects to find. And there seems to be no valid reason as to why anyone would want to hurt lead actress, Rachel Lacey - kind and...

September 1941, Bath - three friends are about to find that some of the biggest battles are to be found on the home front... As war rages and brave soldiers returning home from the frontline need nurses more than ever, fiercely proud redhead Sylvia Roberts is...

After my first husband died, I thought my heart was completely broken, and that I'd never feel happy again. Until I met Theo. He's a doctor. A man who seems good and caring and kind. Soon after we start dating, he says he wants to marry me. And even though his...

With the echoes of war reverberating around London, Cordelia, Mavis, and Jane are delighted to be blessed with some good news: the King and his Queen will be making a visit to the East End. As excitement builds, so does their apprehension. With each passing...

As if my mum breaking her hip and being rushed to hospital isn't shocking enough for one day, now in her post-operative delirium, she's just told me I'm not her daughter. That she has never been able to have children. The nurse reassures me that people are...

Ailish Ryan has been in hiding since her husband's affair ended their marriage. But when a friend forces her to face her new reality, will she choose to revisit the past or embrace a brand new future? Ailish's daughter, Emmy, thought her boyfriend was nothing...

In Regency England, twenty-seven-year-old Leonora Appleby is considered by many - herself included - to be beyond her most eligible marrying years. With her childhood home, Hasterleigh Manor, soon to be taken over by the heir to the land, George Lockwood,...

It was a quiet night, like any other, when Abi went for her usual night-time run. It was her escape from all the stresses of life, the thing she did so she was stronger than the man who'd once hurt her so badly. But then - as she turns a quiet corner - she...

Three friends, a Balearic promise and a summer that could change their lives forever... For twenty-one-year-old Belle Madden her first holiday to Ibiza with best friends Gem and Laurie was memorable for all the right reasons: partying the night away, planning...

"Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties, successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to...

"Sometimes Mr. Wrong is Mr. Right. Speech therapist Trinity Redfern knows her perfect match is out there somewhere. And when she finds him he'll be articulate, well-dressed and most of all he will let her call the shots. Reclusive rancher Zane Nash has heeded...

"Healthy relationships are the heartbeat of life - research tells us the number-one thing that keeps us happy is who we have around us. The best way to improve your own life, and the lives of others, is to invest in your ability to connect. But so often, when...

"I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he'd done it with his clothes on. Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses,...

"When Finchmere's first summer fete turns fatal, Nell has more than just a killer to net ... Since their YouTube channel, Following Finchmere, has taken flight, showcasing Dr Nell Ward's sustainability transformation at her family's Finchmere estate, it's her...

"Nuneaton, 1880. Twenty year old Daisy Armstrong lives a happy life with her loving father, Jed. They have a special bond, particularly after losing her beloved Irish mother and younger brother. But when Jed falls in love with a local widow, everything is set...

"Jane Smith is running out of time ... Her repeat client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. He says he's being set up - again. Despite the...

"Old friends Renée and Flo couldn't be more different. Flo wants to be invisible, Renée wants to be a somebody. But old friendships are magnetic. In their early 20s, and on the cusp of the rest of their lives, Renée and Flo both fly home to Guernsey - to the...

"When Will wakes up after a car accident, he's lost three years of memory. All he wants is his girlfriend and childhood sweetheart, Gem, beside him. Instead, nothing is as he remembers. Gem has finally moved on from hers and Will's break-up. With a new life...

"Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. The two are on different courses - Austin is British, temporarily in New York. Dara's from North Carolina, set on law school. They fall in love at first sight, and are determined...

"There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things ... What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a...

"South Africa, 1899. The smouldering hostility between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal is about to burst into flame. War is coming and no one can prevent it. Colonel Penrod Ballantyne is sent to...

'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet ...' When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way...

Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here - like the glass the island's maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She...

Solving murders. It's a family business. Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are...

The man's body is found in the early-morning light by a local dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who was due to work the previous night but never showed up. DI Vera Stanhope is called...

"Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer ... For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s...

"Theo and Kit have been childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and, after a brutal breakup four years ago, estranged exes. It's not until Theo and Kit are trapped on board a tour bus that they discover that they've each had the same idea: to take their dream...

"Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking for guidance as to how to continue to support Indigenous recognition. Mayo, a leader of the Yes 23 campaign and co-author of the bestselling The Voice to Parliament Handbook, has produced a new...

Paris 1946. A young woman, Eve Archer, has come to Paris to find the father she never knew. She is soon caught up in a desperate race to prove her father's innocence against the accusation that he sold a French national treasure to Hitler during the war, and...

"Natalka from Ukraine has quit her job as a carer and joined up with retiree, Edwin, to run a detective agency on England's south coast. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy investigation such as murder to come...

After the death of her husband, Sarah Cooper becomes betrothed to Robert Billings and moves her family back to Colchester. But with Robert away on-board ship, somehow Sarah must hold the family together and pray that her man will come back to her. Struggling...

Robyn Allen is finally getting closer to her dream of West End stardom. And along with her role dancing in the latest hot musical, she's being wined and dined by an equally hot man - the wildly successful and well-connected Fabian Carrington. But one slip up...

The Harrisons are a large and extremely close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood and the emptiness of Ashley House, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally...

Two women, one community, everyone's war... With the arrival of English prisoners of war on Marchese Ginori's farmhouse estate, Rosa is immediately wary. Her husband was killed by the Allies and she will not trust any inglesi around her daughter. The...

When she's ghosted by yet another Tinder match, Leighton swears off dating for life. Who needs apps and blind dates when she has the perfect-in-every-way (apart from being fictional) heroes of her beloved romance novels? That night Leigh finds a second-hand...

1648 - Hertfordshire Thirteen-year-old Katherine Ferrers is in despair at being betrothed to arch-Royalist Thomas Fanshawe whose family are hellbent on plundering her family's fortune to champion the exiled Charles. As her unhappy marriage stretches before...

A tragic loss... Since the death of her beloved father, Isla Marlowe has felt the need to do something to honour his memory; something meaningful that will bring joy to others and repay the kindness of a stranger who changed their lives. She's got the perfect...

London 1926 Kitty Wilson, who, after losing her father, rejects the unsuitable suitor her mother has chosen. Abandoned by her mother, Kitty faces the challenges of navigating life alone. Amidst the turmoil, Kitty finds solace and support from friends, securing...

There may be trouble ahead... Just as Daisy felt she had mastered the intricacies of canal life, Theo, her go-to source for all boating questions has left Wildflower Lock, leaving behind not only a void in knowledge but in their budding romance. Not one to sit...

After the death of his wife, Sarah Nightingale marries Dan Cooper and becomes mother to his three little boys. They move to a fine house of their own and Sarah has never been happier with a family to finally call her own with maybe a baby of her own on the...

She toils behind the scenes to keep those on the frontlines safe. But she might be the one in danger... England, 1941. When a sudden reassignment gives Lily Baker only three days to report to mysterious Bletchley Park, she's confused but excitedly answers...

A governess bound by her own strict rules, a movie-star tormented by grief, a forbidden love story you won't forget. Hollywood, 1937 Hester Carlye has no wish to look after the pampered offspring of the rich anymore, in spite of being a highly sought-after...

Can she really have it all? Ambitious, successful, attractive, and newly married, Bella Browning is determined to Have It All. She wants love and sex and a beautiful home and a fabulous career and children and to keep her jaw-dropping looks. How hard can it...

Growing up, sisters Libby and Nicky never knew who they'd find at breakfast. Their parents fostered children of all ages, and although the girls loved playing their part in providing a safe haven, it meant that life was rarely peaceful. Now as a single mother...

Nina has always played it safe. But when her divorce papers come through on her fortieth birthday she decides enough is enough. She's always chosen the sensible route, staying in her stable job and marrying her rather boring ex. In fact - she realises - she's...

Caught between enemy lines - can they survive? 1914, Hampshire Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war, hell return home to build his own mechanic business and become...

One new boss, one ex-boyfriend, one big dilemma... Stevie Phillips has just landed her dream job working for a publishing company and it seems like this is page one of her new, improved life. But her first day throws more curveballs than she thinks she can...

Until the girl went missing, we thought it was the perfect place to live... When we move into the exclusive Westford Park housing estate, we feel safe at last. More like a country club, it has everything we might need - beautiful houses with big gardens, a...

1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage, she knows the scandal she'll cause. A single woman buying property is not the 'done thing', especially not in a village like Carybrook. But Clara has been in love with Butterfly Cottage, and its garden, since...

Control of Glasgow's infamous Haghill estate has been fought over for decades. But thanks to an uneasy truce between notorious local families - the Alexanders, the Tallans, and the ruthless Savages - for now the streets are peaceful. For Carly Savage this...

A brand-new cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany... It's murder in paradise! An ex-con... Private investigator Dan Armstrong is no stranger to working with criminals, but when he's approached for help by Bianca Moretti, he's on high alert. Bianca is...

1940: When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the 'little ships' to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and...

Could you trust the sister you've never met before? When tragedy brings biological sisters Jessica Williams and Reeve Elliot together, the initial shock of learning of each other's existence is quickly replaced by a commitment to be there for each other. For...

A country at war. Friends in trouble. Lily may be off the bomb-blasted streets, but the danger's not over... England, 1941. Reunited briefly with her husband-to-be before he returns to fighting, Lily Baker now finds her mundane army office work dreary. But...

A secluded house. A lost notebook. A wartime secret. 1942: Young Irish nurse Ellen arrives at May Day House, tasked with helping the men there rehabilitate. But there's something strange about the house, surrounded by water, on its own island in the Thames....

A brief guide to US politics which provides a non-partisan assessment of the ongoing challenges faced by American democracy, not least from Trump and his supporters. Cooper explains key aspects of recent US political history to give the background to recent,...

As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool, only friendship and community can keep the women of Weaver Street smiling. The neighbours on Liverpool's Weaver Street have always looked after each other, but when the Second World War takes many of the husbands,...

I had vowed I would never get back into the water, but of course, this was always going to be the outcome. I never really had a choice. When out of work actress Rey Levine is offered her dream acting role, she knows she has to make it work. But there's a...

Somerset, March 1930. Born in the workhouse and adopted by a former suffragette, Frances Brakespeare was encouraged from an early age to be strong, independent and to pursue a career as a doctor. The tragic loss of the love of her life in the Great War propels...

A picture-perfect town, a place where dreams come true. Welcome to Ever After Street... There's always time for tea... unless you've lost your teapot... Cleo Jordan has only ever wished for one thing - to open her own teashop in memory of her lovely gran. So...

A woman scorned... On board the superyacht Perseus, moored in the glamorous harbour in Antibes, Freya Addison is settling into her new role as hostess. The other crew members all like Freya, she is calm and diligent and a hard worker, but what they don't know...

'April Ashley was born, aged twenty-five, on 12 May 1960. It was a difficult birth at the Clinique du Parc on rue Lapebie, a back street running parallel to the admired avenue d'Amade in Casablanca, on a day when the Moroccan sunshine was behaving the way the...

Can she overcome her family's doubts to achieve her dream? Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is her bully of a father and her brother, who resents her. They want to keep her at home, but Meg is...

Mma Ramotswe has a deft hand in delicate cases, and never allows an act of injustice to pass unanswered. So, when it comes to her attention that a matter involving dubious motives has arisen, and that it will require the utmost discretion to resolve, she has...

Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Conde Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographers. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protege and lover of...

London, October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As she finds new courage in the blackouts, her past might still be lurking in the shadows... Peggy makes it her mission to help children caught up in the bombing...

"They say you don't find witchcraft, it finds you...". An illustrated and practical guide to being a witch in Discworld, covering everything you've ever wanted to know from casting spells to setting cheese, from dealing with elves to making deals with demons,...

Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of bad impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she's fished out of the waters by a band of...

On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street, with two mates. They heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped them in their tracks. The song was 'Heartbreak...

On the last train home you expect to find standing space only, drunk people singing, the overpowering smell of McDonalds... You never expect to find love. When Abbie and Tom cross paths traveling home after a night out, their eyes meet across a crowded...

Kola Peninsula, 1987. High in the Soviet Arctic, a tiny village houses an apocalyptic secret... When research zoologist Dr Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the evidence of another...

Aaron and Grace Templeton will never forget the 1998 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day their daughter Kiera got lost in the crowd. Investigative journalist Miren Triggs has spent years trying to help the Templetons find her. But with no leads, Miren...

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But...

A new edition of the collection featuring each of the Doctor's full-cast BBC radio adventures - and more. In The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space, the Third Doctor reunites with Sarah Jane Smith and UNIT for adventures on Earth and beyond, first...

BBC Radio adaptations of three of Joanna Trollope's much-loved novels - plus bonus interview. Bestselling author Joanna Trollope has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commenters writing fiction today. Her books have been...

The boy who couldn't love and the girl who wouldn't. Ginny Murphy is a total guy's girl. She's always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free - as long as they don't fall for her, and she doesn't fall for them. She and her best guy...

As seen in the major TV series Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake. Only 656 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri...

One family's deepest pain. Another family's darkest secret. On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people from Nova Scotia,...

Part of a Story That Started Before Me is an extraordinary new collection of poems chosen by acclaimed spoken-word performer and social commentator George the Poet. Taking readers on a thought-provoking poetical journey through Black British history, the...

Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life. A sip of tea and the taste of a madeleine prompt further recollections, and the floodgates of memory open, pouring...

Roger West is a home-loving, hard-hitting and very human policeman. Nicknamed 'Handsome' West, he's more than just a pretty face - he's also Scotland Yard's youngest, smartest detective and a crime-solving supremo. Six of his adventures were dramatised for...

After first meeting over sixty years ago while filming a costume drama for the BBC, Prunella Scales and Timothy West have enjoyed a partnership like no other; from appearing together in hit sitcoms to bringing up two children, they have chalked up an almost...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series. For the unlikely crime-busting duo Leo and Serendipity, a missing dog is only the start of their troubles... Leo Bloodworth, 'the Bloodhound', is a world-weary L.A. gumshoe with a reputation for finding...

Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby - An elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a...

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall... When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken... Edward's sister, Iris, still lives in...

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit...