Jilly Bond

Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War"A WW2 heroine." - Dan SnowChristian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren Officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the important...

Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War"A WW2 heroine." - Dan SnowChristian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren Officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the important...

Binny Cornwallis has lost something. Something that wasn't really hers in the first place. With her best enemy Gareth and her beloved dog Max she turns detective to track it down, but the Cornwallis family are anything but helpful. Little brother...

WW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love, but has settled for middle-class marriage. Vincent had half his face blown off, and wants more than life offers now. Drawn together by their shared experiences at the Front,...

Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life… a wonderful escapade’ Fiona GibsonThere is excitement in the air as the travelling theatre arrives in Seal Bay.When The Spriggan Travelling Theatre Company arrives in Seal Bay to perform a Cornish...

Spanning a century and three continents, Even in Darkness tells the story of Klare Kohler, whose origins in a prosperous German-Jewish family hardly anticipate the end of her long life in a loving relationship with Ansel, a German priest half her age....

THE NAIL-BITING NEW STAND-ALONE THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT BRYNDZA‘Robert Bryndza does not disappoint with this stand-alone thriller! Every page had me breathless with anticipation of what was to come. Bryndza is...

A brand-new series perfect for Richard Osman readers and all fans of a page-turning whodunnit.It was meant to be the start of quiet season in the sleepy Cornish village of Seal Bay, but not for sexagenarian librarian and wild swimming enthusiast...

Ivy's parents, the King and Queen of the Sand Witches, have prepared her a show-stopping birthday present - a magic act where they disappear! But hold on, they really have disappeared! Foul work is at play, and to rescue Ivy's parents, she and her...

In the faraway land of Miracula, the early dawn mist drifts around Newt Castle: home of a young Sand Witch called Ivy Newt, her familiar Tom Wolf, and her parents King Lucius and Queen Fenella. Every Halloween at sunrise, a spooky haunted house...

At just 18, Lucrezia Borgia, the alluring daughter of the Pope, has already had her life touched by dishonour and tragic loss. In the decadent society of fifteenth-century Rome, violence is commonplace and scandal is never far from the infamous Borgia...

A jar of festival mud, a photo album of family memories, a child's teddy bear, a book of bell ringing methods, an old cassette tape, a pair of slippers . . . These are the items that fill the exhibit shelves in Vanessa Jones' museum. At first glance,...

'Heartfelt, emotional and uplifting' Faith Hogan, author of The Gin Sisters' Promise'Written with warmth, humour, sincerity and so much heart' Hazel Prior, author of Away with the PenguinsOne lost suitcase. Two strangers. And a notebook that will...

Married four times, Susannah Forbes had a starry career as a top model. Now, with an instinctive eye for design, she finds herself in constant demand as an interior designer. Offered a commission by a recently divorced American to make over his lavish...

A wealthy man is discovered battered to death at home. His community are quick to blame burglars. Called to investigate DI Guido Black and team uncover feuds, envy and betrayals going a long way back. Events take a dramatic turn when a second body...

Nattie is now happily married to Hugo and they have two beautiful children, but her heart has never truly been hers to give...The love of her life was lost to her years ago, but now Ahmed is back, and although he knows Nattie is married, he just can't...

In 20 meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, re-shaping landscapes and culinary tastes. To be British was to eat the world....

Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresario with her own opera company, she was a darling of London’s music halls and theatre land, later reinventing herself as a journalist and writer. From...

As children, siblings Gareth and Helen went ignored and utterly unsupervised in their isolated English farmhouse while their mother obsessively tended to her beloved, exquisite garden. When they were little, Gareth would occupy himself by trapping...

Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly-prized commodities, envied by the women and desired by the men. Before long, King Charles II falls passionately in love with her and will stop...

Sunset Hall is a house share for the old and unruly, led by Agnes Sharp. It's an eventful day when this group of idiosyncratic seniors gets a visit from the police to inform them of some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone...

Each month best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship. Sal had spent a lifetime building her career but she hadn't banked on the one thing over which she had no control. Claudia loved her urban...

The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins a version...

Coming of age in Prague in the 1930s, Lena Kulkova is inspired by the left-wing activists who resist the rise of fascism. She meets Otto, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, and follows him to Paris to work for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil...