The Summer Before The DarkThe story of a middle aged womans search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and, on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of

To top it all

nineteen and from the wrong end of town

Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who they were before they changed places in the world

Little does he realize how this one act is going to bring nothing but trouble and far too much interaction with the irritating locals

flying squirrels and a hedgehog magician - as well as a hearty winter feast - the Abbey youngsters are ready for their beds

The Emperor's Children is a finely textured portrait of a particular place at a particular moment - and a haunting illustration how the events of a single day can change everything

he must decipher it to reveal the king's betrayer and prevent the violent death that failure will surely bring

'That summer

All of Brighton is horrified by the gruesome crime

But now he's back in his own rough

Peter James and Stuart MacBride

homeland and belonging