Charlotte Bingham
Summertime

When Trilby meets Lewis, the all-powerful proprietor of a newspaper group, she suspects that her life might be about to change, but not, as it transpires, forever. For not only does Lewis wish to acquire her cartoon strip, but Trilby herself. She is inevitably drawn to this handsome, older and far more sophisticated personality, just as Lewis is, from the first, determined to marry Trilby-despite the opposition of her friends and family.

Catherine Cookson
The Simple Soul

This collection of stories is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson's countless readers... As well as the title story, there are three stories that make up The ForbiddenWord, and also these stories: The Creak, Lingerie, 'Nasty! Don't Touch!', For Fear Of..., Silly Mid-on and Blitz..

Annie Hawes
Extra Virgin

When Annie Hawes buys a hilleside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian signorina... In the area by chance, Annie and her sister fall in love with the area. Their new neighbours are baffled-how have these Foreign Females survived? Don't they have any idea how to get their year's supply of olive oil from a coupleof dozen olive trees, or good wine from bramble-choked vines?