Sally Beauman
The Landscape Of Love

The summer of 1967, rural Suffolk: thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her sisters. In turn, Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: telling the story of herself and her sisters and their lovers, and of her friend, Daniel Nunn. Twenty-three years later, Lucas's now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a retrospective of his work. Daniel, obsessed by them and determined to understand what happened that last summer at the abbey, pursues the answers to the past.

'Beauman is a captivating and artful storyteller, capable of making us believe the unbelievable'-
THE GUARDIAN

Lindsey Davis
The Silver Pigs

The first book in the bestselling Falco series. Rome, AD 70. One hot day in the Forum, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer, runs into sweet sixteen-year-old Sosia Camillina. She is fleeing for her life. Rescuing her is the start of a dangerous game, involving stolen imperial ingots and a dark political plot.

• Lindsey Davis's novel Two For the Lions won the inaugural Ellis Peters Historical Dagger in 1998, and in 1999 she received the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation, Marcus Didius Falco. Her last ten novels have all been Sunday Times bestsellers.

Kerstin Kvist didn't know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd,-almost grand, house. All that mattered to her was that it was near to London where her boyfriend lived - she'd come over from Sweden to keep their affair going. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: living at home with the widowed Mrs Cosway were her four daughters and a son who haunted the house. Then, just as Kerstin was getting some inkling of what was going on in the house, a stranger sets the family on a path to self-destruction.

`This is Vine at her idiosyncratic best, with her compelling trademark world of distress and disorder'- Penelope Lively, THE SUNDAY TIMES