Melvyn Bragg
A Time to Dance

Charts the obsessive and sensual consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18. The gap in their backgrounds and experience is as wide as that between their ages. The story builds to a compelling study of the violence. exhilaration and nature of love which is tender and utterly demanding.

Georgette Heyer
Bath Tangle

The Earl of Spenborough is noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter Serena is one thing. but quite another is leaving Serena's fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham - a man whom Serena once jilted and who now has the power to give his consent to any marriage she might contemplate.

Gerald Durrell
A Zoo in my Luggage

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo in Jersey. Journeying to the Cameroons in West Africa. they collected many animals. Their difficulties began when they found themselves at home with a chimpanzee, bush-baby and other founder-members of the zoo - and nowhere to put them.

Rosamunde Pilcher
Coming Home, Volume I

With her family abroad. Judith was to spend her teenage years at boarding school. It is not an unhappy life, but sometimes a lonely one. So when her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis. invites Judith to her Cornish estate for the weekend. she is thrilled.