Oliver Hardcastle scrapes an existence as an organic farmer. Miranda Marlow is a high-earning international town-planner. They may live in the same country but their values and lifestyles are so far apart they could have come from different solar systems. All they have in common is a string of disastrous relationships. Little wonder they have never met. Until one weekend in Suffolk when Miranda and her mother Clare, recently appointed Under-Secretary for Agriculture, are directed to the Manor believing it to be a country house hotel. It is in fact the private home of Ollie's mother, Bel Hardcastle, and a constant drain on her dwindling inheritance. Ollie immediately sees the opportunity to have a litte fun and make a bit of money - and the Marlows' luxury weekend turns into three days of hell at Manor House Hotel. Disasters strike, sparks fly and Miranda and Ollie loathe each other with something very close to passion...

Prima ballerina Lydia Kusminskaya, whose talents saved her from starvation in imperial St Petersburg, trusted her beauty to secure her place in the gilded cocoon of the court – unaware of the cataclysm about to destroy it, and her hopes. Eighty years later, in London, the legacy of Lydia's beauty snares a woman and two men in the trap of their own obsessions: Alexander Wolfe, the desirable American who worships women and glamour; formidable businesswoman Bianca Berrisford, who believes beauty always has its price; and Lovat Whitburn, her bitter ex-husband, for whom beauty, once an ideal, is now a weapon. Now the three are chained to Lydia and each other in a lethal struggle for wealth, love and, above all, power. But the illusion of beauty which betrayed Lydia is lying in wait for them, too . . . 'A breathtaking achievement' Woman's Own 'Ms Brayfield knows what she is doing . . . her women sound and act like...

Flora drinks herbal tea, meditates and believes in the abundance of the universe. Georgie drinks black coffee, drives a car called Flat Eric and believes in hard work. But they agree about a lot of things. They're getting married, they know all men are victims of their own biology, but they're not choosing Hillary Clinton for a role model. Which means they've got the whole biology thing sorted. So when their old boss bets them they can't seduce each other's fiancés, they're up for it. Will it all go horribly wrong? Are men really all the same? Biology is destiny – true or false? To get the answers, read Celia Brayfield's delightful comedy, set in millennial London and inspired by Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte. 'Delicious . . . the perfect antidote to most of its genre. A laugh-out-loud book' Ireland Evening Herald

They were beautiful. They were rich. They were famous. They were powerful. Catherine Bourton: With a face like the Mona Lisa she storms the men-only bastions of London's square mile to become the world's most bewitching tycoon. Monty Bourton: Internationally f?ted rock star whose raw sexuality and heartbreaking voice expose her obsessive need for love. Princess Ayeshah: A woman with secrets, a dark, mysterious queen of the night who catered for men's desires with the ruthlessness of one who understood the degradations of lust – and used them Then one morning the Bourton sisters each wake up to find a priceless pearl hidden under their pillows. Why? So begins a journey back into the past that will change their lives . . . 'Readers will devour it' Independent

Grace, the lover, clever and passionate, ran away to find new happiness, but can't escape her guilt. Jane, the wife, loves her children, her brilliant career and her French farmhouse, but wakes up crying and alone. Imogen, the daughter, is beautiful and talented, but is also a wild child, hungry for revenge. Three women who all make the same mistake — loving Michael Knight: a TV star, a public figure, but also, in private, a serial adulterer driven to destroy the women whose love he craves. Now, as friends and family gather to celebrate his birthday, Michael reaps what he has sown.

There is only one rule in a suburb – never trust your neighbours. Westwick, the ultimate suburb. Nothing ever happens in Westwick; that's why people live there. Nice people, like Stephanie Sands. Loving husband, adorable son, dream job and a beautiful garden – life is just about perfect for Stephanie until the day her husband is kidnapped. Big mistake, losing your husband in the suburbs. The neighbours turn nasty. The TV totty sees Stephanie as a media victim and the totty's husband sees Stephanie as 'lonely' – codeword for desperate. Stephanie discovers that she isn't the kind of woman to take this lying down. Suddenly it's a jungle out there – adultery, blackmail, sleaze in high places and lust on the lawns, until Westwick scrambles the helicopters and takes to the streets with an army of eco-warriors in the hilarious live-TV climax. 'Deliciously comic – lightening flashes of wit and scalpel-sharp...

Culture, countryside and a great regional cuisine - this is a book that gets to the heart of what makes France so special for so many. Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France. "Deep France" is the diary of Celia's year spent in a tiny French village. It's a walk in the swashbuckling footsteps of The Three Musketeers and King Henri IV, full of funny and perceptive anecdotes.