Joanna Trollope

A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters - Elinor, Marianne and Margaret - as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance. 35,000 first printing.

Sense & Sensibility

The twentieth stunning book from the lauded bestselling author, Joanna Trollope.The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between. But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits . . .

City of Friends

Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter. Rose and Tyler are determined to get it right this time, but in trying to make everyone happy, can they ever be happy themselves?

An Unsuitable Match

Sunday Times number one bestseller Joanna Trollope explores the issues at the heart of a modern family with her trademark wit and warmth, in Mum & Dad. ‘What a mess, she thought now . . . what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into.’ It’s been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it’s left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who’s never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the City, is distracted by the problems with her long-term partner, Nic, and the secretive lives of their three daughters. And Jake, ever the easy-going optimist, is determined to convince his new wife, Bella, that moving to Spain with their eighteen-month-old would be a good idea. As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, can the family ties prove strong enough to keep them together? 'Trollope writes about family relationships with intelligence and clear-eyed sympathy' - The Times

Mum & Dad

When she and her husband purchase a beautiful eighteenth-century estate in rural England, Alice Jordan looks at it as a chance to raise her three children and revive her tired marriage, until an unexpected affair scandalizes the entire village. Reprint.

A Village Affair

When Richie Rossiter, once a famous pianist, dies unexpectedly, Chrissie knows that she must now tell the truth to their three daughters: their parents were never married. Yet there is one more shock to come when Richie’s will is read. It seems he never forgot the wife and son he left behind years ago—Margaret, who lives a quiet life of routine and work, and Scott, who never knew his famous father. Now two families are left to confront their losses and each other, and none of them will ever be the same. Witty, intelligent, and insightful, The Other Family is a story of modern family life from one of our most beloved authors of domestic fiction.

A Novel

The Other Family

Second Honeymoon

One of England's favorite novelists, the author of Marrying the Mistress, relates the story of Gina and Laurence, two friends since childhood, whose blighted marriages send them into each other's arms for solace. Reprint.

The Best of Friends

Enjoying strong, orderly relationships with women twenty-five years their junior, two best friends in their early sixties sense the beginning of the end when the fiery, middle-aged Beatrice Bachelor appears, sowing discontent. Reprint.

Men and the Girls

Marrying the Mistress (Toronto Italian Studies)

The saga of two families--one British, one South African--amid the turmoil of the Boer War chronicles the conflict between Matthew Paget and Hendon Bashford, its consequences, and the struggle of Frances Paget against the traditions confining women of the

The Steps of the Sun

Die Zwillingsschwestern

What happens when the esteemed head of a family--an English judge--announces he is leaving a 40-year marriage to marry his mistress? This provocative new novel is quintessential Trollope, combining her trademark sensitivity with a new boldness and unsentimental honesty.

Marrying the mistress

Marrying the Mistress

"The modern problems facing an ancient cathedral in a socialist-run city result in confrontations and personal tensions over the fate of the choir. A story of ecclesiastical politics and human dilemmas."--Publisher description.

The Choir

Alexander McCall Smith

Tracy Chevalier

John Banville

Julian Fellowes

Sarah Singleton

Minette Walters

Terry Pratchett

Portraits of Unknown People

Imagined Lives

Other Family

Alice is thirty-eight. She has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy. But she isn't. Instead, she feels she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back of the sofa. Because Alice has a secret which is never spoken of in the family as they are all ashamed, Alice most of all. Alice can't read. Then two things happen. Her son, Craig, brings home his school's leather-clad bad boy, a terrible influence. And Alice's friend Liz tells her she's tired of feeling sorry for her and trying to help. Alice - timid, quiet Alice - must start out on her own brave journey and for it she chooses the strangest companion. For the first time in her life, she knows what she wants and she is going to get it. With the help of the book boy.

The Book Boy

It is often claimed, nowadays, that friendship is the new family. Friday Nights is concerned specifically with female friendship. Friday Nights tells the story of six women, all very different, and in different life circumstances, ranging in age from early twenties to early seventies, who have come to rely upon each other's company to beguile the frequent anticlimax of Friday nights. And then one of them introduces a man into the mix ...

Friday Nights

The Grey House is the answer to everything in Alice Jordan’s perfect life. The beautiful eighteenth-century building with its orchard and paddock, the village of friendly eccentrics seems the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy life. So why does she feel that something is missing? As they entrench themselves in local life, the something missing becomes huge, then breaks, scandalizing the village and opening up old wounds. But through it, because of it, Alice feels there is hope and humour, understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself.

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