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A beautiful anthology of classic love poems, introduced by bestselling author Joanna Trollope.
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Joanna Trollope
The beloved and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope’s contemporary reworking of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of…
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For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest’s wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and…
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Their parents made a choice years ago. Now they’re counting on the children to step in. After so much time, can old wounds heal? Mum & Dad by the Sunday…
The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his…
From the superb storyteller and quintessential women’s fiction author comes a new story about two families who must confront each other over an inheritance.
Lizzie was the twin who always got everything right, while Frances never quite measured up. Now, Frances shocks her family by taking as her lover a married Spanish Catholic, and…
Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has…
With her sensitive eye and unerring ear, Joanna Trollope, author of The Best of Friends , explores the hard-won truths and often harder to overcome difficulties of stepfamilies: coping with…
Archie’s beloved father–for decades a widower–has begun keeping company with a most unusual woman. And everyone seems to adore her except Archie, whose feelings on the subject force him to…
Next of Kin is about outsiders and insiders, about travelers and settlers, about living on the land and living with oneself. It offers a perceptive insight into the forces of…
This is a wonderful story of family traditions in conflict, of new beginnings, and of the way whole families can fall in love with a person.
Two Families. One Proposal. A decision that could pull them apart. The much-anticipated novel from the Number One Bestselling author of City of Friends
Eleanor, in a chance encounter, invites two young mothers into her home and slowly begins to connect with them and their friends. So begins a Friday night social circle, filled…
Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Lizzie is the twin who has everything, husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house and worries about…
The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan’s perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal…
Examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. This title draws on a range of sources, including diaries and letters home. It provides a panoramic picture…
At twenty-two, he’s the youngest of the family. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt…
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she’d been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her.
What’s even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew’s three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie. Matthew’s children come to…
Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They were…
Gina and Laurence have been best friends. Now, Gina is married to Fergus and Laurence to Hilary. Then, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their…
The soldiers are coming home - after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and families will be heaven, after the hell they have been…
Now bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie’s father, the brilliant…
Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency and…
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 novel–now in paperback–is quintessential Trollope.
Two lifelong friends enjoy relations with women 25 years their junior, not realizing that the age difference is a ticking time bomb. What transpires will alter all of their lives…
From the national bestselling author of Marrying the Mistress – a novel that asks the compelling question: Can a man and a woman be friends?
And what about the men - and the children - in their lives? Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family.
Trollope illuminates an experience shared by millions of people: a soldier’s return to family life causes three generations of a family to struggle with the impact of war on their…
When you’ve dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to…
The modern problems facing an ancient cathedral in a socialist-run city result in confrontations and personal tensions over the fate of the choir. This is a story of ecclesiastical politics…
Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except…
Four Friends. One City. City of Friends is the twentieth novel from the bestselling author, Joanna Trollope
Two Families. One Proposal. A decision that could pull them apart.
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Their parents made a choice years ago. Now they’re counting on the children to step in. After so much time, can old wounds heal?
Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale’s mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. But now the time has…
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Hugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed. But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle a chain of…
We all need to know where we come from, where we belong. But for David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent, because they are adopted. Their decision…
