Modern fictionRich and alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of old Cairo and the vast desert surrounding it, this is a stirring story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family.

Iris and Ruby

À Londres, sa ville, tout le monde la croit morte. Sur l’ile grecque d’Halemni ou elle échoue à la suite d’un tremblement de terre, personne ne la connait. Abandonnée par son mari qui a balayé vingt ans de mariage pour les charmes d’une séduisante voisine, Cary n’a plus rien à perdre : pour Olivia et sa femme qui la recueillent, elle décide de devenir Kitty, la femme sans passé...

La Femme sans passé

From the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel of a group of friends. They were wild in the 60s; but now they face turning sixty themselves.

 Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.

 To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back.

 When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

Lovers and Newcomers

Sometimes the victims of tragedy are the ones who surviveFrom the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl

 Annie and Steve are from different worlds. She is a wife and mother, he is a wealthy executive with a stream of broken relationships in his wake. They do not know each other exists until one morning, on a shopping expedition, they becomes victims of a bomb blast, thrown together in the debris to fight for their lives.

 As they lie in the darkness and the rubble, the hours slowly tick by. To ward off fear and death they talk: of everything they have to live for, of their disappointments, loves, failures and their hopes. And so a bond is created that binds them deeper than family, than friends, than lovers. With such strange intimacy, such strange trust, how can they get through the future without each other?

Strangers

Très loin de son Angleterre natale – et d'un chagrin d'amour auquel elle ne pourra jamais vraiment échapper –, Connie (Constance) s'est créé une nouvelle vie à Bali, dans un endroit idyllique à la végétation luxuriante. Mais lorsqu'elle reçoit un appel de sa soeur Jeanette, mourante, elle se doit de retourner à Londres. Pourtant les sentiments qui les lient ne sont pas des plus simples. L'une était ténébreuse, l'autre, un véritable soleil. Jusqu'à ce qu'elles tombent amoureuses du même homme… Avec l'amertume de la trahison entre elles, les deux soeurs doivent apprendre à se pardonner. Pourront-elles retrouver les liens partagés lors de leur enfance et dépasser les mensonges ?

Constance

An epic love story and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.

 Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation and proof. But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable.

 Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica.

 James Rooker is a man on the run. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand. Now, there is nowhere further to go. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station.

 Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever . if she survives.

Sun at Midnight

A collection of three stunning ebooks from the author of the runaway bestseller, THE KASHMIR SHAWL.

 MOON ISLAND: On a small stretch of wild coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. Fourteen-year-old May, arriving for the summer, feels isolated and resentful. Leonie, next door, shares May's isolation for she is unhappy in her marriage. She confides in Elizabeth, an aging widow who keeps the beach's secrets. Meanwhile, May has discovered the diary of a dead girl. As she immerses herself in the past, she begins to feel she is destined to follow in the dead girl's footsteps.

 SUNRISE: It was a love forbidden but never forgotten. When Harry returned to Wales, Angharad found paradise - despite her father's violent warnings. For she and Harry were in love, untouchable until a shocking revelation drives Angharad to flee, pregnant and penniless, to London. There, she resolves to put the past behind her, joy and heartache alike. But neither time nor success can banish her memories.

 FOLLIES: They were three modern women, who came to Oxford University full of hopes and dreams and would leave forever changed. Helen: shy, quiet and hopelessly in love. Chloe: glamorous and confident, abandoning a high-powered career, obsessively drawn to her philandering English professor. Pansy: stunning heiress and aspiring actress, driven to prove she is more than an irresistible magnet to the men around her. Together for one unforgettable year, they would share a lifetime of emotions and a very special friendship.

Rosie Thomas 3-Book Collection - Moon Island, Sunrise, Follies

A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop

 The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years.

 An unlikely bond develops as Ruby helps Iris document her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love - the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux - whom she lost to the ravages of war.

 This lost love shaped Iris's past - and will affect Ruby's future in ways they could not have imagined.

Iris and Ruby

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