Joanna Vanderham

12-year-old Leo spends the long, hot summer of 1900 with the family of his schoolfriend Marcus, at their elegant country mansion. Utterly in thrall to the glamorous Maudsley family, Leo is soon befriended by Marcus's beautiful older sister Marian, who draws Leo into a complex game of deceit and desire.

A country girl moves to the city and becomes enthralled by her new world after she takes a job at The Paradise, England's first department store.

Born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands, Sathnam's memoirs are a humorous, touching and emotional story of a second-generation Indian growing up in Britain.

A child of self-involved parents begins to understand the path through the morass of their arrested development will have to be of her own making.

One family's dream of a new life soon becomes a nightmare as college professor Ben Marshall is plagued by haunting visions after moving into Blackwood.