Fiction

Set in Ipswich, this is the story of a Polish couple and their young son who are trying to make a life together after the War.

Much more than the blurb on the cover - beautiful descriptions, sensual colours, powerful presentations of sultry summers and freezing wastelands.

Rural Suffolk at the outbreak of the Second World War. La is a divorcee who moves from London to the country for a fresh start and decides to form an amateur orchestra.

What would happen if you got to know the people in your train carriage? A brilliant, wonderful read with characters I didn't want to leave.

Another brilliant instalment in the lives of Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson, this time they're trying to solve a crime while in lockdown.

Compared to the writing of Barbara Pym or Anita Brookner, this is the story of a local reporter in 1950s east London who has been sent to discover the truth behind a rather unusual revelation. Miracle or fraud, the investigation threatens to turn Jean's life inside out. What will we make of it?

A powerful, moving and completely consuming account which has been meticulously and sensitively researched. Huge admiration expressed for the author.