Claire Rayner: 52 books

A novel of discovery, guilt and betrayal by the author of 'Maddie' and 'Clinical Judgements'. A celebrated film-maker is determined to make a film on the survivors of concentration camps. He comes to London and discovers a sinister cover-up of an old betrayal.

The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah 'Kid' Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure. Their daughter Poppy's first memory is of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. She has all the strong will and feistiness of her parents, combined with an insatiable appetite for...

A hospital romance about a lonely young girl, who leaves behind her sheltered upbringing when she begins training as a nurse and discovers an exciting new life within the hospital's social circle. Originally published under the name of Sheila Brandon.

Nurse Isabel Cameron had taken a job for six months at the Cadiz, a luxury hotel in Majorca. Leaving an unhappy love affair behind her in London, she swore that there would be no emotional complications in Spain, but that was before she met Biff Squires and Sebastian Garcia.

Laura's in Soho' is the fashionable place to meet and eat. Only a select few can guarantee an advance booking... The food is good, the ambiance attractive, buts its success is due to one woman alone, and that is Laura herself. But now Soho is changing, and Laura's is under threat from the property developers.

Nurse Avril Gardner had one great ambition, to become a Gold Medalist, even if it meant losing her friends and rejecting the love of Dr Dickon Bartlett. She knew she was right, especially when the handsome new Registrar agreed with her. Before long she found herself falling in love with him.

Dr Phillipa Fenwick accepted a post as a GP in a large group practice, the only woman on an all-male team. While some of the doctors were prepared to accept her, Dr Max Lester was not. He made it plain that he disapproved of women doctors in general, and her in particular.

It is New Year's Eve 1948, and Maddie Braham's birthday party. She sees Jay Kincaid, a handsome American in London on business, and immediately falls wildly in love with him. Spoiled from childhood, what Maddie wants she gets, but the price of obsession is high - and not always paid by the obsessed

In Your Face = Trigger Warnings This book contains twenty-two original and reprinted speculative fiction stories dealing with provocative themes. These stories are confronting, but with a firm purpose. They will make you uncomfortable, because they are a bit too hard-hitting or close to the bone....

A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized...