Piatkus imprint: 428 books

Mining engineer Tommy Birch goes off to war, leaving his new wife Rita behind in Pontefract. On the front line, Tommy runs afoul of a German mine and is reported as missing, presumed deceased by his fellow soldiers. But Tommy isn't dead. Found behind enemy lines, wearing only a pair of boots stolen...

It begins as a drunken argument between colleagues - Shannon Garret, editor of Femme magazine, and her rival Richard Stanley, editor of Babes!. Whose magazine is going to get the chop? Whose readers are the more daring, more sexually adventurous? When the magazines' owner, Edmund Howard, overhears...

Anna Armitage is determined to reach the top as a news photo-journalist. She's got the talent. She's got the drive. All she needs is the luck... Sam Turner, former Daily-News high-flyer, is on the slide. Too expensive to fire, the new management are hoping late call-outs to cover lousy stories...

After fleeing her divided Dutch homeland, Jannekyn van der Hest comes to Colchester, Essex, looking to make a new life for herself. Though she seeks comfort and community, she finds herself at the mercy of her cruel uncle, who condemns her to a demeaning life as a kitchen maid. As she struggles...

In this practical guide, relationships counsellor Anne Nicholls explains that finding and keeping a positive and happy relationship is not an impossible dream. Here she seeks to arm the reader with a toolkit of tried and tested strategies to help you break the negative patterns of the past, allow...

Jenna is happily enjoying an affair with her married boss, Nick, until he throws a weekend-long thirtieth birthday party at a country hotel, and invites his wife, Lisette, his sister, Heather, and several important business colleagues. Lisette seems to share Nick's passion for Jenna, while innocent...

As the English Civil War rages in 1642, a young Irish girl called Sorcha O'Neill is separated from her family at the siege of Carrickmain Castle. She fears the same fate as many of her compatriots: death at the hands of the English. Salvation arrives in the unlikely form of Lieutenant Robert...

'Sweetheart, you look like a trainspotter,' says Alex, with a kiss on each cheek for Derek. 'That anorak has to go. You haven't done anything rash have you? Like taking up team sport?' Derek shakes his head. 'It's just been a hell of a week.' 'Darling, it's only Wednesday.' And...