The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews, Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as "Joseph."

Kenneth Makeer - intelligent, South African and black - travels to London to study law where he meets a fellow South African - a white girl - whom he eventually marries. Yet mixed marriages are outlawed in the Union, and so when they return home they come face to face with racial intolerance and hatred at its most brutal. This is a passionate, harrowing and dramatic story which hurtles towards its ugly and untimely conclusion.

In London, before the First World War, where in society love and money predominate, Bertha and Nigel had been inseparable. But then Nigel felt he had to focus on the economics of life, and after all Bertha's family were quite modestly off. Whereas the heiress Mary, also interested in him but not anywhere near so charming, was very well set up. His decision was made. Though initially heartbroken, Bertha realises quickly that she has escaped from a delusion. Equanimity returns, and she finds in Percy Kellynch a devoted lover, though one a little more sober and less racy. They marry, as do Nigel and Mary, and over time the two become friends again, though now with wise awareness on Bertha's side. Nigel begins to see his error, as Mary's jealousy and her wish to supervise his life take their toll. He finds comfort in simply seeing Bertha initially, but inevitably begins to wish for more. Bertha is not interested, having moved on, but, if noticed, Nigel's attentions could be misconstrued... In the meantime, Bertha is also looking out for the future of a young friend, Madeline Irwin, who is smitten with Rupert Denison, a young man with rather too much of a penchant for patronising and "educating" young women. Madeline is impulsive, a little inexperienced and quite needy. Her headlong qualities precipitate problems very readily. As Bertha negotiates several crises arising from Nigel's reviving attachment, she also tries to assist Madeline in avoiding her own self-created disasters. Much depends on Bertha's talent for good management and wise counsel in the perils of both their lives. She is determined to win over adversity, but it will be a strong test of her skills.... Bird of Paradise, Leverson's fifth novel, as radiant with wit and wisdom as those which preceded it, was first published in 1914.

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.

An unmarried couple's brush with infidelity. They are two veterinarians who decide to live together in New York. While she attends a family reunion, he has an affair with a stockbroker. So she decides to have an affair too, after which they make up and resume monogamy. By the author of Class Reunion.

Reproduction of the original: A Duel by Richard Marsh

In the eighth novel in The Performers family saga, the lives of Miriam Da Silva and Claudette, granddaughter of the notorious Lilith, are destined to cross. Miriam, beautiful and rich, danced at the first ball of the 1892 Season, whilst Claudette, desperate to find a way of surviving in backstreet London, gambled all her charms and won a place on the stage of the Gaiety Theatre. Their paths crossed in the house of Mrs Lovibond - a house whose veneer of elegance concealed all the sordid vices of the Victorian underworld.

A romantic novel with a hospital setting.

Product Description Abel Lackland has risen from squalid beginnings to become one of the wealthiest surgeons in town. He wants his eldest son, Jonah, to follow in his footsteps, but Jonah decides that the future lies in the world of the arts. Jonah steals away one night to visit the forbidden Haymarket theatre and manages to meet the famous Lilith Lucas. He falls under her spell - a fatal spell that, unknown to him, has haunted Abel for many years. Lilith is aware of Jonah's identity and sees a chance to repay Abel Lackland for the indignity and heartbreak of the past... About the Author Claire Rayner, nurse, agony aunt and author was born in London in 1931. She married in 1957 and it was while her children were young that she began to write. She is also a tireless campaigner on many medical and social issues, including the long term care of the elderly. Her literary output comprises over eighty books including fiction and a broad range of medical matters. She now lives in Harrow with her husband.

Nurse Avril Gardner had one great ambition, to become a Gold Medallist, 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.

As Hitler rises to power, a man and woman travel to Germany in the desperate search for a Jewish family. Yet, more than common purpose unites them in their mission. Together, Peter and his married cousin, Leah Lackland, head for Munich.

Isabel Cameron has taken a job for six months at the Cadiz, a luxury hotel in Majorca. She had accepted the position, as a nurse to the residents and staff, rather hurriedly, anxious to leave the London hospital where she'd been working, and her unhappy love affair with Jason Chandos, the surgical registrar. Majorca was not going to offer any emotional complications, she told herself firmly. But that was before she met Biff Squires on the plane - and before she had treated her first patient, the dark impressive Sebastian Garcia.

The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah 'Kid' Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure. However, they have a daughter, Poppy who has the strong will and feistiness of her parents as well as an insatiable appetite for all life's experiences. Poppy's first memory is of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. And so begins the story of Poppy's life during a period of rapid and monumental change for herself and for all women.

Rayner, Claire

The First World War has ended, yet its terrible legacy lives on in the mind of a devastated survivor. This poignant story casts personal upheaval against the dramatic social and political changes of post Great War Britain.