Lesley: 835 books

Phoebe Rackson is determined to help her family's faltering finances. When she learns of the Soho Bazaar, established specifically to aid the widows and orphans of war casualties, she sees a way. After convincing her widowed mother of the wisdom of her plan to take counter space at the Bazaar, she...

Dinah Driffield has grown up happy and content in the upper middle class of society in Leeds in the north of England. Her family is numerous and loving, her friends many and her year is a satisfactory round of charitable work, social events, and summer visits to nearby Harrowgate. She expects that...

Lady Susan and Lord James Haythe, twin siblings of the Earl of Cheriton, have always been unpredictable. Intelligent, attractive and easily bored, they find their privileged life in the heart of the beau mode unfulfilling. For three years they have supplemented their unsatisfactory daily round of balls,...

Time travel is impossible. It calls into question everything that governess Avice Palsham knows about the natural world and believes about the mystical universe. Nevertheless, when she and her young orphaned charge, Jacob Milden, experience a profound change in their circumstances in the Red...

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.

When Scotland’s leading virologist goes missing, Mona and Paterson from the Health Enforcement Team are dispatched to London to find him. In a hot and unwelcoming city, Mona has to deal with a boss who isn’t speaking to her, placate the Professor’s over-bearing assistant, and outwit the people...

A saga of immense charm and warmth, with three characters you won't forget. Thea, Anna and Daisy forge an unbreakable friendship through adversity. Thea's loathsome stepbrother is trying to trick her out of her inheritance of her parents' beautiful house in the seaside town of Brighton by means of...

Five bite-size pieces of theatre that deal with perception: the characters in these theatrical hors d’oeuvres find their view of themselves at odds with the way the rest of the world sees them. Bittersweet and highly original, these ‘mini marvels’ cleverly break down the barrier between...

"Monstrously good." - Louise Welsh. London, 1823. Mary Shelley's real-life friend Isabella Baxter Booth is 'disturbed in her reason' - seeing ghosts and dependent on narcoti to escape a hellish life with an increasingly violent, deranged husband. Fearful of her own murderous impulses towards...

Perhaps you think fairies are figments of the imagination, or even relics of an ancient past. You may even think all fairies are lovely winged creatures, who dance in bluebell fields, granting wishes to anyone who should encounter them.  You would be wrong on all counts.  Fairies are very much alive...

Tradition had the League of Star Warriors being rooted in the Tejas Rangers of the Statea United on the mythical First Earth. However, while the Tejas Rangers rode horses over the vast wastelands of a single planet, Star Warriors flew and lived on their thunderturkies, as their class of battle starships...

Taking a Chance traces the relationship between Imogen and her mother, Ada, culminating in Ada’s death when Imogen is fifty years old. Imogen’s reminiscences start with her discovery of Ada’s death, revealing her quirky coping philosophy as she does so. Incredibly intelligent but maybe ‘too...

Freddie Mercury, uno de los mayores talentos de la música pop de todos los tiempos, ha sido sin duda el más misterioso de aquellos intérpretes que llegaron a convertirse en leyenda. Sin embargo, y a pesar de que su ilimitada creatividad e inigualable sentido del espectáculo le granjeara millones...

Londen, 1914. Belle Reilly heeft eindelijk het leven dat ze wil, met dank aan haar toegewijde echtgenoot Jimmy en de hoedenwinkel waar ze als kind al van droomde. Maar de dreiging van de Eerste Wereldoorlog hangt in de lucht, en als Jimmy het leger in gaat en naar de loopgraven van Ieper vertrekt,...