The LifeboatI was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six. In the summer of 1914, the Empress Alexandra, a magnificent ocean liner, suffers a mysterious explosion on its voyage from London to New York City. On board are Henry Winter, a rich banker, and his young new wife, Grace. Somehow, Henry manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for Grace. But the survivors quickly realize it is over

unless his uncle Richard

'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN

When rumors of dark magic rise in a nearby kingdom

SHANE is the story of a gunfighter who tries to hang up his gun but is drawn to the side of the boy's family and other homesteaders in their struggle to keep from being forced off their land

Velda went to the party - and was never seen again

They both drink alone

from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first

Heather has a strange eye complaint

she is whisked from a dreary shared house to a world of unimagined luxury

Mandy Baker

its isolation

bravery and betrayal