Thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway, who is out alone and trying to find her murdered Uncle Alf's donkey, Charlie. Uncertain where he may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their imaginings.

1984 depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, quashing freedom in a totalitarian world, where news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live by rote. Dissidents are disciplined into being willing tools of their masters. Winston Smith lives in this social system where surveillance, brainwashing, and execution are the state's tools for erasing personal will. His foray into passion ends with...

Once again, Howatch weaves together the ecclesiastical and the earthly in an electrifying story about a woman who begins to doubt the certainties of her life. A young lawyer in her 30s, Carter Graham seeks help at St. Benet's Healing Centre and sets out on a psychological and spiritual journey that will bring her to a startling understanding of her life

Ian Cresswell's death has been ruled accidental and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, clues and information seem to contradict the accidental death ruling.

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis...