The good, the bad and the bookish

Hiring newcomer Gretchen was an even better decision than the Elm Creek Quilters initially realised, for she comes with a husband adept at w...

Gin Bombay loves her work, and (mostly) loves her family - both are unusual, and they're inextricably intertwined, for though Gin is a s...

Catherine Linton became curious about the flies around the house her parents had rented out; her discovery of a bloated body was a shock, th...

Molly Blume is a freelance reporter in LA - her beat is crime, not Hollywood, and she moonlights with some success as a true crime writer. W...

Bonnie Markham has had a grim year - in the throes of an unpleasant divorce from a man she knew not nearly as well as she thought, she's...

In the summer between graduating from high school and starting college, eighteen-year-old James Sveck decides he doesn't need to continu...

Stephen Fry is intelligent, urbane, assured and the epitome of an Englishman - unless you ask him. In this second autobiographical installme...

Perhaps it's because, in the lead-up to a year without library books, I've glutted on the Elm Creek Quilts series, but I have become...

Judd Foxman learned of his father’s death from his sister Wendy, who delivered the news casually; it was almost appropriate, given Mort’s re...

As the composition of the Elm Creek Quilters changes, founder Sylvia searches for a way to represent, honour and welcome the departing and a...

It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the pe...

Today I’m five. I was four last night, going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra. B...

Stoney Calhoun has been content to live his life since waking up in a VA hospital seven years earlier. He has amnesia about his life until t...

In keeping with the first holiday-themed novel, and really with the series as a whole, The New Year's Quilt uses events from the past t...

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the first ever duo to survive the Hunger Games, have returned home. As promised, their District now has ...

Once upon a time I was living happily ever after. That’s right. Like in a fairytale. How else to describe my life up till that bright autumn...

When her husband died in a car crash, June thought she’d never be happy again, let alone find love. But the policeman who rescued her from t...

Elizabeth Nelson left Pennsylvania with no little sadness - with one exceptiong she was leaving everyone she knew and loved behind her, from...