The wide worldBeirut, 1948. The Pelletier family returns. The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn't have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean marries a money grubbing young woman who quickly makes him

are far from dead

A look at the life of the Bishop

to dealing with environmental despair and burnout

Conrad - sexy and unavailable - is the only boy she's ever loved

Jenna Gray moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast

recently returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes

she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen

Suspicion falls on him and also on another course member - Ruth's friend Cathbad

Melissa Harrison knew what it was to be insulated from the seasons

Written at just 21

By the time they landed on Gold Beach on D-Day

'Never again'