Helen Lloyd

Good parents everywhere know the tension of wanting our kids to be curious, to have rich experiences and friends...but to be perfectly safe while doing it. Little Fox knows all about it! His father warns him of the danger everywhere. But Little Fox still frolics with butterflies, scavenges for food, and searches for new friends. Then one day he takes a tumble, bumps his head, and starts dreaming of things that reflect both the beauty he's seen and...

One of Amazon’s Best Books of September!
Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Chance Library.
When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number...

This pioneering novel explores a young man's journey from boyhood to the warfront by the author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Jacob Flanders is a young man typical of his generation-like so many who would go on to face death in the battlefields of the Great War. In this probing, elegiac book, his life is recounted through the private memories and sentiments of those who knew him. We meet Jacob as the boy who preoccupies his mother's thoughts;...

It takes a village to bury a child...
September 1st, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without a trace, the reality of separation becomes more urgent and more deadly for those who love her.
In the chaos and uncertainty of war, Josephine struggles with the prospect of change. As a cloud of suspicion falls...

"Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president's death? As Yuletide settles upon Gwenafwy Abbey, the rural Welsh convent's peace is shattered when Tiffany Reese, president of the Village Art Society, is found dead on the floor of the parish hall. Sister Agatha, whose interests lie more with reading and writing mystery stories than with...

At once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration of love and grief, critically acclaimed author Nicola Upson's eighth Josephine Tey mystery is a force to be reckoned with.
In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.
Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house—now much changed—and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged...

Mystery writer Lorinda Lucas doesn't like the trend toward overly gruesome crime fiction-but she's even more upset about Roscoe, the cat who lives next door. He used to look well-fed and well cared for, but when Lorinda gets back from her most recent book tour, she's worried by his dangerously skinny appearance. It turns out that Roscoe's owner has a new girlfriend who's put the poor cat on a deprivation diet-and that's not the only bad news in...

A woman's mind begins to spiral as she tries to sort out truth, lies, and mysteries about her family in a novel by the bestselling author of Abduction. Alice's husband is missing. Has he left her for another woman, or has something more sinister happened? In a world that is becoming increasingly muddled, Alice is unsure, whom she can trust. Even her daughter appears to be lying to her. How much heartache can one person endure? As strange things...

On a remote Shetland island, a mother and daughter's strained relationship is tested as dark and long-hidden secrets are revealed . . . Kirstie exiles herself to the small Shetland island of Yell after yet another torrid affair. She knows she went too far this time-her desperate behaviour caused the breakdown of her lover's marriage. Taking up residence in her grandparents' croft, which has lain empty since their deaths, and wanting time to reflect...

To honor the vow he made to his dying brother, Edward Alcott pretends to be his now-dead twin, the Earl of Greyling, until the countess, whom he has loved for years, gives birth, despite his desire to claim her for himself.