Benita Brown: 8 books

The unhappiness of actress Alison Blair-Coupland over her failed career was compounded by a broken romance and the threat of an ancient family curse. This predicts bad luck for all at Eden Manor, the family home. Then, when Alison hoped to have the manor to herself she discovers film producer Mark...

'A scheming little golddigger! Her wealthy husband scacely cold in his grave and she embarks on a torrid affair with a toyboy!'That's how the gutter press see Gina, and is it any wonder that Sam Redmond agrees with them when he remembers how badly she treated him in the past? 'Love 'em, grab their money and leave 'em' seems to be her motto. Is there no way Gina can prove her innocence?

Sophie has invited her three best friends to her wedding. Alison wonders if she can break free from family restrictions to find happiness again; Francine must decide between an old love and a new opportunity; Carol asks herself if her own marriage is worth saving. One thing is certain - change is in the air!

Orphaned Miranda Foster is soon to lose her home, so the job as live-in secretary to former movie star, Nita Montez, is a godsend. But when she arrives at The Laurels, a gloomy house on the cliff-top, it is like a scene from an old movie. Who is the dark stranger who almost runs her down in the rainstorm? Miranda...

Just before Christmas, orphaned Laura Stewart discovers that her boyfriend,Steve Fraser, is not all he seems. Hurt and angered by his deception, Laura decides to take a break and sets out for her cottage in the North of England's Penine Fells. On the way, in worsening weather conditions she catches...

Young, beautiful and talented, Heather Kerr has found success quickly as a television presenter. She is about to make it into the 'National' big time when an illness to her friend and TV director, Alec Seaton, changes her life dramatically. Luke Barron, a high-flying freelance programme maker, is...

He was very tall. His hands were pushed into his pockets abd his broad shoulders were hunched against the driving rain. He was wearing jeans and a sweater and raindrops glistened on his dark hair. This was Bethany Lyall's first sight of Greg Randell and from that moment he haunted her dreams, and...

Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques of myth creation in dance performance, history as performance, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals in the field. Similarly, research in postcoloniality, gender/sexuality, intercultural,...