West Yorkshire, 1926

It's spring and following her training in Steeple Street, Agnes Sheridan has been assigned her first post as a fully qualified Queen's Nurse to the West Yorkshire mining village of Bowden Main. She is looking forward to making her mark as the village's first district nurse, not to mention escaping the squalid slums of Leeds where she trained.

Agnes arrives in the village wanting to make a difference, but she finds herself treated with suspicion. The close knit community is dominated by the looming presence of the coal pit, and to the pitmen and their...

Every day in the jungle, the singing parrot, Polly Dardon, sits atop her tree, singing the most beautiful songs for all the jungle animals to hear. The happy animals gather beneath her tree, smiling, clapping, and enjoying her beautiful singing. But one animal in the group, Charlie the chimp, isn't happy. He never laughs or talks, and he never responds to Polly's singing. But why? Her singing is so moving, so touching, that it brings tears to the eyes of the other jungle animals. But not Charlie. Charlie remains unmoved and unresponsive. One day, Polly and the other animals decide to...

The new Nightingales Christmas novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of A Nightingale Christmas Carol. Set during the Second World War.

Christmas 1945. The war is over, but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars, as does Matron Kathleen Fox. She has the job of putting the hospital back together, but with so many of the staff tragically lost, and the bomb-damaged buildings so full of ghosts and memories, she wonders if she is up to the task.

In an attempt to bring some festive cheer, she decides to put on a Christmas Show for...