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Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Coll...

Kathleen Tessaro

Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection

‘Elegance is a fantastic book . . . funny, moving, tongue in cheek’ Cat DeeleyELEGANCELouise Canova is at a crossroads in her life. Browsing in a second-hand bookshop, she stumbles across a faded grey volume. Written by a formidable French fashion expert, Elegance is an encyclopedia of style. Within the book's pages Louise discovers a courage she never thought possible. For true elegance cannot be attained until she is comfortable in her own skin: only then might love flourish.INNOCENCEIt's 1987...

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Kathleen Tessaro

Elegance

Kathleen Tessaro

Elegance

An enchanting novel brimming with poignancy, humour, enchantment and insight, this is a stunning debut. Imagine an Audrey Hepburn film in the present day…It was a slim, grey volume entitled Elegance…Louise Canova is at a crossroads in her life. Her marriage is faltering and the insecurities of adolescence have returned to haunt her. Browsing in a second-hand bookshop, she stumbles across a faded grey volume. Written by the formidable French fashion expert, Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux,...

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Kathleen Tessaro

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine...

Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Debut Sunday Times Bestseller and Costa First Novel Book Award winner 2017

The Sunday Times bestseller‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo MoyesEleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to liveEleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls...

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Gail Honeyman

El Papa Impostor

T. S. McLellan

El Papa Impostor

Una historia del tipo ”El príncipe y el pobre/el prisionero de Zenda”, que involucra a un loco árbitro de béisbol al frente de la Iglesia Católica Romana. Un pequeño grupo de reformistas radicales secuestran al Papa y lo sustituyen por uno que creen que pueden controlar. El verdadero Papa escapa de sus captores, pero no puede encontrar ayuda de las autoridades, porque nadie le creerá. En 1980, un grupo de reformistas radicales decide que la verdadera reforma católica no puede llevarse a cabo...

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T. S. McLellan

Eggshells

Caitriona Lally

Eggshells

WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE 2018A modern Irish literary gem for anyone who has felt like the odd one out.‘Inventive, funny and, ultimately, moving’ GUARDIAN ‘Wildly funny’ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW‘Beguiling’ THE IRISH TIMES‘Delightfully quirky’ THE IRISH INDEPENDENTVivian is an oddball.An unemployed orphan living in the house of her recently deceased great aunt in North Dublin, Vivian boldly goes through life doing things in her own peculiar way, whether that be eating blue food,...

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Caitriona Lally

Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa

Matthew Fort

Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa

Italy’s tumultuous history can be traced through its food. In an epic scooter trip from the Ionian Sea to the far north, distiguished food writer Matthew Fort explores the local gastronomy and culinary culture of a country where regional differences are vibrantly alive.In no other country is food so much a part of everyday life as it is in Italy. Matthew Fort's plan is a simple one: to travel by scooter from Melito di Porto Salvo – the southernmost town in Italy and where Garibaldi landed in...

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Matthew Fort

Driving Jarvis Ham

Jim Bob

Driving Jarvis Ham

A brilliantly witty story of unconventional, unwavering, and regularly exasperating friendship.Meet Jarvis Ham: tea-room assistant, diarist, lift-cadger, Princess Di fan, secret alcoholic, and relentless seeker of fame. Jarvis may be an all-round irritant, but he’s harmless, and deep down, you know, he’s got a heart of gold. Hasn’t he?As his oldest (and only) friend reflects on his life with Jarvis Ham – infatuations, questionable hairstyles, home-made charity singles, reality TV auditions,...

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Jim Bob

Down on Daffodil Lane

Rebecca Pugh

Down on Daffodil Lane

‘If you’re only going to read one book this year and you’re a fan of chick lit, make it this one!’ – Han’s Book ReviewA charmed life…Maria Charm’s world might have recently crumbled, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to let it get her down.Sure, her ex-husband broke her heart and decimated her trust, and while it would be so tempting to spend forever in her dressing gown, a tub of ice-cream in one hand and a glass of Chardonnay in the other, Maria wants more from her new—single—life!A make over...

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Rebecca Pugh

Die besten lustigsten Geschichten /...

Сборник

Die besten lustigsten Geschichten / Лучшие смешные рассказы

В этой книге подобраны лучшие смешные рассказы, которые превратят изучение немецкого в увлекательное занятие. Чтение коротких смешных историй поможет легко погрузиться в мир классического немецкого языка и пополнить словарный запас. Адаптированные тексты рассказов дополнены грамматическим комментарием, а в конце книги даны упражнения с ключами для проверки понимания текста и закрепления новой лексики. Издание сопровождается немецко-русским словарем. Книга рассчитана на средний и высокий...

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Сборник

Die Before I Wake

Laurie Breton

Die Before I Wake

Just five days after they meet, Julie Hanrahan and Dr. Thomas Larkin exchange vows on a moonlit Caribbean beach, the whirlwind conclusion to a romance that's swept her off her feet. Tom is sexy, witty and charming and Julie's sure she's found her Prince Charming. But not every fairy tale ends happily ever after. With a workaholic husband, a hostile mother-inlaw and a resentful stepdaughter, the honeymoon doesn't last long. Especially after Julie finds out that Tom's first wife didn't die in an...

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Laurie Breton

Desire Inc.

Zoe Zarani

Desire Inc.

“I’m going to punish you for not wanting me . . .You deserve it for being so god damn desirable, for locking yourself inside my head, tormenting me day and night. You’re going to have to pay for that.”Desire, Inc, make high-end handbags and twenty-nine-year-old Nicole dedicates her life to growing the business. She also owns Close Encounters, an escort business for women and donates the profits to help women in Third World countries.She has little use for men, considering them nothing more than...

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Zoe Zarani

Death Plays a Part

Vivian Conroy

Death Plays a Part

‘An incredibly tightly written closed door mystery.’ Rachel’s Random Reads (Top 500 Amazon Reviewer)‘Is yet another fantastic tale.’Karen QuickWith high tide comes murder…When her beloved London theatre closes for renovations, costume maker Guinevere is excited to start a job at Cornisea castle, a centuries-old keep on a small tidal island off the coast of Cornwall. Imagine a whole summer full of stories of hidden treasures, fab food and long walks with her perky dachshund Dolly.But when a...

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Vivian Conroy

Dancing in Limbo

Edward Toman

Dancing in Limbo

Oliver Cromwell McCoy, God’s man in Ulster, has stumbled into the radio age. With a crumbling transmitter left over from the Titanic he has taken to blasting the countryside with his inimitable brand of mendacious evangelism.His old adversary across the Shambles, Cardinal Schnozzle O’Shea, is determined to go one better. He needs a good-looking priest to anchor the great TV chat show he believes will get Ireland back on its knees. When his eye lights on young Frank Feely, authoritarianism and...

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Edward Toman

Dad

Уильям Уортон

Dad

After being summoned home by the news of his mother's heart attack, John Tremont is forced to confront his own middle age.While John’s mother begins to make an astonishing recovery, his father deteriorates; having long ago handed over the running of his life to his domineering wife, he is unable to cope without her. With the help of his nineteen-year-old son, John assumes the role of carer. Before long, John finds himself caught between his son's feckless impatience to get on with his life and...

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Уильям Уортон

Cupcakes at Carrington’s

Alexandra Brown

Cupcakes at Carrington’s

The first book in the hugely popular Carrington’s series from the No.1 bestselling author of The Great Christmas Knit-Off and The Secret of Orchard Cottage.Georgie Hart loves her job – running the luxury handbag concession at Carrington's Department store in the pretty seaside town of Mulberry-on-Sea, and treating herself (once too often!) to a red velvet cupcake with buttercream icing in Carrington's café.But Georgie is thrown into disarray when Carrington's is plunged into a recession-busting...

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Alexandra Brown

Crazy For You

Emma Heatherington

Crazy For You

What would you do for a second chance at first love?Aspiring actress Daisy Anderson is a hopeless romantic with dreams of finding her own happily ever after. She’s left her sleepy home town of Kilshannon and the heartache of lost love far behind her, determined not to look back… until her past comes looking for her that is!When disaster strikes and her holiday to sunny Spain is cancelled, the last thing Daisy expects is to open the door to her estranged best friend, Eddie, in desperate need of...

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Emma Heatherington

Country Rivals

Zara Stoneley

Country Rivals

A hilarious, sexy rom com for fans of Jilly Cooper and Fiona Walker!Dashing eventer Rory is ready to button up his breeches and settle down. His gorgeous wife, Lottie, wants a bank balance in the black so she can protect the beautiful family estate for future generations.But with the wedding business at Tipping House going up in flames, and rumours that it was arson not accident, Lottie begins to wonder who she can trust with her future.Tranquil Tippermere is under siege as movies moguls and...

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Zara Stoneley

Country Affairs

Zara Stoneley

Country Affairs

‘Eventing could definitely do with a few more Rory Steels!’ – Horse & Hound'A great treat for readers…jam-packed with sexy men and horses' Bestselling author Fiona WalkerWelcome to Tippermere for the wedding of the year…Scatty but loveable Lottie Brinkley is famous throughout the village for her disorganised personality, so when she steps up to plan the perfect wedding the only likely outcome is disaster.When her globetrotting, love cheat of an ex, Todd, literally crashes the wedding on a...

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Zara Stoneley

Confetti at the Cornish Café: The p...

Phillipa Ashley

Confetti at the Cornish Café: The perfect summer romance for 2018

‘Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read.’ Katie Fforde‘Filled with warm and likeable characters. Great fun!’ Jill MansellThe heart-warming new novel in Phillipa Ashley's bestselling Cornish Cafe series.Cal and Demi are preparing to launch their beloved Kilhallon Resort in Cornwall as a wedding venue. With the cliff-top setting and coastal views, it's the perfect place for a magical ceremony.But their first clients are no ordinary couple. The bride and groom are...

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Phillipa Ashley

Confessions Of A Domestic Failure

Bunmi Laditan

Confessions Of A Domestic Failure

Freaking hilarious. This is the novel moms have been waiting for.–Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened"Perfect for readers looking for a funny, realistic look at motherhood."–Booklist (starred review)From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere.There are good moms and bad moms–and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to...

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Bunmi Laditan

Confessions from the Clink

Timothy Lea

Confessions from the Clink

Lock him up and throw away the key…Available for the first time in eBook, the classic sex comedy from the 70s.Timmy has been a very naughty boy and its all gruel and hard labour? Or is it?Our young criminal is particularly lucky – he’s in a liberal-minded open prison. The Warder’s wives are particularly interested in hands-on rehabilitation, and who is Timmy to refuse?Also Available in the Confessions… series:CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANERCONFESSIONS OF A LONG DISTANCE LORRY DRIVERCONFESSIONS...

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Timothy Lea

Commencing Our Descent

Suzannah Dunn

Commencing Our Descent

Sadie is in a tailspin: will anyone break her fall?Having had more than her share of misfortune, Sadie Summerfield seems to have finally ended up lucky. She has the perfect homelife. For the first time in a very long time, she has a future.So when another man, a cautious, subdued man, so very different from her own warm-hearted husband, drifts into Sadie’s life, she must ask herself the question: Is she ready to risk everything for the sake of love? And besides, shouldn’t affairs begin with a...

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Suzannah Dunn

Coming Home to Wishington Bay

Maxine Morrey

Coming Home to Wishington Bay

Don’t miss the gorgeously uplifting and funny new book from bestselling author Maxine Morrey!Pre-order now!

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Maxine Morrey

Come Away With Me: The hilarious fe...

Maddie Please

Come Away With Me: The hilarious feel-good romantic comedy you need to read in 2018

Somewhere beyond the sea…When Alexa Fisher finds herself trapped on a twelve-day cruise to celebrate her younger sister’s hen-do – just the two of them – she wishes she’d jumped overboard.Despite the age difference, India has always been the judgemental sibling, and there’s been even more friction than usual since ‘the big engagement’. With India constantly obsessing over wedding plans, Alexa has never felt more single, or more of a failure.She longs to find a man who was funny, handsome and...

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Maddie Please

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