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The Secret Orphan

Glynis Peters

The Secret Orphan

Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved … but at what cost?This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of Orphan Train and The Secret WifeAs the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor...

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Glynis Peters

The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short...

Lionel Shriver

The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a surprising discovery.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

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Lionel Shriver

The Silent Woman: The USA TODAY BES...

Terry Thomas Lynn

The Silent Woman: The USA TODAY BESTSELLER - a gripping historical fiction

USA Today bestseller!Would you sell your secrets?Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out… that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a desperate bid to confuse the Germans.Soon Catherine finds herself caught up in a deadly mixture of espionage and murder. Someone is selling secrets to the other side, and the evidence seems to point right at her.Can she clear her name before it’s too...

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Terry Thomas Lynn

The Star Carrier Series Books 1-3:...

Ian Douglas

The Star Carrier Series Books 1-3: Earth Strike, Centre of Gravity, Singularity

The greatest threat to humanities survival is about to emerge from the depths of space.This bundle includes the first three books in New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas’ Star Carrier series.There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space,...

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Ian Douglas

The Texas Gun Club

Mark Bowlin

The Texas Gun Club

The Texas Gun Club is author Mark Bowlin's award-winning debut novel, and the first book in The Texas Gun Club series. It is the story of cousins Perkin Berger and Sam Taft's journey from south Texas to the distant shores of wartime Italy. Sam Taft is a rancher, fiercely devoted to his wife Margaret, and intent on surviving the war and returning to Texas. Each skirmish, every battle, is one step closer to home. His cousin Perkin Berger is a student of history at the University of Texas...

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Mark Bowlin

The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.But while Vietnam is central to ‘The Things They Carried’, it is not simply a book about war. It is also a...

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Tim O’Brien

The Virtuous Cyprian

Nicola Cornick

The Virtuous Cyprian

After the excitement of war, Nicholas found life as a civilian stifling.His boredom soon lifted when the notorious courtesan Susanna Kellaway claimed a lease on one of his houses. No sooner did they meet than Nicholas became truly puzzled. Though Nicholas had every cause to dislike her, this «Susanna» was an odd mix of seductive manners, intelligence and…innocence!So much so that he was beginning to wonder if the woman wasn't an impostor! Which didn't stop him from asking her to be his mistress....

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Nicola Cornick

The War Widow

Lorna Gray

The War Widow

While the bells of a Royal Wedding peel out to the fading echoes of war, danger stalks the coastline of Wales…Wales, 1947Injured and terrified after an attempted abduction, desperation drives artist Kate Ward to the idyllic scene of her ex-husband’s recent suicide. Labelled a hysterical, grieving divorcée, no one believes she is being pursued by two violent men demanding answers she cannot give. Not the police, not the doctors, and not the guests at the Aberystwyth hotel she has come to in an...

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Lorna Gray

The Warrior

Dinah McCall

The Warrior

John Nightwalker is a strong, rugged Native American soldier who has seen many battles. While hunting down an old enemy, he crosses paths with Alicia Ponte.On the run from her father–a powerful arms manufacturer–Alicia seeks to expose her father's traitorous crimes of selling weapons to our enemies in Iraq. But Richard Ponte will do anything to stay below the radar…even if it means killing his own daughter.Drawn to the mystery that surrounds Alicia, John feels compelled to protect her. Together...

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Dinah McCall

The Watch on the Bridge

David Garth

The Watch on the Bridge

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David Garth

Thirty Girls

Susan Minot

Thirty Girls

Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities on behalf of their leader, the despicable Joseph Kony. Her life becomes a constant struggle to survive, to escape, to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has travelled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her centre after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot...

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Susan Minot

Three Girls and their Brother

Theresa Rebeck

Three Girls and their Brother

A stunning novel about celebrity and the price of fame from a Pulitzer-shortlisted playwright and the creator of hit series SMASH.It was the photograph in the New Yorker which started it all. They were three young, beautiful, red-haired girls, there granddaughters of a literary lion. They were News. But it was the row over the youngest's reaction to the attentions from one of Hollywood's biggest stars that made them Celebrities.The family – the three sisters, their brother, their mother, their...

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Theresa Rebeck

Timothy Lea's Complete Confessions

Timothy Lea

Timothy Lea's Complete Confessions

The complete Timothy Lea confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.Save over £16 on the individual purchase RRPContains:CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANERCONFESSIONS OF A DRIVING INSTRUCTORCONFESSIONS FROM A HOLIDAY CAMPCONFESSIONS FROM A HOTELCONFESSIONS OF A TRAVELLING SALESMANCONFESSIONS OF A FILM EXTRACONFESSIONS FROM THE CLINKCONFESSIONS FROM A HEALTH FARMCONFESSIONS OF A PRIVATE SOLDIERCONFESSIONS OF A POP...

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Timothy Lea

Triumf żółtych

Bogusław Adamowicz

Triumf żółtych

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Bogusław Adamowicz

Tropic Fury

Jeff Sutton

Tropic Fury

Joe Stark – U. S. Naval Intelligence Agent – knew he’d have his hands full. There were miles of pipeline, oil wells and refineries to be wired and charged with dynamite so they could be blown to hell-and-gone when zero hour came; natives to be kept from spooking and running away; and death lurking around every corner.<P> In the meantime, there was SELINDA, boldly aggressive and acutely possessive; YOSHI, doll-like and fragile, who offered herself for reasons of her own; and SUZANNE who...

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Jeff Sutton

Twelve Rooms with a View

Theresa Rebeck

Twelve Rooms with a View

When a rich man you never knew dies and his opulent apartment is left to you, you’d think it was the answer to your dreams. But perhaps it is the start of a living nightmare…a sharp, intelligent and dark tale from the creator of hit series SMASH.Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Or is it?Tina Finn was standing at the edge of her mother's newly-dug grave when she first heard about her inheritance. Until this moment she'd been scraping by, living from one pay cheque to the next. But all that...

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Theresa Rebeck

Un Cœur Pur - Nouvelle

T. M. Bilderback

Un Cœur Pur - Nouvelle

Un colonel britannique à la retraite raconte le récit de son temps de guerre en Tunisie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (à la retraite), ancien membre des Forces Armées de Sa Majesté, publie Un Cœur Pur, la suite de The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Le Colonel Abernathy a pris sa retraite alors qu'il était célibataire endurci. Dans ce récit, ce bon colonel relate des faits connus uniquement de quelques privilégiés. Nous sommes à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et le...

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T. M. Bilderback

Warhost of Vastmark

Janny Wurts

Warhost of Vastmark

Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict.Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the...

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Janny Wurts

Werwolf

Volker Koop

Werwolf

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Volker Koop

Where You Belong

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Where You Belong

A contemporary novel from the author of A Woman of Substance about a young woman finding herself and her place in life, in love and in the world.Valentine Denning is a courageous photojournalist on the frontline in Kosovo. Her colleagues – Tony Hampton and American Jake Newberg – are her comrades-in-arms, men whom she loves and trusts. One is her best friend; one her lover. In a nightmarish ambush, all three are shot, Tony fatally, and for Val an even worse nightmare begins.For there are...

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

Wojenna miłość

Doug Gold

Wojenna miłość

PRAWDZIWA HISTORIA MIŁOŚCI, KTÓRA WBREW WSZYSTKIEMU ROZKWITŁA MIĘDZY DWOJGIEM LUDZI Z DWÓCH KRAŃCÓW ŚWIATA, KTÓRZY PODCZAS II WOJNY ŚWIATOWEJ WALCZYLI O WOLNOŚĆ. W sercu okupowanej przez nazistów Europy następuje przypadkowe, przelotne spotkanie dwóch osób. Jedną z nich jest bojowniczka ruchu oporu; drugą jeniec wojenny. Wymięty liścik, który trafił do jego rąk, kieruje tych dwoje nieznajomych na kurs, który na zawsze odmieni ich życie. „Wojenna miłość” to prawdziwa historia Josefine Lobnik i...

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Doug Gold