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A blockbuster novel of suspense, intrigue and revenge, from the celebrated author of Platinum Coast and EclipseKathryn de Moubray comes from a respectable English family. So when she discovers that her grandfather was a high-ranking Nazi and wanted war criminal who disappeared in 1944, she is devastated – and compelled to trace the family history that her mother, now dead, kept hidden for so many years.Adam Krantz, a New York art dealer whose family was wiped out in the Holocaust, is on a...
| Автор | Lynne Pemberton |
Prepare to be SCANDALISED with international multi-million-copy selling Penny Jordan.For over five decades, Amber Fulshawe has been at the helm of Denham Silk, the Macclesfield mill that she inherited from her Grandmother. With many tumultuous years behind them, Amber and her beloved husband Jay, are looking to the legacy that their own grandchildren will inherit.But long-buried secrets and hidden desires have always lain at the heart of the family as this generation are finding out.Ambitious...
| Автор | Пенни Джордан |
They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a tragedy.Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknown-an odyssey of promise and forgiveness, of loss and rediscovery. Jillian, Beatrice and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister, Meredith. Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross-country journey in search of a stranger with the power to mend their shattered lives.As the emotions of the past reverberate into the...
| Автор | Мэри Элис Монро |
‘Fans of Jodi Picoult will devour this’Red magazine‘Deeply moving and exquisitely lyrical, this is a powerhouse of a debut novel’Tess Gerritsen‘Two little girls are missing. Both are seven years old and have been missing for at least sixteen hours.’Calli Clark is a dreamer. A sweet, gentle girl, Callie suffers from selective mutism, brought on by a tragedy she experienced as a toddler. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is trapped in a marriage to a violent husband.Petra Gregory is...
| Автор | Heather Gudenkauf |
There’s only so much sex, valium and red wine you can take to paper over the cracks…Alice is the friend you wish you had. The girl who makes a party more fun, drinks wine out of a mug and makes you laugh while you’re crying over an ex. Alice is totally happy, everything is amazing and there is nothing at all to worry about…except, well: Her job was really great – 10 years ago. She is in love with her best friend, but he’s gay. Her credit card bills are under her bed unopened…But maybe the...
| Автор | Carol Marinelli |
James Nealy needs to create a garden James Nealy is haunted by irrational fears, and inescapable compulsions.A successful software developer, he’s thrown himself into a new goal—to finally conquer the noise in his mind. And he has a plan. He’ll confront his darkest fears and build something beautiful: a garden. When he meets Tilly Silverberg, he knows she holds the key…even if she doesn’t think so. After her husband’s death, gardening became Tilly’s livelihood and her salvation.Her thriving...
| Автор | Barbara White Claypole |
What if the only person who could help was the one whose heart you'd broken?A captivating and heartrending novel of lost love, family secrets and betrayal from a major new talent.'Memories are like spinning blades; dangerous at close range.'Meg Powell and Carson McKay were soulmates. Until Meg inexplicably walked away and straight into the arms of another man.While Meg set about building a career and a family – and trying her best to forget Carson – he poured his soul into the music that was to...
| Автор | Therese Fowler |
This is the story of how we grow old – how we give up the dreams of youth for something better – and how many chances we have to get it right.George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of – the chance to live his life again.After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old – and suddenly everything changes…He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter – and not a stern Home Secretary, monitoring their every move.He makes love to his wife all...
| Автор | Tony Parsons |
A national hardback bestseller in the US – another magnificently imagined and executed book of historical fiction with a contemporary twist, from one of the masters of the form. ‘These stories possess a wonderful clarity and ease, the serene authority of a writer working at the very height of her powers.' New York TimesRanging across two centuries, and from the western Himalayas to an Adirondack village, Servants of the Map travels the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and...
| Автор | Andrea Barrett |
THE WAY INN is played out in the anonymous and bizarre lobbies, corridors and concourses in which modern business life takes place. The ‘Way Inn’ of the title is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double, the novel’s protagonist, is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. Neil is a professional conference-goer, a man who will attend trade fairs, expos and conventions so you don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, inexpensive suits and out-of-town exhibition centres. This...
| Автор | Will Wiles |
32-year-old Tracie Martin is Luton Town FC's longest-serving WAG – for 12 years her husband Dean has kept her in raccoon hair extensions and quilted Chanel bags.But looking around at the new breed of WAGS, Tracie is disgusted to see that standards have started to decline – some of them have been spotted in skirts that cover their bottoms and one or two have never drank four bottles of champagne on a night out!And what's worse, Dean is dropped from the first team and Paskia Rose (despite Tracie...
| Автор | Alison Kervin |
Love knows no seasonSpring should bring renewal, but Maura McKnight-Parker cannot escape the past. Still reeling from the loss of one daughter, the former free-spirit is thrown for a loop by the return of her older daughter, Sage, and the reappearance of her first love, Sage’s father.Jackson Lange never knew his daughter – never even knew that he’d left the love of his life pregnant when he fled their small town – but he had never forgotten Maura. Now they are all back, but Sage has her own...
| Автор | RaeAnne Thayne |
You thought your neighbours were bad? Wait till you meet the Oswalds. They're crass, cruel and seemingly untouchable. Until, that is, they go one step too far – and the results begin to tear an entire community apart.Skunk Cunningham is an eleven-year-old girl in a coma. She has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother who plays more XBox than is good for him. She also has the neighbours from hell: the five Oswald girls and their thuggish dad Bob are vicious bullies whose reign of terror...
| Автор | Daniel Clay |
The Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller‘A page-turning whodunnit that will speak to anyone who's ever had a frenemy.’Ruth Ware‘A gripping, tangled web of a novel—it pulls you in and doesn’t let you go. I loved it!Shari LapenaIt’s Always the Husband…unless it’s the best friend.Kate, Aubrey and Jenny are inseparable at college – friends who promised they’d always be there for each other.But twenty years later, their friendship is about to take a deadly turn.Kate married the gorgeous party boy, Aubrey...
| Автор | Michele Campbell |
Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2018‘Makes Hannibal Lecter look like Mary Poppins… this is going to give me a serious book hangover’ John Marrs, author of The OneIf only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not him. I just want to stand on that doorstep and scream it: IT WAS ME. ME. ME. ME. ME!Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fiancé Craig for the depraved and bloody killing...
| Автор | C.J. Skuse |
EVER FEEL LIKE SOMEONE’S WATCHING YOU? ME, TOO. BUT LATELY IT’S BEEN HAPPENING IN MY ROOM. WHEN I’M ALONE. A friend posted a video of me dancing online, and now I’m no longer Alicia Ruffino. I’m dancergirl. And suddenly it’s like me against the world— everyone’s got opinions. My admirers want more, the haters hate, my best friend Jacy—even he’s acting weird. And some stalker isn’t content to just watch anymore. Ali. Dancergirl.Whatever you know me as, however you’ve seen me online, I’ve trained...
| Автор | Carol Tanzman M. |
An astonishing literary debut, this collection of mature and intricate stories introduces a powerful new voice in fiction.‘A STUNNING DEBUT’ Margaret Atwood‘IRRESISTIBLE’ Alice MunroIn this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic portrait of today's medical profession. Twelve interlinked stories introduce us to a group of medical students over ten years, as they...
| Автор | Vincent Lam |
Following the success of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and ‘The Post-Birthday World’, ‘A Perfectly Good Family’ is coming back into print after being unavailable for years.After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the grand Reconstruction mansion where she grew up in North Carolina, now willed to the three grown children following the death of their parents. All three want the house.Fiscal necessity dictates that two must buy a third out. Just as she was torn as a girl,...
| Автор | Lionel Shriver |
A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007.Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It captivates all who come into contact with it, and dramatically changes the lives of all those who take...
| Автор | Дорис Лессинг |
To keep little secrets, they tell big lies…‘I am not sick. I just like the little dolls…I think I’ll break one soon.’It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. A tiny porcelain doll appearing on your doorstep. Bright blonde hair, rosy cheeks, even a little blue dress. A perfect replica of your six-year-old daughter.Then anonymous letters from ‘The Doll Collector’ begin to arrive. And in the small town where everyone has their own little secrets, no one is safe from suspicion.Because you can never...
| Автор | Anna Snoekstra |
The first John Coffin story with a contemporary setting. A recently-promoted John Coffin soon has his hands full when a severed human head turns up the steps of his new home. From one of the most appraised English mystery authors, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.John Coffin now commands his own force in the newly created second city of London, established on the site of the old Docklands.Life is good for Coffin – he's earned a promotion and has just moved into a new home in the tower of a...
| Автор | Gwendoline Butler |
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world…When Amy Marsh's boyfriend mistakenly believes she's two-timing him, he plots the ultimate revenge on a shoe-addict… and sells her prized collection on eBay.Amy embarks on a modern-day Cinderella quest to reclaim her pride and joy, travelling to New York, Ireland and Miami and meeting a whole host of unlikely characters – including some real-life ugly sisters and a very sexy Prince Charming…Amy begins to realise that her shoes aren't mere...
| Автор | Lucy Hepburn |
Way’s first novel was launched to amazing reviews. Her second novel is a story of love, possession and identity, and is as compelling and addictive as her first.It took one second to snatch the child. One silent, unseen moment to pluck her from the world. In a click of a finger, a blink of an eye, she was gone. As if, like a bird, she had just flown away.Kate never speaks about the past, and you would never know at first who she was. But, if you looked closely, you might see how she glances...
| Автор | Camilla Way |
From the acclaimed author of CLOUD NINE, a new novel that ‘touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart’, a story of poignance and heartbreak, grace and courage.Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Diane Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband Tom received the news every parent fears. Tom had not reckoned on their child being...
| Автор | Luanne Rice |