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The House Of Fortune
The sunday times no.1 bestseller ‘elegant, atmospheric, compelling. i absolutely loved it’ – marian keyes, author of again, rachel ‘a book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. burton is a master storyteller’ – elizabeth day, author of magpie 1705. thea brandt is about to turn eighteen, and at the theatre in amsterdam’s golden city centre she has met the love of her life. at home, the brandt family faces ruin, and thea’s aunt nella is convinced the only solution is to find thea a wealthy husband among the city’s elite. as thea and nella clash over the demands of duty and the heart, past secrets begin to overwhelm their present. will each woman be able to rescue her destiny from the whims of fortune? returning the reader to the resplendent world of the million-copy bestseller the miniaturist, the house of fortune is a story of love, fate, and two women determined to make their own way.
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Dream A Little Dream
Feel uplifted with this gorgeously romantic novel from the no. 1 bestselling author and queen of the castle, giovanna fletcher ‘puts a smile on your face and hope for magical dreams of your own’ 5***** reader review ‘i laughed and cried all the way through, i couldn’t put it down!’ 5***** reader review ______ sarah is doing just fine. sure, she’s been single for the last five years, and has to spend an uncomfortable amount of time around her ex-boyfriend, his perfect new girlfriend and all their mutual friends. and yes, her job as a pa to one of the most disgusting men in london is mind-numbingly tedious and her career is a constant disappointment to her mother. but it’s really okay. she’s happy (ish). so it’s not surprising that when sarah starts dreaming about a handsome stranger, she begins to look forward to falling asleep every night. reality isn’t nearly as exciting. that is until her dream-stranger makes an unexpected real-life appearance, leaving sarah questioning everything she thought she wanted. because no one ever really finds the person of their dreams . . . do they? ______ ‘saucy, fun and full of heart. this is giovanna’s most accomplished novel yet! this book ticked every one of our must have boxes’ heat ‘tons of charm and genuine warmth’ star
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Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone
When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary harry potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. his parents were wizards, killed by a dark lord’s curse when harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. escaping his hideous muggle guardians for hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.
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Me Before You
“lou clark knows lots of things. she knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. she knows she likes working in the buttered bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend patrick. a what lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane. a will traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. he knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that. what will doesn’t know is that lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. and neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time. “
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A Storm Of Swords
The third volume in george r. r. martin’s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy a song of ice and fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since the lord of the rings.
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Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince
Harry has yet again spent the summer holidays at the dursleys’. he has had plenty to think about, though – from the death of his beloved godfather sirius black, to the terrifying chase through the ministry of magic by the death eaters, to the fierce duel he witnessed between professor dumbledore and lord voldemort. it is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. harry is waiting nervously for a visit from professor dumbledore himself. he can’t quite believe that professor dumbledore will actually appear at the dursleys’ of all places. why is the professor coming to visit him now? what is it that cannot wait until harry returns to hogwarts in a few weeks’ time? harry’s sixth year at hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of muggle and magic start to intertwine j. k. rowling charts harry potter’s adventures in his sixth year at hogwarts with a mix of detail and humour that is unsurpassed, pace that is breathless and above all a flair that is magical.
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It Happened One Summer
Tessa bailey is back with a schitt’s creek-inspired rom-com about a hollywood “it girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small pacific northwest beach town… where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. piper bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. when too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. so he cuts her off, and sends piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar… in washington. piper hasn’t even been in westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of beverly hills. so what if piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. how bad could it really be? she’s determined to show her stepfather–and the hot, grumpy local–that she’s more than a pretty face. except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into brendan. the fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in westport, piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. la is calling her name, but brendan–and this town full of memories–may have already caught her heart.
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The Dragonfly Pool
While attending a folk dance festival in bergania in the summer of 1939, tally befriends karil, the crown prince. after karil’s father is assassinated, tally and her friends help karil escape the nazis and the bleak future he has inherited. illustrations.
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Sycamore Row
In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, john grisham brings us the powerful sequel to a time to kill. as filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, sycamore row proves beyond doubt that john grisham is in a league of his own. jake brigance has never met seth hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man’s suicide note names him attorney for his estate. the will is dynamite. seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. the vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in ford county is race, and this case has both. as the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, jake searches for answers to the many questions left by seth hubbard’s death: what made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named lettie lang? why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as sycamore row? and what was it that seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, ‘no human should ever see’?
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The Testaments
When the van door slammed on offred’s future at the end of ‘the handmaid’s tale,’ readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. with ‘the testaments,’ the wait is over. margaret atwood’s sequel picks up the story 15 years after offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from gilead.
