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Nightingale house, 1919. liddy horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist sir edward horner, burning his best-known painting the garden of lost and found days before his sudden death. nightingale house was the horner family’s beloved home – a gem of design created to inspire happiness – and it was here ned painted the garden of lost and found, capturing his children on a perfect day, playing in the rambling eden he and liddy made for them. when ned and liddy’s great-granddaughter juliet is sent the key to nightingale house, she opens the door onto a forgotten world. the house holds its mysteries close but she is in search of answers. for who would choose to destroy what they love most? whether ned’s masterpiece – or, in juliet’s case, her own children’s happiness. something shattered this corner of paradise. but what?

‘nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like jenny colgan’ sunday express ‘a sheer delight from start to finish’ sophie kinsella ___________________________________ they live five hundred miles apart. yet their lives are about to collide . . . curl up and escape with jenny colgan ‘an evocative, sweet treat’ jojo moyes ‘this sweet romance will lift your spirits’ sunday mirror ‘gorgeous, glorious, uplifting’ marian keyes ‘irresistible’ jill mansell ‘just lovely’ katie fforde ‘naturally funny, warm-hearted’ lisa jewell ‘a gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book’ mike gayle ___________________________________ lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she’s been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. after a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quiet village in scotland. cormac is restless. just out of the army, he’s desperately in need of distraction, and there’s precious little of it in kirrinfief. maybe three months in london is just what he needs. as lissa and cormac warm to their new lives, emailing back and forth about anything and everything, finally things seem to be falling into place. but each of them feel there’s still a piece missing. what – or who – could it be? and what if it’s currently five hundred miles away? ___________________________________ why readers adore jenny colgan ‘jenny colgan has a way of writing that makes me melt inside’ ‘her books are so good i want to start over as soon as i have finished’ ‘there’s something so engaging about her characters and plots’ ‘her books are like a big, warm blanket’ ‘her stories are just so fabulous’ ‘she brings her settings and characters so vividly to life’ ‘the woman is just magic’

Twilight tempted the imagination . . . new moon made readers thirsty for more . . . eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon . . . and now – the book that everyone has been waiting for . . . breaking dawn. in the much anticipated fourth book in stephenie meyer’s love story, questions will be answered and the fate of bella and edward will be revealed.

*the perfect up-lit summer read, recommended by thousands of readers* the sunday times bestseller & winner of the richard and judy book club ‘one of the most charming novels either of us has read. don’t lose it. keep it’ richard & judy meet the ‘keeper of lost things’… once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, anthony peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners. but the final wishes of the ‘keeper of lost things’ have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters… ‘touching, funny and romantic’ daily mail ‘a charming read, perfect for the holidays’ the lady ‘a warm and heartfelt debut’ prima and if you loved the keeper of lost things, don’t miss ruth hogan’s other novels, queenie malone’s paradise hotel, and the wisdom of sally red shoes.

It is the final days of the chinese empire. trade in opium with europe is slowly corroding the power of the ch’ing dynasty. orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic, but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom when she finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the emperor. the world inside the forbidden city is erotically charged and highly ritualised, but beneath its immaculate face lie whispers of murder and ghosts. the thousands of concubines will go to any lengths to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. determined not to be a victim of the jealousies and foul play, orchid trains herself in the art of pleasing a man, bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch. little does she know that china will collapse around her, and she will be its last empress.

Bella?’ edward’s soft voice came from behind me. i turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. he pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. his kiss frightened me. there was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine – like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. as seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. in the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for edward and her friendship with jacob – knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. with her graduation approaching, bella has one more decision to make: life or death. but which is which? following the international bestsellers twilight and new moon, eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in stephenie meyer’s captivating saga of vampire romance.