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The Butterfly Summer
‘heart-stopping and wonderful . . . an epic, sweeping, romantic story told brilliantly’ sophie kinsella it begins and ends with keepsake, the house that holds its shadows too tightly. nina parr’s mother has lied to her for most of her life. but when nina inherits keepsake, a long-forgotten house in cornwall, she pieces together a sad truth that reaches back to the outbreak of war in the 1930s. a must-read for fans of kate morton and santa montefiore. what magic is this? you follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house. they call it keepsake, a place full of wonder . . . and danger. locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the butterfly summer, a story you’ve been waiting all your life to hear. this house is nina parr’s birthright. it holds the truth about her family – and a chance to put everything right at last. two things happen when you are a parr girl: when you are ten, you are told about your future role. the second thing that a parr girl at some point must learn is harder to tell of. it is a dark work indeed, the business of this house, hidden from the world. praise for the butterfly summer: ‘loved it’ gill hornby ‘a delightfully engrossing read’ red ‘moving, gripping, heartbreaking’ kate williams ‘great characters, gorge house, intriguing mystery, what’s not to love?!’ lucy diamond ‘multi-layered, heartbreaking and as beautiful as a butterfly wing’ veronica henry ‘a crumbling house in cornwall and a family with lots of secrets are brought to life by the evocative writing in the butterfly summer’ good housekeeping ‘gorgeous’ stylist ‘harriet evans’ writing is just perfect’ linda’s book bag
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The Successful Self
Dorothy rowe shows us how to live more comfortably and creatively within ourselves by achieving a fuller understanding of how we experience our existence and how we perceive the threat of its annihilation.
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The Amulet Of Samarkand
‘laugh-out-loud funny, bananas sexy, and deeply romantic’ andie j. christopher, usa today bestselling author house rules: do your own dishes knock before entering the bathroom never look up your roommate online the wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter clara. she’s the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. but every wheaton has their weakness. when clara’s childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too much to resist. unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true. after a bait-and-switch, clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. josh might be a bit too perceptive – not to mention handsome – for comfort, but there’s a good chance he and clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn’t looked him up on the internet… once she learns how josh has made a name for himself, clara realises living with him might make her the wheaton’s most scandalous story yet. his professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. they may not agree on much, but josh and clara both believe women deserve better sex. what they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they’re lucky, they’ll help everyone else get lucky too. ‘incredible . . . one of my top romance reads of 2020!’ jen deluca, author of well met ‘funny, super steamy and surprisingly tender, the roommate raises the bar for rom coms in 2020’ evie dunmore, author of bringing down the duke ‘the roommate is unapologetically sexy as hell. danan’s writing, like her characters, is funny, seductive, and full of heart’ meryl wilsner, author of something to talk about
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Mars And Venus In The Bedroom
The author looks at styles of communication in love and sex, and explains how to understand what men and women really want from one another. he acknowledges that there are differences between what men and women expect, and shows how they can make life much more fun and fulfilling.
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The Day Watch
“alice, a young but powerful dark other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the day watch. the team is on a mission to apprehend an uninitiated other, a practicing dark witch who has so far eluded the bureax responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic. it seems routine, but when they arrive, the night watch team has already made the arrest. a fierce battle ensures, during which alice almost dies. drained of her powers, she is sent to recuperate near the black sea. there she meets igor, the chemistry between them is instant and irresistible … then comes the realisation: igor owes his allegiance to the light, alice to the dark. there is no alternative to a magical duel, a battle that neither of them wants to win.”–publisher description.
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Larklight
From the author of the international blockbuster mortal engines, adapted by visionary peter jackson, larklight is an utterly unique and page-turningly brilliant victorian space adventure art mumby is just a normal boy living in space, but all that changes when an ancient race of gigantic white spiders called the first ones arrive to seize his family home, larklight. forced to flee, art and his annoying sister myrtle are chased across the galaxy, from the fiery rivers of mars to the distant rings of saturn. but the first ones have trouble on their hands. they don’t bank on art falling in with jack havock and a motley crew of notorious space pirates …
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The Kind Worth Killing
Delayed in london, ted severson meets a woman at the airport bar. over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched – but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?
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The Long Song
Now a major bbc tv drama, starring tamara lawrance, lenny henry and hayley atwell. a sunday times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for the man booker prize, the long song by andrea levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in jamaica, for those who loved homegoing, the underground railroad, or the film 12 years a slave. ‘a marvel of luminous storytelling’ financial times you do not know me yet. my son thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. as your storyteller, i am to convey that this tale is set in jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. july is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. she was there when the baptist war raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. my son says i must convey how the story tells also of july’s mama kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of caroline mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides – far too many for me to list here. but what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. perhaps, my son suggests, i might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. all this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. cha, i tell my son, what fuss-fuss. come, let them just read it for themselves.
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The Winter Ghosts
The great war took much more than lives. it robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. in freddie watson’s case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. unable to cope with his grief, freddie has spent much of the time since in a sanatorium. in the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, freddie is travelling through the french pyrenees – another region that has seen too much bloodshed over the years. during a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. shaken, he stumbles into the woods, emerging by a tiny village. there he meets fabrissa, a beautiful local woman, also mourning a lost generation. over the course of one night, fabrissa and freddie share their stories of remembrance and loss. by the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries. by turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
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Freeglader
Fleeing from the ruins of new undertown, rook barkwater and his colleagues – the librarian knights, felix lodd and his banderbear friends – must lead the escaping population to a new life in the free glades. but perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd – no
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The Lamplighters
The sunday times bestseller ‘insanely gripping’ – india knight ‘a mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once’ – sj watson cornwall, 1972. three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. the entrance door is locked from the inside. the clocks have stopped. the principal keeper’s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week. what happened to those three men, out on the tower? the heavy sea whispers their names. the tide shifts beneath the swell, drowning ghosts. can their secrets ever be recovered from the waves? twenty years later, the women they left behind are still struggling to move on. helen, jenny and michelle should have been united by the tragedy, but instead it drove them apart. and then a writer approaches them. he wants to give them a chance to tell their side of the story. but only in confronting their darkest fears can the truth begin to surface . . . the lamplighters by emma stonex is an intoxicating and suspenseful mystery, an unforgettable story of love and grief that explores the way our fears blur the line between the real and the imagined. ‘gripping’ – guardian ‘riveting’ – independent ‘excellent’ – observer ‘a triumph’ – daily mail
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The Shelf
Ever feel like you’re losing a race you never signed up for? everyone in amy’s life seems to be getting married, having children and settling down (or so instagram tells her), and she feels like she’s falling behind. so, when her long-term boyfriend surprises her with a dream holiday, she thinks he’s going to finally pop the big question. but the dream turns into a nightmare when, instead, she finds herself on the set of a big brother – style reality television show, the shelf.
