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Ingrid waverly is a girl to be reckoned with. faced with their beloved brother’s mysterious disappearance, ingrid and her sister gabriella move to paris, determined to find him. but instead the sisters are drawn into a terrifying underworld – watched over by luc and nolan, two impossibly handsome protectors with dark secrets of their own. amongst the gothic streets and alleys of 19th century paris, otherworldly secrets, deadly attractions and hidden powers stalk ingrid and gabriella, and love is found in the most unexpected ways.

As featured on desert island discs, big scottish book club and the zoe ball bookclub, a book of the year in the sunday times, the times, guardian, irish times, observer, red and the telegraph. *shortlisted for the pen ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography 2018* i am, i am, i am is a memoir with a difference – the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman’s life in near-death experiences. insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life’s fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. a childhood illness she was not expected to survive. a teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. a terrifying encounter on a remote path. a mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. shocking, electric, unforgettable, this is the extraordinary memoir from costa novel-award winner and sunday timesbestselling author maggie o’farrell. it is a book to make you question yourself. what would you do if your life was in danger, and what would you stand to lose?

“lake wobegon days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions–and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding mr. keillor’s full design, is a genuine work of american history.” –the new york times “a comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in american life… keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” –chicago tribune “keillor’s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength…. his true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears… to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. he is a brilliant parodist.” –san francisco chronicle

The runaway sunday times no.1 bestseller and thriller of the year, now a major film starring emily blunt ‘really great suspense novel. kept me up most of the night. the alcoholic narrator is dead perfect’ stephen king rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. she knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. she’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘jess and jason’, she calls them. their life – as she sees it – is perfect. if only rachel could be that happy. and then she sees something shocking. it’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. now everything’s changed. now rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train…

The sun is shining on the golden castle on rainbow bay – and change is in the air! amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, charlie – but money is tight and times are tough. when she first hears that she is the last descendent of the chesterford family and that she has inherited a real-life castle by the sea, amelia can’t quite believe her ears. but it’s true! she soon finds that owning a castle isn’t quite the ticket to sorting out her money problems that she’d first hoped: she can’t sell, because the terms of the ancient bequest state that any chesterford who inherits the castle, must live there and work towards the upkeep and maintenance of the family home. so ever-practical amelia decides to uproot her little family and move to this magnificent castle by the sea. living in a castle on the beautiful northumberland coast is fun at first, but organising the day-to-day running is a lot more complicated than amelia first imagined. luckily she has help from the small band of eccentric and unconventional staff that are already employed there – and a mysterious unseen hand that often gives her a push in the right direction just when she needs it most. it’s only when she meets tom, a furniture restorer who comes to the castle to help repair some antique furniture, that amelia realises she might get the fairy-tale ending that she and charlie truly deserve… join bestselling author ali mcnamara in rainbow bay, where an inheritance and some sea air are about to work their magic on amelia’s life…

Soon to be a major bbc drama starring tamara lawrance, hayley atwell and lenny henry, and shortlisted for the man booker prize, the long song is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, 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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