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Alexander Slater is an author and illustrator from London who loves stories with big ideas and bigger heart. He holds a First Class degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Hertfordshire and has earned several awards in design and cartooning. When he’s not doodling or daydreaming, he can be found cooking, walking his adorable cockapoo, Bailey, or entertaining his millions of followers on his TikTok account @AlexRabbit

Alexander Slater

Alexander Soderberg previously worked as a scriptwriter and story editor for Swedish television, where he worked on adaptations of well-known crime novels as well as drama and sitcoms.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Stille

Alexander Watson is the author of the prize-winning history of the Central Powers in the First World War, Ring of Steel. He is Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Alexander Watson

In his lifetime Alexander von Humboldt was a major international celebrity - only Napoleon, it was said, was more well-known. He was born into the Prussian nobility in 1769 and destined for a career in the civil service. In his twenties he combined his position in the Ministry of Mines with his own investigative studies in science, geology and botany. He travelled around Europe, meeting many other adventurers of his age - including Bligh, Banks and Bougainville – and spent many stimulating months with Goethe in Weimar and Jena. He inherited a fortune on the death of his mother and immediately began planning a major expedition. Napoleon's activities thwarted him at every turn, but he succeeded, rather surprisingly, to gain the permission of Carlos IV to visit the Spanish colonies in South America, and set off with the French botanist Aimé Bonpland and many boxes full of scientific instruments, dodging British warships en route. These five extraordinary years of exploration and research gave Humboldt material for a lifetime's writing. But the expenses of publication exhausted his funds and after more than twenty years living in Paris he was obliged to return to Prussia as a chamberlain at the court of Friedrich Wilhelm III. It was hardly to his taste. He did manage one more major expedition across Russia, when he was sixty years old. Tirelessly energetic, he never stopped working and writing. He was mourned worldwide when he died at the age of nearly ninety in 1859.

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Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin

Alexandra Bell studied Law at university and signed her first book deal at nineteen. Since then, she has written multiple books for both adults and young people. She works at a legal advice charity and lives in Hampshire with her husband, sons, and Sphynx cats.

Alexandra Bell

Allie Brosh has enjoyed writing ever since her mother tricked her into writing a story to distract her from her immediate goal of wrapping the cat in duct-tape.  She started her award-winning blog in 2009.  Brosh lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband Duncan, her two dogs, and six pet rats. Visit HyperboleAndAHalf.blogspot.com.

Alexandra Brosh

Alexandra Bruce

Alexandra Chesterfield is a behavioural scientist with a master's degree in Cognitive and Decision Science. Forever curious about why we do what we do, she currently works in financial services, leading a team of behavioural scientists to help get better outcomes for employees and customers. For four years, she was an elected Councillor in Guildford for the Conservative Party. She has personally experienced the effects of affective polarisation, both in and out of the workplace.

Alexandra Chesterfield

Alexandra Christo is a British author whose characters are always funnier and far more deadly than she is. She studied Creative Writing at university and graduated with the desire to never stop letting her imagination run wild. She currently lives in Hertfordshire with a rapidly growing garden and a never-ending stack of books. Her debut novel To Kill a Kingdom is an international bestseller and her Young Adult fantasy books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

Alexandra Christo-Cheung

Alexandra Coghlan is a music journalist and critic. She has written for publications including the Spectator, New Statesman, the Independent, Gramophone and Opera magazines, and for ensembles including the BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, The Academy of Ancient Music and The Sixteen. Alexandra was a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and it was during her time there that she first discovered the beauty of King's College Chapel and the unique sound of the King's College Choir.

Alexandra Coghlan

Alexandra Dudley is a food writer and cook living in London. She is the recipe columnist for Sheerluxe, writer of the bestselling Substack newsletter Come For Supper, and host of the Come For Supper podcast. She has been dubbed a serial dinner party host but believes that the best food is usually simple and cooked at home. She prefers home cooking to restaurant food and believes that the cook should always get the first glass of champagne or slice of pudding.

Alexandra Dudley

Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-Fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – and the New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel Quiet Until the Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times.

Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Heminsley is an author, ghostwriter, journalist, broadcaster and speaker. Her bestselling non-fiction work includes Running Like a Girl and Leap In, and her first novel, Under the Same Stars is to be published in 2022. She lives in Hove with her son, and proudly co-parents her LGBT+ family.

Alexandra Heminsley

Alex Hollingsworth co-founded Dig Club and is an experienced and award-winning garden designer, following a successful career in Management Consultancy. Alex trained with the Garden Design Academy of Ireland and also holds an RHS Level 2 Certificate in Horticulture and has had show gardens at Ireland’s ‘Bloom’ and ‘Gardener’s World Live’ in the UK.

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Alexandra McCollum grew up in rural northeast Ohio and now lives in Nevada with their husband and dog. Among other jobs, they’ve worked in a bakery in Austria, managed a coffee shop in Ohio, and taught high school in Las Vegas. When not writing, they can be found studying languages and exploring local coffeehouses in search of the perfect americano.

Alexandra McCollum

A graduate of Yale University, Alexandra Oliva grew up in a small town deep in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School University and undertook intensive wilderness survival training while researching The Last One. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their brindled mutt, Codex. The Last One is her first novel.

Alexandra Oliva

John Peel was born the day before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. His 38-year career as a radio DJ is the stuff of legend and the bands he went on to discover too numerous to mention, though David Bowie, Roxy Music, T Rex, Genesis, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Radiohead and the White Stripes would do as a start. He lived in Suffolk with his wife Sheila and their children William, Thomas, Alexandra and Florence, plus various dogs and cats, until his death in October 2004.

Alexandra Ravenscroft

Alexandra Shulman

ALEXANDRA SOVERAL founded her award-winning eponymous skin care line in 2005, where she still hand-blends every product. Originally from Portugal, Alexandra moved to London 1987 to study Philosophy of Science, before dedicating her research to Anatomy, Physiology and Chemistry, becoming a respected skin specialist and product formulator for high quality brands.

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Emily Giffin

Rachel Miller and Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. They've shared birthdays, the horrors of high school and even boyfriends, but while Darcy is the sort of woman who breezes through life getting what she wants when she wants it, Rachel has always played by the rules and watched her stunning best friend steal all the limelight. The one thing Rachel's always had over Darcy is the four-month age gap which meant she was first to being a teenager, first to drive, first to everything - but now she's about to be first to thirty. And Darcy still has a charmed life. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel is shocked to find herself questioning the status quo. How come Darcy gets a glamorous job at a PR firm and the perfect boyfriend, while Rachel grinds away at her despised job as an attorney and remains painfully single. Is it just luck? Or, looking back at their friendship and their lives together, is it a bit more complicated than that? Then an accidental fling complicates everything, and it's time for Rachel to make a few hard choices. And she's suddenly forced to learn that sometimes true love comes at a price ...

Something Borrowed

Jess Foley

Let much loved author Jess Foley sweep you away with this beautifully breathtaking saga of one woman's search for love and fulfilment. Fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn will absolutely love this. 
 
'An earthy tale of love, longing and tragedy' -- Swindon Evening Advertiser 
'Dramatic and satisfying' -- Iris Gower 
'Compulsive and well-paced' -- Wiltshire Times 
'This is the most moving story I have read in a very long time' -- ***** Reader review 
'A truly excellent, memorable read' -- ***** Reader review 
'I just couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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BORN INTO POVERTY, RAISED IN RICHES. WHERE DOES SHE BELONG? 
 
When little Blanche is born in a small village in the West Country - the fifth child of an impoverished labourer - the future appears bleak. Then one fateful day Blanche's mother is requested at the 'big house' to nurse Marianne, the motherless daughter of John Savill. The two girls, so different in their hopes, are brought up together caring for each other as sisters. 
 
As she grows over, Blanche is torn between her roots and her desire for a life of wealth and ease. 
 
Her friendship with Marianne remains the one constant in her life but when she meets Marianne's intended husband, tragic consequences await them all.

Saddle The Wind

an unmissable and powerful West Country saga of passion and pain guaranteed to capture your heart

Liz Young

Sophy's single and happy about it. She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, Dominic, a little white lie designed to keep Sophy's mother off her back. Which is fine, until his presence is demanded at a family wedding. 
 
So does Sophy admit Dominic is a fantasy? Oh no. Sophy hires an escort. But when the distinctly delicious Josh Carmichael arrives on her doorstep, Sophy can tell things are going to get tricky. And the wedding is only the beginning...

Asking for Trouble

Thomas Christopher Greene

My name is Nathan Carter. Let me say that even though this story does not concern me - not directly anyway - I feel an obligation to tell it, because it was told to me, and it is the type of story that needs to be told... 
 
So begins this powerful tale of love, loss and redemption, drawing us into the small town of Eden, Vermont, and into the complex lives of two very different men. Nathan Carter is a young man in love with falling in love. A serial monogamist, he flits from woman to woman until, as yet another relationship disintegrates, he leaves his busy Boston lifestyle behind him and drives north to the small town of Eden. 
 
There he meets Wallace Fiske: a man at the end of his life. A man with a story to tell. And as the surly, gruff Wallace starts to tell Nathan his story - the story of Nora, the woman he loved from the moment he first set eyes on her, the story of the man Wallace used to be - the two men become friends. It's a friendship - and a story - that will change Nathan forever...

Mirror Lake

Elizabeth Berg

"Dear Martin,      I'm sorry the note I left you was so abrupt. I just wanted you to know I was safe- I won't be back for a while. I'm on a trip. I needed all of a sudden to go, without saying where, because I don't know where. I know this is not like me. I know that,. But please believe me, I am safe and I am not crazy. I felt as though if I didn't do this I wouldn't be safe and I would be crazy-    And can you believe this? I love you. Nan"Sometimes you have to leave your life behind for a while to see it and really live it freshly again. In this luminous, exquisitely written novel, a woman follows the pull of the moon to find her way home. Sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, always honest, The Pull of the Moon is a novel about the journey of one woman - and about the issues of the heart that transforms the lives of all women.

Pull Of The Moon

Linda Taylor

Ella Norton has opted for the simple life. Gone are the power suits, the high earnings and the high stress of city life - and instead she's got her own cottage, a course in horticulture, and a crush on her dynamic tutor Matt. 
 
But life isn't all rustic paradise - Ella has two lodgers - gorgeous, worldly Miranda and unglamorous, naïve Faith - who can't stand each other. And then there's the matter of Matt's wife and the fact that something dodgy and possibly illegal seems to be going on next door. 
 
When the police arrive and set up a stakeout in Ella's bedroom, things begin to spiral seriously out of control...

Beating About The Bush

Cathy Gordon has made a discovery. Adopted at birth, she finds out at the age of twenty-eight that she has a grandfather. But when she arrives at a cricket match to meet Frank, there is no trace of him - only an alarmingly sexy man called Nick. 
 
Heading off to Frank's home in leafy Oxford, she encounters a grumpy old man who only takes pleasure in two things. Cricket, and arguing - especially with his lifelong friend, Barbara. 
 
Determined to bond with her only living relative, Cathy takes up the challenge - a challenge which means her path crossing with Nick's once again. But as the summer heatwave continues, Cathy realises that there is more at stake than family ties. Will any of them - including Frank's beloved England team - rise to the occasion?

Rising To The Occasion

Caroline Blake longs for a night under a cloud-free sky with the telescope of her dreams. Busy, happily single, and passionate about her hobby, her life is as ordered as the science classes she teaches. Lizzy Carter is living the life she'd longed for. With a lively young family, an adoring husband, good friends, and almost enough money, she appears to have it all. Antonia Clarke is a divorcee with a teenage daughter, an ailing car, an obstinate mother and a lodger she needs to placate. She longs for twenty-four uneventful hours - but the gods have other plans. When the engaging Tom Grainger moves into each of the women's lives, things start to change. Three women whose paths have already crossed, find their fates are about to collide.

Shooting At The Stars

Maggie Bennett

Let much loved author Maggie Bennett sweep you away with this powerful and gripping Southern saga of poverty, pride and passion. If you like Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson, you'll love this! 
 
READERS ARE LOVING A CARRIAGE FOR THE MIDWIFE! 
'I found it difficult to put this book down' -- ***** Reader review 
'This book was brilliant. I could not stop reading. A most enthralling read.-- ***** Reader review 
'Riveting' -- ***** Reader review 
'[Maggie Bennett] is a real story teller who makes you want to turn each page' -- ***** Reader review 
'Maggie Bennett is a brilliant writer' -- ***** Reader review 
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CAN SHE ESCAPE THE DARK SHADOWS OF HER CHILDHOOD? 
 
Born into the squalor of the notorious Ash-Pits, young Susan Lucket is determined to raise herself above the poverty of her childhood. Discovering she has a natural talent for nursing, she forges a new life for herself as a midwife - independent and unmarried, she is a woman far ahead of her time. 
 
 When Edward Calthorpe, youngest son of the privileged landowner, offers her marriage, the memory of her terrible childhood returns to haunt her. And when Edward's wayward brother seduces her beloved younger sister Polly - and then betrays her in the most brutal of ways - Susan faces losing everything she has struggled for. 
 
 Can she find the strength to fight for her right to happiness?

A Carriage For The Midwife

an emotional, enthralling and ultimately uplifting saga of one woman’s quest to forge a new life for herself

Katie Flynn

Liverpool, 1935. Kathy Kelling is coming home to Daisy Street from her first day at the High School, longing to tell her friend, Jane, all about it. Then her brother, Billy, has a serious accident and Kathy's schooling is in jeopardy. The Kellings' life becomes a struggle; Billy needs constant attention so Mrs Kelling takes in lodgers since she's determined Kathy's schooling must not suffer. 
 
Meanwhile, in Norfolk, young Alec Hewitt has problems of his own. A farmer's son, living within yards of the North Sea, one terrible night will change his life forever. 
 
Then War comes and Alec and Kathy meet, but it's blonde and bubbly Jane to whom Alec is attracted...

Down Daisy Street

Belinda Jones

Bestselling and much loved author Belinda Jones will sweep you away in this riotous page-turner, full of witty observations on life and love - and plenty of full on laugh-out-loud moments. If you like Jo Thomas, Lindsey Kelk, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon, then this is the book for you! 
 
'Great characters... hilariously written... buy it!' -- New Woman 
'A hilarious riot' -- Company 
You won't put this book down :)' -- ***** Reader review 
'Excellent fun! Read in one evening. The perfect girls night in.' -- ***** Reader review 
'I take this book on holiday every single year and its now fallen to pieces so I've just ordered another! Belinda Jones is a genius at making you feel like you are there' -- ***** Reader review 
'Guaranteed escapism' -- ***** Reader review 
'One of the best books I've read in years!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Read it &amp; enjoy every minute!' -- ***** Reader review 
'A truly fantastic read!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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ONE WISH, GUARANTEED TO COME TRUE...WHAT'S YOUR DREAM? 
 
When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she's expecting is to find her frumpy, clipboard-clasping friend Helen transformed into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious California Club. 
 
 So the offer of guest membership and one wish - guaranteed to come true by the end of their stay - is one Lara and her friends can't resist. Could this be Lara's chance to win her best friend Elliot's heart after ten years of longing? Or does the fact that he's travelling with his brand new fiancée mean that Lara will have to come up with a new dream...? 
 
CAN SHE MAKE THIS ONE WISH COUNT?

The California Club

a sparkling, addictive and hilarious read about the secret desires deep within us…

Lose yourself in this captivating and heart-wrenching saga from much loved author Jess Foley, written in the bestselling tradition of Josephine Cox, Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. You will not want to put it down... 
 
READERS ARE LOVING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN 
'Good story couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Keeps you gripped to the end'-- ***** Reader review 
'A stunning read'-- ***** Reader review 
'An emotional rollercoaster of a book'-- ***** Reader review 
 
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HOW HIGH A PRICE MUST SHE PAY TO KEEP HER FAMILY SAFE? 
 
Grace Harper's world falls apart when she is orphaned and she and her little brother Billy are left homeless and alone. Putting her grief and fear aside, she must think practically. 
 
When she finds a job as companion to the wealthy, lonely Mrs Spencer, she and Billy are relieved to have a roof over their heads again, but just as Grace starts to find her feet disaster strikes again. 
 
Things look desperate, and when she is offered marriage and a good life for herself and Billy, Grace is tempted. 
 
But is her suitor to be trusted? Or is she, desperate in her search for safety for her little family, flying too close to the sun?

Too Close To The Sun

the passionate and uplifting saga of an orphan’s struggle to forge a better life for herself

Melissa Nathan

When Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, and perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick and Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom and Jerry, and their children - glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak and shy little Tallulah - are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing. 
 
Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger and suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier... 
 
A heartwarming, laugh out loud romantic novel with a fantastically dysfunctional family and complicated love triangle to amuse every reader.

The Nanny

One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. 
 
But Patty had spent her entire childhood in an institution and cannot bear to hand the baby over. However, there are rough waters ahead. Patty has few friends, and fears and despises men, including her next door neighbour, Darky Knight, so how can she hope to bring up the child alone? 
 
She has no idea how the baby will affect the attitude of those around her, nor how her life will change as a result... 
 
The Bad Penny is a heartwarming tale of love and courage in hard times from the hugely popular storyteller Katie Flynn.

The Bad Penny

Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Harris, Nancy Revell and Catherine Cookson, this is the richly moving and powerful story of one girl's struggle to protect her family, come what may, from much loved author Maggie Bennett. 
 
READERS ARE LOVING A CHILD'S VOICE CALLING! 
'A great story full of every emotion' -- ***** Reader review 
'Very capturing' -- ***** Reader review 
'Riveting' -- ***** Reader review 
'Great story, couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'[Maggie Bennett] is a real story teller who makes you want to turn each page' -- ***** Reader review 
'Maggie Bennett is a brilliant writer' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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SHE'LL NEED TO DO ALL SHE CAN TO SAVE HER FAMILY...AND HERSELF 
 
London, 1900s: Young Mabel Court, child of a hasty marriage and spendthrift parents, has always been a mother to her brothers and sisters. 
 
With poverty never far from the door, the battle to stay respectable is finally lost when the family breaks up in tragic circumstances, and Mabel is thrown upon the dubious mercy of her grandmother, the sinister Mimi Court. Mimi has her own dark secrets and is not all she seems... 
 
 When Mimi falls foul of the law and Mabel has to fight for her own survival, faithful Harry Drover of the Salvation Army, in love with Mabel, gets an opportunity to prove his devotion. 
 
Is a happy ending on the cards?

A Child's Voice Calling

a gritty, engrossing and ultimately uplifting London saga that you won’t be able to forget…

'You know people like me. I'm the one who sat in the hall selling tickets to the prom but never going, the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with.'A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse and by doting on her dog, Frank. Myra considers herself reasonably content, telling herself, It's enough, work and Frank. And is has to be enough - until Chip Reardon, the too-good-to-be-true golden boy she adored from afar whilst at high school, is assigned to be her new patient. Choosing to forgo invasive treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned home from Manhattan to the New England home of his childhood to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence and longing.

Never Change

Let much loved author Belinda Jones sweep you away to the magical island of Capri in this unmissable rom-com. Fans of Jo Thomas, Lindsey Kelk, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon will not be disappointed! 
 
'I LOVE CAPRI is as essential as your SPF 15' - New Woman 
'Fast-paced, enthusiastic, good-hearted...a wise and witty read about the secret desires deep within us' - Marie Claire 
'A deliciously entertaining beach read' - HEAT 
'A lovely escape' -- ***** Reader review 
'I've read this multiple times and feel no guilt for going back to it. It's an easy read and an enjoyable one.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Fantastic story full of roller-coaster emotions, laughs and a bit of sadness thrown in for good measure' -- ***** Reader review 
'I genuinely fell in love with Capri after reading this' -- ***** Reader review 
'Loved this book from the offset! It made me laugh out loud and kept me reading!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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HOW FAR WILL SHE GO TO WIN HER ROMEO? 
 
Kim Rees chose to become a translator for the glamorous jet-set lifestyle. So, five years later, how come she's ended up in a basement flat in Cardiff translating German computer games in her dressing gown? 
 
Fortunately her mother has a plan to extract her from her rut: a trip to the magical isle of Capri. 
 
At first Kim refuses to engage with her mother's plan, but as she starts to succumb to the irresistible delights of cocktails on the terrace and millionaire suitors, she's surprised to realise she's changing. 
 
And when she meets a man who is tiramisu personified, she finds herself falling in love. Will she have it in her to go after her dreams...and the man of them too?

I Love Capri

Susannah Bates

Mel Ashton - hardworking and responsible - is tired of her image.  Bored with her flat and exasperated by her job, Mel is thinking about making a few changes to her life.  The only thing she's not planning to quit is her relationship with David. The trouble is that David - a talented artist - likes Mel just the way she is.  He likes her rational approach to life.  He is impressed by her ambition, and her calm presence provides the perfect antidote to his unstable intensity.  With Mel, David is finally growing up - and he's even growing out of his adolescent obsession with women called Laura. Ten years ago David met an artists' model called Laura.  But, intimidated by her beauty, he never approached her-and an obsession was born.  A whole string of Lauras followed, and his perfect women was always a Laura until he met Mel. But Mel is changing.  And when Edmund, David's elder brother, recommends David to his friend Joss, who wants a portrait painted of his new wife, David's relationship with Mel becomes more precarious than either of them could have imagined.  For Joss's wife is the original Laura-

All About Laura

If you like Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn, then this absorbing, moving and highly emotional saga from much loved author Jess Foley is perfect for you. A wonderful coming of age saga you'll want to revisit time and time again... 
 
'A jolly good read... Abbie is a great character, buffeted by fate but a powerful woman of her time' -- Susan Sallis 
'Jess has really captured the sense of a family united against great odds. Her heroine, Abbie, is strong but flawed as all good heroines should be and as we follow her triumphs and trials we see her change from a girl to a woman in the most dramatic and satisfying of ways' -- Iris Gower 
'Compulsive and well-paced' -- Wiltshire Times 
'Couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'I have read this book over and over and never get tired of reading it.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Lovely read!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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LOVE, PASSION AND THE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE... 
 
Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris has always known what lies ahead of her - a dull and dismal life of drudgery. Matters get worse when Abbie is twelve and their emotional, spirited mother casts them into a crisis for which no one is prepared. 
 
 Six years later, the Morris family have rebuilt their lives, and when Abbie and Beatie, Abbie's adored elder sister, set off for the county fair, the world seems a good place. 
 
But their new-found happiness is short-lived. A chance encounter with Louis, a personable, handsome stranger, has repercussions that threaten to destroy Abbie's peace of mind for ever. 
 
 Abbie struggles to forget what happened that night and to get on with her life, and when she meets charming, honourable Arthur - and re-encounters Louis - it becomes clear that she might never recover from the night they stayed so long at the fair...

So Long At The Fair

a compelling saga of one woman’s search for fulfilment that you won’t be able to put down…

Caught up to anywhere you care to name with other people's dramas, Harriet has no time for her own. She certainly doesn't want to get entangled with John Mackenzie. He might be lethally attractive but he's also entangled with someone else. Nina. Nina was never exactly Harriet's best friend, but Harriet has principles. Even when she finds out what Nina once did to her, she still won't do it. Who needs two-timing trouble? Still, one naughty little night out surely won't hurt...

Fair Game

Colleen McCullough

Fans of Victoria Hislop, Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy will absolutely love this captivating and beautifully atmospheric historical saga rich in romance, adventure and unforgettable characters from international bestselling author Colleen McCullough. 
 
'Fast-moving and immensely readable... Back to the open spaces, merciless climate and sheer pioneering stance of the magical THE THORN BIRDS, this book is a page turner from start to finish' -- Maeve Binchy 
'A rich, compelling epic' -- Daily Mail 
'Graphically created... [McCullough is] at her best when at the heart of a relationship' -- Daily Express 
'A good yarn... based on rigorous, historical research' -- Belfast Telegraph 
'Colleen McCullough is a great storyteller' -- Sunday Mail 
'Spellbinding' -- ***** Reader review 
'Beautifully written' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely loved this book could not put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. 
 
Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a land no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. 
 
These convicts - and their equally isolated guards - were left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent. 
Richard Morgan - a convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man - finds the will to survive, experience the joys of love, and finally make an indelible mark upon the new frontier. 
 
His story is both inspirational and heartwarming and will stay with you long after you finish the last page...

Morgan's Run

a breathtaking and absorbing family saga from the international bestselling author of The Thorn Birds

Anna Maxted

'To say that Babs is my closest friend is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums. And if you've ever had a best friend, you'll know what I mean. Babs and I had such a beautiful relationship, no man could better it. And then she met Simon.' 
 
Now Babs, noisy, funny Babs, is getting married. And Natalie, 27, is panicking. What happens when your best friend pledges everlasting love to someone else? As the confetti flutters, Nat feels her good-girl veneer crack. She teeters into an alluringly unsuitable affair that spins her crazily out of control and into trouble - with her boss, Matt, and with Babs. 
 
Caught up in the thrill of bad behaviour, Nat blithely ignores the truth - about her new boyfriend, her best friend's marriage, her mother's cooking and the wisdom of inviting Bab's brother Andy - slippers and all - to be her lodger. But perhaps what Nat really needs to face is the mirror - and herself...

Running In Heels

This fast-paced, heart-warming and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from bestselling author Belinda Jones is perfect for fans of Jo Thomas, Lindsey Kelk, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon. 
 
'Great characters...hilariously written...buy it!' - New Woman 
'Perfect summer fun!' - SUN 
'Top holiday reading!' - Closer 
'Great, hilarious book full of drama and humour.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Laugh out loud moments, brilliant writing' -- ***** Reader review 
'Read it, you will not be disappointed'--***** Reader review 
 
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ALL DREAMS COME TRUE IN LAS VEGAS, DON'T THEY...? 
 
Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they've had enough crap boyfriends and they're ready for crap husbands: all they have to do is find them. 
 
So where better than Las Vegas itself, where the air is 70% oxygen and 30% confetti? 
 
But as they abandon their increasingly complicated lives in sleepy Devon for the eye-popping brilliance of Las Vegas, their groom-grabbing plan starts to look less than foolproof. 
 
And those niggling problems they thought they'd left behind - like Izzy's fiancé and the alarming reappearance of Jamie's first love - just won't go away...

Divas Las Vegas

a riotously funny and hugely entertaining romantic romp that will keep you hooked!

Beautiful, wild and wanton but do they really lead Charmed Lives? Kate Leonard is a high-flying young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a life outside the office ... until she meets Tom Faulkener.Tom comes from a different world: the privileged, idle world of private incomes, breathtaking bills and the pursuit of pleasure. The last thing he wants is a relationship ... until he meets Kate. But as Kate tries to juggle her hectic existence with the temptations of Tom's exclusive circle - irresponsible society photographer Charlie, shy but kind-hearted Douglas, and Tom's lovely but neurotic ex-wife Arabella - she begins to see through the careless glamour of their charmed lives...

Charmed Lives

Serena Mackesy

Saints, sinners, and the mere mortals in between 
 
What do you need to be a saint these days? Ambition, determination and good PR. But what do you do if your mother's a saint and you just want to be human? Anna and Harriet are about to find out. 
 
Anna and Harriet share a burden: hellishly saintly mothers. So when they meet, initial loathing turns swiftly to recognition and firm friendship. Happily settled in a chaotic flat and armed with a wicked sense of humour, they set out to paint the town red. And for a while life goes swimmingly. But when they tread on one toe too many, they find that they have only their worst instincts - and each other - to rely on. 
 
Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful...

Virtue

Iris Gower

Let bestselling author Iris Gower transport you to South Wales at the turn of the century in this beguiling and bewitching saga, set during the hard times of copper smelting. Fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale will not be disappointed. 
 
READERS ARE LOVING COPPER KINGDOM! 
'Living in Swansea this book set my mind racing of the past. I couldn't put it down!' -- ***** Reader review 
'I found once I started reading it, I could not put it down!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Believable and so enjoyable' -- ***** Reader review 
'Riveting' -- ***** Reader review 
'Wonderful' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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THE FAMILY'S FATE RESTS ON HER SHOULDERS... 
 
Sweyn's Eye, South Wales: The Richardsons are copper barons - lords of the town's copper smelting industry - rich, powerful, and somewhat in denial that their wealth may be in jeopardy as the demand for copper wanes. 
 
The Llewelyns are a poor family, the threat of unemployment and all its attendant miseries always present. They are too poor to afford more than a pauper's funeral when Mrs Llewelyn dies and too proud to allow the neighbours to know. 
 
When the fiery and determined Mali Llewelyn is offered a job in the local laundry she takes it, determined to fight her way to prosperity as a businesswoman. Yet all of her struggles are not obvious, for in secret she battles with her hopeless love for Sterling Richardson, heir to the copper kingdom of Sweyn's Eye. 
 
Can she find a way through? For on her shoulders rest the burden of the family fortunes...

Copper Kingdom

a moving and emotional Welsh saga of class, heartache and passion you won’t be able to put down

Sue Frost

When Laurie Davison discovers she has cancer, she finds herself led by her effusive New Age mother, at the Centre for Regenerative Therapy, previously an old country house called Compton Hall. Faced with her mortality, life has lost its promise and hope and Laurie is an un-willing patient. Abandoned by her lover, Sean, Laurie is lost and alone - with a bitter past and an uncertain future. A painting of two young women in Edwardian dress which hangs above the mantel in the counselling room begins to hold a strange fascination for Laurie and her highly charged emotions and hypnotherapy sessions enable a second story to emerge. This is the history of India Crompton-Leigh and her family, previous occupants of the Hall. Fiercely independent India has no thought for marriage or men, until Dr Luke Harte arrives in the village to treat a scarlet fever epidemic. Sean's reappearance and her fight against suffering and illness help Laurie to discover that the past and the present offer individuals the same challenges and dilemmas: how to live a good life in the shadow of death, and how to love wisely and well.

The Language Of Nightingales

Audrey Howard

Brought together by friendship, torn apart by love... 
 
Meg Hughes, Tom Fraser and Martin Hunter were friends who had grown up together in the grinding poverty of a Liverpool orphanage. Their prospects looked bleak until the friends were sent to help out at Hemingway Shipping Line's emigrant lodging house. Then their youthful high spirits blossomed into their plans for the future. 
 
But the First World War brought an end to those plans, and threatened to separate them. 
 
As time passes, Meg grows more and more beautiful, and the love the two men feel for her becomes passionately possessive. Meg, in different ways, is in love with both Tom and Martin . . . and is to bear a child by one of them. 
 
Grief and suffering, as well as happiness and hope, must all play their part before the childhood friends' deep and complex relationships are finally and tragically resolved.

Between Friends

Ruth Rendell

From multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell, this is a tense, taut and twisted psychological thriller about a dark mother-daughter relationship that will keep you hooked. Perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon. 
 
'Here is Ruth Rendell on such fantastic form that you'll want to stay up all night racing through to the end' - Daily Mail 
'The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time' - Patricia Cornwell 
'A powerful and absorbing narrative told with elegance and subtlety' - Daily Telegraph 
'I just couldn't put it down'-- ***** Reader review 
'I was totally enthralled by this from start to finish'-- ***** Reader review 
'Great read with a twist at the end' -- ***** Reader review 
'A fascinating, compelling and powerful book' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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Liza has never been allowed to set foot outside the secluded gatehouse in which she has always lived with her mother, Eve. Her world reduced to four walls, there has only ever been enough room for two in their cocoon; intruders enter at their peril, only to mysteriously disappear... 
 
Now, at sixteen, Liza is not the only one to discover the truth behind her mother's pathological violence, or the dead bodies. When the police arrive on their doorstep, Eve throws her daughter into the real world, to protect her from the consequences of her own chilling crimes. 
 
Little by little, Liza begins to see the logic behind her mother's gruesome crimes, and must accept the possibility that she has inherited Eve's lust for murder...

The Crocodile Bird

a gripping psychological thriller from the award-winning Queen of Crime

Life is hard in 1930s Liverpool, and Biddy O'Shaughnessy is left destitute when her widowed mother dies. Forced to work all hours for Ma Kettle, owner of the local sweet shop, she can soon take no more and runs away. 
 
At first luck appears to be on her side. Sharing a flat with Ellen, an old school pal who has a special 'friend' paying the rent, keeps the wolf from the door. But fate conspires against them and Biddy finds herself homeless once more, living rough on the mean streets of Liverpool. 
 
When she applies for the post of maid with the Gallagher family, Biddy starts to feel she might at last be able to lead a normal life. Especially when she meets Dai, a young Welshman working the trawlers. But Nellie Gallagher has a secret that will change all their lives... 
 
Liverpool Taffy is a heartwarming story of love and courage from a wonderful storyteller, and one of the most popular saga writers of our time, Katie Flynn.

Liverpool Taffy

Family Saga

King of

King's Maker

Kingdom of Lies

A gripping historical fiction series set amid England's War of the Roses in which the Houses of Lancaster and York faced each other on the field of battle - and the Tudors won.

Kingmaker

Kings of the Realm

Knights Templar

Knights of the Borrowed Dark

Kurt Wallander

Four of James Ellroy's most popular crime novels featuring the infamous Dudley Smith, which include: 'The Black Dahlia', 'The Big Nowhere', 'L.A. Confidential' and 'White Jazz'.

L.A. Quartet

Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case - until a savage murder, 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim, crosses her desk. 
This case sets the precedent that Lacey Flint is never far from danger, or the River Thames, but she will stop at nothing to find the answers.

Lacey Flint

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Ladybird Lane

Introduce your little one to first concepts and themes with Ladybird Learners. From ABC to 123, animals to colours, we've got you covered for fun early learning experiences. The engaging illustrations and clear text offer lots of opportunities to extend young learners' vocabulary and get them talking. 
 
A colourful board book series packed with big learning ideas for curious little minds. 
 
Look out for all the titles in the series: 
 
My First Animals: Ladybird Learners 
My First ABC: Ladybird Learners 
My First Numbers: Ladybird Learners 
My First Colours: Ladybird Learners

Ladybird Learners

Ladybird Readers

Ladybird Sing-along Stories

Ladybird Tales

Ladybird Tales of... Treasuries

These delightful books are the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. 
 
The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. The subject of the books will greatly appeal to grown-ups. 
 
The eight books in the series feature original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. The other books in the series are: 
 
- The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness 
 
- The Ladybird Book of Sheds 
 
- The Ladybird Book of The Hipster 
 
- The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis 
 
- The Ladybird Book of the Hangover 
 
- The Ladybird Book of Dating 
 
- How it Works: The Husband 
 
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