Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Little, Brown Book Group The Choice
Book Synopsis From Sunday Times bestselling author, Nora Roberts, the final thrilling instalment in the epic Dragon Heart trilogy.''If you''re after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she''s your woman''The GuardianIt''s time for the final reckoning.... With Odran''s defeat at the Battle of the Dark Portal, his quest to rule over Talamh and Breen has stalled - for now. But the terrible battle and heart-breaking losses have taken their toll. It''s a time as painful as any Breen has ever known as she helps to treat the wounded, bring the dead home from blood-and ash-soaked battlegrounds and support her friends and family in their grief.With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed it is a time to recover but there is little time to rest. Soon the enemy''s witches begin to appear to Breen in her sleep, practicing black magick, sacrificing the innocent, and plotting brutal dest
£18.00
Little, Brown Book Group Dealbreakers
Book Synopsis''Clever, fun and refreshing, with a string of unforgettable characters'' - Helly Acton''Lauren Forsythe is a bright new talent'' - Laura Jane Williams----Life at thirty-two is not at all what Marina Spicer had expected. And to top it off, she is absolutely tired of wasting time dating men who never seem to be a good match. Frustrated, she creates Dealbreakers, an anonymous app where women review how men stack up to their internet profiles. Her high standards have served her well at work, so why not in love? Enter Lucas Kennedy. Marina''s charming Irish co-worker and newest nemesis.When the two are paired on a project to test out date ideas, ultimately determining which of them will be promoted, Marina takes a peek at Dealbreakers, hoping to dig up some dirt. But not only is Lucas the most annoying human on the planet, he also has the most dealbreakers listed on the app . . . ever.As they argue their way through
£9.99
Random House USA Inc In His Fathers Footsteps
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this powerful novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first-generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success. When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success in the diamond business, invested in real estate in New York, and shown his son, Max, that America is truly the land of opportunity. Max is a rising star, a graduate of Harvard with friends among the wealthiest, most ambitious families in the world. And while his parents were thrown together by chance, Max chooses a perfect bride to start the perfect American family. An opulent society wedding. A honeymoon in Tahiti. A palatial home in Greenwich. Max’s lavish lifestyle is unimaginable to his cautious old-world father and mother. Max wants to follow his father’s example and make his own fortune. But after the birth of children, and with a failing marriage, he can no longer deny that his wife is not the woman he thought she was. Angry and afraid, Max must do what he has never done before: struggle, persevere, and learn what it means to truly walk in his father’s footsteps, while pursuing his own ideals and setting an example for his children. Moving from the ashes of postwar Europe to the Lower East Side of New York to wealth, success, and unlimited luxury, In His Father’s Footsteps is a stirring tale of three generations of strong, courageous, and loving people who pay their dues to achieve their goals.
£10.56
Penguin Putnam Inc The Lager Queen of Minnesota
Book SynopsisMidwestern values, hard work, fate... and the secrets of making a world-class beer.
£15.29
Random House USA Inc Alternate Side
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Penguin Putnam Inc Red at the Bone
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off. -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, in The Atlantic An exquisite tale of family legacy….The power and poetry of Woodson’s writing conjures up Toni Morrison. – People In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice, sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships, parenthood and loss….With Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson has indeed risen — even further into the ranks of great literature. – NPR This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and legacy, will resonate with mothers and daughters. &n
£13.60
Penguin Putnam Inc This Time Tomorrow
Book Synopsis#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more.—Ann Patchett“One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love.—Gabrielle Zevin “The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional.—Emily HenryWhat if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, he
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Such a Fun Age
Book SynopsisA Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post?Chicago Tribune?NPR? Vogue?Elle?Real Simple?InStyle?Good Housekeeping ? Parade? Slate?Vox ?Kirkus Reviews ?Library Journal ?BookPage Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize An Instant New York Times BestsellerA Reese''s Book Club Pick The most provocative page-turner of the year. --Entertainment Weekly I urge you to read Such a Fun Age. --NPR A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains'' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store''s security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix''s desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix''s past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone family, and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
£10.80
Random House USA Inc The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set
Book SynopsisGive the gift of the outrageous, funny, “wickedly delectable” (New York Times) Crazy Rich Asians series in a collectible box set! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore’s most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees to spend the summer in Nick’s home, her life unexpectedly becomes an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers. And that’s all before she discovers the true identity of her long-lost father . . . This box set includes the entire trilogy: Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems.
£37.42
Random House Publishing Group Here Kitty Kitty
Book SynopsisAn intoxicating, stunning story of self-destruction and redemption set against the vibrantly painted underworld of New York City, from the critically acclaimed author of White Fur. Lee, hedonistic yet earnest, is on the cusp of a breakdown. Her wild nights out and her management shifts at a Tribeca restaurant are fueled by cocaine and pink champagne, and her glamorous lifestyle is financed by wealthy older men who shower her with gifts. Once an aspiring painter, she can’t remember the last time she touched a canvas. Her old friend Belinda, a reformed party girl, has grown up and distanced herself from both Lee and the reckless lifestyle they once shared. Kai, the man she thought was her soulmate, has left her for Paris, and she is in treacherous territory with her sugar daddy, Yves. When she receives an eviction notice from her landlord, Lee is forced to acknowledge that her life is unraveling at the seams and consider the possibility th
£14.41
Transworld Publishers Ltd Tales Of The City
Book SynopsisNAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS Now a Netflix series starring Ellen Page and Laura Linney .Trade ReviewA consummate entertainer... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly -- Edmund White * The Times Literary Supplement *Maupin is a richly gifted comic author * Observer *San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin * Independent *Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials... it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling * Literary Review *
£9.49
Tilii The Connection of TILII Dzi Book 3 Herbs Oils
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£41.80
Penguin Young Readers Cantoras Spanish Edition
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£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc The Weekend
Book SynopsisThe #1 International Bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional ?The Big Chill with a dash of Big Little Lies . . . Knife-sharp and deeply alive.? ?The Guardian (London) ?An insightful, poignant, and fiercely honest novel about female friendship and female aging.? ?Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award?winning author of The Friend ?Friendship, ambition, love, sexual politics and death: it?s all here in one sharp, funny, heartbreaking, and gorgeously written package. I loved it.? ?Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of their late friend. Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank, and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously for the remaining three. They are Jude, a once-famous restaurateur; Wendy, an acclaimed public intellectual; and Adele, a renowned actress now mostly out of work. Struggling to recall exactly why they?ve remained close all these years, the grieving women gather at Sylvie?s old beach house?not for festivities this time, but to clean it out before it is sold. Can they survive together without her? Without Sylvie to maintain the group?s delicate equilibrium, frustrations build and painful memories press in. Fraying tempers, an elderly dog, unwelcome guests, and too much wine collide in a storm that brings long-buried hurts to the surface?and threatens to sweep away their friendship for good. The Weekend explores growing old and growing up, and what happens when we?re forced to uncover the lies we tell ourselves. Sharply observed and excruciatingly funny, this is a jewel of a book: a celebration of tenderness and friendship from an award-winning writer.
£14.45
Penguin Putnam Inc The Paris Bookseller
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Penguin Putnam Inc Christmas Shopaholic 9
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with a festive Shopaholic adventure filled with holiday cheer and unexpected gifts.“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover’Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift shop of Suze’s stately home. Life is good, especially now that Becky takes time every day for mindfulness—even if that only means listening to a meditation tape while hunting down online bargains. But Becky still adores the traditions of Christmas: Her parents hosting, carols playing on repeat, her mother pretending she made the Christmas
£15.30
Penguin Books Ltd The House in the Pines
Book SynopsisAn instant New York Times bestseller!?This is an absolute, can?t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It?s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter?which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.??Reese Witherspoon (Reese?s Book Club Pick January 2023)Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend?s sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed. . . .Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they?d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can?t account for. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer?the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey. At her mother?s house, she excavates fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan father?s book that didn?t stand out to her earlier. To save herself, she must understand a story written before she was born, but time keeps running out, and soon, all roads are leading back to Frank?s cabin. . . . Utterly unique and captivating, The House in the Pines keeps you guessing about whether we can ever fully confront the past and return home.
£13.50
Penguin Putnam Inc Adult Assembly Required
Book Synopsis“Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinA young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn’t need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the haunting memories of a terrible accident, she doesn’t expect to be homeless after a week. (She’s pretty sure she didn’t start that fire — right?) She also doesn't expect to find herself adopted by a rogue bookseller, installed in a lovely but completely illegal boardinghouse, or challenged to save a losing trivia team from ignominy…but that’s what happens. Add a regretful landlady, a gorgeous housemate and an ex-boyfriend determined to put himself back in the running and you’ll see
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Songs in Ursa Major
Book SynopsisA scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing in her own band before she''s old enough to even read music. When folk legend Jesse Reid hears about Jane''s performance at the island''s music festival, a star is born--and so is a passionate love affair: they become inseparable when her band joins his on tour. Wary of being cast as his girlfriend--and haunted by her mother''s shattered ambitions-- Jane shields her relationship from the public eye, but Jesse''s star power pulls her into his orbit of fame. Caught up in the thrill of the road and the profound and lustful connection she has with Jesse, Jane is blind-sided by the discovery she makes about the dark secret beneath his music. Heartbroken and blackballed by the industry, Jane is now truly on her own: to make the music she loves, and to make peace with her family Shot through with the lyrics, the icons, the lore, the adrenaline of the early 70s music scene, Songs in Ursa Major pulses with romantic longing and asks the question so many female artists must face: What are we willing to sacrifice for our dreams?
£15.64
Random House USA Inc Dele Weds Destiny
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Penguin Putnam Inc Annihilation Road
Book SynopsisAll paths lead to destruction in the new Torpedo Ink novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Savin “Savage” Pajari is convinced he’s not worth a damn thing. He’s not like his brothers. He’s a sadistic monster, a killer—a man no woman could truly love. So it completely throws him when a stranger risks her life for his, pushing him out of the way and taking the hit that would have sent him six feet under. If he had any kind of sense, he’d leave her alone, but Savage can’t get the woman with a smart mouth and no sense of self-preservation out of his head. With one kiss, he’s lost.Seychelle Dubois has spent her entire life not feeling much of anything, until Savage comes along and sets her whole body on fire. Kissing him was a mistake. Letting him get close would be a catastrophe. He’s the most beautiful—and damaged—man she’s ever met. He has a way of getting
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc Kiss Me Mi Amor
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Random House USA Inc Once More with Feeling
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£12.82
Penguin Putnam Inc You Again
Book SynopsisCan they stop hating each other long enough to fall in love? A commitment-phobe and a hopeless romantic clash over and over again—until heartbreak and unexpected chemistry bring them together in this clever enemies-to-friends-to-lovers debut romance.“Fresh, witty, and utterly romantic.”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisWhen Ari and Josh first meet, the wrong kind of sparks fly. They hate each other. Instantly.A free-spirited, struggling comedian who likes to keep things casual, Ari sublets, takes gigs, and she never sleeps over after hooking up. Born-and-bred Manhattanite Josh has ambitious plans: Take the culinary world by storm, find The One, and make her breakfast in his spotless kitchen. They have absolutely nothing in common . . . except that they happen to be sleeping with the same woman.Ari and Josh never expect their paths to cross again. But years later, as they’re both reeling from ego-bruising breakups, a chance encounter leads to a surprising connection: friendship. Turns out, spending time with your former nemesis is fun when you’re too sad to hate each other—and too sad for hate sex.As friends-without-benefits, they find comfort in late-night Netflix binges, swiping through each other’s online dating profiles, and bickering across boroughs. It’s better than romance. Until one night, the unspoken boundaries of their platonic relationship begin to blur. . . .With sharp observations and sizzling chemistry, You, Again explores the dynamics of co-ed friendship in this sparkling romantic comedy of modern love in all its forms.
£13.50
Random House USA Inc A Shot in the Dark
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£12.82
Penguin Putnam Inc Ruby Spencers Whisky Year
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£15.30
Random House USA Inc Before We Were Yours
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£9.49
Penguin Putnam Inc The Breakup Tour
Book SynopsisA rising-star musician has a second chance at love with an old flame she remembers all too well in this swoony romance from the acclaimed authors of The Roughest Draft.Riley Wynn went from a promising singer-songwriter to a superstar overnight, thanks to her breakup song concept album and its unforgettable lead single. When Riley?s ex-husband claims the hit song is about him,she does something she hasn?t in ten years and callsMax Harcourt, her college boyfriend and the real inspiration for the song of the summer.Max hasn?t spoken to Riley since their relationship ended. He?s content with managing the retirement home his family owns, but it?s not the life filled with music he dreamed of. When Riley asks him to go public as her songwriting muse, he agrees on one condition: he?ll join her band on tour.As they perform across the country, Max and Riley start to realize that while they hit some wrong notes in the past, their future could holdincredible things. And their rekindled relationship will either last forever or go down in flames.
£11.25
Diversified Publishing Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
Book Synopsis“Stradal serves up another saga of food and family, hurt and healing, pitched between cliff-hanger moments. . . that make the pages fly.” —PeopleFrom the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel’s grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed. Ned is also an heir—to a chain of home-style diners—and while he doesn''t have a head for business, he knows his family''s chain could provide a better future than his wife''s fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashed, can one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their losses, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation? In this colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds, J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.
£24.00
Random House USA Inc Say Youll Be Mine
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER ? ?Naina Kumar turns the arranged marriage plot on its head. . . . A sparkling new voice in the romance stratosphere.??Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-) ?I couldn?t put down this page-turner. . . . The new When Harry Met Sally . . . a warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut.??Colleen HooverA teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex?s wedding and escape matchmaking pressure from their Indian families. Their plan? Faking an engagement, of course.AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARMeghna Raman defied her parents? wishes and followed her life?s passion, becoming a theater teacher and aspiring playwright. When she discovers that her beloved writing partner, best friend, and secret crush, Seth, is engaged?and not to her?she realizes he?s about to become the one-that-got-away. Even worse, he?s asked her to be his best man. And worse than that, she?s agreed. Determined to try and move on, Meghna agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match. Maybe she could marry the engineer that her parents still wish she?d become.Grumpy engineer Karthik Murthy has seen enough of his parents? marriage to know it?s not for him. He agreed to his mother?s matchmaking attempts to make her happy, never dreaming he would meet someone as vibrant as Meghna. Though he can?t offer her something real, a fake engagement could help Meghna soothe the sting of planning Seth?s wedding festivities and Karthik avoid the absurd number of set-ups his mother has planned for him.As the two find common ground, grow protective of each other?s hearts, and start to fall for the traits they originally thought they hated, an undeniable chemistry emerges. But soon, their expectations and insecurities threaten something that?s become a lot more real than they?d planned.Say You?ll Be Mine is a delightful trip back to the heyday of swoony romantic comedies from the nineties, but with a deep and poignant look at the effects of culture and family in our most intimate relationships.
£11.05
Penguin Young Readers Lore Olympus 3Book Boxed Set
Book SynopsisScandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this boxed set containing the first three hardcover volumes of the Eisner Award–winning webcomic Lore Olympus, a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology An ingenious take on the Greek Pantheon, Lore Olympus is a modern update on the story of Hades and Persephone. Follow the propulsive love story of two Greek gods, told with lavish artwork and contemporary sensibilities.This full-color boxed set contains the first three volumes in Smythe’s Eisner Award-winning webcomic: Lore Olympus: Volume One, Lore Olympus: Volume Two, and Lore Olympus: Volume Three. Featuring the original hardcover editions and beautiful boxed case art from Smythe, these sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novels bring Greek mythology into the modern age. This boxed sets collects episodes 1–75 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.
£62.23
Random House Publishing Group I Medusa
£17.63
Duckworth Books Beta Male
Book SynopsisBeta Male is a riotously funny and painfully honest chronicle about friendship, masculinity, marriage and the beginning of adulthood.Trade Review'Sharp. Exceptionally observant and consistently amusing' Independent on Sunday
£7.99
Headline Publishing Group Women Talking Dirty
Book SynopsisEllen Quinn kept her sanity in the suffocating Edinburgh suburb where she grew up by imagining it was a hotbed of intrigue. A neglected child, she''s still looking for love as an adult; and so she finds herself married to Daniel. How could she know that he would misbehave?Cora O''Brien is the total opposite; outrageous and outspoken, she inspires the children she teaches with her enthusiasm. The city can''t soften her Highland lilt but her lifestyle would raise a few eyebrows back home. But her vividness is a façade: most of her secrets she''s still keeping to herself.Fast friends from the start, Ellen and Cora may have plenty to learn about life, but they always have vodka and each other to talk to when the unexpected happens...Trade ReviewAppealingly spirited... Sparkiness, freshness and verve * Mail on Sunday *'Appealingly spirited... Sparkiness, freshness and verve' Mail on Sunday
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Headline Publishing Group Two Kinds of Wonderful
Book SynopsisWhen Roz''s silent, compulsive husband refused to discuss his problem, when her children seemed embroiled in their own lives, Roz did the unthinkable - she walked out. She did not know that her children would not understand, would not forgive her. She had one moment of joy, shutting the door, leaving, followed by ten years of guilt.Then the death of the family matriarch Nan reunites Roz, now with a career, a flat and a lover, with her family. Histrionic Zoe and infuriatingly laid-back Jamie arrive on her doorstep. Suddenly Roz is a mother again. A human soup is stirred, and dark family secrets are revealed. But Roz soon realises that her children have only returned to her so that, in the proper scheme of things, they can leave her. Rather than she leaving them.Trade ReviewDewar writes with enjoyably sharp humour about the tribulations of family life, making some thoughtful points about what growing up means along the way * Times Metro *Crackling with wit, and shot through with sharp observations * Woman & Home *Dewar writes with humour and tenderness, and she's terrific at engaging her readers' interest * Ham & High *Captures the turbulence and ever-changing dynamics of family life... A witty, fast-moving novel with a cast of characters I would love to meet * Fiona Kennedy, Tesco *'Frank, funny writing * Big Issue in Scotland *Powerful, provocative and sharply witty * Publishing News *Dewar has a very sharp sense of humour and writes with a great deal of wit * Newcastle Evening Chronicle *
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Headline Publishing Group Turning for Home
Book SynopsisA cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is Lady Pamela''s last loyal retainer, out at grass is her one remaining racehorse, and in London is the man she should have married - still her dearest friend.Maeve Delaney, streetwise and outrageous, and sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, bursts into the old house like a firework. As open warfare settles into an wary truce between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorse, Irish Dancer, out of retirement, and everything changes.Trade ReviewExcellently-written, with a gripping ending * WILTSHIRE TIMES *Turning for Home is not a conventional romance, and it certainly isn't an Aga saga. It's touching, funny and exciting * Blackmore Vale Magazine *
£9.99
The History Press South Yorkshire Folk Tales
Book SynopsisWith origins lost in the mists of time, these lively folk tales reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of South Yorkshire’s county and people.
£12.34
The History Press Ltd Bristol Urban Legends
Book SynopsisTall tales and true tales created from reactions to events in the modern world
£12.34
The History Press Ltd Norfolk Folk Tales for Children
Book SynopsisFolk tales from Norfolk, especially selected for children by a professional storyteller
£9.49
The History Press Ltd West Midlands Folk Tales
Book SynopsisAn enchanting collection of folk tales retold by a professional storyteller
£12.34
The History Press Ltd Tales from the Towpath
Book SynopsisSeven engaging stories set along the Cotswold Canals – a unique blend of waterways history and folk tales
£9.49
The History Press Ltd Isles of Scilly Folk Tales
Book SynopsisTraditional tales retold by a professional storyteller
£12.34
The History Press Ltd Shropshire Folk Tales
Book SynopsisIn places, Shropshire has traditional patchwork fields and hedgerows; in others, small villages and market towns with black and white half-timbered buildings. But it also has places that are still wild hills where heather and bracken cling to the rocks while peewits call overhead and strange rock formations jut to the sky, casting their shadows over the countryside below. The thirty stories in this new collection have grown out of the county's diverse landscapes: tales of the strange and macabre; memories of magic and other worlds; proud recollections of folk history; stories to make you smile, sigh and shiver. Moulded by the land, weather and generations of tongues wagging, these traditional tales are full of Shropshire wit and wisdom, and will be enjoyed time and again.
£12.34
The History Press Ltd Cambridgeshire Folk Tales
Book SynopsisModern-day Cambridgeshire is a county of diverse landscapes: from the elegance of the university city and the rural delights of the old county of Huntingdonshire Isle of Ely, each district has its own identity and its own stories.
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The History Press Ltd Surrey Folk Tales
Book SynopsisSurrey’s landscape, shaped by the Devil’s mischief and the whims of dancing Pharisees, is home to a wealth of tales. For Surrey is a place where dragons have stalked, dripping poisoned saliva from their yellow teeth;
£11.78
The History Press Ltd Wrexham County Folk Tales
Book SynopsisThe county borough of Wrexham is rich in folklore, with an abundance of tales to capture the wonders of the Welsh landscape and all its denizens, both real and imaginary: animal, human and even superhuman. This collection, which includes both traditional tales passed down through generations by word of mouth and archive material, brings to life the local legends, mysteries and stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things that make Wales so magical. A speaker of both languages of Wales, the author has collected some unusual material sure to enchant both Welsh and non Welsh speakers. Beautifully illustrated by local artist Ed Fisher, these tales bring to life the ancient wisdom of Wrexham.
£11.78
The History Press Ltd London Urban Legends
Book SynopsisJust like the early folk tales that came before them, which were attempts to explain the spiritual world, these tales are formed from reactions to spectacular events in the modern world, and reflect our current values.
£9.49
The History Press Ltd Ancient Legends Retold A Little Book of Robin
Book SynopsisThis collection of five tales and one play contains the definitive Robin Hood. while ‘A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode’ is a comprehensive account of the famous English outlaw - complete, unified and pointing quite clearly to the reign of Edward II as a probable time for an historical Robin Hood, despite the opinions of most of the experts.
£7.99
