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Sisterly sharing goes beyond the pale when 26-year-old Chrissie finds a postcard from her boyfriend to her sister signed, "Kisses, Nick." Within moments, she severs her two central relationships, looking boldly forward to the haphazard pleasures of an independent life. Her lyrical journey takes her through the pubs, parties, patisseries, and rackety flats of London to the shores of Lisbon, Ireland, and Brighton.

Class? It doesn't exist any more, so we're told. We're not supposed to be conscious of subtle class differences. We no longer look down on people because of their accents, their education or the car they drive. Or do we?Lucy Beresford knows her middle-class family thinks she's married beneath her when she gets together with the devastatingly sexy Rob. He's gorgeous, he's thoughtful, he's clever - but he's undeniably working class. Her parents ...

Would she ever forgive him? Can he forgive himself?As a Marine Raider Commanding Officer, Alex Wolf was haunted not only by what he did and saw, but by what he didn't do. In one firefight, he'd lost both his best friends. Ty was killed by enemy fire. Katlin blamed him for not saving her husband.When Katlin suddenly appears back in his life, Alex's entire world turns upside down.She is not the woman he remembers, either as Ty's wife, or the wom...

Dreams or nightmares. Truth or lies. He can't tell them apart. Then he discovers the woman who has haunted his dreams is real. Is she his future? Or his past?After an accident ten years before, Matthew St. Clare's new face makes him look a decade younger than his fifty-two years. The worry lines from his job as the deputy director of the CIAs most covert teams has turned his hair white. He can't afford becoming attached to anyone because it pu...

As a Marine Lieutenant Colonel, he could take on any mission and succeed. Raising his two godchildren…with her…just might kill him.Marine Lieutenant Colonel Logan Jackson thought he was too old to start a family at forty-four, but when his two godchildren are left orphaned, he is forced to fulfill the promise he made to their parents. Accustomed to the battlefield, he's in for a different kind of fight to keep the children from becoming wards ...

BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK AT BEDTIME' PICK'Those who love Little Fires Everywhere and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine will love this' My WeeklyMolly has lived on the streets for nearly a decade. She has close friends but spends most of her nights sleeping rough in dangerous places. So when a new acquaintance invites her on a journey across the country, she decides to go along. He is searching for treasure while she is searching for hope.At every s...

As a former SEAL commander, Dex Carson had participated in more than his share of rescues. When called upon to lead a multi-agency team into the Virgin Islands National Park jungle to rescue high value targets, he knew he was headed for trouble. Ten teenage girls-whose parents were members of Congress-and their chaperones, needed saving from kidnappers. He cringed. The thought of entitled children and diva mothers made him clench his teeth. Wh...

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A love story told backwards, with the structure allowing central character Eva to consider the mistakes made at the start with the weight and significance typically present at the conclusion.

Trisha Ashley's Sunday Times bestselling novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.Trisha lives in North Wales. For more information about her please visit www.trishaashley.com, her Facebook page www.facebook.com/TrishaAshleyBooks or follow her on Twitter @trishaashley.

Meet Pearl Wilde, one of the unpredictable daughters in the unforgettable family of Wildes. The Wilde Women is a funny, sexy, and bitingly smart story of how love can turn to hate like wine can turn to vinegar - and how one wise, wild woman can turn that bitterness into a sweet, delicious tart.

A stunning literary crime novel, from the acclaimed author of Peacetime. The first in a trilogy of contemporary crime novels set in the city of Hull, and told in the wry tones of the troubled Private Investigator Leo Rivers. Robert Edric's new departure into Noirish fiction is reminiscent of Chandler and Mosley, and yet remains uniquely British. Against the backdrop of a world of pornography and child murder, this dark and intense novel reads ...

Set in England, India and Ireland, DANCING WITH THE TWO-HEADED TIGRESS is a comic tale of fish out of water. When her boorish father dies, fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is sent from India to her cosmopolitan relations in London. For the glamour of the western world, she leaves behind both her forlorn mother and an amorous shopkeeper. On arrival, she is met by the successful and offbeat Majumdar family. They terrify Mousumi - how will she fit in...

As a child Linda Newbery was a secret writer, filling exercise books with stories which she hid in her wardrobe. Now she is a published author of over forty books, mainly children's and teenage fiction. She has been shortlisted for many prestigious literary prizes and has won the Costa children's book award. Linda lives in an Oxfordshire village and enjoys yoga, gardening, walking and the cinema.

SEX, LIES, AND ROCKY ROADS ...Life is simple for Champa.

Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. There are no rules. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. Previously loving people become murderous. No-one can tell who will turn and who will not.

In Springmount, County Wexford, Will watches Kate Kelly through her cottage window--a moth at the glass. As the strains of a reel fill the air, Kate and her brother Philly begin to dance, while old Mrs. Kelly sits by the fire and looks on. Desperate to understand how the terrible tragedy of his past can so haunt his present, Will thinks back to the days of the 1920s. A meditation on love and the past, "A Moth at the Glass" is a lyrical evocati...

Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario. But then the new kid, Freddy, steps in and saves Craig's life, and for Richie the lure of this mysterious newcomer is irresistible.

David Palladini's artwork is instantly recognizable for his use of rich color, sweeping lines, and dramatic viewpoints. The vibrant images of both the Aquarian Tarot and The New Palladini Tarot have inspired generations of Tarot readers with their intriguing depictions of the Tarot archetypes.In Painting the Soul, Palladini discusses his inspirations for the art, and his intentions in choosing the figures and symbols in each card. Anastasia Ha...

But then Alex came along...the safer, more restful option, and thanks to her over-controlling mother she opted for him instead. Alex has left her to live in New York with a younger, blonder woman. It's crisis time - and she makes two decisions: First - she will take lessons in self-defence.Second - she will try and find Patrick again.