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What if Mr Right was right in front of you all along?The laugh out loud new romantic comedy from the Sunday Times best-selling author.When Ros comes home after three years away, she's ready to pick up with life exactly where she left it. But her friends have moved on, her parents have rekindled their romance and her bedroom is now a garden shed. All of a sudden, she's swept up in nostalgia for the way things were. Then her phone begins to ping...

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today's world--sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cad...

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today's world--sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cad...

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today's world--sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cad...

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together eighteen tales from the golden age of detective fiction for the first time in audiobook form.The golden age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E. C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts--later crowned queen and king of the genre--had crime novels publ...

The Times Best Books for Summer 2020There are two sides to every story.And then there's the truth.Gabriela, a senior negotiator in the FCO's counter-terrorism unit, runs a small and powerful team based in Whitehall. She is tenacious, hard-working and the family breadwinner. Her partner, Tom - a freelance architect - looks after their two small children. When Gabriela returns from a seven-month stint in Moscow, something doesn't seem right.Isob...

The Times Best Books for Summer 2020There are two sides to every story.And then there's the truth.Gabriela, a senior negotiator in the FCO's counter-terrorism unit, runs a small and powerful team based in Whitehall. She is tenacious, hard-working and the family breadwinner. Her partner, Tom - a freelance architect - looks after their two small children. When Gabriela returns from a seven-month stint in Moscow, something doesn't seem right.Isob...

The Times Best Books for Summer 2020There are two sides to every story.And then there's the truth.Gabriela, a senior negotiator in the FCO's counter-terrorism unit, runs a small and powerful team based in Whitehall. She is tenacious, hard-working and the family breadwinner. Her partner, Tom - a freelance architect - looks after their two small children. When Gabriela returns from a seven-month stint in Moscow, something doesn't seem right.Isob...

Have you seen Leila?Eight-year-old Leila Smith has seen and heard things that no child should ever have to. On the Hawthorn Estate, where she lives, she often stays out after dark to avoid going home.But what Leila doesn't know is that someone has been watching her in the playground. One day, she disappears without a trace ...The police start a nationwide search but it's as if Leila has vanished into thin air. Who kidnapped her? What do they w...

Arden Beacon arrives in the salt-swept port of Vigil with a job to do. Tasked with using the magic in her blood to keep the lighthouse burning, she needs to prove herself worthy of her family name and her ancestors' profession.But the coastline Arden must keep alight--battered by a sea teeming with colossal, ancient beasts--is far from the cultured, urban world she knows. It is a place of secrets, rumours and tight-lipped expectations of a wom...

This is a new re-issue of the classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortress in the Mediterranean Sea.Twelve hundred British soldiers trapped on a nearby island, with no hope of rescue from Allied ships, waiting to die.Keith Mallory, world-famous mountaineer, skilled saboteur. His mission: to lead a small team of...

When Liza's little boy has an accident at the local health club--a mother's worst nightmare--it's all anyone can talk about.Was nobody watching him?Where was his mother?Who's to blame?The rumours, the finger-pointing, the whispers--they're everywhere. And Liza's best friend, Sarah, desperately needs it to stop.Because Sarah was there when it happened. It was all her fault. And if she's caught out on the lie, everything will fall apart ...

Helen has had to leave everything she's ever known behind, her home, her family, even her own name.Now, returning to the UK as Ellen Newman, she moves to a small coastal village, working as a nanny for Donovan, a criminal psychologist. Attractive, caring and protective, this single father and his sweet daughter are a world away from Ellen's brutal past.But Ellen can't shake the feeling that something's wrong.Strange incidents begin to plague h...

When Joanne's friends reluctantly accept an invitation to her birthday party, it quickly becomes clear that there is more to this weekend than they are expecting.One of them is hiding a secret.And Joanne is planning to reveal it ...A weekend away in a cottage in the woods sounds like fun--until no one can hear your cries for help.Four friends.A party to die for.Who will survive?

Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liarClare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealousClare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac.Two sisters. One truth.

A strange encounterNeve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve's hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below.An unexpected giftTwo weeks later, as Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap--a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems.A twisted sec...

The truth hurts ...Erin and Roisin were once friends until a fatal accident ruined both their lives. Now, Roisin has discovered a secret--one Erin has kept for over a decade--and she's determined to make Erin pay for her lies.Erin wants nothing to do with Roisin. She has a new life in London and no intention of going back home. Yet when her father is mysteriously and critically injured, Erin has no choice but to return and face Roisin--and her...

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers of action and suspense--an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II is now reissued to thrill a new generation.The story of men who rose to heroism and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war.It is the compelling story of Con...

Everybody needs good neighbours...Melissa and Hester have lived next door to each other for years. When Melissa's daughter was younger, Hester was almost like a grandmother to her. But recently they haven't been so close.Hester has plans to change all that. It's obvious to her that despite Melissa's outwardly glamorous and successful life, she needs Hester's help.But taking help from Hester might not be such a good idea for a woman with as man...

Laura Maxwell appears to have it all - perfect career, perfect husband, perfect life. But how well do you really know the people around you? All it takes is one tiny crack to shatter the whole façade. A series of accidents causes Laura to believe that someone out there is deliberately targeting her, trying to harm her. The fear starts to pervade every part of her life, affecting her work and her marriage. Increasingly, she feels that no one be...