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  • Emma Claire Sweeney Owl Song at Dawn

    As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'[A] quirky, moving novel' -- The Daily Mail'Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else' -- Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel' -- Carys Bray, Costa Prize-shortlisted author'It crept under my skin and will stay there for a long time' -- Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply...

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  • Francesca Beauman How to Crack an Egg with One Hand

    Within these pages you will find all you need to know (and a few things you don't) in order to embark on the mindboggling journey that is modern motherhood. Discover humorous yet pertinent advice on everything from what a new mother ought to wear on the red carpet to the best books to read while feeding a baby, and marvel at what Mark Twain had to say on teething, Vladimir Nabokov on prams, Mrs Gaskell on six-month-olds and Mrs Beeton on breastfeeding. From the totally frivolous to the deeply serious,...

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  • Kate Worsley She Rises

    bustling naval port of Harwich, as maid to a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty young mistress, who is unlike anyone Louise has encountered before: as unexpected as she is fascinating. 15-year old Luke is drinking in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by His Majesty's Navy. Unable to escape, Luke is beaten and press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex.

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  • Rosa Swann His to Guard

    What can you do when your past doesn't just show up when you don't want it to, but it seems out to bring you down once and for all... Sean It's only been a few weeks since Jules moved into my place. Everything seemed to be going well until he freaked out as we were leaving a gay club. Someone is after him. I don't know who, but it scares him a lot and I need to guard him from more pain, I can't see him get hurt again. And why did Jules' older brother talk to me but doesn't want Jules...

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  • Melissa Harrison Clay

    Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the citys overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. Shes writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world from TC though the two children live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days doing house clearances, his nights working in a takeaway. He cant forget the farm he left behind in Poland, its woods and...

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  • Philippa Gregory The Boleyn Inheritance

    From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII and his final queens.The king will decide who will live and who will die; he has the power of God now.1539. Henry VIII must take his fourth wife and the dangerous prize is won by Anne of Cleves. A German princess by birth, Anne is to be Henry's pawn in the Protestant alliance against Rome, but the marriage falters from the start. Henry finds nothing to admire...

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  • Rosie Thomas All My Sins Remembered

    From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.Jake, Clio and Julius Hirsh and their cousin Lady Grace Stretton formed a charmed circle in those lost innocent days before the Great War - united against the world.Old now, Clio recounts their story for her biographer: Jake's wartime experiences, which moved him to work as a doctor in the London slums; Clio and Grace, flappers flitting through bohemian Fitzrovia to emerge as literary lion and pioneering Member...

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  • Stephen Fry Mythos : The Greek Myths Retold : Stephen Fry s Greek Myths

    STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRY'S MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, MYTHOSOrder TROY now, Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the most legendary story ever told'A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-telling best ... the gods will be pleased' TimesDiscover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told ... ___________No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or...

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  • Yolinda Vixen My sultry confessions

    Let Yolinda Vixen take you on a sensual journey. Read My sultry confessions, illustrated with beautiful photographs that portray both her fantasy and real life. Everyone knows the song, you just need to know the rhythm. Yolinda Vixen grew up as a shy, blond girl with blue eyes in a small town in the vicinity of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. When she was in high-school, she wrote poems and short stories. As she grew older her stories got a bit more sultry. "My sultry confessions" is illustrated...

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  • Barbara Cartland 01 Cross of Love

    When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendship, the sweetest one of her life. But her new happiness is threatened by Mr. Wyngate, a wealthy man determined to force the Earl to marry his daughter....

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