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Meet Tariq Nader, leader of 'The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl Boys. He has been asked by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. But there's a catch - half of the team is made up of...
It's Katie's 17th birthday - the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Raven's Hill School confession site is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests fleeing. When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear up her...
Robin is pleased to hear from his old school friend Alan Adele, not least because Alan's father is Guy Gisborne's top henchman. Now that Gisborne is in the running to be elected Sheriff of Nottingham, he needs to keep his criminal activities under wraps. So...
Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from trouble. His world is a kitchen, a herb-scented garden, a loud and dangerous tavern and the...
Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome ... One misstep at a dinner party and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources, but a gift...
"This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the...
"An unputdownable gothic novel following a young woman who is determined to make it as a singer in America-no matter the cost. Renowned for her singing across the English countryside, Emma is tired of performing only in pubs and at church services. She's...
"The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Theodore Sturgeon, Kim Newman, Greg Egan and Adrian Tchaikovsky amongst others present 17 temporal paradoxes, in which reality will be warped,...
"Nothing ever happens in idyllic Wellcome Valley, much to Eddie Dane’s dismay. Then, one day, Scarlett White steps onto the school bus. She’s a stranger but somehow familiar. Equal parts smitten and intrigued, Eddie tries to get to know her but finds she has...
"Laureth Peak's father is a writer. For years he's been trying, and failing, to write a novel about coincidence. His wife thinks he's obsessed, Laureth thinks he's on the verge of a breakdown. He's supposed to be doing research in Austria, so when his notebook...
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders comes a twisted psychological thriller about a mother-to-be trying to find proof that she's being stalked, even when everyone around her distrusts her mother's intuition. Emily Atkinson leads a...
"The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit chances...
"Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's unequal love. As men, the competition continues - for status, money, fame, women. They each betray each other, over and over, until one of...
"Phoebe's mum and dad are foster parents, and they're having a tough time. Her dad's moved out for bit, and her little foster brothers are playing up. So when Phoebe and her brother Adam find a baby abandoned in their den, they decide to try and look after her...
"Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between worlds makes him prey to armies of magic and...
"For the past twenty years, Liv and Eliot Goldenhorn have run In Love In New York, Brooklyn's top wedding planning business. That is, until Eliot dies while visiting his younger, blonder girlfriend, Savannah Shipley, an events intern from Kentucky. In a twist...
"The night of the accident changed everything. Now, five years on, Rachel's life is crumbling. She lives alone in a tiny flat working in a dead-end job, desperate with guilt over her best friend's death. She would give anything to turn back the clock. But life...
"Zen and Nova have ridden a train from one world to another before. They come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across half the galaxy. But this time it's different. They've passed through a gate which shouldn't exist at all. They did...
"Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. With her evocative bestsellers "The Shell Seekers "and "Coming Home, "Rosamunde Pilcher opened your heart to the extraordinary powers of love, heartbreak,...
"Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When young wife and mother Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes are on her husband, Lucas. He paints her not as a missing...
"While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the title deeds: her mother's. But her mother died twenty-five years ago from an undiagnosed illness at forty, leaving Gabby with more questions...
"The holidays are here, and in Salcombe, Liz longs for the arrival of her god-daughters, Skye and Clare and Clare's daughter baby Ivy. After years on her own, she needs help to save the catering business she built with Clare's late mother, Jen. However,...
"Private Detective Agatha Raisin immerses herself in the glittering lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy when Sir Charles Fraith is accused of murder - and Agatha is named as his accomplice! A high-society wedding, a glitzy masked ball, and an introduction to...
"August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby sister, Kit. The siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu...
"Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live with her grandfather, Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent, at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. There Alathea found the affection and harmony she...
"Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them, a way of life is about to disappear. Like two old rooks, they hold on to their life, cherishing everything. When...
"When the aristocratic Golden family moves into a self contained pocket of New York City, a park in Greenwich Village called "The Gardens," their past is an absolute mystery. They seem to be hiding in plain sight: Nero Golden, the powerful but shady patriarch,...
"After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one--but what, exactly, does it prove? Meanwhile, newly married Dooley and Lace face a crisis that...
"If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met the impossibly irresistible Rory Balniel - never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home. She'd never have met the wild...
"Tibet, 1917. It's a time of great exploration, with intrepid teams of adventurers heading blindly into uncharted territory, determined to beat inexplicable odds and overcome any challenge they encounter. But some things are not that easy to defeat. An ancient...
"In this entertaining and stimulating collection of seven essays, Milan Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel."--Publisher's description.
"Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka Climax-Well, a software...
"The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat and a womaniser; and tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan...
"King Artor lies slain and Ector, a mere boy, is acknowledged as the legitimate heir to the kingdom. But the land of the Celts is weakened. Meanwhile, it is revealed to young Arthur that he is the Bastard Prince, son of King Artor and Lady Elayne. Arthur...
After five exhilarating years in New York, Stevie has a successful career and a glamorous social life. But what she most wants is a baby, an aspiration that feels impossible given that she is single, thirty-eight and living in a tiny apartment in Manhattan,...
Antonia Scott, the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother, has a gifted forensic mind, and her ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her...
In New York City where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal ventures. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters, each one beautiful, cunning and ruthless, and their mother, the elusive...
After moving back to Paris to live with his French dad, Alex Giraud is struggling to fit in among the kids of the rich elite at his exclusive school, and he feels stifled by the expectations of his overbearing father. Eddy Giraud used to be one of the most...
Everyone deserves a second chance - or at least that's what ex-vicar Lionel Lawrence believes when he decides to open up the old rectory to a stream of young offenders. Lionel only wants to help these poor souls, but his good deed quickly spirals into a deadly...
"When Joe and Roisin join their group of friends for a weekend at a country house, it's a triple celebration - a birthday, an engagement and the launch of Joe's shiny new crime drama on TV. For Roisin, it's a chance to connect with the group of friends she...
'It's me,' says the voice on the other end of the line. It's been thirteen years and I still recognise it. Thirteen years of nothing. Silence. Not even a birthday card. 'It's time for you to tell the truth. It's life or death.' Three hours later, car tyres...
Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the film, we meet a colourful cast of characters including a troubled soldier returning from war, a young boy with an artistic gift, an inspired and eccentric director, a pompous film...
In 1969, two sisters from rural Viet Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Sài Gòn. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war that is blazing through their country. They begin working as 'bar girls' in one of...
Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness. When Nani is only 17, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of...
Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone, even Bernie herself. At 19, she was full of promise, but now, facing 50 and going through menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of...
At just three years of age, Estella is taken from her mother, adopted by the wealthy but eccentric Miss Havisham and taught how to break men's hearts. Satis House is dark and oppressive, and life with the vengeful Miss Havisham is a confusion of contradictory...
As a teenage orphan in England in 1791, Mary Reibey was sentenced to death for stealing a horse. When police cornered her, she was dressed as a boy, and she maintained that disguise until she was unmasked at her trial. Due to her 'tender age', Reibey was...
In 1941, country girls Minnie Hodgson and Margot McNee set sail from Perth, Australia for Singapore in search of adventure. The girls are full of excitement and keen to do their part working as nurses to the fallen soldiers in a time of war. What they...
Only a handful of inmates in Westmead Prison have committed crimes so atrocious they've been locked away for life, and for 15 years, convicted murderer Tomas Kovak has refused to disclose where he hid the body of his victim, a vulnerable young woman. When...
"Stefano's princess in scrubs. Dr Kiri Fender knew when Prince Stefano of Aspelicus disappeared after their whirlwind affair that he was not the man who would give her a happy-ever-after. Even if she was the only woman who had infiltrated the steely barriers...
Rare book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners - an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of...
Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits. In 1978 a seemingly straightforward study designed to establish the relationship between high cholesterol and heart...
"In the beginning, there was darkness. Before he met Callie, before he became the Bargainer, there was Desmond Flynn, the bastard son of a scribe. A boy born to a weak mother, cursed with little magic, and destined to marry a slave. But fate had something else...
In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each summer brings the hanging of 12 maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. For 17 years, Leto has escaped the curse's mark. Until now. But death does not claim Leto. Instead, she wakes on a mysterious island, greeted by the...
An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered, an urban grove of pomeloes appears. The imagination reaches out...
Finding your way is never a simple journey. Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the best. She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling. Every. Single. Day. But it's the dark thoughts. The sadness. The...
There's no turning back. Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni are old friends bound by history, adventures and old secrets. And now, they are bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime in the Norwegian wilderness: a place of...
Ellis's life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her job's insecure, her bank account's empty and she has a mouthful of unreliable teeth. Forced back to her childhood home, there is little in the way of comfort....
The first ever audio edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son was originally published in the 1953 edition...
No one in Lochdubh expects Dorothy to stay for long. She is, after all, entirely unsuitable. She's an uptown girl, used to a fancy lifestyle in the big city of Glasgow. She'll never fit in. And how is that work-shy rogue Hamish Macbeth supposed to get anything...
Emma Dickson has a successful career and a flourishing relationship in the city. So why does the advertisement for sale of Liza's Cottage, a house she remembers from childhood holidays on the rural Essex coast, turn her well-ordered life upside down with...
No one survives war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds of hope can grow. It is 1946, and in the village of Oakbourne, the men are home from the war. Their bodies are healing, but their psychological wounds run deep. Everyone is scarred - those who...
In the shadows at the back of the church, I repeat my silent mantra, my prayer, my promise. Six words that have pulled me back from the brink more times than I can remember. I am coming back for you. A woman attends a funeral, watching in agony as her sons...
Every morning, Janet Brown goes to work cleaning offices. The cleanliness and neatness calms her. All the things she's unable to do with her soul can be achieved with a damp cloth and a splash of bleach. However, the guilt she still carries about a devastating...
The perfect escape. Gabrielle Adams has it all - brains, beauty, a handsome fiancé and a dream job in publishing. Until, one day, everything changes. The 'Underground Killer' takes his victims when they least expect it: standing on the edge of a busy Tube...
'This is one of those stories that begins with a female body. Hers was crumpled, roadside, in the ash-colored slush between asphalt and snowbank.' So begins Erica Berry's kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the centre of this...
An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double agent. CIA officer Amy Cornwall is in the business of tracking people down and keeping secrets hidden. When a botched field operation reveals some dark dealings...
Retired schoolteachers Liz, Pat and Thelma are back at their usual table at the Thirsk Garden Centre café with a brand-new mystery to solve. Curious white envelopes have been delivered to friends and neighbours. Inside are letters revealing the deepest secrets...
A poignant, heartbreaking debut about a British-Ghanaian marriage in crisis. Rootless is a story of friendship, family, societal obligation and motherhood, but above all, it's a story of love. On a Spring afternoon in London, Sam hops the stairs of his flat...
The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's disappearance, Esther's family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister's death, Esther...
Would you tell your partner the worst thing you've ever done? Her family offered a life of power and privilege, until Lotti turned away from her father's grand plans - and towards a life that felt more like her own. With a new start as a teacher, Lotti may...
Hannah Cody grew up sunny, carefree and loved in the Snowy Mountains town of Hanrahan, but a vicious prank at university in Sydney changed that. Instead of studying medicine, she moved to a small regional centre, switched to veterinary science and swore off...
Izzy Harrington's fianćé is a successful entrepreneur and everyone's friend, but today she's waiting for him to get home so she can tell him they're over. Except Brad never arrives. Instead, three angry men knock on the door and insist on talking to Brad....
Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our planet, the trees will return - as they do, always and everywhere, even after ice ages, catastrophic fires, destructive storms and...
As part of the French Resistance in Paris, Arlette LaRue and American Josie Anderson steal so many Nazi secrets they become known as the 'Golden Doves', renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage costs them everything. When finally...
She keeps everyone's secret, until there's a murder. Sydney, 1965. After a chance encounter with a stranger, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene become accidental sleuths, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman...
A thrilling saga of the trials and tribulations a young girl must face, and the secrets she must unearth to find her future happiness. She must endure horror and heartache, but can she dare to hope for happiness? Despite a deathbed warning from her beloved...
After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her...
During the Nazi occupation of Athens, Daphne, a young Greek Jewish artist, finds her life suddenly under threat. She's in love with her Austrian art teacher, and together they must risk it all to escape his brother, an SS officer. Pursued across Greece, their...
When Gwen Lacrosse learns her mother has taken in the famous novelist Luke Powers as a boarder, she immediately catches a flight from New York to her hometown just outside New Orleans. Convinced the reputed womanising author is going to break her mother's...
Can you ever forget your first love? Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery finds herself all alone in the world when her fianc,̌ Davey, becomes a victim of the Irish Civil War. But a chance meeting on Ballmastocker Bay...
Research over the last few decades shows that many of us - sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike - are victims of a devilish trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that...
"Leading psychotherapist Stella O'Malley has walked many miles on 'Planet Teen'. She understands difficult teenagers - she was one herself, and as a psychotherapist she has spent many hours working alongside unhappy adolescents. Stella takes parents inside the...
Your symptoms are real, you're not alone, there is help for you and it is here! Everyone's journey through menopause is different, but we all need support through the challenges it brings. Catherine O'Keeffe is on a mission to shatter the taboo around...
Therapists - and married couple - Matt and Sarah Davies help readers to understand why their relationship feels broken and give them the tools to repair it. When we meet someone and fall in love, everything seems easy at first. But Matt and Sarah Davies,...
Whether the confrontations are taking place at home, at work or online, the emotional toll of dealing with an angry person day-in day-out can be huge. As we often can't cut ourselves off from these angry people (although terminating the relationship is an...
Melody Beattie's compassionate and insightful look into codependency - the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another - has guided millions of listeners towards the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that...
How do I know if I have dementia, and how will I live with it if I do? Can people with dementia consent to sex? Can they choose euthanasia for their future selves? And can we prevent or push back its onset? Chances are, you know someone with dementia, but how...
1939 - American heiress Vivi Miles falls for naval officer Nathan as soon as she arrives in England. And, under the threat of war, they marry in a whirlwind before he leaves to join his ship. When Nathan returns from Dunkirk injured, he is distant, aloof, and...
Save the date...! Olivia can't believe it when her boyfriend, Teddy, proposes out of the blue. She loves him (of course she does!) BUT it does seem sudden, especially when they don't even live together yet... There is only one place that Olivia has ever wanted...
There are no secrets that time does not reveal... Bristol 1937. The year is 1937 and the country is still reeling from the abdication of King Edward the Eighth the year before. His brother, the Duke of York has become King George the Sixth and will be crowned...
Born into the Scottish Clan MacBain and the 17th century ancestral home, Drumblair Castle, Liv MacBain has always dreamed of leaving the ancient homestead and becoming her own person in the world of fashion. From a young age, she worshipped the trailblazing...
Eve Collins is looking forward to the holidays. Her job as a counsellor has been as taxing as it has been rewarding, and she can't wait for some downtime on the Greek island of Corfu with best-friend, Gabby. But between Eve's brother, Ben, unexpectedly joining...
Welcome back to The Starfish Café for a glorious summer, but with a few dark clouds on the horizon... A new beginning... As her summer wedding to Jake approaches, Hollie is excited for their new beginning as a family. But when some unexpected news threatens...
Since that fateful night I have always kept myself to myself. Reserved. Private. Alone. Some people think I am too quiet. That life is passing me by. But I know there is safety in my own company. That no one can hurt me if I don't let them get too close. Until...
Welcome to Sunshine Island - where the beaches are golden, the lifestyle is perfect and anything is possible. It's December and Jax Hudson doesn't mind the cold. He's still wearing shorts and walking barefoot on the beach. He's looking forward to spending...
Phoenix Rose is a 35-year-old neurodivergent teacher who is at a crossroads in her career and in her relationship with her boyfriend, Zack. With her sick leave finished, her principal demands she return to school, whether Phoenix feels ready or not. But when...
"In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to...
"The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasionally they cheat on their taxes. Sometimes they fantasise about having sex with someone other than their partner. And every now and then they do drugs. But...
"An isolated island. A savage storm. An English murder mystery. A storm is raging over Damson Island, a desolate yet beautiful rocky outcrop off the south coast of England. The island's magnificent main house belongs to theatre director Randall Dobson, a man...
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