Departure(s) is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality.

It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness, accident or intent. And it is the story of how experiences fade into anecdotes, and then into memory. Does it matter if what we remember really happened? Or does it just matter that it mattered enough to be remembered?

It begins at the end of life – but it doesn’t end there. Ultimately, it’s about the only things that ever really mattered: how we find happiness in this life, and when it is time to say goodbye.

A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the latest thriller in the Sunday Times bestselling series.

A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead-while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures and yet only one item seems to be missing. Is this a simple case of a burglar caught in the act or does Eve have a much bigger, bloodier mystery to solve....?

Carli en Ruben ken mekaar al van Graad 1 af. Toe hulle op universiteit trou, is Ruben se ouers hewig daarteen gekant. Ruben verdwyn en Carli vlug, verneder.

Kort daarna ontdek sy sy is swanger. Ses jaar later ontmoet hulle weer toe Ruben die reservaat besoek waar Carli werk. Ruben vind uit hy het ’n dogter en eis dat Carli en hul dogter ‘n vakansie saam met hom in die Kaap deurbring.

Kan hulle mekaar weer leer vertrou?

Frances vlug van ’n hartseer verlede weg na ’n koue Skotland toe. Hier, waar haar ma se mense vandaan kom, wil sy graag ’n nuwe lewe begin en vergeet van wat gebeur het. Daar aangekom, laat weet sy haar ouma Martie wat op ’n plaas naby Hazyview woon. Sy begin werk as ’n onderwyseres by ’n plaaslike skool en loseer by gawe Skotte, maar selfs die pragtige landskap en mense is nie altyd genoeg om haar siel te salf nie.

In Suid-Afrika vind Martie dit moeilik om alles alleen te behartig. Dit is nie maklik om ’n weduwee op ’n plaas te wees en haar kleinkinders groot te moes maak nie, al doen sy so met baie liefde en geloof. Toe Frances se broer, Deon, gewerf word deur ’n skool in Pretoria voel sy egter heeltemal alleen. Ná onstellende gebeure op die plaas, besef Martie dat sy ’n plaasbestuurder sal moet aanstel, en só betree Dillon Geduld haar wêreld.

Gerbrand is ’n Suid-Afrikaanse predikant in Skotland en worstel met sy eie gebrokenheid en pyn terwyl hy ander moet bystaan. Sy troos is die Skotse landskap, die Woord, sy bediening en sy ouers se ondersteuning. Een Sondag sien hy vir Frances raak ... By die kerk ontmoet Frances ’n landheer en word na sy herehuis genooi. Daar besef sy, sonder dat hulle dit weet, dat die MacIntyres bloedfamilie is ...

Groete uit Skotland is verhaal van intrige, familiebande en verrassings. Gebroke mense vind hoop en bemoediging by mekaar terwyl hul worstel deur hulle eie verliese, verhoudings en teleurstellings. Soms draai dinge nie uit soos jy verwag het nie, selfs nie eers op die asemrowende hooglande en eilande van Skotland nie.

Discover the stunning new romance in an escapist love story perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and JoJo Moyes.

What if the person you love the most is the one you can’t have?

Grace has loved Jackson since she was fifteen – when they spent every childhood summer exploring France's breathtaking Ardèche region together. They were best friends, until life took its course and Jackson married someone else. Years later, Jackson re-enters Grace’s life with an irresistible offer: her dream job in the very town where their story began. And he’s newly single.

As memories from those idyllic summers flood back, Grace encounters an old friend Étienne, who proposes a plan to help make Jackson jealous. But as their scheme unfolds, Grace finds herself questioning if the sparks between them might not be so pretend after all…

Unbeknownst to Grace, Étienne is harbouring a secret that could shatter her world.

Will learning the truth finally set her heart free? Or is this the beginning of a love story bigger than she ever imagined?

They took her daughter. Now she'll break every rule to get her back.

A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on the other end issues instructions: Don't tell the police. Come to this location. Be prepared to do a deal...

There is nothing Simone wouldn't do to save her daughter. Hide the truth. Commit a terrible crime. Become a wanted woman.

But this is no ordinary kidnap and ransom. Getting Lucy back is just the beginning.

They're rivals on the court. But off it? The real match is just beginning...

Inés Costa, Spain's golden girl, hasn't scored a Grand Slam since her breakout two years ago. Now, injuries and sky-high expectations are breaking her serve.

Enter Chloe Murphy: brash, brilliant, and America's newest tennis obsession. With her eye on another US Open trophy, she's not about to rally with a washed-up has-been like Inés - or fall for one.

But when fate forces them to play doubles off the court, the tension is advantage: chemistry.

The rallies get longer, the lines blur, and love might just be the ultimate game-changer.

The Gray Man discovers that "family" is just another word for "target" in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.

For a man who works in the shadows, a family is not just a luxury - it's a weakness. When an unknown enemy uses threats against Zack Hightower's estranged daughter to blackmail the injured operative into taking on a dangerous mission, his friend, Court Gentry, aka the Gray Man, volunteers to take Zack's place.

But Court has problems of his own. He's already got a expert assassin on his trail for no apparent reason. And now his quest to protect Zack's family may drag his own family into the maelstrom.

There's one lesson that Court has found undeniable: There's a reason superheroes have secret identities.

The Metropolitan Police have an unsolvable problem: 'Lachy' Wilson is a ruthless and obscenely rich British drug lord who has bought off dozens of their officers. Thanks to these informants, no one can lay a glove on Wilson and he is considered 'untouchable'.

Wilson is dreaming of one last, game-changing shipment of heroin into the UK. The Met turn to the outside for help. Jonas Merrick is an MI5 officer, unspectacular in his own right but spectacular in the success he's had in dangerous counter terrorist operations. Can he thwart the drugs plot?

Jonas has an ace in the hole: Kenny 'Chopper' Harris is an ex-paratrooper and soon to be ex-member of the Flying Squad, looking for a new home, new loyalties. Jonas recruits him to get close to Wilson's Achilles's heel: Julie Wilson is the heir apparent to the family drugs empire and Lachy's go-between. Julie, like Chopper, is a lost soul - she dreams of life outside her father's brutal orbit. Her fate is about to change at their first meeting. A bond is formed, a resolution is made: Chopper will get her free of her family, if she'll betray her mission.

Soon their desperate game of deception begins - a game which will inevitably end in a bloody denouement.

A dark, sexy, and twisted reimagining of The Wizard of Oz from USA Today bestselling author Nikki St. Crowe.

Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. At the age of five, she was dropped on Em and Henry’s doorstep while a terrible storm rolled across the Kansas prairie. Now as an adult, Dorothy has made the most of her life on the farm. But when a cyclone tears through the night, ripping her, her dog, and the farmhouse away, Dorothy wakes to find herself far from home in the strange, cursed land of Oz.

Desperate to find her way back, Dorothy takes the advice of the Witch of the North and sets off on the yellow brick road to find a wizard . . . with a warning to avoid forest monsters, heartless mercenaries, and wicked witches. It isn’t long before Dorothy encounters the dark side of Oz, stumbling on a man beaten and bloody, tied to a pole in a cornfield. Not unlike the scarecrows on the Kansas farm.

With no memories, the mysterious stranger joins Dorothy. Rook is ridiculously handsome, endlessly charming, and somehow understands Dorothy in a way no one ever has. But when they cross paths with the infamous Tinman and his axe, Rook proves he may be hiding his own secrets.

Nothing and no one is what they seem in the cursed land of Oz . . . maybe even Dorothy herself.

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas, the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it's been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way it also acquired another more mysterious moniker: The Devil's Bible.

Now the Czech Republic wants the codex back, and Sweden has agreed to return it, but forces are at work to stop that deal from happening. The likely instigator? Russia. Who is also top of the list for possible kidnappers. It's up to Cotton and Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the king's sister, secure the codex, and thwart the Russians. Yet nothing is as it seems.

Trusted allies become hostile enemies. Long-standing enemies suddenly shift into partners. Making matters worse an array of conflicting personalities re-emerge from Cotton's past, transforming an already chaotic international situation into something far more personal and deadly.

From the cobbled streets of Stockholm with its placid waterways and picturesque islands, to the hostile skies over the Baltic Sea, and finally onto a fabled 16th century Swedish warship, Cotton and Cassiopeia come face-to-face with the unthinkable - changing both of their lives forever.

Juanita Goosen erf haar ouers se gastehuis in ’n kusdorpie en vind vrede in eenvoud. Viljoen Kleynhans, ryk en gerekend, ervaar die wreedste verraad en vlug blindelings. Hy laat alles agter en kom uiteindelik by Juanita se gastehuis uit. In haar wêreld vind hy betowering wat geld nie kan koop nie, terwyl sy ’n hunkering na meer as oorlewing ontdek.

Twee vreemdelinge, een dorpie, en ’n passie wat hulle uitdaag om reëls te breek.

Soms is die lewe wat jy nooit beplan het nie die moeite werd.

Ná haar musikantpa se dood en 'n liefdesteleurstelling, leef Elara Hartwell vir haar werk as ouditeur. Toe sy gevra word om liedjies te skryf vir Marko Roos, verander alles.

Marko, 'n gebore swerwer, vind in Elara iets wat hom laat twyfel aan die lewe wat hy ken - en vir die eerste keer vra hy homself af of konstante beweging regtig vryheid beteken.

Maar kan 'n man wat gewoond is aan vlug, regtig stilstaan? En kan Elara waag om weer lief te hê?

Ná ’n mislukte huwelik en jare in die buiteland, besluit Trix om haar lewenskoers te verander. Sy word ’n grimeerkunstenaar op die Wes-Kaapse platteland.

Haar eerste kliënt, ’n teësinnige bruid, veroorsaak konflik met die bruid se ouboet, Ray. Ray is toevallig Trix se nuwe buurman en eienaar van Landauer Distilleerders. Hy wil Trix se plasie hê en begin ’n romanse met haar.

Toe dinge versuur, maak Trix uit weerwraak ’n mampoer-proelokaal langs sy distilleerdery oop. Kan maanskyn en brandewyn versoen?

Zivah werk op Ezra se plaas in Galilea waar sy geurige olies leer meng en parfuum maak. Sy dra swaar aan ’n verlore liefde en is ’n gevangene van ’n donker geheim uit haar verlede, maar hoop dat haar stukkende emosies heel sal word terwyl sy haar passie uitleef.

Barabbas met sy charismatiese persoonlikheid, onwrikbare avonturiersgees en vreeslose najaag van sy ideaal om die Jode van Romeinse heerskappy te bevry, vergestalt vir haar die vryheid en geluk waarna sy verlang. Maar sy obsessie om die Jode van Romeinse onderdrukking te bevry dryf hom al dieper die verderf in en verder van Zivah af weg.

Ezra ontferm hom al hoe meer oor Zivah, maar sy is vasgevang in haar pyn en hoop vir ’n tweede kans met Barabbas toe Pontius Pilatus hom vrylaat in plaas van die misterieuse Messias-man wie sy ontmoet het ... Maar dit verander steeds nie Barabbas se verterende haat, wraaksug en begeerte om vir sy mense ’n held te wees nie. In ’n wêreld verskeur deur bloedvergieting, verlies en onvervulde hoop soek Zivah en Barabbas elkeen na heling, liefde en ’n tweede kans. Hul paaie kruis telkens in liefde en pyn, maar net God se belofte van herstel – om weer te dans – kan hulle ware vryheid bring.

Sal Sy liefde genoeg wees om twee gebroke siele te heel en hul verledes in hoop te omskep?

Chrisanne Alberts het haar hele lewe gewerk om die bitterheid van die verlede en verwerping agter haar te los. As ’n grootwithaainavorser is sy gewoond aan die wêreld van wetenskap, maar sy dra swaar aan die verlies van haar ouers, haar broer, en die skuld wat daarmee saamgaan.

Nadat sy as voog van haar broerskind aangestel is, bevind sy haar op ’n nuwe lewenspad wat haar terugneem na die afgeleë dorp, Albatroshoek.

Hiér het sy en haar kleintydvriendinne, Reinet en Essie, saam grootgeword en trauma beleef. Wanneer ’n moordwalvis sy weg na Albatroshoek vind, bring hy verandering saam, en alles wat Chrisanne geglo het oor die balans van die see en haar eie lewe, word op die proef gestel.

Die kluisenaar van Atlaseiland, Ben Benade, lei haar op ’n reis van onthullings, en saam baklei hulle teen die uitbuiting van seebronne. Maar Chrisanne moet al hoe meer gewigtige keuses maak ... Wat gebeur met ’n vrou wat nie net haar mense verloor het nie, maar ook haar plek in die wêreld, en haar eie geloof betwyfel?

Soos ’n sluier wat stadig gelig word, ontsluit haar verhouding met die eilandkluisenaar al hoe meer van haarself. Saam soek sy en haar vriendinne oplossings vir hul kleintydtrauma terwyl die geheime van die dorp ontrafel.

En die vraag bly: Is jy die som van jou verlede en jou pyn, of is jy wie God sê jy is? Geroep, gesalf, geliefd.

“You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away—she’ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.”

Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.

Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one.

Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.

When she meets Birdie, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg’s future.

But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister’s charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose.

Drawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women.

But in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences …

He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone.

In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday.

Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.

Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.

But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?

A tense military thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer and a retired US army sergeant, perfect for fans of Lee Child and Tom Clancy.

He's trained to fight America’s enemies overseas. Now the battle has come home.

When a presidential candidate is assassinated during a summer retreat on Nantucket Island, the country is thrown into turmoil.

Enter Rocket’s Red Glare – a covert unit so classified it doesn’t officially exist. Led by former Special Forces operative Nat Phillips, this team is built to respond when national security collapses. But what begins as a manhunt for a killer soon unravels into a global conspiracy stretching from Washington to foreign capitals.

To save his country, Phillips must face the unthinkable – because the next war has already begun.

Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start.

Five years after her career as a therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she is opening a retreat in Corfu. The understated, luxurious Villa Artemis is surrounded by wild pines and sea views.

Just six guests. One week. Time for Rose to help them face their secrets – and move forwards.

But Rose has staked everything on the retreat. It has to work – or she loses it all. And people’s secrets have a way of revealing themselves in ways no one expected.

Nobody’s past is staying hidden for long…

A sweet, small-town slow-burn romance set in a charming matcha cafe, perfect for readers who love Laurie Gilmore, B.K. Borison and the gentle magic of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

At Matcha Moments, owner Sasha Lee is a star matchmaker, helping customers find love over a smooth cup of matcha. You’d think that as the master she’d be living her fairytale ending, but Sasha is allergic to commitment.

With a growing reputation, her successes are challenged when the ‘unmatchable’ Ben walks in - a man who believes he’s too boring for love. As Sasha tries to match him, she slowly finds herself drawn to his quiet charm.

As their daily banter becomes the highlight of her day, Sasha must confront the possibility that her own love story might be brewing. Will she embrace the unexpected romance, or let her past fears keep her from true love?

A mother they will always remember. A legacy they will treasure forever.

Grieving the sudden loss of their beloved mother, five sisters each receive a mysterious letter exactly one month after her death. Felicia Morgan Weston’s message to her daughters reveals an astonishing secret, upending everything they thought they knew.

Widowed at a young age, Felicia devoted herself to raising her young daughters alone. But, unbeknownst to the world and even her own family, she also harbored a breathtaking secret: under the alias Morgan Reed, she became a bestselling thriller writer, whose novels topped the bestseller charts and captivated millions.

As Felicia’s daughters grapple with the startling truth of their mother’s double life, they rediscover the depth and resilience of the love that shaped their lives.

Can their mother's hidden past help them to forge a new path for the future?

The swoon-worthy new fake dating rom com featuring forced proximity and second chances, from the international bestselling author of The Catch, perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey and Carley Fortune.

Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she’s the no-nonsense personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me becomes a bestseller, rumours of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control.

Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM’s new close protection officer and Andi’s failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan might be in town to look after his mother, but when the scandal erupts, Andi enlists him to help take care of her own dilemma.

To save their bosses’ reputations they’ll pretend to date for the summer. But as sparks fly, can they keep their romance strictly fictional?

Every summer tells a story...

1957: The summer of innocence. Amongst the lemon trees, Rafaella Parisi impatiently waits for the summer visitors to arrive in her small fishing village on the coast of Puglia. She may be dating Fon Gianelli, but there is one person she longs to see: Cosimo - son of the wealthy Franchetti family.

1958: The summer everything changed. After a devastating accident at the lavish Franchetti villa, Rafa makes a vow that changes the course of all their futures…

1961: The summer they met again. And when Rafa and Cosi’s lives collide, Rafa must decide if she’s willing to risk the life she has built for the future she might have had…

A tour de force crime novel from one of the international masters of the form, where a simple murder case questions the simple notions of good and evil, guilt and redemption.

A body has been found on a Central Tokyo riverbank, and Homicide Detective Godai of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate. The victim is identified as a lawyer, Kensuke Shiraishi, and Godai's investigations lead him to one Tatsuro Kuraki, who ends up confessing to not only to the lawyer's murder, but also another one from thirty years ago - for which another man was arrested and died in custody before trial. Kuraki's confession neatly resolves two cases, but there is just one problem: Detective Godai doesn't believe him.

What's more, there are two other people who can't accept Kuraki's confession. One is the son of Kuraki, the professed murderer; the other is the daughter of Shiraishi, the victim.

As they get closer to the truth it becomes clear that the link between the two murders is murkier and more complicated than they could possibly have imagined - and so is the line between innocence and guilt.