Makepiece Ploughman is of the ninth generation on original warranted land in Maryland granted to the 17th Century immigrant Ploughman family. In 1943, he is a colonel in the US Army Air Corps, working an intelligence desk assigned to understand Hitler's advanced weapons programme. Under Presidential decree, he is given command of a reconnaissance aircraft group to operate from an airfield in Kent, England, which is subject to unremitting enemy threat. Where once stood the family residential hall, there now stands an Anglo-American facility which contains Colonel Ploughman's top secret buried headquarters. On one of his infrequent days of relaxation, Makepiece seeks out family history records in the country archives only to discover that he is not the only researcher with an interest in a folio of 350 year old papers written by his eleven greats grandmother. The folder in the Maidstone archive contains a transcription of 1659 original land warrant, And war has taken the colonel a long way from the comforts of home...This is the fifth novel in the Warranted Land Saga.

Soos papierblomme in die wind, so het haar lewe verwaai. Sal sy dit regkry om die flentertjies weer op te tel? Daar is net een uitweg… Janine was klein toe haar ouers dood is en sy die deur tussen haar en Jesus toegemaak het. Net sy het dit geweet. Sy wou groot wees en wegkom van die klein dorpie waar almal mekaar ken. Haar kans kom toe Greg Walker die Engelsklas oorneem. Met drome in haar oë is sy Londen toe waar sy groter hartseer leer ken, maar ook die grootste  ontdekking van haar lewe maak. 

Emily is a great fan of the Harry Potter books and magic. She wishes she could cast a spell. Then a set of curious circumstances give her the opportunity. But did Emily really perform magic...or was it all a dream? Normally a writer of murder mystery novels, the author, Michael John Smedley set himself the challenge of creating a chilldren's book.

A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies.

First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She is kept company by Niaz, her young, Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter. In America, Elizabeth’s two daughters have built new lives for themselves. There’s Shirin, a flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family's future; and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned bored housewife languishing in Los Angeles. And then there's the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York trying to find deeper meaning by giving away her worldly belongings.

When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family's brittle upper class veneer is cracked wide open and gossip about them spreads like wildfire. Soon, Shirin must embark upon a grand quest to restore the family name to its former glory. But what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered to anyone? And, will reputation be enough to make them a family again?

Spanning from 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s The Persians is an irresistible portrait of a unique family in crisis that explores timeless questions of love, money, art and fulfilment. Here is their past, their present and a possible new future for them all.

Jennifer Kent was a pretty child of eleven years; small for her age but astute for all that. During her short existence she had come to realise there was far more joy to life than she had ever known - more than was on offer anyway. It was an on the spur of the moment decision to escape her home, to run away and leave all that fearful loneliness behind and to seek a freer way of life. Though still so young she felt the need for happiness to fill her days and so she would go and find it where she could, even if it meant leaving her only friend behind - deeply buried neath the grassy sod. But leaving home wasn't going to be that easy; notions worth exploring never are; but with a newly found friend beside her, helping to smooth the way ahead, she felt she would be able to achieve her happiness in no time at all - if only that were possible.

From the Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author comes the latest instalment in an epic multi-million selling series, The Seven Sisters.

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to have it all: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.

Yet Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a stranger claiming to be her grandmother . . .

In 1939, Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya from New York to nurse a broken heart. Staying with her godmother, a member of the infamous Happy Valley set, she meets Bill Forsythe, a notorious bachelor and cattle farmer with close connections to the proud Maasai tribe. But after a shocking discovery, and with war looming, Cecily has few options. Moving up into the Wanjohi Valley, she is isolated and alone. Until she meets a young woman in the woods and makes her a promise that will change the course of her life for ever.

The Sun Sister is the sixth breathtaking instalment in Lucinda Riley’s multi-million selling epic series, The Seven Sisters.

‘Heart-wrenching, uplifting and utterly enthralling. The Seven Sisters series is Lucinda Riley at the top of her game: a magical storyteller who creates characters we fall in love with and who stay with us long after we finish reading. Dazzlingly good.’ Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Party

The Girl from Penthorpe Hill is a compassionate and inspirational story of a young woman coming of age. Jasmine returns to the hauntingly compelling Penthorpe Hill, her family home in the beautiful English countryside, where her heart is and where life changed forever after her popular father suddenly died, leaving young Jasmine to care for her baby brother Matthew, and mentally unstable mother. Jasmine and Matthew have many memorable adventures as they grow up and the family lurches from one disaster to another, coping with their loss and stuggling with mental illness. It is a story of love, friendship, loyalty and the kindness of others, as Jasmine and Matthew are separated several times. On her road to success, Jasmine eventually comes to terms with her early life after going back to Penthorpe Hill, thirty-six years later, and reuniting with her father's best friend. It is an emotional and enlightening journey as Jasmine searches to find the peace and happiness her heart has yearned for.

Greed and corruption in high places, ugly demonstrations and repeated political kidnaps: Stefan Falk ignores it all. He is a successful business consultant but his life has lost its meaning, until two powerful people unexpectedly cross his path and turn his world upside down - an enigmatic friend he believed was dead who renews contact, and a red-headed society beauty with whom he begins a risky affair. A conflict ensues which soon threatens his existence.

Lois was a top model in great demand. At one of her shows she met a wealthy lawyer and it was love at first sight for them both. One evening later, they met the Arabian Prince Mohammed and events took a disastrous course. Her life with her young son moved from England to Spain, Morocco and USA, but tragedy followed them from country to country. While all happiness seemed to be lost to her, her only friend was Prince Mohammed. Later, an encounter with a special man renewed the love within her she thought she had lost forever.

In this book Dee Mary has continued with stories from the village in Scotland in which Charles, Camilla and friends come from, but many more chinchillas have adventures in this book. The chinchillas go to the seaside, escape to watch the scary fireworks, nearly get hit over the head with a cricket bat, land in a dung heap, and free the whole herd

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can't speak. Monday is the town's purveyor of books now that the library's closed--tell her the book you think you want, and she'll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab's job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother's endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone's seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they've been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it's our daughters who will save us all.

Who was the mysterious Hector Lightfoot? What was he up to when he disappeared, and who were the two ghosts once seen in his house? School friends Jamie and Todd are destined to find out when they go to London to spend a weekend with Jamie's Uncle Simon, who now lives in that very house. Soon after they arrive, Jamie has a frightening encounter with the two ghosts. Hector, a veteran from the First Afghan War, joined a covert expedition to China, and afterwards worked on a secret Government project in an underground lab at the British Museum. He vanished suddenly, and was never heard from again. Simon takes the boys to the lab, where they find a strange contraption - which, unknown to any of them, is a time-travel device. When the building is struck by lightning, the device is energised, and sends the boys back in time to the year 1862. There, surrounded by danger and exposed to disease, they are sucked into a life of crime in order to survive. Only if they can find Hector will they have any chance of getting home again. But why has he gone into hiding? Who is the man after him and what does he want? As the boys struggle to escape back to their own time, Jamie becomes convinced that the two ghosts he saw earlier are following them...

Fifty Shades of Pink will turn you another colour altogether. Pink is most definitely the new grey. From frollicking in the orchard to grinding in the sty, this book will leave you hungry for more pork than you can handle...

Queen's Ford, built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and home to the noble Forde family for centuries, is crumbling into ruin. Devastated by the reduced circumstances in which he finds himself due to the outlandish spending of his late father, the current Lord Fordcombe simply cannot afford to repair it. With only a few loyal servants to serve the family, even the once beautiful gardens and stables are shabby and unkempt. In fact the Forde family, blue-blooded and aristocratic, who have entertained more than one English Monarch during their illustrious past, are now so poor that they struggle to find money for food. Driven beyond endurance and crushed by the monotony of poverty, Jeremy, the handsome twenty-one year old son of Lord Fordcombe decides that something desperate must be done. Artfully persuading his eldest sister, Mariota, to sacrifice her principles and go along with his daring plan, she joins him in holding up a coach masquerading as highwaymen. But as the usually honest and kind Mariota catches a glimpse of the terrified woman they are robbing, she knows that this is something she should never have allowed. About to call off Jeremy, who is wild-eyed with excitement and oblivious to the upset he is causing, she suddenly sees a gentleman taking aim with his gun behind her brother. In a split second she fires, blinded to the consequences of her actions through her love for her brother. As the dust settles on the lonely road she realises that the handsome Earl of Buckenham is injured and, eager to avoid the gallows, the subdued siblings bring him to their home to heal. Desperately sorry by the trouble they have caused, Mariota proceeds to nurse him better, praying for forgiveness and willing the Earl to improve. But the unforeseen dramas that arise from that one action alter the lives of everyone involved forever.

Motivated solely by the desire for material gain Diana lives her life careless and oblivious of the feelings of others. Her harsh and loveless childhood spent with her twisted and tyrannical mother has shaped and moulded her into a cold, callous, soulless, amoral monster. Diana manipulates everyone she comes into contact with, using every means at her disposal and all purely for selfish gain, but so skilfully that most are unaware of her selfish and sinister motives; humanity has been brainwashed out of her, or so it seems. Indomitable of spirit in business and daily life she gives no quarter and expects none. She sheds no tears and shows no weakness. However deep inside her lurk feelings she cannot understand; feelings which occasionally but fleetingly show themselves, she however sees tender emotions as an aberration and a flaw in her character, a weakness to be suppressed at all cost, and eventually it seems she has killed all such emotions, until one day someone comes into her life and awakens the aberration. It is true love which has brought Diana to her knees, therefore she cast her lover away from her because she see's such emotion as weakness, and then begins an inner struggle which eventually brings her to the point of madness, and she watches her life falling apart and her acquired riches rapidly diminishing, while she it seems is powerless to stop it.

Eating the Cheshire Cat lures us into a world of perfectly planned parties and steep social ladders, where traditional rites of passage take unpredictable and horrifying turns as three girls and their overbearing mothers collide. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, beauty is as beauty does, with axes and knives and killer smiles.

Sarina Summers and her mother will stop at nothing to have it all. Nicole Hicks harbors a fierce obsession with Sarina, which repeatedly undermines Mrs. Hicks's ambitious goals. Bitty Jack Carlson, a nice girl from the wrong side of the tracks, is caught in the crossfire but struggles to succeed outside the confines of this outrageous yet eerily familiar Southern community. It's survival of the fittest. Which girl will come out on top?

Covering everything from summer camp to the University of Alabama's Homecoming game, this fast-paced and unforgettable novel will keep readers guessing until the bitter end.

Five great stories of the adventures of two young beige chinchillas: how they escape from their cage in the shed in which they live and how they explore their garden and the Scottish village in which they live, with their owner Mary. Be aware they get into lots of trouble, both frightened Charles and his naughty but brave, sister Camilla. How they meet the school children, other animals and when they nearly get squashed by a timber lorry. How later the Minister at the Church comes to their rescue. Charles meets the vet and how they both fall into a very icy pond.

Have you ever wondered why a parent puts a hand on their child's head; or why we pat our own heart when we speak of our self; or why some people rub their little finger when anxious? We all display behavioural routines at times that can give comfort to ourselves or others in times of stress. 'I Still Love Me' offers a comfort routine for young children growing up in our fast paced world. The routine of 'patting 'offered here is a simplification of meridian tapping techniques, already in use to maintain, regain and enhance health in adults. It was inspired by the fact that the author, as a clinician, could trace many of the chronic problems presenting in her patients to childhood trauma. Thus, by helping to alleviate stress in the young, the author aims to promote health in future generations of adults.

Father John was born to a woman with ordination on her mind, capturing his early days and taking the reader through a minefield of this great romance falling apart, then picking up and taking off like no one has ever seen, like the tidal wave lashing the stones against the rocks, and in unbending fury calming down under the influence of the cellular glory of the Heavens, where fear is unknown and all the space between the sky and the earth is waiting to be reclaimed by our Heavenly Father, the creator of all things. This love affair that lasted a lifetime saw many new moons and many changes that from day to day determine our lives' efforts and seals our worth. There has never been a love affair like this and there will never be another one. Rosaleen has looked down all the leafy highways, adorned with the sound of musical theatre in the form of birdsong, observing the scene that was so gloriously set when Father John fell in love with Nurse Lynda.

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Frustrated at the path her life has taken, Alice decides to take control of her personal life using astrology as her guide in this quirky, steamy, and hilarious romantic comedy. Alice Bassi is (a little) over thirty, single (not by choice), and she can't help but feel that she is failing at this whole adulthood thing. She's stuck in a dead-end job, just found out her ex-boyfriend is engaged to his pregnant girlfriend, and Richard Gere hasn't shown up with flowers and a limo to save her from it all. On one particularly disastrous morning-when Alice would much rather have stayed home, curled up with her favorite rom-coms-she meets Davide Nardi. Handsome yet indecipherable, Davide would be the leading man of Alice's dreams-if only he weren't the "hatchet man" brought in to help streamline production and personnel at the small television network she works for. In the midst of all this, Alice runs into Tio-an actor and astrology expert who is convinced he can turn her life around with a little help from the stars. Skeptical but willing, Alice decides to take Tio's advice and only date men whose Zodiac signs are compatible with hers. Unfortunately, it turns out that astrological affinity doesn't always guarantee a perfect match, nor prevent a series of terrible dates, disappointments, and awkward surprises. It also doesn't keep Davide from becoming more attractive every day. Perfect for fans of Bridget Jones's Diary and Star-Crossed, An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts is a witty, sexy, and relatable portrait of a modern woman's search for love and a dream job, only to discover that your destiny isn't always written in the stars.

Deadlines, the first in Chris Dunn's Contango series, traces the bid of raw young City reporter, Tom Stone, to crack the secret of a spectacular City swindle mounted by Wolf de Boys, the brilliant young financier. Tom has big problems: his relationship with his upwardly mobile girlfriend, under pressure from her snobbish parents, is dying a slow death; a mysterious caller, whose deep voice somehow sounds familiar, and who keeps dropping hints about de Boys; and his fight to keep his job on the Daily Standard. Writing the 'splash' is never easy in Fleet Street. Can Tom Stone crack his story and pull it off...? Fast-moving and exciting, Deadlines reveals the squalor of Fleet Street in the seventies, and the connection between the city and its scandals and the workings of the press.