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.

WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR. THE ROM-COM OF 2021. A BOOKTOK SENSATION.

A wedding in Spain. The most infuriating man. Three days to convince your family you're actually in love. . .

Catalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially when her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows - including her ex-boyfriend and his fiancee - will be there. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic for her and aid in her deception.

NYC to Spain is no short flight and her family won't be easy to fool. But even then, when Aaron Blackford - the 6'4", blue-eyed pain in the arse - offers to step in, she's not tempted even for a second. Never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate and as the wedding gets closer the more desirable an option Aaron Blackford becomes.

The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating romance. Perfect for those looking for a steamy slow-burn with the promise of a sweet happy-ever-after.

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.

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.

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

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...

'What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous'
Max Porter, author of Lanny

A Times Book of the Year
An i Book of the Year
A Reading Agency Book of the Year
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
A BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime'
An Observer Pick for 2019

One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea.

Staying with Dulcie, Robert's life opens into one of rich food, sea-swimming, sunburn and poetry. The two come from different worlds, yet as the summer months pass, they form an unlikely friendship that will profoundly alter their futures.

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...

Mariza, 'n bekende historiese romanskrywer, het haar woorde verloor nadat 'n brand haar huis byna in puin gelê het. Daarna sterf haar man en nou, 'n jaar later, haar Jack Russell wat 16 jaar haar metgesel was.

Sy ontmoet Joubert Hofmeyr, en hulle vertrek op 'n reis na die Kgalagadi: Sy om haar woorde terug te kry en hy om meer vir sy navorsing oor sy voorgeslag se skades en skandes by haar uit te vind. Mariza en Joubert verskil soms, is 'n klankbord vir mekaar en ryg mekaar se stories aanmekaar, maar besef dat die verlede soms jou toekoms bepaal. Die goue draad deur die storie van vyf geslagte vroue is dat hul probleme universeel is. Dat die kollektiewe geheue van die vroue mekaar van geslag tot geslag beïnvloed.

Die reis is alles is nie so eenvoudig nie. Dit is die medereisigers wat alles die moeite werd maak. Selfs die voorgeslagte oor eeue heen.

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.

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.

New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer. It's a new season... Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks. For small town scandals... When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat--and she doesn't exactly have warm feelings for Conley. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column, "Hello, Summer." And big-time secrets. Then Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman--a beloved war hero with a shady past. The more she digs into the story, the more dangerous it gets. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer.

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.

In the cut-and-thrust world of banking, a private bank can be the most dangerous place in the City to work, especially if a very rich and determined family owns a quarter of it and decides things aren't being done to their liking. Joe, Head of Trading and Investment, a very private character with a colourful past, finds out to his cost that he stands in the way of the Maitlands. Once his colleague Gina is brutally raped and murdered, and Locke, Head of Personnel, is run down in the street, left for dead, he finds he cannot prevaricate any longer. Having always looked after number one, he now finds his loyalties to the head of the bank, plucky old Johnny, confuse his options. But what of his own safety? And what will happen to Emma, the first woman he has been able to open up to? A racy thriller set in the City, Domus, number two in the series, is packed full of action and intrigue.

As the US army storms into Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's treasure leaves town secretly in lorry convoy, en route for Europe's banks across the hills by night. Awaiting the hoard's arrival eagerly in Venice is a motley bunch of conmen, hoods, card sharps and inevitably, a London stock-broker, Patrick the Beautiful. In tow, playing his bridge innocently each night with the gang, is Joe, former British Intelligence agent and ex-banking supremo. Strenuous efforts are made to blackmail Joe, master of the adroit side-step, into joining the heist. But Joe has other ideas. Meanwhile in London, British Intelligence supremo Annie is embroiled in the Foreign Office's attempt to rig the succession at the European Central Bank. To her chagrin, she discovers that her preferred but incompetent choice to supervise intelligence in Venice has very different ideas about loyalty and service. With massive consequences for Annie's career as the in-house betrayal begins..."Foible", no. 8 in the "Contango" espionage thriller series, boils to an astonishing climax as the Curse of Saddam's Gold strikes simultaneously - and tragically - in London and Venice.