'Deliciously dark American debut' - The Guardian A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her husband from his former students - a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own . . . When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me. And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extramarital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both. And when our unnamed narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Vladimir, a celebrated, married young novelist who's just arrived on campus, their tinder-box world comes dangerously close to exploding. Julia May Jonas takes us into charged territory, where the restrictions of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart. Darkly funny and moving, Vladimir maps the personal and political minefield of our current moment, exposing the messy contradictions of power and desire. 'This astonishing debut . . . I was utterly hooked . . . [by] this twisty, sexy, shocking treat of a novel . . . How on earth will Julia May Jonas better this?' - The Sunday Times

Four teenagers make a pact to lose their virginity away from the watchful eyes of parents and priest. Ten years later, they look back on the events and reflect on how it all went horribly wrong. Debut novel from Sophie Coulombeau, winner of Route's Next Great Novelist award, open to authors aged under 30.

Things are running smoothly at Torreston Police Station, especially for DCI Harriet Love, who is beginning to enjoy the company of DI Ed Harrington. But their relationship goes on hold when a woman is found dead in the park and a second murder is deemed to be connected. The Team set about finding the link between the two dead women and turn their investigation to the local comprehensive school, where one was a student and the other a teacher. When a third body is found, no link can be discovered to the first murders and Harry, Ed and DS Charlie Marlow once again find themselves involved in a hunt for a killer.

In this heartwarming novel about the meaning of friendship, the Elm Creek quilters pay tribute to their beloved matriarch and the bridal quilt that will be stitched in her honor.The Elm Creek Quilters are as surprised as anyone when their beloved matriarch, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, marries her sweetheart, Andrew, at a festive holiday gathering at her ancestral home on Christmas Eve. Eager to celebrate the union, her friends decide to create a beautiful wedding quilt to warm the newlyweds' home and hearts. A secret with such good intentions, they reason, couldn't possibly do anyone harm. But although the quilting retreat established at Elm Creek Manor is a place where quilters share their creativity, their challenges, and their dreams, somehow in their haste to find a way to honor the wisdom, skill, and devotion of their favorite master quilter, they forget that sometimes secrets drive friends apart instead of drawing them closer. As financial troubles, relationship struggles, and unexpected opportunities beyond Elm Creek Quilt Camp test the bonds of friendship, the quilters must find a way to stitch together more than Sylvia's Bridal Sampler to make a happy ending.

An emotionally powerful debut with a magical twist, set between WWII France and present-day Appalachia, about generations of women in a family, their secret healing abilities, and the mysterious consequences they must contend with when they use their skills on someone they love.

For generations, the Winston women have possessed an unspoken magical gift: they can heal with the touch of a hand. It’s a tradition they’ve always had to practice in secret, in the moonlight hours, when the fireflies dance and the whippoorwill birds sing.

But not every healer has rightfully passed on this knowledge to her descendants, and for young Louise Winston, the discovery of her abilities comes in less-than-ideal circumstances—she brings her best friend back from death following an accident, the day after he professed his long-held feelings for her, five days before she’s supposed to move away.

Desperate for answers, and to avoid this new reality between them, Louise escapes to her grandmother’s lush Appalachian orchard. There, she uncovers her family’s hidden history in a tattered journal, stemming back to her brave great-grandmother who illicitly healed Allied soldiers in war-torn France. But just as Louise begins to embrace her unique legacy, she learns that it can also come with a mysterious cost. And with a life hanging in the balance, she’ll be forced to make the most impossible of choices…

Spanning eighty years, The Moonlight Healers is a deeply empathetic, heartfelt novel about mothers and daughters, life and death, and the beautiful resilience of love.

From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands.

Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.

Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed―inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?

Propulsive and spell-binding, Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves―if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.

"In Elly Griffiths's second novel starring Ruth Galloway, the forensic anthropologist, now expecting a child, undertakes a battle of wits with a deadly nemesis . . . Her inner strength as she battles social stigma and the hormonal fluctuations of pregnancy wonderfully complement the starkly wild Norfolk coast of England where Griffiths's novels are set."--"USA Today"
It's only been a few months since forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing-child case, barely escaping with her life. But when constructions workers demolishing a large old mansion to make way for a new development uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway--minus its skull--Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?
When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer, it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the trail by frightening her, and her unborn child, half to death.
"Delightfully twisted . . . Griffiths is a talented writer and, like its predecessor "The Crossing Places," "The Janus Stone" exhibits her skill at character development and her ability to create a chilling and entirely believable story"--"Richmond Times-Dispatch"

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery. Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn't want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it--these days, her oven holds only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine--a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it. On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food. But her new home isn't quite matching up with the fantasy. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in the process, realizes there's really no such thing as the way life should be.

Fast-paced and intriguing, Mightier than the Sword is the fifth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s the Clifton Chronicles moves towards the end of the 1960s as the Cliftons and the Barringtons come up against sworn enemies and new foes.

Following the explosion of an IRA bomb on board the Barrington’s flagship MV Buckingham, Emma Clifton must deal with the repercussions on her family’s shipping business. Meanwhile her old adversary, Lady Virginia Fenwick, plots her downfall.

Bestselling novelist Harry, Emma’s husband, is on a mission to free a fellow author imprisoned in Siberia, even if it costs him everything.

Giles, his brother-in-law, a minister of the Crown, faces his own problems when a diplomatic disaster risks his bid for higher office.

With its devastating twists and turns, Archer’s spellbinding the Clifton Chronicles continues to enthral readers and proves once again why Archer’s reign at the top of the charts is without parallel.

Stepping off the plane from Hong Kong with a head full of schemes and dreams, Len Russell launches into the seventies. It's a world of clever businessmen, conmen, victims, and fools and Len's on a winning streak. New businesses are formed, franchised and sold on at a dizzying pace and if not entirely 'clean', it's all good fun. Things changes as Len and his partner Ray move into the sauna parlour, nightclub and boxing business. the entertaining characters are increasingly replaced by career criminals. A parade of celebrities from Elton John to Joe Frazier pass through the Auckland of the 1970s and they all seem to need assistance of one sort or another from Len and his underworld contacts. However, times are changing with the growth of the international drug trade. Ruthless criminals band together and the rise of the Mr Asia Syndicate begins. Len is given an opportunity to establish a bath house sauna in Sydney and he's on the first available plane to put his skills to use in this bigger, wilder and more dangerous arena. The book ends in 1982 with Len's world a very different place a decade on and the reader eager to get hold of the final book in the trilogy. If you likes A Man Who Cast Two Shadows, you're going to love Dancing in the Shadows.

Stylish reissue of a classic novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas...' As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror never before seen on the printed page.

A sizzling, feel-good, opposites-attract holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer—now in a beautiful new package!

Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. Stella is standing alone outside a famous department store, when a charming man asks her opinion on the décor.

It’s a tragedy in tinsel, she says, unable to lie. Then he asks for a better idea, with a twinkle in his eye. She didn’t know he owned the place, when he put her on the spot, and now she’s working for that man, trying to ignore that he’s hot.

But as a down-on-her-luck girl with a difficult past, Stella knows how to make a good opportunity last. So she gives it her all, working without stopping. Trying to resist temptation, because she’s just window shopping.

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.

Maybe it appeared to be a little unorthodox for Jayne to take the job as a courier, but then at the time she had not expected to find herself embroiled with either drug trafficking or indeed Luc Mathieu. But then Luc had problems of his own which revolved around his inheritance of Priory Manor and relatives who would dearly have loved to have relieved him of this and more especially the land which had also passed to him and which was currently at the centre for the exploration of shale gas. As this location happened to be close to Jayne's home address it seemed to be inevitable that the two would be thrown together, more especially when Detective Inspector Bennett offered a helping hand in this by keeping the pair of them together. Yet before true romance could blossom there were still many skeletons in the cupboard that needed to be disarmed, including Luc's own biological father and Jayne's former fiance, a person that her parents thought the world about but who nevertheless had his own self-interests at heart. .

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Terwyl hy sit en teug aan ’n negroni op ’n terras, skryf die skrywer Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ’n lang brief aan ’n vriend in sy tuisland. ’n Brief waarin hy rapporteer oor sy lewe as ontdekker in die labirintiese Italiaanse hawestad Genua (“La Superba”).

Migrasie is die hooftema in hierdie outobiografiese roman waarin die lot van ’n immigrant uit die noorde van Europa gekontrasteer word met die lotsbestemming van die arm immigrante uit Afrika wat gedisillusioneerd sukkel om kop bo water te hou.

Die mooiste meisie van Genua, wat die skrywer aanvanklik vanaf ’n afstand af betrag, word sy vlugtende Ariadne deur die labirint van stegies waar hopeloosheid, prostitusie en verlore drome die botoon voer. Net soos die ander immigrante raak Ilja verlore in die fantasie wat hy rondom die stad opgetower het, met verbysterende gevolge.

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.

Because at Christmas there's no place like home ...

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