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The eldest of three children, Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the material for the famous Luton Straw Boater. Kate longs to leave this life behind and become a hat-maker. Then a family tragedy changes everything. And Joseph Devlin, Kate's estranged uncle, turns up on their doorstep. He warns Kate that the worst is yet to come. Kate loses her home and her work. Things are looking very bleak, until Daniel Groves, the new owner of Heaven Scent lavender farm takes a liking to Kate.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decades Meet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit...

Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family will change the course of her ordinary life. As children, Stella and Ivo grew close as their parents embarked on an affair that would shatter both families. Later, as teenagers, their own relationship would be the cause of further scandal. Now, as adults, they set out on an odyssey to uncover the truth about another family’s past—and to understand their own.

Escócia, 1766. Condenado à miséria e à escravidão nas brutais minas de carvão, Mack McAsh inveja os homens livres, mas nunca teve esperança de ser como eles. Até que um dia ele recebe a carta de um advogado londrino que lhe revela a ilegalidade da escravidão dos mineiros e um novo horizonte se abre aos seus olhos. Porém, para realizar seu sonho, Mack precisará enfrentar todo tipo de opressão das autoridades que não estão acostumadas a serem questionadas. Mack logo descobre que se trata de uma mera mudança de continente, não de ares sociais.

A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel - plus bonus interview with the author Arundhati Roy's debut novel The God of Small Things took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker Prize in 1997. It went on to sell over six million copies in 40...

Stealing a stranger's carriage is the second most reckless thing Lady Catrin Gryffin de Warrene has ever done. The first is succumbing to her powerful attraction to the carriage's owner. Catrin has heard the rumors about Sir Orion Wherlocke's family and their otherworldly gifts. He's the one person who can keep her son and his inheritance safe from her late husband's ruthless brother. But it may be too late to protect herself.

When his family is plunged into poverty during the Great Depression, Ben Taylor takes a job with the US Civilian Conservation Corps developing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A tragic accident puts him in a dilemma: does he let someone else take the fall for what he did so he can keep his position? The repercussions of his decision plague him all the way to the Battle of the Bulge in World War II where Ben is reunited with an old friend from his time with the Corps.

A veces, lo peor empieza el día que acaba una guerra. Tras el éxito de Zapatos de lluvia, Mayte Magdalena vuelve a conquistarnos con una historia que emociona desde la primera página. En una España desgarrada tras la Guerra Civil, el mundo tal y como había sido hasta entonces se desvanece...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six) Look for Jodi...

Izzy Lane was everything I never deserved. Sweet and kind. Beautiful in a way that stole my breath. I started crawling through her window when I was just a boy to escape the brutality of my father. She became my best friend. My safe haven. The girl I’d do anything to protect. Only what she really needed protecting from was me.

Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...

Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman - the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer - as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon vivant.

Una novela conmovedora, difícil de olvidar, sobre los últimos treinta años de la vida en Euskadi. El día en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a la tumba de su marido el Txato, asesinado por los terroristas, que ha decidido volver a la...

A Promise to My Daughter, a new One More Chapter book, full description to follow when available...

Es ist ein heißer Sommer, als Dora nach vielen Jahrzehnten in ihren Heimatort Hausen zurückkehrt. Stundenlang wandert sie durch die fremdvertrauten Straßen – zu ihrem Elternhaus, aber auch zu dem Fachwerkhaus, in dem einst ihre beste Freundin wohnte. Als sie entdeckt, dass vor diesem Haus Stolpersteine verlegt wurden, ist Dora fassungslos. Denn dort liegen nur vier Steine, doch sie weiß genau, dass es fünf sein müssten: Der ihrer ehemals besten Freundin Fanny fehlt.

Der zweite Teil der Sturmland-Saga. Miriam Georg schreibt so packend, dass man nicht aufhören kann! Coras Welt liegt in Scherben. Alles, was sie sich im Seebad Norderney als Hauslehrerin aufgebaut hat, war vergebens. Doch wo soll sie hin? Etwa nach Hamburg zurück – dorthin, wo sie alle Brücken hinter sich abgebrochen hat? Ihre Schülerin Emmi braucht sie, und auch Onnen will Cora nicht verlieren. Obwohl sie weiß, dass er seine Vergangenheit vor ihr verbirgt und es für sie beide keine Zukunft gibt, kann sie ihn nicht loslassen.

Eine starke Frau aus den Fjorden, die sich gegen alle Stürme lehnt. An der rauen norwegischen Westküste hat die Schifferin Kristiane ein gutes Leben für sich und ihre Familie erkämpft. Sie wünscht sich, dass ihr Sohn Anders die Familientradition bewahrt und Schiffslotse wird. Doch Anders hat eigene Talente und Träume, er möchte dem Ruf der Musik folgen. Als Kristiane sich zum Nachdenken an ihren besonderen Ort am Strand zurückzieht, macht sie eine dramatische Entdeckung – die nicht nur ihre Familie, sondern die ganze Fischergemeinschaft ins Wanken bringt.

'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and...

Summer House, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

East London, 1943: As air raid sirens wail, can the East End Girls join forces to protect their city and the people they love? Nell Reilly’s blonde curls and piercing blue eyes might look angelic, but she is ready to fight with everything she has for a better future. Brought up in London’s tough East End, she is fiercely determined to keep the promise she made to her little sister Jo to build a new life for them one day. Until a chance meeting changes everything…