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When Olive Stone and her Italian chef father fell out fourteen years ago, Leo Ricci slipped right in as his surrogate son and sous-chef. So now, after her father's death, no one is more surprised than Olive that he left her his beloved (but failing) restaurant. Or that his dying wish was for Olive and Leo to run the business and complete his cookbook... together. As they (begrudgingly) embark on a four-week research trip across Italy, they'll test each other as often as the recipes.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a woman’s mind were the most dangerous book a society tried to keep closed? In *The Beth Book*, Sarah Grand gives voice to one of the most powerful literary figures of the fin de siècle: the New Woman. A major feminist writer of the late...

Untitled Book 2, a new Magpie book, full description to follow when available...

Dla Avery muzyka zawsze była rodzajem ucieczki. Ale po tym, jak zdradziła ją najlepsza przyjaciółka, nawet idealnie dobrane playlisty nie pomagają jej zapomnieć o tym, co się stało. Co gorsza, rodzice zaciągnęli ją i jej siostrę Lauren, która ma obsesję na punkcie mediów społecznych, na wakacje na odległym kempingu w leśnej głuszy.

Odkąd jej mama zapadła w śpiączkę, szesnastolatka jest pod opieką starszego brata Roberta – jedynej osoby, którą jeszcze darzy sympatią i zaufaniem. Jako dzieci często spędzali rodzinne wakacje nad morzem, gdzie długie godziny na plaży dzielili z Filipem, zaprzyjaźnionym synem właścicieli Hotelu Bursztyn. Dziesięć lat później Bursztyn i Filip znów pojawiają się w ich życiu. Tym razem rodzeństwo podejmuje letni staż w hotelu, w którym wszystko odbiega od normy.

Ayosa is a wandering spirit – joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in the Kenyan town she calls home are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, the sullen milkman and Sindano, the owner of a café that no one ever visits. But a curse hangs over the...

Two women stand in the shallows, a man dead at their feet, while around them buildings burn. Amid the ruins of a fire-ravaged amusement park and destroyed waterfront dwellings, one boarded-up building still stands. May has come from Australia to Loveland, Nebraska, to claim the house on the...

When eight-year-old Fin and his mum Lindy travel to spend Christmas with his Gran in Sydney, Fin assumes they’ll return to their isolated country property – the only home he’s ever known. But he soon discovers that this large and crumbling riverside house, surrounded by bush and...

“One in ten trees comes up sweet…” In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie and buttoned-up James are a...

Born on the night of a bad-luck comet, Ursula Flight has a difficult destiny written in the stars. Growing up with her family in the country, she is educated by a forward-thinking father who enables her to discover a love of reading, writing and astrology. Ursula dreams of becoming a famous...

What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional...

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, "a hippy-looking twonk", he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - to his...

In the quiet of a New Zealand winter’s night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He’s fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At first, Finn’s fall looks like a horrible accident; after...

Ten-year-old Zac has never met his dad, who allegedly did a runner before he was born. But when his mum lets slip that he's the only man she's ever loved, Zac turns detective and, roping in his best friend, hatches a plan to find his father and give his mum the happy-ever-after she deserves...

Chaurisse and Dana have a lot in common. They both grew up in Atlanta, they shop at the same stores, visit the same restaurants. But unlike Chaurisse, Dana knows the truth: that the girls share the same father. A father with two families, one of which he is determined to keep secret. When the...

A hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set in the Welsh valleys of the 1970s Set in a remote valley in Wales, this is 1974, and Tirzah is sixteen, pretty, witty and wise. Brought up in a staunchly religious family, she has lived a sheltered life. But then she meets a boy. As she begins to...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a risk-taking kid, to feel that thrill and that fear...

To Become a Whale tells the story of 13-year-old Sam Keogh, whose mother has died. Sam has to learn how to live with his silent, hitherto absent father, who decides to make a man out of his son by taking him to work at Tangalooma, then the largest whaling station in the southern hemisphere. What...

Jersey, June 1940: it starts after the bombs land; obliterating the last shred of hope that Hitler will avert his attention from the Channel Islands. Within weeks, 12,000 German troops land on the Jersey beaches. For ten-year-old Claudine, it means a re-education under German rule and for...

1988: Harper Richardson's mum and dad are divorced. Her mum got custody of her, the Mini and five hundred tins of baked beans. Her dad got a mouldering cottage in a Midlands backwater village and plenty of free time to indulge his WWII obsession. What a Way to Go is a warm, wise and witty tale...