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Kim Maxwell has been languishing in the “cooler” in what she sees as punishment for getting caught—and tortured—by the Nazis, before being freed by Resistance fighters and smuggled back into England. Now she is sent for by the head of SOE. This is her chance to prove herself. A fellow agent has been found murdered. It would seem that Lilian Harvey heard something she shouldn’t have and that her murder was a warning. Setting out to uncover the culprit, Kim spots a strange zigzag pattern on the wall above the bed where the body was found, which Lilian drew using her own blood as she lay dying.

I am completely unrepentant about my enthusiasm and passion for my own brilliant book! This is the book that I wish I could have listened to when I was on my spiritual path of pain and suffering. Oh, yes...I've been there! I have made the journey from the confusion and suffering of illusions to the peace and clarity of enlightenment; it is an absolute requirement to write a book like this.

Quarry Lake, twelve years ago: Three young women are attacked, all with long, dark hair. The attacker wears a yellow jacket. One is murdered; one is left in a coma; one escapes; a small town lives in fear.

Whether it’s going to the loo for the first time, dealing with the loss of bladder control, managing leaking boobs that look scarily like a botched pair of implants, fearing the act of s-e-x, dealing with an upsetting diagnosis, or coping with boredom and gut-wrenching guilt...Afterwards dives into the many unfamiliar pockets of life post-birth.

Beatrix Rose is looking for her daughter, Isabella. The Triad overlord Michael Yeung knows where she is but he needs her to do a small job first. Beatrix is sent to the jungles of Venezuela and an illegal goldmine run by the loathsome Aurelio Rincon. The task seems easy enough – find a local bandit who has been wreaking havoc at the mine and kill him. But there is a sinister secret hidden deep within the jungle and Beatrix quickly finds herself at war with a private army as she is caught between corrupt government officials and local rebels who believe she has been sent to save them.

England, 1939: When Alice marries twinkly-eyed, kind-hearted vicar David, it means leaving everything from her old life behind and moving into the draughty vicarage in the beautiful but remote village of Goswell, Cumbria. Though homesick, she's determined to make a new life there for herself and her husband. But soon tragedy strikes, and Alice is devastated when war breaks out and David chooses to sign up to fight. But everything changes when she's asked to take in a child evacuee, and she makes a promise to protect this girl, no matter what it costs her…

The North Yorkshire moors are always a magical place, but they’re particularly enchanting at the holidays…especially if one gets to travel back in time to a Victorian Christmas. For Bronwyn Dale, it is the stuff of dreams. Fancy-dress balls, quirky small-town traditions, even that classic one-horse open sleigh, complete with jingle bells. There’s just the tiny problem of the Butterfly Effect. How does a time-traveler make a difference without disrupting the future forever?

Derek Sawyer, sexiest bad boy on the racing circuit, is about to land a huge sponsor. The only problem is the oil baron's daughter wants to make Derek part of the deal. Worried he'll offend the old billionaire if he rejects his daughter, Derek comes up with the perfect plan—pretend he's already engaged to his friend Lilly.

AN EARTH SHATTERING SECRET. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE STORY. “Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon.”—CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of LOVE AND OTHER WORDS For fans of Colleen Hoover, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks...

When Magpie discovers her own dead body one misty morning in Bristol, it prompts her to uncover the truth of her untimely demise. Her investigations take her on a terrifying journey through multiple realities, experimental treatments, technological innovations, and half-memories in a race against time and sanity. Accompanied by a new friend who is both familiar and strange, and constantly on the run from the terrifying relentless presence of the mysterious predator known only as Silhouette, Magpie must piece together the parts of her life previously hidden.

A sparkling selection of one-off comedy shows from Radio 4's Sunday night Stand Up Specials season Since 2018, BBC Radio 4 has been making the nation laugh with its Stand Up Specials strand, featuring fantastic half-hour sets from a host of celebrated comedians. This wide-ranging collection...

In the aftermath of battle, a truth is laid bare—the world, and the people within it, are not as they appear. Adrift without an anchor and nursing a broken heart, Lidan steels herself for a task she never thought would fall to her—to hunt down the architect of the horrors that have plagued the South Lands for years. Ranoth stands on a precipice, his plans in tatters. The path forward leads as easily home as to death. Hungry for answers, he and Lidan set out in pursuit of a common enemy, for dark and fathomless powers are moving beneath the surface of Coraidin.

Le bambine e i bambini, nati in Italia nel 2018 grazie alle tecniche di Procreazione medicalmente assistita (Pma), sono il 3,2%. Vuol dire che esistono oltre 14.000 figlie e figli di persone che hanno affrontato questi percorsi. Allargando la fotografia a tutte quelle donne che decidono di avere un figlio da sole o con un'altra donna in una coppia lesbica, ovvero alle soggettività che non rientrano nella visione normativa della legge 40 del 2004, i numeri crescono ancora.

The Magpie Wing is set on football fields, in sharehouses, at punk gigs and in dilapidated and gentrifying pubs. Max Easton’s debut novel moves from the nineties to the present, and between the suburbs and the inner city, exploring how communities that appear worlds apart—underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups—often share unexpected roots.

La Tina no recorda res del seu passat. Acaba de despertar amb un cos adolorit i ple de cicatrius i l'única veritat que coneix és la de la seva tieta, que la cuidada durant la convalescència. Però els secrets a poc a poc es van desenredant, ja que, a mesura que la Tina va recuperant-se de les ferides, les preguntes es fan més i més intenses. Qui és la seva tieta realment? On són els seus pares? Però la pregunta que més ronda pel seu cap, que no la deixa descansar, és: qui és ella realment?

"Vents més salvatges" és una col·lecció de relats lleugers i, a la vegada, profunds. Contes que parlen de nenes, de mares, de tietes i d'àvies, que parlen de dones de l'actualitat i dones que van viure en temps passats. La prosa elegant de la Bel Olid s'endinsa en el conflicte personal i social i obre una finestra a diferents realitats. Parla de la foscor més intensa, de l'abús de poder, la violència i les forces institucionals que afecten els grups socials més marginats.

Isabelle, a young university researcher, is sent to a country manor house deep in the heart of rural England to verify an ancient object that the family has discovered during the renovation of their home. While Isabelle sets to work verifying its authenticity, she becomes the obsession of the owner’s strange but beautiful daughter, and they develop a dangerous attraction.

Aquest audiollibre, un viatge apassionant a través de la narrativa breu de Montserrat Roig, de la ironia a la reflexió serena i poètica, aplega per primera vegada tots els contes de l'escriptora: els «retalls i esbossos impressionistes» de Molta roba i poc sabó... i tan neta que la volen i amb els que va guanyar el Premi Víctor Català, els vuit relats publicats amb el títol El cant de la joventut i els contes publicats en premsa en els últims anys de la seva vida, triats per Roger Sempere.

The beautiful Irish witch Alainn O'Brien and her husband Killian, a handsome warrior chieftain, have been in love most of their lives. While danger has followed the gifted witch and her sovereign guardian ruthlessly and relentlessly, their love and commitment have always saved them. But now, finally returned to their castle, they and the other witches and guardians must face what may be their greatest challenge yet—the long-predicted battle between light and dark magic. Who'll live to see the battle and who'll live through it?

Meet Clare Barker, the social worker who likes nothing more than sorting out other people's problems (while failing to deal with her own). Wracked with guilt over being white, middle-class and heterosexual, she has a dedicated social conscience (unless it's inconvenient for her) and lives to interfere in other people's lives—both on a personal and professional basis. Bearing the brunt of her control freakery and lack of self-awareness are her family, colleagues and long-suffering teacher partner, Brian—all of whom have their own frustrations, disappointments and dramas.