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Jill Marshall calls these moments 'downloads'. In The Download Principles, she explores the strange and wonderful territory between intuition, creativity, coincidence and connection. Drawing on stories from her own life, Jill looks at where ideas might come from, why some people and events seem to arrive precisely when we need them, what happens when thoughts become things, and why sometimes the best thing we can do is stop trying so hard and see what happens.

All the odds are against her. She's young. She's female. She's from the rough end of town. But there's nowt ordinary about Lena Matthews. When thirteen-year-old Lena is taken from Manchester's back-to-back terraces to the imposing Norfolk House in the Derbyshire mill town of Glossop after a family tragedy, she expects safety. Instead, she finds a house full of secrets, whispered conversations and people who seem determined to hide the truth. The servants watch everything. The family keep their own counsel.

How many second chances does it take to believe you're worth saving? Sixteen-year-old Sasha Baker has spent most of her life looking after everyone else.

A perfect introduction to the internationally bestselling Jane Blonde spy adventures. When Jane Blonde is given a top-secret mission to look after the Reception class while their teacher is away, it sounds like one of her easiest assignments yet. After all, she's a fully trained SPI spy, complete with ingenious gadgets, her faithful spycat and her fellow spylet, Al Halo. But when mysterious parcels begin arriving at the school and the SPI team comes under attack from every direction, Jane realises this is no ordinary school day.

Bunty McKenna's very ordinary husband has had a vasectomy - behind her back. Having found the invoice for said vasectomy, she starts to notice other things, too: like how much time her husband is spending at the gym, his new-found interest in clothes...and are his teeth looking whiter? In Bunty's mind, there can only be one explanation: he's having an affair.

Dear Mr Scowl, I am writing you a letter because... well, actually because I have a ban on trying to get too close to Jazzy D, or Jason Devaney, as I would call him - as we sort of went to school together in Jersey. So while I know it would probably be better to come and find you, I think your security men would probably not let me in. (It's all a very big mix-up, which I'll tell you about when you come to collect your goods).

When the lives and stories of three people interconnect one summer at Hadleigh Hall, history ripples as if a stone has been dropped in Hadleigh's famous lily pond. All three lives are about to change forever, in ways that nobody could have foreseen. With paths winding across past and present, through love and war, something simple and bitter-sweet shows just how complex life can be.

When Cally Parsons is made redundant from her steady job in marketing, she's not devastated - in fact, she's thrilled. Finally, she'll have time to spend with Paige, to make sure that having one parent never lets her daughter down. But when Paige blows out the candles on her ninth birthday, she makes a surprising wish: to meet her father for the first time.

What do a housewife from Hampshire, England, a pole dancer from Taranaki, New Zealand, a London publisher, and an LA soap starlet all have in common? Their lives have all been impacted by The Most Beautiful Man in the World. It's only when he's found floating face-down in his Hollywood pool that they discover the ugly truth - about themselves, about each other, and about the man they've chased around the globe and across the decades.