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Waking up in a rickety hospital bed, the sweet ten-year-old girl with soft blonde hair and flushed cheeks is lucky to be alive. But all she can remember is the screech of the air raid siren. The nurses call her ‘Rosie’, and hope someone will save her. But no one does, and without a family, she is taken to Blakely Orphanage in Scotland under the supervision of the strict Miss Black.

Seira Lewis ha tutto: bellezza, popolarità, ricchezza. Cresciuta nel mondo dorato della moda, con un padre stilista di fama internazionale e una vita costellata di privilegi, è sempre stata al centro dell'attenzione. Ma dietro l'aria snob e le foto patinate si nasconde una solitudine profonda che nessun regalo costoso è mai riuscito a cancellare: il vuoto lasciato dalla morte della madre. Così, quando suo padre decide di risposarsi con un'altra donna, Seira si ribella. Tra scandali, provocazioni e gossip, è pronta a tutto pur di mandare all'aria quel matrimonio.

Fall in love with a Brand New heartbreaking listen from Emma Cooper

Lucy Collins thought her marriage was unshakeable. But in the stillness of a Sydney high-rise, the arrival of Sandra Sparks—a mesmerizing woman who draws every gaze—starts to unravel everything she believed to be true. Michael, her scholarly husband, seems to despise Sandra. Yet beneath his cool exterior lies a tension Lucy can't ignore. When a sudden elevator mishap makes Michael instinctively reach for Sandra instead of his own family, Lucy’s world tilts. Trust falters. Doubt creeps in. And the illusion of a perfect life begins to fracture.

Com vaig arribar a ser rei és una crònica historicoliterària única i excepcional. Són les memòries del rei Jaume I el Conqueridor narrades per ell mateix, amb la fluïdesa de l'oralitat i un estil fresc i vívid que interpel·la oients i lectors. El llibre recull aquests episodis i els primers anys de vida, en què el monarca pren consciència del seu lloc en el món, i es perfila la figura que esdevindrà llegendària.

Nova Kumalisi would do anything for her closest friend, Mal Wacken. She owes him her life. So, when he asked her to be the surrogate mother for him and his wife, in spite of her fears about how it would alter their friendship, Nova agreed. Eight years later, Nova is bringing up their son alone, and she and Mal don't speak. Months into the pregnancy, Mal's wife changed her mind about the surrogacy agreement. Already suspicious of how close Nova and Mal were, Stephanie realised her strained marriage was in serious trouble when she found a text from her husband to Nova.

Freya Bauer's revolutionary fervor has dimmed with age, but just as she's about to hang up her DedSec mask, she's recruited for one last mission to Berlin . . . with her ex-husband of all people. Yet upon her arrival in Germany, a series of betrayals mean she's suddenly unable to distinguish between friends and foes. Meanwhile, Freya's past has caught up with her—in the form of a mysterious hitman determined to take out the Bauer family in London.

Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the forest, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent locals. She spends her days climbing the mountains outside her door and roaming the woods, and soon begins a relationship with a waiter some years her junior, which brings new rhythms to her life. But late one night there is a knock on the door, and on the other side stands someone from her past who has finally found her.

Newlywed, Rhianwyn Mulryan is blissfully happy. But a magical pact she made with three close friends foretells the impending end of her enchanted life. Over the next year, as the seasons change, the women will exchange lives. With the first transformation, Rhianwyn will experience her friend Selena's life as a harlot where she'll need to fend off the cruel brothel owner and evade a mysterious murderer. Worse still, until she's herself again, Rhianwyn must battle the powerful attraction to her husband, Broccan—or risk destroying everything she loves most.

After her father's unexplained disappearance, the entrancingly beautiful healer Rhianwyn Albray finds herself in a perilous position. She's nineteen, living alone, and unwed—which, by the king's law, is strictly forbidden. Several men rally to claim her as their bride, but when a mysterious Irishman, Lord Broccan Mulryan, requests the king's permission to wed her, Rhianwyn immediately objects. Though he is handsome and there is an undeniable physical attraction, he's also demanding, arrogant, and not husband material.

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.

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.

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?