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A literary romance like no other–Kimberly Campanello’s debut novel unfurls over a long hot Breton summer as American student K embarks on a love affair with a young local man. Barred from using English by their French Honors programme, the Americans’ identities flicker and fade. Yet for K, this dissolution opens space for profound transformation.

Ellie Redford's life is pretty much perfect: a fantastic husband, loyal friends, and a steady job at a food magazine. But everyone around her insists there's one thing missing: a baby. While her husband Pete is ready to become a dad, Ellie's not so sure. Babies mean sacrificing late nights, lazy Sundays, and her career ambitions. When she joins a baking class to distract herself, she meets Joe, handsome, charming, and a master of the whisk.

When city girl Dee loses her job in a scandal she blames her rival Ben for, she retreats to Fenwild to help her brother JP run his knitting shop. There, Dee reconnects with old friends and starts a heartwarming mission: knitting tiny hats for premature babies. As Dee draws the community together, she discovers love, laughter, and that Ben might not be the villain she thought he was. But will her efforts unravel everything she holds dear?

Fleeing her beloved country, her journey was only just beginning . . . 1939. With war imminent in Poland, knowing the dangers her people face, Tamar flees to London while her fiancé, Isaac, must stay and fulfil his duty to his country. He carries with him a silver clasp from Tamar’s bracelet...

Throughout the '80s and early '90s, Lizzie Webb inspired the nation to get up and move as TV-am’s resident fitness guru. The music featured in her routines shot to the top of the charts, resulting in hits for the likes of Take That, Sonia, and George Harrison. She also collaborated with Simon Cowell for several years. Filled with heartfelt stories of the wonderful people she has helped along the way, as well as fond reminiscences and hilarious stories from her time on breakfast TV, Mad About the Boys reveals the fascinating two sides to Lizzie’s extraordinary and inspiring life.

When Florence met Rowena, they knew for sure that they would always be friends. Wayward parents, boring teachers, teenage crushes, first heartbreaks – anything and everything could be faced as long as Florence had Rowena by her side. But then she didn’t. And life had to be redrawn and reconsidered. Being a grown-up has its perks, but as Rowena faces the biggest challenge of her life, and Florence wonders if it’s time to stop running away from hers, there’s a wise soul who knows the one thing that can help them both.

When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend her father’s funeral, she is beset by vivid memories of World War 2, when she joined the Resistance, alongside her identical twin sister, Adele. In her childhood bedroom, Gina reads Adele’s diary, left behind during the war. As Gina learns the shocking truth about her sister, she’s compelled to face the harsh realities of her own past.

Driven by poverty, Spin and her makeshift family move to the Songwynds in search of work. There they share a tiny, rat-infested tenement room with their adoptive Ma: a ferocious wishhobbler. A monster of a mother, and the mother of all monsters, the wishhobbler’s viciousness has caused fear and mayhem among the slum dwellers. Unable to hit back at the wishhobbler, her victims turn their attention to Spin.

Twenty-five-year-old Bea is a hopeless romantic with a hopeless love life – until now. New beau Dan ticks all the boxes: he’s good-looking, kind and thoughtful. The complete opposite of Bea’s ex, who once threw her out in the middle of the night when she was ill so she didn’t disrupt his sleep. So when her friends point out that she and Dan don’t have fireworks, Bea ignores them. Dan is the whole package. And yet Bea can’t stop comparing him to her best friend Henry... Because Dan doesn’t get Bea’s jokes. Or like books. Or make her laugh until she can’t breathe.

When Lizzie Pickering's young son Harry died in 2000, she set out on a journey to understand how she could survive her grief and learn to live with it. In When Grief Equals Love, she details the lessons she’s learned from her own experiences and those of others, who share their thoughts in this moving and tender book.

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs.

In this third book in the series of It’s All Light: Juicy Science Meets Spirituality Without Religion, the focus this time is on how to manifest, using the Law of Resonance, or what’s commonly called The Law of Attraction.

As we age, our perceptions of the world tend to become cloudy and negative. We sometimes forget how much we've accomplished in our lifetime as well as the beauty around us. This often creates a cognitive dissonance that causes us stress and makes us feel less confident about ourselves.

What would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault? That something else had been controlling you all along? What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars?

Liverpool, 1940. Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the Blitz when her young son is suddenly snatched away in broad daylight. Soon after, the kidnappers’ demands arrive. They are working with the Nazis, and she has no choice but to co-operate, or the authorities will learn that she is harbouring secrets of her own. Ruth’s job gives her access to critical information, and if she does not share it with Britain’s enemies, her child will face the consequences. Desperate, she falsifies information, lying to everyone: her employers, her family and her lover.

In this condensed version of It’s All Light: Juicy Science Meets Spirituality Without Religion, the focus is on the explanation of spirituality. After an intense spiritual healing experience while studying science, the author set out on a quest to explain what she witnessed. Seventeen years of research later, the trilogy of It's All Light was born.

Like it or not, how you present yourself plays an important role in your career success. But what if you are ready to upgrade your image to support your career ambitions, but feel stuck in a rut, or don’t even know where to start? In Look Like the Leader You Are, workwear stylist Lizzie Edwards enables you to create an effortless and stylish work wardrobe that works by sharing her proven seven Rs process.

Iris Caldwell and Nell Ryland were never meant to be friends. From two very different backgrounds, one the heir to the Caldwell estate, the other a humble vicar's daughter. Both have their secrets, both have their pasts, but they each find solace with one another and soon their futures become irrevocably intertwined. Until May Day 1912, a day that haunts Missensham. The day two girls disappeared. The day the girls were murdered. Now, many years later, old footage has emerged which shows that Iris Caldwell may not have died on that spring morning.

From Liverpool’s best-loved author comes a superb novel of loss and grief, love and hope, set on Merseyside in 1920.