Imagine how it would feel to be plucked from your daily life and transported far from home and forced to work in some unknown and terrible place. Imagine being treated with violence, never having enough to eat, living in bestial conditions, and never knowing if you would see your home again. Imagine feeling so completely powerless.This is what happened to young Frenchman Roland Chopard, who was arrested by the German SS during a brutal roundup in the Lot et Garonne region in May 19...

On the surface a young professional couple, Sarah and Luke craved a different, more self-sufficient life. They traded the comfort of a two-bedroom English cottage for a derelict house in northwest Italy. The Hazelnut Grove explores the joys and demands of daring to live in search of a dream.Sarah and Luke's chosen life is part fairy tale, part story of courage and self-reliance as their new neighbour, nicknamed il Cattivo, the nasty one, decides to...

From tigers in a South London suburb to retired Victorian police inspectors investigating train based thefts, from collectors of poets at Shadwell to life-changing decisions in Canonbury, by way of an art installation that defies the boundaries of a gallery, Stations takes a sideways look through the windows of the Overground train, at life as it is, or might be, lived beside the rails: quirky, humorous and sometimes horrifying.

«[…] Solo tienes que dejar que el animal suave de tu cuerpo ame lo que ama». Mary Oliver Antes que nosotras, hubo muchas, muchísimas otras. Porque desearon, nuestros deseos se han multiplicado, diversificado, visibilizado y liberado (en parte) de normas y mandatos. Porque lucharon, nuestras luchas hoy se cuentan por victorias. En estas páginas, de la mano de sus 13 autoras, podemos recorrer infancias, adolescencias, también vidas adultas bisexuales y bolleras, donde no pocas nos hemos sent...

What happens when your best friend becomes your worst nightmare...Having reached a dead end in Boston, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs a change. When she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who is moving to rural Pennsylvania, Leah decides to join her. But their fresh start is quickly threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later.Determined to find Emmy, Leah helps Detective Kyle Dono...

'Beth Moran's heartwarming books never fail to leave me feeling uplifted' Jessica RedlandMarion Miller needs a fresh start.Her childhood in Northern Ireland wasn’t easy, with a father who passed away when she was young and a mother who got lost in grief. Now grown-up and with family relations as tense as ever, Marion heads to England, to find out the truth about her father’s mysterious past – and hopefully an extended family who will love her as ...

A woman must track down a murderer to save her brother from the hangman's noose ... A rollicking and entertaining historical mystery, filled with adventure and romance from the Australian author of Daughter of the Hunter Valley.1842, Hunter Valley: Lucy Stewart's life turns chaotic when she finds herself caught up in a murder investigation in order to save her brother-in-law, Joe, from the hangman's noose. Constable Sam Donovan believes th...

**'**Whether you're a fan of enemies-to-lovers, slow burn, or quirky roommates, this book delivers.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Could love be closer than they thought?Game developer Sol Carvalho is desperate to get ahead in her career, but her boss wants to promote someone who’s ready to put down roots in Denmark. It’s Sol’s dream to create a life in Copenhagen, but she doesn’t have the home, friends or family there to prove it.Unless she can convince Vikin...

John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, traveled west in the late 1700s—planting apple orchards and spreading good will.

June 1910. Fighting her corner in a man’s world, Dr Margaret Demeray works as a pathologist in a London hospital for the poor. Suppressing her worry that she’s breaching confidentiality, Margaret gives a stranger called Fox information about a dead down-and-out, in the hope he’ll use it to raise awareness of bad working conditions. But when a second man appears to die the same way, Margaret starts to wonder why the enigmatic Fox keeps turning up to ask ever more complex questions. She deci...

In the hopes of receiving some mail of her own, Paula writes a letter to her grandparents.

Balmy evenings in rural Maryland are fraught with danger, and seductions can happen anywhere from a river bank to the front seat of a car, where a young self-conscious girl is learning to drive. To Li’l Bit, the radio is the most important part of the car, but the pop music of the 50’s can never quite drown out the harrowing images in her mind.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Randall Arney, Joy Gregory, Glenne Headly, Paul Mercier and Rondi Reed.