From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread comes a charmingly surreal novel about self-sabotage, self-deception, self-love—and the many selves inside us sparring for control.Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week.There’s a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A deleting food delivery apps. By Frid...

The number one Irish Times bestsellerRose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start.Five years after her career as a therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she is opening a retreat in Corfu. The understated, luxurious Villa Artemis is surrounded by wild pines and sea views.Just six guests. One week. Time for Rose to help them face their secrets – and move forwards.But Rose has staked everything on the retrea...

1944, Nazi-occupied Holland. As Nurse Freddie cycles through the tulip fields, she looks like any other law-abiding citizen. But beneath her innocent smile lies an iron will to fight for freedom. The Nazis have no idea she is part of the resistance, and that she risks her life every day to deliver food and messages to hidden refugees. After a failed attempt to take the life of a Nazi collaborator, Freddie is sent to an underground hospital to tend to a group of injured Allied airmen. And w...

A teen working at a Parisian bakery witnesses a murder in this cozy holiday mystery with a dreamy romance at its center that’s a festive entry in the New York Times bestselling Advent Romance series, told in a perfectly paced advent calendar format with chapter-a-day reading.When Suzanne Sécretant arrives in Paris for her apprenticeship at the prestigious Rivoli bakery, nothing goes according to plan—starting with her being stuck rolling croissants instead...

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious ...

Deep in the English countryside, Marshwood has always been much more than just a house. It has been a place to escape to and a trap, the backdrop for elegant parties and a wartime hospital, an idyllic escape from trauma and unhappy marriages. When the roof starts to cave in and the money runs out, 80-year-old Bella resists the pressure to sell and instead begins to peel back the layers of the past. As this imposing house gives up its secrets of marriage, war and forbidden love, patterns be...

Writer Rachel loves dreaming up happy endings and controlling her characters' lives, while her superstitious husband Matt believes everything happens for a reason. So when Rachel decides they need a happy new beginning, she gives fate a helping hand and makes risk-averse Matt believe a move to the seaside 250 miles away is written in the stars. To begin with, her plan works brilliantly ... until fate bites back. Rachel's manipulation seems to have set a different version of their story in ...

Dragon Award for Best Speculative Fiction Nominee.In a present-day Britain where the British Empire never existed, wives and mothers strive for deliverance in a novel about oppression, autonomy, and family secrets by the author of The Peacekeeper.What if Europe had never colonized the world? It is a world that never had overseas empires, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Protestant Reformation. There is, however, in an obscure ...

1942, Amsterdam. The Nazi occupation has shattered the lives of inseparable best friends Hannie and Sonja. The canals and rainy cobbled streets they once strolled down are now patrolled by soldiers day and night, who arrest people at will and beat those who resist. Hannie can’t stand by and watch the lives of the innocent be destroyed by the evil occupiers. At great danger to herself, she joins the underground resistance, where she meets the charming and mysterious Jan. She covers her brig...

Bloomsbury presents A Cottage in the Country by Katie Fforde, read by Imogen Church'An escapist, romantic story of love, friendship and gorgeous houses... Warm, wise and wonderful' Lucy DiamondShe’s found her dream home but can she make her dreams a reality?Hattie finds other people their dream homes for a living.Surely she, of all people, has the connections and the knowledge to find her own forever home? Instead, ...

**Set in the beautiful south of France, Summer at the French Bakery is a story of one woman's determination to revive the heart of her new home from Jo Thomas, much-loved author of Love in Provence.A new adventure is on the menu . . .**Juliet has learnt that life is too short not to chase your dreams. But when she buys an old watermill in France, her tranquil new start is quickly kneaded into something far more ambitious when the local mayor offers her a d...

The extraordinary new contemporary novel, set in Ireland, Italy and France, from the bestselling author of The Honeymoon Affair and The Missing Wife.Ailie, Sybil and Rua can take care of themselves. But when they form an unexpected friendship, they discover new perspectives on old problems.Ailie is recently widowed, and struggling. At least she can cut ties with her toxic Italian in-laws. Except her teenage daughter is j...