An old house, a secret heartbreak, and a second chance at love.Lizzie Greene is about to lose everything when her husband suddenly dies, and his debts come to light. To make ends meet, she opens up her quirky old house to be used as a set for a film based on a bestselling romance novel.Her life and household are turned upside down when a whole cast of colourful characters enters her family's lives: from an enigmatic author, a handsome location scout, a brooding director, a ...

The Essential Classics: Volume 1 brings together some of the most astute, gripping and tragic works written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, beautifully read by Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, and Olivia Dowd.Spanning English, Russian and German literature, in this collection you will find the terrifying trials of iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, Dickens's cutting social commentary in Bleak House, a...

**Don't miss MAKING A KILLING, the new DI Adam Fawley thriller, OUT NOW**-THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *THE FIRST EVER STAND-ALONE FROM AUTHOR OF THE DI ADAM FAWLEY MILLION-COPIES-SOLD SERIES***A Financial Times Best Book of 2023****A Guardian Best Crime and Thriller book of 2023**‘This devilishly clever, ground-breaking novel will keep y...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 10 of the greatest classic novels ever written, from British, Irish, American, and German authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Keeble, David Rintoul, and many more.Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Jane Austen; Leo To...

Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.**'**I never met a Mark Lawrence book that I didn't love' ROBIN HOBB'An excellent writer' GEORGE R.R. MARTINThe Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies – The Kindly Ones – against whom even the gods hesitate to stand.Each year one hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three...

Pack your bags and get ready to fall in love with The Hotel by the Sea—your next romantic getaway awaits!Rebecca needs to escape. After making a complete fool of herself watching the man she's secretly loved for years run off with someone else—she jumps at a temporary job at the family-run Quinta do Mar hotel. Sun, sea, and a fresh start sound perfect.What she doesn't expect is Felipe Rebelo.Charming, infuriatingly confident, and always ready with a flirty ...

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels brings together some of Hardy's most powerful novels—stories of love and longing, ambition and ruin, resilience and heartbreak—all set against the haunting landscapes of his vividly imagined Wessex in southwest England.The titles included here are:Far From the Madding CrowdTess of the D'UrbevillesThe Ret...

"And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up, there will be you."Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) was Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major success.Young, spirited, and ambitious, Bathsheba Everdene takes up her position as a farmer on the large estate in Weatherbury she has inherited from her uncle. Being forceful and independent, she makes a success of her new role despite her inexperience, and she attracts the ...

Fashion writer Emma Baxter-Wright introduces 50 of the world's most influential fashion designers and a selection of their most celebrated pieces.Starting with the foundation of the 19th century House of Worth, perhaps the first real fashion house, through the designs of the hugely influential Coco Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves St Laurent, to Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake whose designs 'deconstructed' fashion in the 1980s and 1990s and ...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient""Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pa...

Glamorous murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalet and The Cruise'The Penthouse is a twisting, unpredictable, glamorous whirlwind of a thriller' Amy McCulloch‘Intense and claustrophobic’ HEAT‘Agatha Christie with glamour’ SUNDAY TIMESBeneath the glamour dark secrets lurk.World famous singer Enola had it all – f...

'She was beginning to realize herself.'A sweeping generational love story, and a prequel to Lawrence's astounding Women in Love, The Rainbow is regarded as one of the best English novels of the twentieth century.First published in 1925, The Rainbow traces the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family in rural Nottinghamshire, revealing each member's struggle with identity, passion and fulfilment within the ridged structures of Engli...