*** A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *** 'A fascinating, beautiful, heartwarming novel. It kept me gripped from the very first chapter' -- BETH O'LEARYIn Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the couple's home is bombed, and Wi...

From wronged wives to nosy neighbours, from distant dads to new-found family, from secrets to lies, fresh starts to false endings - and everything in between...A collection of brilliant short stories from the best writers around.This collections contains original stories from Fanny Blake, Louise Candlish, Mike Gayle, Mari Hannah, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Adele Parks, Ian Rankin, Mahsuda Snaith and Keith Stuart.

This love story doesn't follow the rules of time...Jack and Sara fell in love in 1995 - two teenagers with stars in their eyes - sharing mixtapes, cheap fizzy pop, and a first kiss that felt like the whole world was theirs.Decades later, their marriage is crumbling and their daughters are leaving home...and then a car crash changes everything.Suddenly, they're sixteen again - back in their childhood bedrooms, posters on the walls, the sound of dial-...

What Silence Will Not Bury Genre: Southern Gothic / Historical Fiction Setting: A rural, ridge-top farming community in 1937. In the summer of 1937, the quiet world of Att and Vicary is shattered by the brutal lynching of their friend, Waite Reynolds, a Black farmer on their ridge. After finding Waite's body, Att retreats into a paralyzing guilt and silence. Unable to express his outrage or pain to the world, he instead pours out his broken heart to Vicary, his best friend, his only friend...

THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 BESTSELLER AND NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER'The publishing sensation of the year: a compelling, uplifting and heart-rending debut novel'Mail on SundayA Boy Made of Blocks is a funny, heartwarming story of family and love inspired by the author's own experiences with his son, the perfect latest obsession for fans of The Rosie Project, David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes....

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** - Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward and The Sirens'Did your mother ever tell you about the curse?'Spoken by her dying aunt, these were the words that would come to define Cammy's life.As a teenager, Cammy dismissed the warning that the women in her family were doomed to lose th...

This love story doesn't follow the rules of time...Jack and Sara fell in love in 1995 - two teenagers with stars in their eyes - sharing mixtapes, cheap fizzy pop, and a first kiss that felt like the whole world was theirs.Decades later, their marriage is crumbling and their daughters are leaving home...and then a car crash changes everything.Suddenly, they're sixteen again - back in their childhood bedrooms, posters on the walls, the sound of dial-...

'A story of life, love and hope - the perfect antidote to today's world. Phenomenal'CLARE MACKINTOSHThe incredible, life-affirming new novel by the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Bestseller A Boy Made of Blocks for fans of Matt Haig and Jojo Moyes.Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical pro...

The faith divide in our country is a wide and treacherous as it has ever been. Christians in this country (and elsewhere) are deeply divided over our shared language, but we are also at war with each other regarding our sacred text, the Bible. It is a "war of interpretations." Our interpretive lens informs our perception of God, who God is, and what God wants.The purpose of this book is to exposit an alternate understanding of God drawn from my friendship with David, a gay man dyin...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has ende...

The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.Setting the stage with an ove...

Two experienced Ripperologists have applied their joint knowledge and expertise to the painstaking collation of all the known official records to produce the ultimate Ripper book - a narrative account of the murders encompassing all the known evidence.The most complete work on the Ripper case ever, contains: the entire contents of the Scotland Yard files covering the full series of murders; extensive press reports; witness statements and extracts from police notebooks; documents mi...