'I loved everything about it.' Goodreads'This book made me laugh, cry, giggle and gasp.' Goodreads'One of my favourite books of the year. Charming and very sweet.' Goodreads**********************Heartwarming eBook bestseller - the perfect read for anyone who enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Together, A Man Called Ove and Matt Haig.**************...

*FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALLING MAJOR TOM*'I loved it. Nostalgic without being saccharine, hopeful, real characters with edge. A brilliant book.' - Hayley Webster'I adored it! Truly uplifting. Exactly what people want and need to read right now.' - Daisy BuchananFor elderly churchwarden Arthur Calderbank, there's no place like home. H...

'What a lovely quirky read- a romance between a lighthouse keeper and a teacher.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I fell in love with the characters straight away' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This was a lovely book which had me laughing and crying.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐How do you find love . . . when you have the loneliest job in the world?This is the story of Gayle and Martin, who fall in love over the course of ten years- over a yearly visit to a tiny, isolated island off the Welsh coast.

'The characters jump right off the page and into your heart.' Reader reviewFrom the bestselling author of CALLING MAJOR TOM comes a heartwarming comedy about unlikely friendships and community.Fans of The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan, The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle, The Map of Us by Jules Preston, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and ...

An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect tonic for difficult times.Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers.Nate works the day shift, though he'd be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn't approve: how does he find it so easy to talk to strangers?For five minu...

CALLING MAJOR TOM is a funny, uplifting tale of friendship and community about a man who has given up on the world... but discovers in the most unlikely way that it might not have given up on him.We all know someone like Thomas.The grumpy next-door-neighbour who complains to the Residents' Committee about the state of your front lawn. The man who tuts when you don't have the correct change at the checkout. The colleague who sends an all-com...

Être tout seul, loin des autres et de leurs problèmes, voilà qui convient très bien à Thomas Major. Aussi, lorsque par un curieux concours de circonstances, le jour de la mort de David Bowie, l’occasion se présente à lui d’être le premier homme à aller sur Mars, il n’y réfléchit pas à deux fois. Sauf qu’il ne s’attendait pas à ce que ce voyage improbable mène sur sa route Gladys et sa famille.Gladys, avec l’âge, perd un peu la tête. Pourtant, quand elle reçoit un coup de fil de Tom ...

Molly McGinley has had enough of London and, feeling like a failure, heads home to the unremarkable Northern town of Merry-le-Moors, to move back in with dad Jack for Christmas.Jack, still mourning the loss of his wife and Molly's mum ten years ago, nevertheless maintains a positive outlook on life, and to lift Molly from her slump insists she goes out with him on his daily rounds driving the town's mobile library.When an elderly man, Cliff, starts coming into the library f...

Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon.On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World Empire. This could lead to a Colony War.Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren,...

An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect tonic for difficult times.Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers.Nate works the day shift, though he'd be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn't approve: how does he find it so easy to talk to strangers?For five minu...

'What a lovely quirky read- a romance between a lighthouse keeper and a teacher.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I fell in love with the characters straight away' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This was a lovely book which had me laughing and crying.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐How do you find love . . . when you have the loneliest job in the world?This is the story of Gayle and Martin, who fall in love over the course of ten years- over a yearly visit to a tiny, isolated island off the Welsh coast.

Die gute Miss Gladys kann sich nicht mehr alles merken, aber dieser Telefonanruf ist unvergesslich: Der Astronaut Thomas Major ist am Apparat, gerade auf dem Weg zum Mars. Er hat sich natürlich verwählt und will am liebsten gleich wieder auflegen. Aber Miss Gladys und ihre Enkel brauchen seine Hilfe. Zögerlich und leise fluchend wird der Mann im All zum Helfer in der Not. Tausende von Kilometern entfernt, führt er die drei auf seine ganz eigene Art durch schwere Zeiten, denn Familie Ormero...