From an award-winning talent comes a mesmeric debut novel about a young woman falling under the spell of an older man.Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her out of Paris, her research unfinished and her sense of self unmoored.At the eco-farm Noa Noa, named for his adventures in Tahiti, she comes under the influence of its charismati...

A brand-new series by Nicola May, author of ebook sensation THE CORNER SHOP IN COCKLEBERRY BAY.Bestselling sensation Nicola May is back with a brand new series!Thirty-three-year-old Kara Moon dreamt of going to college to study floristry but couldn't bring herself to leave her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on the market's flower stall ever since leaving school.When her good-for-nothing boyfriend Jago cheats on her and steals her...

Nothing is as fragile as the memory of a child...Malone, a child barely four years old, starts to claim that his mother isn't his real mum. It seems impossible: his mother has birth certificates, photos of him as a child and even the paediatrician confirms this is her child.The school psychologist is the only one who believes him. Desperate to find out the truth, he approaches Marianne Augresse, a police captain with better things to do with her ti...

Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of glory. Ben Hur meets National Velvet in the ultimate 9-12 adventure story by debut children's author, Annelise Gray.Twelve-year-old Dido dreams of becoming the first female charioteer at the great Circus Maximus. She's lost her heart to Porcellus, a wild, tempestuous horse she longs to train and race. But such ambitions...

“The Agency for Scandal is glorious! Clever, funny, charming, and achingly romantic, it is a delight from start to finish. Laura Wood always writes about love and friendship with a deft hand, and this is her best work yet” Katherine Webber, author of Twin CrownsAn all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain.When Marig...

Book Two in bestselling sensation Nicola May's gorgeous new series - catch up with Book One, WELCOME TO FERRY LANE MARKET, now!'Full of heart, hope, friendship, family and laughter, and a plot with a mystery gagging to be solved' Kim Nash on Welcome to Ferry Lane MarketWhen Star Bligh got pregnant at the age of sixteen, she thought her life was over. Now thirty-three, mother to Skye and owner of th...

FALL IN LOVE WITH FOUR STRANGERS WHO MIGHT JUST FIND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECT IT... 'Full of heart' LUCY GILMORE'The cast is wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed it' CLARE SWATMAN'A heartwarming tale of friendship' JOSIE LLOYD----------When Bryony, Harry and Jaime step into the Five Bells, each has their own motive...

Evie is a near-perfect bioengineered human. In a broken-down future England where her kind has been outlawed, her 'husband' Matthew keeps her hidden. When her existence is revealed, she must take her chances on the dark and hostile streets, where more than one predator is on the hunt.

Find your voice in the waves in a heartfelt and hopeful story of family, friendship, and learning to accept change from the critically-acclaimed partnership, Sarah Ann Juckes and Sharon King-Chai, selected for Waterstones Children's Book of the Month with The Night Animals.Martha was raised on her nana’s stories. Even if no one else believes them, Martha knows that they’re magic. Now those stories are helping Martha hold things together when everything aro...

Nothing is more dangerous than a witch with secrets.A DESPERATE APPRENTICE.A CHARMING WITCH.A SECRET THAT THREATENS TO SHATTER IT ALL.Dorothy Louise Walcott is a timid young woman. Twenty-three, chronically ill and over-educated, she dreams ceaselessly of running away from her drab existence to learn magic. But, in her country, the use of magic is strictly prohibited to all but an esteemed few.In a moment of uncharacteristic bravery, D...

***'*Occasionally, a book comes along that feels like real magic'Perfect for fans of TJ Klune and Sarah Beth Durst, Theodora's Tea Shop by Christy Anne Jones is a fantasy novel brimming with witchy magic, found family, self-love and lots of warm cups of tea.Nothing is more dangerous than a witch with secrets.Dorothy Louise Walcott should have died at fourt...

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria CribbOn a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back door, his worst fears are realised. Their home is now an horrific crime scene.Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn are called to the house to investigate. As the case advances, harrowing secrets about the fam...