When a lonely pensioner finds an abandoned baby on her doorstep, she has no idea that the child is the illegitimate offspring of a member of a royal family.But the secret is soon out. The authorities and the press pull out all the stops to find the missing child; but so does Charles, a violent man with his own agenda who, it soon becomes clear, will stop at nothing.The old lady and her best friend take to the road in an attempt to keep the baby safe. They are soon on the ru...

They thought the nightmare was over ... It's only just the beginningIt was a morning just like any other: Nick drops off his son at the school gates like he usually does. Then he has a minor collision with another car, and he thinks he sees the impossible...But Gabriel never even made it to school that day, and suddenly Nick begins to question everything he thought he knew, and it has terrifying implications...A psychological thriller with a...

Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a wonderful Maureen Lee tale - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.On 3 September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: it was Amy's eighteenth birthday; her sister had just given birth to a baby boy; and on the radio it was announced that Great Britain was now at war with Germany.For a while, life didn't change very mu...

The #1 bestseller and Queen of Thrillers is back…‘A terrific story, originally told. All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ Heat‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. This formidable debut is a page-turner, but don’t read it before bed if you’re easily spooked!’ SunTHE TRUTH WON’T STAY LOCKED UP FOREVERWhen a burned body is found in a disused signa...

**From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart.“A vicarious jolt of Parisian romance. . . Delightful.” –People Magazine"An old-fashioned, feel-good love story. . . It’s as if Moyes has booked a vacation and is taking us along. To Paris. Amour!” –USA Today“Dreamy e...

'I’m Em – I love when Dad pretends that it’s short for Emerald, which is much better than boring old Emily. I was so sure this was going to be the best Christmas ever, but something has gone horribly wrong.'Em ADORES her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother Maxie and sister Vita. At Christmas, Dad gives them FANTASTIC presents, including a real emerald ring for his little Princess Em...

Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionLong-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You*, the basis for the major motion picture, comes a breathtaking drama of two women whose lives entwine through a lovely English seaside house.*For Lottie Swift, Arcadia has always been magical. The breathtaking art deco house perched above the shoreline of the well-ordered village of Merham seems to stand still throughout the years. It has never changed, not really, but Lottie's fate and fortune have be...

A Christmas short story from the 'Queen of Time', internationally bestselling author of The Chronicles of St Mary's, Jodi Taylor.'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELLOnce again, the Toast of Time falls butter side down. Dr 'Max' Maxwell prepares for her very first Christmas away from St Mary's...It's that most wonderful time of the year...

'So beautifully realised that I felt as if I was in Provence' SUE MOORCROFT'An absolute delight, full of Provencal sunshine and the most heart-warming, tingling romance' JULIE CAPLIN*****Where there's a will, can love find a way?When cynical divorce lawyer Daisy Jackson unexpectedly inherits a ramshackle farmhouse in Provence, she sets off for the French countryside to oversee renovations herself.

Winner of the RNA 2021 Sapere Books Popular Romantic Fiction Award'A warm, funny story of sisters and the secrets they keep' Sheila O'Flanagan.'Warm, funny and well written, with a page-turning plot, this book has everything! I loved it!' Katie Fforde.The four Sutherland sisters have all had very different paths in life, but one secret and a slighty tense production of Jesus Chri...

A rowboat in an Atlantic storm. Three little girls. And the billionaire who answered the door.Sophie Mira is twenty-two years old and the only mother her three younger sisters have left. She testified against her boss — a Villefort — and the FBI got her family evicted from witness protection in forty-eight hours. Her last dollar paid a fisherman to run them up the Maine coast. His boat didn't survive the storm. Neither did he.The mansion on the island is th...