The feel-good romcom of the year, an uplifting romantic adventure set against the lights, food and beauty of the most romantic city in the world.✒️✒️**AN ASPIRING WRITER.✒️✒️A BUDDING CHEF.ONE CHANCE MEETING.TWO HEARTS DESTINED TO COLLIDE.**⭐⭐**'An utterly charming love story! I couldn't stop reading' SUE MOORCROFT**⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An absolute joy. A...

Did Henry VIII really plan to have Anne Boleyn's beloved dog thrown out the window? Was Elizabeth I secretly a man? Who were the Grey sisters, and why is theirs one of the saddest Tudor stories of all? From Henry VII to Elizabeth I, Bloody, Brilliant Tudors answers all these questions and more. Come with us as we delve into the people and places behind the world-famous Tudor myths and legends. Through various tales exploring the whole of the glittering dynasty, we'll learn about the lesser...

The thrilling sequel to Fresh Blood**, this next chapter sees Dillon return to VAMPS Academy and become faced with rising hostility, dangerous rivalries and his heart torn between two vampires. A gripping blend of academic drama, vampire intrigue and romance – perfect for fans of** Twilight**,** Crave and Vampire Academy**.**In a world wh...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Stephanie Harte's gripping, gritty new gangland series, perfect for fans of Mobland, House of Guinness and Peaky Blinders, from the bestselling author of Double Trouble. Meet the O'Connors... She danced with the devil once...now she’s back for more. A decade after her husband Sean’s murder, Josie O’Connor has built his empire into something feared across London’s underworld. But respect is still in short supply. To the me...

A BRAND NEW gripping gangland read, perfect for fans of Mobland, House of Guinness and Peaky Blinders, from the bestselling author of Double Trouble. Meet the O'Connors... London, 1975.Dublin-born Sean O’Connor rules the streets of Kilburn with his charm and his fists. But the locals don’t take kindly to an Irishman muscling in on their patch—and they’re out for blood.As a turf war heats up, Sean digs in deeper, determined to protect ...

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author), returns with a shivery collection of supernatural tales.Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights*, Night and Day* takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis; from an English mars...

The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the bestial and the beautiful. Gerard Logan's reading of Shakespeare's 1594 work is a stunning performance. Olivier award nominated Logan's emotion and v...

This “fast-paced and enthralling” (The Sun, London) debut transports you to an elite vampire academy where a half vampire, half human struggles to hone his bloodthirsty side.Nestled in the Swiss Alps, VAMPS is the ultimate academy for the children of the most wealthy and powerful vampire families. Unfortunately for Dillon, he’s an outsider—to be more specific, he’s a dhampir: a vampire that is half human.If he wants to survive more than a single te...

The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding, performed to perfection by Gerard Logan. Highly praised for his performance of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, AUK Classics now bring you a wonderful...

This collection of essays investigates the historiography of rhetoric, global perspectives on rhetoric, and the teaching of writing and rhetoric, offering diverse viewpoints. Addressing four major areas of research in rhetoric and writing studies, contributors consider authorship and audience, discuss the context and material conditions in which students compose, cover the politics of the field and the value of a rhetorical education, and reflect on contemporary trends in canon diversifica...

Rebecca's life is about to change! Rebecca Newton and the Sacred Flame is a tale of epic wars, grand passions, mythical creatures and ancient Gods - an adventure story which reaches to the core of what we mean when we speak of "Good" and "Evil". In the beginning, the ancient Gods created not just the earth. They also created three other worlds: the Elysian Fields, a paradise where they themselves live; Tartarus, the dark world of demons and Titans, ruled over by the ancient deity Cronus; a...

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.A day of conflict and tragedy.Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson comes through his town. His neighbor Stacey Logan and Stacey's brothers and sister are there to see their grandmother off on a trip. Jeremy's friend Josias Williams is taking the bu...