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Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2024
Description
We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes...
2) The Runaway
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
1924 The First World War is over and eleven-year-old Alexa is growing up on the idyllic Cornish coast with her best friend Harvey. But she soon discovers there are secrets at the heart of her family that have been hidden for years. And when her mother dies suddenly, she finds her whole life thrown into turmoil. 1931 Still reeling from the secrets she uncovered, Alexa flees to the intoxicating city of Venice. But her new glamorous life is not what...
3) Summer love
Author
Series
Return to Half Moon Farm volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2023
Description
When Daisy?s mother falls ill she is forced to return home. With her twin sons in tow, she moves back to Half Moon Farm, her family?s ancient hop farm. But a new life in the Kent countryside isn?t necessarily as idyllic as it might seem. Daisy?s relationship with her mother is complicated and the tumbledown farm isn?t the only thing that needs rebuilding. Daisy and her sons must adjust to life with estranged family, a leaking roof,...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
They didn?t know - when Winter gave way to Spring that year - that their lives were all about to change? Marnie didn?t realise - when she stormed into a bookshop one day, demanding a self-help book - that she was about to make a new best friend. Bookshop-owner Rae didn?t know she had been living like a shadow since her parents died. But then Marnie exploded into her life. And suddenly she realised things had to change? more so when she meets handsome...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2024
Formats
Description
A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can?t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He?s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Description
'The new Bridget Jones for our times' Celia Walden, The Telegraph 'The story of Nell Stevens? struggle through her imperfect, messy life doesn?t just make brilliant fiction, it?s turning into a cultural revolution!' Matt Cain There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sorted. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we?re lucky, we get to keep f**king up, figuring it out and laughing in the face...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Red-hot romances from Mills & Boon Twin Consequences of That Night by Pippa Roscoe Two surprises, one shock proposal! When billionaire Nate runs into Gabi, his electrifying one-night stand from two years ago, he gets the surprise of his life. She now has twins-his heirs! After growing up without parents, Nate wants better for his children-so he drops to one knee. But it?ll take more than chemistry for fiercely independent Gabi to give Nate her heart?The...
Author
Series
Victoria's War volume 2
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Book two in the gripping Nurse's War series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller. Will she be reunited with those she loves? With her first husband dead and the war still ferocious, Victoria finds herself nursing injured soldiers on the Burma front. There she meets charismatic American, Captain Taylor King and, impulsively, marries a man she barely knows. But when Victoria becomes pregnant with his child, she must leave the only security she knows...
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A gripping and emotional cross-cultural love story for readers of Dilly Court and Glenda Young. 1897 Young Annie Maguire is leaving the only home she has ever known, the family farm in County Down, Ireland. Driven away by poverty and the death of Annie's mother, she and her beloved father are looking for a place to start again and settle in Cleator Moor, Cumberland. Robert McClure also grew up in County Down. The illegitimate son of a land agent and...
Author
Series
Girls in Blue volume 3
Publisher
Aria
Pub. Date
2021
Description
London, 1942: Charlotte Fenimore is back home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Airforce. She had planned for a week of rest and recuperation. She hadn't planned to fall deeply in love with an irascible detective called Dan Chalmers, a severely wounded hero of Dunkirk who believed no woman would ever look at him again. DI Chalmers is in London to arrest a gang of dangerous East End criminals and root out corrupt police detectives at the...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon Historical
Pub. Date
2023
Description
The friend she?s loved?Is now the husband she must resist? Lady Isobel might be the daughter of the late Lord Martyn, but she?s treated by her family as a maid. So when her childhood best friend Leo Havelock reveals that he will only inherit his fortune if he marries-immediately!-she agrees to be his convenient countess. Their union offers Isobel the chance to escape her home?but can she escape the feelings she has long had for her husband?.
Author
Series
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Love, second chances and new beginnings? When Kim Reynolds learns how unhappy her daughter is, she realises the perfect remedy is a completely fresh start. Giving up the corporate job she?s worked towards her entire life, Kim is determined to make Berry Grove Bed & Breakfast a success, but more importantly, she?s determined to support her daughter Mia as she settles into her new life. But when Danny, Kim?s childhood sweetheart, turns up, buried feelings...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life. Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it?s finally time to go back to where her story began and uncover the truth that has been buried for so long? From the bombed-out...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS. Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly?s whirlwind romance and unforgettable wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
When Nathan returns from Dunkirk injured, he is distant, aloof, and no longer the man Vivi fell in love with. But it?s not just because of his brutal experiences of war. Nathan has a secret and Vivi suspects it?s linked to the mysterious evacuee at the secluded house in the woods on his Kent estate. As war continues to rage, Vivi battles her own grief and loneliness, and tries to find out the truth of the girl?s identity, uncovering a scandal from...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2023
Description
?A deliciously addictive thriller that will hook you in like the best - and scariest - reality TV show you?ve ever seen? TM Logan, author of The Holiday and The Mother 'A scorching, smouldering, turbo-charged cocktail of sun, sex and secrets' Veronica Henry From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Villa is an electrifying summer read, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Catherine Cooper. A Villa in Paradise It?s destined to be the ultimate reality show:...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A holiday dreams are made of... Newly single on the day she turns thirty, Freya Johnson boards a last-minute flight to Corfu. Little does she know this holiday will change her life forever. Enter Hollywood film star, Nicholas Kaden, whose entourage is stirring up the village of Kassiopi while he films his new movie. He?s hot, he?s unexpectedly down-to-earth, but is he for real? Throwing caution to the wind, Freya lets herself get caught up in this...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Sun, sea and a sexy stranger - a whole lot of fun just got a lot more complicated Capable, confident and career-driven, Ellen had her dream job and a marriage proposal from boyfriend Ross. Life was good, her future set. Until it wasn?t and everything fell apart? Whisked off to the beautiful island of Corfu to plan her sister Lacey?s big, fat, Greek wedding, Ellen is hoping some time out will help clear her head and heal her heart. But letting go of...
Author
Series
Pilot's Girl volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-order in the next instalment in the Pilot's Girl series from bestselling author Fenella J Miller March 1941 Recently married, Barbara should now be enjoying her life as a newlywed, but she is plagued by a secret that she must keep hidden if she wants to keep the family she loves. But no one can keep a secret forever. Barbara knows that if her new husband Alex, a Spitfire pilot, discovers her secret he would surely reject her and their marriage...
Author
Series
Royal Station Master's Daughters volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A moving and dramatic World War I historical fiction saga of family, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. Norfolk, 1919 The war is over, but the effects of it are ever-present in the village of Wolferton. At just two miles from Sandringham House, the private residence of British monarchs, the people of Wolferton have a special connection to the royals - particularly the family of the royal station master,...