The Funny One: Part of the Love…Maybe ebook short story collection.Jenny’s teenage son Cameron wants her out of their flat while he cooks a special Valentine supper for his girlfriend… so how on earth is she supposed to spend the most romantic night of the year?A laugh-out-loud Valentine’s read, perfect for fans of ‘Outnumbered’ and Fern Britton.***This is a short story, which you can also buy as part of the Love…Maybe Eshort Collection*** ...
‘A true novel of the heart, Rachel'sThe Things We Need to Say is at once beautifully written and achingly honest. This is a story that carries you away, taking you on an incredibly poignant journey, and which stays with you long after you finish. Read it!’ Jenny Ashcroft, author of Beneath a Burning Sky‘Devastatingly beautiful, inspiring and extremely thought provoking; Rachel Burton has written from the heart as she unintentionally becomes the ...
‘Anyone who loved the great Maeve Binchy will adore this gorgeous gem of a book’ – Claudia CarrollThe gripping new novel from Irish Times bestseller Carmel Harrington, shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the BGE Irish Book Awards.Every family has a story…But for the Guinness family a happy ending looks out of reach. Olly and Mae's marriage is crumbling, their teenage daughter Evie is on a mission to self-destruct and their beloved Pops ...
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories.Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the complexities of relationships, and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power.Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and ‘rather literary’, share a shocking flaw, a secret ‘cancer’. A young, beautiful woman from a working-class family is courted ...
‘A cracking debut from a talented author.’ J.P. Carter, author of In Safe Hands‘A chilling concept, excellently done. And a brand-new procedural character to lead the fight against crime.’ Paul FinchSomeone is watching them…When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t qui ...
‘Pure, unadulterated romance’ Best Chick Lit.comThe sounds and scents of the Crimean War are strangling Harry Marlow, shutting him off and silently smothering his soul. But he is a soldier and that is his life, and he can see nothing else besides that. So why should he care when a woman watches him? His life is not one to share with a woman, other than for a few moments in his bed.When a woman is already drowning so deeply in sin she is without ...
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it: it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the O ...
The Top 10 bestseller!'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie JohnsonA brand new summery story about returning to your past and finding a new beginning from bestselling author Jenny Oliver!Every Summer has its own story…For Ava Fisher, the backdrop to all her sun-drenched memories – from her first taste of chocolate-dipped churros to her very first kiss – is her grandmother’s Summerhouse in the sl ...
‘Ingenious’ – Huffington Post. Friendship never dies. Every summer, Samantha Wheland joins her childhood friends on a holiday. Always somewhere exotic, always somewhere fabulous. But this year one of the gang is missing. Since Sam’s best friend Mina lost her battle against cancer six months ago, she’s been struggling to find her way forward without her.Lost and left behind, Sam finds herself relying on the diary Mina gave her before she died. It ...
