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Emma Appleby's arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. And because she has a child with her, seemingly out of marriage, they want nothing to do with her - except for pub landlord Mick Castle. When Emma opens an academy and sets herself up in competition with the local school, she provokes a savage response from the community.

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve, her father comes home drunk and commits an unthinkable act. Without money or friends she has nowhere to go, but when he hurts her a second time, she knows what she must do. She is rescued by Jay, a businessman, who takes her to the convent where she meets Sister Madeline. Along with the rest of the nuns, Maddy provides food, shelter and education for orphans. Ruth comes to see her new friends as family, and things are finally looking up.

The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. The high street is half empty, businesses are closing and the idea of civic pride seems old-fashioned to the commuters rushing home from work. Somehow, it seems to have lost its heart. But there is one thing that might just bring the town together...

Mummy dreams of a quirky rural cottage with roses around the door and chatty chickens in the garden. Life, as ever, is not going quite as she planned. Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly rambunctious rather than merely chatty, and the roses have jaggy thorns. 

La philosophie Marx - discipline et méthode. Lorsque la libellule est confrontée à un obstacle, son premier mouvement consiste à changer d'axe. Sans jamais reculer, elle teste un passage par le haut, puis par le bas, de droite à gauche et de gauche à droite, jusqu'à trouver la solution. Autrement dit, la libellule se montre capable de prendre de la distance. Dans "La stratégie de la libellule", Thierry Marx développe tous les mots-clefs qui lui ont permis de construire et d'affiner sa philosophie.

Dans un grand hôpital d'Édimbourg, le docteur Scott Kinross et la généticienne Jenni Cooper travaillent sur la maladie d'Alzheimer. Alors que le mal progresse à un rythme inquiétant, frappant des sujets toujours plus nombreux, toujours plus jeunes, leurs conclusions sont effrayantes : si ce fléau l'emporte, tout ce qui fait de nous des êtres humains disparaîtra. Dans un monde où les intérêts financiers règnent en despotes, c'est le début d'une guerre silencieuse dont Kinross et Cooper ne sont pas les seuls à entrevoir les enjeux.

The New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day, Isabel Gillies, presents a fresh and inspiring look at the subtle art of cozy—part manifesto, part lifestyle guide, part memoir—that shows fans of The Little Book of Hygge that true comfort comes from within. When we talk about...

Traditional fairytales are full of cliché and gender stereotypes. The silent Rapunzel, the beautiful sweet princesses, ugly, jealous and bitter women, girls that need rescuing, men who take the glory and their new brides being forever grateful and subservient. Good mothers, obliging lovers and pretty objects. Nikita Gill's new prose and poetry collection rewrites the fairytale classics and reworks their old-fashioned tropes into new empowering and inspirational stories.

As the world mourns the loss of Diana, Princess of Wales, one young woman uncovers a forgotten story of passion, betrayal, and a scandal surrounding the British crown in this unforgettable novel by the bestselling author of The Secret Wife. Two women who challenged the Crown. Divided by time...

The hilarious second novel, and Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller, from author of the smash hit Why Mummy Drinks. Monday, 25 July The first day of the holidays. I suppose it could’ve been worse. I brightly announced that perhaps it might be a lovely idea to go to a stately home and learn about some...

In Unstoppable Me, written by New York Times bestselling author and champion surfer Bethany Hamilton with husband, Adam Dirks, tells the story of Makana the lion, who loves to surf but loses her nerve when she wipes out. When her friend encourages her to go back out again, Makana summons up the...

El thriller más trepidante, lleno de aventuras y, sobre todo, más divertido de 2017. Historia, suspense, ciencia y aventura en una intriga contra reloj que nos invita a viajar a lo largo de 2500 años, desde la antigua Mesopotamia al Tercer Reich, desde el Museo Británico al Japón milenario...

Alexandra veut parcourir le monde librement, sans subir les gardes du corps que son père lui assigne. Les faire tourner en bourrique est d'ailleurs son sport favori. Avec Tom Drake, les choses risquent pourtant de changer. En bon militaire, il ne se laisse pas intimider par la jeune femme. Et qui sait, un jour, elle aura peut-être besoin de lui pour de bon... Découvrez ce roman revisité et réinventé, avec un chapitre supplémentaire qui vous entraîne dans les surprenantes coulisses de sa création. En bonus, savourez une nouvelle désormais introuvable comme seul Gilles Legardinier sait en écrire.

1915. As a child it never mattered to Blake that he had no mother, that no one knew who his father was. He was secure in his grandparents' love, happy on their farm in the Yorkshire dales. But when his grandparents die suddenly, Blake's world collapses. Taken in by a neighbouring farmer as hired help, Blake's life becomes focused on the land--and on his secret love for Annie, his employer's daughter.

From the number one best-selling author of The Secret Wife, The Lost Daughter is a sweeping, moving story of the tenacity of love and the power of forgiveness. Spectacular, enthralling and romantic, Gill Paul's latest novel will stay with you forever.

Over the centuries, army wives have followed their men to the front, helped keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses firsthand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their stories. We meet imperial army wives in Crimea and the Raj, explore the experiences of 20th-century wives in two world wars and a Cold War and hear from modern women supporting their men in the war on terror. From how army wives communicate with their husbands to the impact of life-changing injury and bereavement, Army Wives examines what it really means to be part of the 'army family'.

Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding. And that's just the mothers. It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are learning sharper lessons on the other side of the school...

'A brilliant and funny read for the apocalyptically-minded' Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive 'In a sea of books about mental health, it stands out for its humour, wisdom and lightness of touch' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 'Just the laugh you need for when everything seems...

Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York’s elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power...