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From the author of The Girl from Lace Island and A Twist of Fate. When five random people simultaneously receive ‘the key’, they don’t realise that their lives are about to change forever. Shrouded in secrecy, the mysterious silver key is delivered to each of them along with a code, a web...

Romy and Thea, two beautiful baby girls, their futures sealed with the flip of a coin. One will enter a life of privilege, surrounded by only the best money can buy. The other will fight for survival in an orphanage, against an evil regime that seeks only to exploit her. Throughout the years...

For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Yussef is convinced that he has been framed. With George facing imminent...

Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin. The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors.

Economic instability is the new normal across all income levels. Teetering: Why So Many Live on a Financial Tightrope and What to Do About It addresses the critical question, what's wrong with American policies and the financial institutions that are failing so many hard-working people today? It merges original research with stories from real-life "tightropers"...

FROZEN MINDS is the second audiobook to feature DI Winter Meadows and his chirpy sidekick DC Tristan Edris. It can be enjoyed entirely on its own – fans of Elly Griffiths, Val McDermid and Pippa McCathie will love it. When the manager of a residential home for adults with learning difficulties...

SUFFER THE CHILDREN is the third audiobook by Welsh crime writer Cheryl Rees-Price to feature Detective Inspector Winter Meadows. When Natalie Benyon’s eighteen-month-old daughter Ella disappears from a housing estate, the police and local community act quickly to organise a search. Given the...

This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying...

England 1897. Rowena Blythe är både rik och vacker. Hon ska snart fylla tjugofyra år och familjen räknar med att hon ska gifta sig med rätt sorts man. Rowenas föräldrar vill stärka sin dotters rykte som en skönhet och ber därför en konstnär att måla ett porträtt av henne. Men konstnärens assistent Bartek visar sig vara helt olik alla män Rowena träffat förut vild, romantisk och bohemisk. Medan omgivningen väntar på besked om hennes förlovning med en man i hennes ställning faller hon i stället för Bartek.

London 1895. Olive Westallen lever ett priviligierat liv i familjens hem i West Hampstead, om än ett ensamt liv. Vid 28 års ålder anses hon för gammal för giftermål, men Olive tänker inte gråta över vad hon missat. Hon har radikala planer för familjen Westallens framtid, planer som kommer att chockera den societetsvärld hon rör sig i.

Året är 1831 när åttaåriga Aurelia Vennaway hittar ett övergivet spädbarn i snön på herrgårdens ägor. Hon tar med sig hittebarnet hem, till föräldrarnas stora förfäran. Men Aurelia övertalar dem att låta barnet stanna, och hon döper henne till Amy Snow. Amy växer upp bland tjänarna, avskydd av Aurelias aristokratiska föräldrar, men för Aurelia är Amy som en syster. En innerlig vänskap som abrupt tar slut när Aurelia dör, endast tjugotre år gammal, och den obeveklige godsägaren skickar Amy på porten.

Timglaset är en varm roman om att hitta kärleken och om en plats som döljer familjehemligheter. Bästsäljande författaren Tracy Rees skriver med känsla om människor och deras längtan efter att hitta hem.

A rural Welsh community is beset by a series of cruel murders... Putting his wedding plans on hold, Detective Winter Meadows resolves to unmask the serial killer on his patch. The only connection between the victims is the stick dolls left by their bodies. That and the fact they don’t seem to...

Rae ist ein Bücherwurm, die fiktive Männer echten Freunden vorzieht. Doch ihr Leben nimmt eine seltsame Wendung, als sie durch Magie in ihrem Lieblingsfantasybuch gefangen wird und sich plötzlich dem lebenden und atmenden Objekt ihres Schwärmens gegenübersieht – dem »Einstigen und Ewigen Kaiser« – und dieser sie am liebsten tot sehen würde. In einem Reich am Rande des Krieges ist sie die Schurkin in seiner Geschichte und muss die Kontrolle über die Handlung übernehmen, bevor diese und der Kaiser die Kontrolle über sie übernehmen – auf die tödliche Weise.

'A brutally honest account of power, politics race and class, written by a politician with a remarkable backstory and destined for bigger things.' - David Olusoga, author Black and British In 2016, Marvin Rees was elected as Mayor of Bristol, the first time a major European city had elected a...

Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees and Sue Langford.. 'Profoundly moving ... I don't mind saying I wept at the end, for all the young men...

Es primavera y la directora Dowling está organizando la jornada de orientación para los estudiantes que asistirán a Alfea el próximo curso. Stella se ofrece para dirigir el comité de bienvenida a los nuevos estudiantes e insiste en que la ayude su novio, Sky. Pero él está preocupado por el mal comportamiento de su compañero de cuarto, el arisco Riven.

When 12-year-old Ada Cooper's elder sister, Connie, goes mysteriously missing, Ada and her younger brother, Sam, are forced to fend for themselves. Connie's job at the match factory was the only thing keeping the family together, and when the rent man, Mr Winterbourne, threatens them with internment at the workhouse for non-payment, Ada and Sam must flee. A costermongering family come to their aid by providing Ada with a barrow of her own to sell fruit and veg by day and flowers outside the theatres by night.

The last ever episodes of the acclaimed quotations quiz, devised and introduced by Nigel Rees - including the historic 500th show Ever since 1976, Quote... Unquote chairman Nigel Rees has quizzed a host of well-known personalities on the origins of popular sayings, both familiar and obscure, and...

If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply swapped the rule of one tyrant, Adolf Hitler, for that of another: Joseph Stalin. Why this happened has remained one of the most troubling questions of the entire conflict and is at the heart of Laurence Rees' dramatic book.