From the acclaimed author of How to Love comes another stunning contemporary novel, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen.Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer 99 days with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for . . . his brother.Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first nigh[...]
'You are the best poetry he ever produced: a bright spark out of two flints.' Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, were life-long friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the Romantic Age. Living in the s[...]
A harrowing but ultimately inspiring memoir of how one girl's beautiful face and spirit was destroyed after a vicious acid attack "I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered . . . then I realised it was me." When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beau[...]
When the village mail gets muddled up, it's up to Katie to sort things out--with a little help from Grannie Island and her tractor.[...]
A combination of overwork and jet-leg propels Julia Fairfax into becoming engaged to a golf-playing wine buff called Oscar. But when she realises that she has fonder feelings for his adorable Labrador than for Oscar himself, she is forced to confront the fact that there is something drastically wron[...]
When Perdita Dylan delivers her baby vegetables to a local hotel and finds that her unpredictable ex-husband, Lucas, has taken over the kitchen, she is horrified - particularly when she discovers he's being groomed as the latest celebrity chef and needs her picturesque, if primitive cottage, and her[...]
Thea is fed up with being mother to a houseful of students and accepts an invitation from her bossy friend Molly to go on an art appreciation holiday in Provence. There she meets the gorgeous Rory, and decides to visit his house in Ireland, where she discovers a studio full of wonderful paintings.[...]
Jenny Porter spends her life sorting out other people's problems. But when one of her clients asks her to go to Scotland to do some hands-on investigation into a woollen mill, it doesn't turn out to be the working holiday she hoped for.[...]
Three stories which involve choosing some sweets to give to Granny Island, learning how to look after pets and getting stranded by the tide on holiday. These stories should be useful for building reader confidence.[...]
In 'Bad Penny', midwife Patty Peel delivers a baby girl in a filthy Liverpool slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it. She means to deliver the child at an orphanage, but brings it up herself.[...]
Nel's pastoral world is under threat but can she trust those around her - like sensible boyfriend Simon, or Jake, an infuriating and attractive stranger who kissed her once under the mistletoe? Maybe she's been a celibate widow for far too long. By the author of "Thyme Out" and "Artistic Licence".[...]
Ellie Summers' life is unravelling. Finding herself pregnant - and her sexy but idle boyfriend Rick less than enthusiastic about parenthood - she needs a plan. Fast. Grace Soudley's life is also coming apart at the seams. When Ellie and Grace meet, the two very different women find they can help eac[...]
Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town. After all, a relationship would only complicate things... But Polly's life is already complicated. In addition to her job in the Whole Nut cafe and her part in the 'Save Our High Street' campaign, there's [...]
If May, Sally and Harriet didn't need the money so badly, they definitely wouldn't be working for Slimeball Slater at Quality Cleaners. So when they discover it's Slimeball taking them to the cleaners, they decide to set up their own business - and that's when things really start to take off.[...]
Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children - one of whom is a Buddhist - and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo. Saddled with too large a house (albeit in a Cotswold village), worrisome mortgage payments, a bossy younger sister and irksome ex-husband, Althea still manages to muddle through [...]
Hetty Longden's mother thinks the cure for Hetty's broken heart is to look after her great-uncle's crumbling stately home while he is in hospital. Once installed, Hetty casts her eye over one of her neighbours - and wonders if her heart is really broken.[...]
Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge extends only to the information she has crammed from daytime TV, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put out when she doesn't receive [...]
Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, has decided it's time to put her money and her expertise where her mouth is. She's risked everything on buying a tiny but adorable cottage so she can renovate it, sell it on, and prove to her family that she can earn her own living. Outside, the chocolate-b[...]
Katie Price reveals all about her passionate and whirlwind romance with Peter Andre. After more than her fair share of heartbreak Katie had finally found love. Physically and emotionally she has met her match and there have been some dramatic changes in her life as a result. Gone are the outrageous [...]
Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. As Jo and Dora embark on reorganising their muddled lives, they realise they both need a practical[...]
Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth - she doesn't believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding she somehow finds herself agreeing to organise two more, on the same day and only [...]
Sapphire Jones doesnt believe in relationships anymore not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire only sees men on her terms which is why her current lover is younger than her, good looking, doesnt place any emotional demands on her [so far, fingers crossed] and is grea[...]
Presents the personal account of the author who has led a rollercoaster life. This book tells how she overcame a string of emotional challenges: she has battled post-natal depression, endured a traumatic miscarriage and continually fought fears for the safety and health of her children and husband.[...]
With the bookshop where she works about to close, hopeless romantic Laura Horsley, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, finds herself agreeing to help organise a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside. But her initial excitement is rapidly followed by a mounting sens[...]