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WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023 THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic...

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

Dieses Haus hält Seelen für immer gefangen. Ich dachte, ich hätte meine Seele meinem Ehemann geschenkt, als ich versprach, ihn bis an mein Lebensende zu lieben. Doch das war gelogen. Nichts hätte mich auf den Tag vorbereiten können, an dem mein Phantom zum ersten Mal draußen vor meinem Fenster stand.

When best-selling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred.

My freedom is more attractive to me... I would never pay so great a cost.Elizabeth Bennet was just fourteen years old when she lost everything: her parents, her home, and her place in the world. Ten years later, she has made her own way. She is educated, independent, and quietly building a life...

Love is a luxury, but who can afford it? The New Vogue has changed everything, or so society claims. Wealthy women now keep accomplished gentlemen on their own terms, and the old rules of matrimony have been neatly inverted. But some things remain stubbornly unchanged: the entail on Longbourn...

Roseanna Marchmont is the beautiful eldest daughter of the Wild Marchmonts. Unlike her other seven siblings, she lacks confidence and has an excessive desire to be universally pleasing. When a dance partner at a ball bluntly tells her why she cannot relax in conversation, she is hurt, but...

Marian Angrove is a sorry excuse for a thief. When a pirate catches her attempting to steal his spyglass, she's shocked when he stands in the street and criticizes her methods. He is as arrogant as he is handsome, but could he be just what she needs to pull off her Christmas heist?Gervais Lamont...

A disastrous proposal. Two letters. One catastrophic mistake.After being brutally rejected by Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy attempts to defend his wounded pride in writing. He drafts two letters: one a masterpiece of stoic, reasoned logic, and the other an ink-splattered, unhinged...

An heir to the throne, a gorgeous blonde lady-in-waiting, the king’s trusted advisor. When a father and son don’t understand each other, the son pays an outrageous price. Love, jealousy, loyalty, and revenge roil the court of 14th century Portugal. In this engrossing launch to the Queens of...

Edinburgh, December 1743: Redcoat Captain Robert Catto is between the Devil and the deep blue sea. His investigations have turned up compelling evidence of a real threat posed to the House of Hanover by a plan to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne. His duty is to draw out as many...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (POWER OF FIVE: GREAT FALLS NOVELLA 2) She broke the rules. Now he sets the consequences. Lera crossed the line when she disobeyed River’s orders and went over the Academy wall. Now River wants Lera gone - and Coal is just the officer to make her quit. For Coal...

RULES OF STONE (POWER OF FIVE: GREAT FALLS NOVELLA 1) One elite fae warrior. Four superior officers. A bond they can’t remember - or resist. Lera was once human. Now, with dark magic leaking into the mortal world, Lera and her four fae warriors must protect her home realm - even if that means...

Beatrix kann nicht sterben und verbirgt sich im Dunkel der Nacht – bis sie Oliver begegnet, einem Zeitreisenden, und sich unsterblich verliebt. Kann die Liebe wirklich die Zeit überdauern? Wir schreiben das Jahr 1605. Seit Beatrix auf dem Sterbebett das ewige Leben gewährt wurde, führt sie...

Lady Euphemia Marlington hasn't been free in 17 years - since she was captured by Corsairs and sold into a harem. Now the sultan is dead and Mia is back in London facing relentless newspapermen, an insatiably curious public, and her first Season. Worst of all is her ashamed father's ultimatum: marry a man of his choosing or live out her life in seclusion. No doubt her potential groom is a demented octogenarian. Fortunately, Mia is no longer a girl, but a clever woman with a secret - and a plan of her own....

Once upon a time, there was a king who passed. He left behind two sons, one beloved and one outcast. The older of the two was set to take the throne, but before he could, he had to find a queen to call his own. The younger one was known to be unruly and unhinged. The chosen queen was warned to keep far away from him. Beautiful and cunning, in the light is where she stayed. But late at night, it was the shadowed lands in which she played. Mistakes were made and secrets forged; forgetting duty and her sense. And while the new king had her hand, her heart belonged to the scarred prince.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has...

James Spencer is hardly the typical troubled youth who ends up at Whisperwood School for Boys. Instead of hating the strict schedules and tight oversight by staff, James blossoms, quickly making friends, indulging in his love of writing, and contemplating the merits of sneaking love poems to the elusive and aloof William Esher. And, when the normally collected William stumbles in one night, shaken and ranting of ghosts, James is the only one who believes him.

Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath knowing nothing of her family. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition...

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their...