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Rosie Burrows loves being part of the Foyles team, and outwardly, she’s a happy young woman, engaged to the love of her life. But inside, Rosie faces a horrible dilemma. When Alfie enlisted, she promised to wait for him to return from France. And she has waited, quietly preparing for him to come home so they can marry. But for years her letters to him have gone unanswered, and now she doesn’t know where she stands. To keep occupied, Rosie starts volunteering at the local school.

One Week to Claim It All She’ll inherit an empire…but only if she can resist her ex—in this Sambrano Studios novel by Adriana Herrera. She’s on track to be the new CEO. Her ex is the only one standing in the way. When Esmeralda Sambrano-Peña unexpectedly inherits her father’s media...

The New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Beach delights with her latest beach read about two estranged sisters who must decide to face the past or risk history repeating itself. As a child, Skylar Mackenzie’s imagination always got her in trouble. Now it’s making her a fortune. She...

Brought to you by Penguin. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2025 AS SELECTED BY THE OBSERVER, THE IRISH TIMES, JOURNAL.IE, RTE GUIDE AND SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND The deeply moving story of the O’Connor family, its troubled past in the West of Ireland, and a love story of second chances from...

More than a decade since her bestselling novel, The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar continues Bhima’s unforgettable story in this stunning sequel. “The women at the heart of this novel inhabit the harsh world of the urban Indian poor, and struggle separately and together for dignity and...

We met at my older brother’s house and instantly I knew that he was trouble. He kissed me, right there in the bathroom without a care in the world. And from that moment on, I was his. We were young, brave and naïve when we met. Sneaking around and falling in love. Giuliano Ferrara was perfection. A beautiful, crazy mistake. With his big brown eyes and his boyish charm.

London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the railway tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a whole community thrives: with hundreds of bunk beds...

Singapore in the 1860s is exotic and yet terrifying for a penniless Englishwoman, alone and vulnerable after her mother's death. Too pretty to obtain a governess's job, Isabella Saunders accepts an offer from Singapore merchant Mr Lee to teach him English and live with his family. Two years...

A compelling story of old loves and old secrets… Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the vast family fortune built by his forefathers...

Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. Exhausted after a long stint in Bosnia, he travels to Venice to meet Francis Xavier Peterson, an old friend. Whilst at the bar of the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal with Frankie, Bill is struck by the dark beauty of a young woman seated alone. Vanessa Stewart is a glass designer from New York who is visiting the glass-blowing works in Murano. The three expatriates meet and decide to celebrate Thanksgiving together.  And that evening, full of warmth and camaraderie, begins an illicit though fateful love affair. 

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. In the summer of 1940, eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun. But Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has...

1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer's daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war. But in...

Действие первого романа из цикла "Азиатская сага" разворачивается в начале XVII века. Потерпев кораблекрушение, англичанин Джон Блэкторн приходит в себя на берегу загадочной страны, о которой мало кто слышал в Европе, и почти никто не бывал, - Японии. Попав в этот закрытый и загадочный мир, Блэкторн выживает лишь благодаря своему уму и силе воле, а также покровительству местного правителя. Постепенно англичанин становится настоящим самураем, но не перестает мечтать о возвращении на родину.

The Soviet army is sweeping into East Prussia, with their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis' reign of terror. Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother and grandmother. When soldiers arrive and brutally attack the two adult women, killing their grandmother, the farm is set ablaze. The children, along with their severely wounded mother, are loaded into a crowded train bound for the Soviet Union.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 '[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family' The Times, Book of the Day 'An epic family odyssey... Ambitious and compelling' Guardian, Book of the Day 'A rich, sprawling saga... This Strange Eventful History may be Messud's finest book' Sunday...

Elena Watkins is used to getting what she wants. She grew up the daughter of one of the most powerful mafia bosses on the west coast, an indulged, rich girl who got away with everything. Except the love of her life. Archer was the king of their high school. His charming grin swept her off her feet. Days after graduation, they ran away together and eloped. Elated to spend the rest of their lives together, Archer and Elena were on cloud nine. Until Elena’s father discovered what they’d done.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Secrets by Lesley Pearse, read by Sophie Ablett. Without her mother she is alone in the world . . . Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness. But when trust is betrayed Adele...

1900, da qualche parte sulle colline dell'Emilia, al confine con la Lombardia. Una giovane coppia, due figlie, un paesino, degli amici, tante difficoltà e la voglia di farcela. Questa è la loro storia, da inizio secolo alla primavera del 1945, la prima guerra mondiale, la fatica del lavoro in campagna, le figlie che crescono e si fidanzano. Poi l'arrivo della seconda guerra mondiale, la Resistenza, chi parte soldato, chi diventa partigiano.

In Irland ist Maggie damit aufgewachsen, dass ihre Mutter ihr vor dem Schlafengehen die Geschichte vom Glasschlüssel erzählt hat. Ein nordisches Märchen, das von Maggies Großmutter Anna Swan überliefert wurde, die vor Jahren in einer stürmischen Nacht ihr Haus verließ und nie mehr zurückkehrte. Nun ist Maggies Großvater gestorben. Bei der Durchsicht seiner Sachen entdeckt Maggie einen verblassten Brief, der offenbar aus Norwegen stammt. Geschrieben von ihrer Großmutter während des Krieges, sie bittet ihren Großvater darin, ein Baby aufzunehmen.

I always said I wouldn't be the settling-down type—wild at heart, chasing the next thrill. Everything changed the day Lyric came storming back into my life like a hurricane—sudden, intense, and impossible to ignore. We were kids when she left, her parents packing up their house to move for...