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A gorgeously funny STEM rom com from Camilla Isley. Perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood, Lynn Painter and Jo Watson. He's off limits – but you can't fight physics... At 28, with a Ph.D under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her...

Don't miss book two in the compelling and emotional Nurse's War series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller. Will she be reunited with those she loves? With her first husband dead and the war still ferocious, Victoria finds herself nursing injured soldiers on the Burma front. There she meets...

If you love Emily in Paris, you will love this book in the Annie Valentine series from bestselling author Carmen Reid. 🛍️Every book in the Annie Valentine Series can be read as a standalone🛍️ Personal shopper Annie Valentine is back! Older and bolder! Fashion guru Annie is struggling...

A dreamy summer romance to whisk you to the glamorous Hollywood Hills, from the bestselling author of Under a Greek Sun Trouble in paradise? Having sold her photography studio in the UK, Freya Johnson is now living the American dream, engaged to Hollywood film star, Nicholas Kaden. Finally, her...

Some battles will be fought on the Homefront... The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet Family with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her...

Es ist schon ein Kreuz mit den Orden: Alle Welt hat einen, nur man selbst nicht. Monsieur Sacrement, der Held unserer Geschichte, hat schon seit seiner Kindheit auf die Knopflöcher der Passanten gestarrt, in denen das kleine rote Band die Zugehörigkeit einer besonderen Kaste verriet. Er will unbedingt dazugehören - doch wie? Endlich hat er eine Idee: Seine Frau soll ihm helfen! Das tut sie auch - und Sacrement lernt, dass nichts auf der Welt ohne Preis ist.

Eldorado Red has it all—new cars, women, and plenty of money. But when you're the top dog, the sure bet is that someone—everyone—wants to take what you got.

Zwei junge Frauen in New York: ein funkelndes Debüt voller Witz und Glamour Isa Epley ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt und weise genug, um zu wissen, dass der Sinn des Lebens im Vergnügen liegt. Tagsüber verkauft sie mit ihrer besten Freundin Gala Klamotten an einem Straßenstand, um ihre...

Ein humorvoller und einfühlsamer Roman über Menschen auf der Suche nach dem kleinen und großen Glück – der Millionen-Bestseller aus Südkorea zum Wohlfühlen! In einer schmalen Gasse eines alten Stadtteils von Seoul befindet sich Frau Yeoms kleiner Gemischtwarenladen. Täglich kreuzen sich hier die Wege ganz unterschiedlicher Menschen. Der obdachlose Dok-go versucht sein Leben neu zu ordnen, und fängt als Nachtschichtarbeiter in dem Laden an. Schnell merkt er, dass er nicht der einzige ist, den Sorgen und Nöte umtreiben.

The library girls are back, striving for a better tomorrow As the war reaches London, they’ll band together… War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can...

The letters drop onto every doormat… Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the happy-ever-after she’d believed they were always going to share. But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours...

‘Inspiring, thought-provoking and incredibly moving – Samantha Tonge hit me straight in the heart with the wonderful tale of Tilda and Milo.’ No.1 bestselling author, Shari LowMeet Tilda Wright… Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl...

Discover the gorgeous and spicy new regency romance that is perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Lisa Kleypass and Eloisa James. Summer, 1816. A notorious rebel is about to meet her match... Lady Georgiana Pendlebury is no stranger to breaking the rules of polite society. But when a so-called...

Delve deeper into Denny and Neeka's world, and you'll either be begging to leave or won't want to. Too Devout is the anticipated mega-conclusion to the renowned Devout series. Listeners were left unsure but hopeful that they would be reacquainted with the two star-crossed lovers. Denaché Denny "D Rock" Graham, the ever-complex crime lord with his layers of mystery beneath his grime and his weakness for the simpler semi of the pair—the beguiling Neeka Perry. Neeka was left in waiting, and it was not in vain. Denny is back, but back to what? Or better, in fact, back as what?

Il libro ha come protagonista un giovane avvocato di successo, Luca Pertinelli, e il coro di amici (e colleghi di lavoro) che l'accompagnano "in scena". Fino a quando non arriva dall'Inghilterra la giovane Sabine, di cui Luca si innamora entrando in conflitto con il proprio ambiente, la moglie e le regole di un mondo in cui egli stesso è irrimediabilmente prigioniero. Nella seconda parte del romanzo, la scena si sposta su un'isola vacanziera dove la presenza di Sabine farà esplodere in modo drammatico le contraddizioni che dominano il circuito di sciagurati gaudenti attorno ai quali Bulgaro traccia un disegno collettivo di grande respiro.

Bevor Charles Dickens mit "Oliver Twist" berühmt wurde, schrieb er Kurzgeschichten. 1836 veröffentlichte er die "Londoner Skizzen". Es sind Beobachtungen, Fantasien und Fiktionen, in denen Dickens das alltägliche Leben humorvoll beschreibt und gleichzeitig die sozialen Missstände im England des 19. Jahrhunderts kritisiert. Sie alle zeigen das London, das er so gut kannte, im Guten wie im Schlechten – seine Straßen, Theater, Gasthäuser, Pfandhäuser und Gefängnisse. Mit seiner eindringlichen Stimme erweckt Tom Vogt Dickens’ Alltagsszenen zum Leben.

A New York Times bestselling author delivers a tantalizing, courageous story about mothers and daughters, guilt and innocence, and the lengths we go for love. As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love—yearning, breathless love—that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as...

The gripping psychological thriller from bestselling author J.A. Baker Jackson and Lydia Hemsworth are pillars of the community, feted for having the perfect marriage and three wonderful children – Florence, Jessica and Ezra. But appearances can be deceptive. Because behind closed doors...

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will...

Meet Harriet White, Sherlock Holmes' feisty – and entirely fake – assistant, in this gloriously fun mystery, perfect for fans of Anita Prose, Verity Bright and Janice Hallett. 🔎 London, 1932. A young maid steps onto a train… and disappears. Her family writes to the only person they can...