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Muriel Zagha

A tale of two cities... 
Two girls... 
And a life-altering swap. 
 
Daisy's just landed the perfect job: spending a year in Paris writing about fashion. Swapping homes with French student Isabelle seems like the perfect arrangement. 
 
Sensible Isabelle, however, finds London bewildering. But all her assumptions about crazy English guys are overturned when she meets hunky gardener Tom. 
 
Meanwhile, fun-loving Daisy discovers that Paris is the City of Love, and more than one Monsieur Right...

Finding Monsieur Right

Danny Wallace

Tom got a note from his girlfriend. It says she hasn't left him, but she's gone. 
 
But where the hell is she? When is she coming back? And what is Tom supposed to do in the meantime? 
 
With each new clue to Hayley’s whereabouts, Tom is forced to question whether he truly knows his girlfriend at all. Because who is Hayley really, anyway? Who is this other strange girl following him? 
 
And who, for that matter, is Tom Ditto? 
 
A laugh out loud high concept love story with a mystery at its heart, for fans of Nick Hornby and David Nicholls from the bestselling author of Yes Man and F*** You Very Much 
 
What people are saying about Who is Tom Ditto?: 
 
'Danny Wallace at his very best: funny, assured and relentlessly clever. A brilliant novel' John Niven 
 
'A terrific novel...the plot is wild and unexpected, with a dash of sinister, and it's incredibly funny' The Times 
 
'Wallace is adept at capturing the nuances of the mundane and the ridiculous, while being incredibly funny' Stylist 
 
'A hilarious and fresh take on modern life. Brilliantly written' Heat

Who is Tom Ditto?

The feelgood comedy with a mystery at its heart

Riley Sager

Have you ever played two truths and a lie? 
 
It was Emma's first summer away from home. She made friends. She played games. And she learned how to lie. 
 
Then three of her new friends went into the woods and never returned. . . 
 
Now, years later, Emma has been asked to go back to the newly re-opened Camp Nightingale. She thinks she’s laying old ghosts to rest but really she’s returning to the scene of a crime. 
 
The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Finale Girls - perfect for fans of A. J. Finn's The Woman in the Widow 
 
*Don't miss Riley Sager's new thriller, LOCK EVERY DOOR. Available to pre-order* 
 
Because Emma’s innocence might be the biggest lie of all. . .

Last Time I Lied

Harry Dolan

David Loogan is leading a new and quietly anonymous life in a new town. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the melancholy publisher of the crime magazine Gray Streets - and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blond wife. 
 
When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realise is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: 
 
PLANS GO WRONG. BAD THINGS HAPPEN. PEOPLE DIE. 
 
Then one night David's new boss phones him in a panic, asking him to come to his house immediately. And bring a shovel...

Bad Things Happen

June Francis

Will she get another chance at happiness? 
 
Flora Cooke is struggling to raise her children alone amidst the ruins of war-torn Liverpool. With her husband, Tom, away fighting in the Second World War, she has only her unreliable sister to help her and she has almost given up hope. She is completely devastated when Tom is reported missing, presumed dead. 
 
As the months pass and she struggles to come to terms with her loss, Flora is swept off her feet by a handsome American soldier. But he cannot offer the stability that Flora and her family desperately need. And when another terrible tragedy strikes the family, Flora must decide what is really important…

War Widow

Maggie Hope

A gripping saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coal Miner's Daughter 
 
A terrible choice between her sweetheart and her reputation... 
 
Orphaned from birth, Mary Trent has always dreamed of the day she can escape from poverty, and when she meets the dashing young doctor Tom Gallagher, it seems her prayers have been answered. 
 
But an untimely pregnancy spells disaster and the threat of returning to a life of destitution. Is a marriage of convenience the only thing that can save her?

The Miner's Girl

Maggie Ford

In the 1920s, nobody is safe from scandal... 
 
Amy Harrington leads a privileged life out in London society. Her maid, Alice Jordan, lives in the poverty-ridden East End. But when a disgraced Amy is disowned by her parents and fiancé, Alice is the only person she can turn to… 
 
Forced to give up her life of luxury, Amy lodges with Alice’s friendly working class family. But while Amy hatches a plan to get revenge on her former love who caused her downfall, Alice finds herself swept into the glittering society her mistress has just lost. And when Amy meets Alice’s handsome older brother Tom, they can only hope that love can conquer all… 
 
Will the two girls ever lead the lives they dream of?

Rags to Riches

Gloria Cook

All she wants is a roof over her head... 
 
After her plans to elope with her married lover fall through, Rachel Kivell is broken-hearted, and saddened that she must remain in her small Cornish mining town, with all of its dark secrets. 
 
But her brooding is put to an end when the loving but childlike Alice Bowden turns up on her doorstep. Poor orphaned Alice has nowhere to go, but Rachel cannot see herself taking on the responsibilities of a child. Can she put her worries aside, or will Alice never find a place to call home? 
 
 
 
Note: Previously published as All in a Day

A Home for Alice

A gritty, heartwarming family saga for fans of Poldark

Gracie Hart

From rags to riches? 
 
Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lane on the outskirts of Leeds. Her sewing skills have enabled her to go into business with a wealthy patron and to give her young niece, Victoria, a better life than she and her sister, Mary-Anne, ever dreamed of. 
 
There's also Eliza's sweetheart, Tom, who is determined to marry her but having worked so hard to get to where she is, will Eliza take a chance on love when it means she might lose everything she has ever worked for?

The Girl Who Came From Rags

Susy McPhee

There are some people you'd do anything for... 
 
For Fran that list would include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison. Only Alison is now desperately ill and she needs Fran's help. She wants to find her husband a new wife, and leave her young daughter with a new mother. Fran finds the whole idea deeply uncomfortable, but it's hard to refuse your closest friend at the best of times, let alone ignore her dying wishes. 
 
So Fran reluctantly logs on to an internet dating site, where she stumbles across a startlingly familiar profile. 'Footloose' describes himself as divorced, but his photo looks exactly like Fran's husband, Max. What's a wife to do when she suspects her husband's cheating and can't bear to confront him outright? Posing as 'Sassy', Fran sends a reply to 'Footloose' and sets out to date her own husband... But this increasingly crazy plan leads Max to start to have doubts of his own. 
 
Torn between suspicion and love, life for Fran just got very complicated - can her marriage survive?

Husbands and Lies

Emma Kennedy

From the author of bestselling The Tent, The Bucket and Me, now a BBC1 comedy series, THE KENNEDYS. 
 
As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he’s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted. 
 
When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting: there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF – Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really about…

Shoes for Anthony

Sheila Norton

A heart-warming and inspiring story about living the simple life, which readers are already likening to All Creatures Great and Small, 'like a Sunday Night ITV drama' 
 
'Like a plate of hot-buttered crumpets and a mug of tea - warm, comforting and utterly delightful!' 
Annie Lyons (author of The Choir on Hope Street) 
 
Sam has always dreamed of working with animals... 
 
But her receptionist job in a London vets is not hitting the spot. Unsure whether a busy city life is for her, she flees to her Nana Peggy’s idyllic country village. 
 
But despite the rolling hills and its charming feel, life in Hope Green is far from peaceful. On first meeting Joe, the abrupt and bad-tempered local vet, Sam knows she must get him on side, but that is easier said than done... 
 
With her dream close enough to touch, will she get there, or will events conspire against her...?

The Vets at Hope Green

Olivia Drake

A devil in disguise… 
 
When wealthy heiress Miss Lindsey Crompton sneaks into the house of the Earl of Mansfield – a known cad and wicked scoundrel – she simply wants to investigate his involvement in some recent murders. But when Thane catches her he blackmails her into a betrothal. 
 
Or the man of her dreams? 
 
However, underneath his wicked exterior, the Earl has a secret – he is tracking a killer who may be one of Miss Crompton’s suitors. 
 
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Never Trust a Rogue: A Rouge Regency Romance

P.D. Viner

It begins with a father calling his daughter, but whoever answers is not Pia but his daughter’s killer. He must listen, horrified, to the sounds of his only child being murdered, powerless to intervene as the killer utters two chilling words. 
 
‘Beautiful skin…’ 
 
Most men’s thoughts would turn to vengeance but Pia’s father is far more resourceful than most. And he is not the reserved businessman his daughter always believed him to be, but Franco, a notorious London drug lord who will call in all his debts to find his daughter’s killer. Including the one owed to him by DI Tom Bevans.

Summer of Ghosts

Nicole Jordan

Marcus Pierce, a strikingly handsome aristocrat with a wicked reputation, inherits guardianship of Arabella Loring and her two younger sisters - and immediately declares his intention to marry them off. But gorgeously defiant Arabella sparks frustration - and something deeply erotic - in Marcus. After matching both wits and swords with her, Marcus concludes that this beautiful and formidable foe must be his. 
 
Having sworn off marriage and men, Arabella wishes to be left alone to run her finishing school for young ladies. To that end, she boldly accepts Marcus's intimate challenge: If he can woo and win her within two weeks, she'll take her place in his bed as his wife. However, if she can resist his considerable charms, the Loring sisters will be granted their independence. Thus an extraordinary game of seduction begins. . . . 
 
"Nicole Jordan puts the steam in steamy. A smoldering hero and delightful heroine make this a sizzling read. Don't miss it!" Sabrina Jeffries 
 
"In To Pleasure a Lady, Nicole Jordan gracefully fashions a delightfully entertaining and delectably sexy battle of wits and wiles between two equally stubborn protagonists." Chicago Tribune 
 
"Jordan turns up the heat in this battle-of-wills/lessons-in-love romance that perfectly launches The Courtship Wars series. Lively dialogue, soaring sexual tension and characters you can take to your heart make this a keeper." Romantic Times 
 
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To Pleasure a Lady: A Rouge Regency Romance

Caitlin Moran

The Sunday Times bestselling Richard &amp; Judy Book Club favourite 
 
'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review 
 
'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex - especially bad sex' Judy's Review 
 
___________________________ 
 
I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife! 
 
My unrequited love, John Kite, is busy with a Number One album, world-tour, drugs, and a nervous breakdown. 
 
So, I've started hanging out with hot young comedian Jerry Sharp. Big mistake. 
 
"He's a vampire," my friend Suzanne warns. "One of those men who destroys bright young girls. Also, he's a total dick." 
 
Unfortunately, I've already had sex with him. Bad sex. And now, I'm one of the girls he is trying to destroy. 
 
I know I have to stop him. But how does one girl fight a famous, powerful man? 
 
A novel about friendship, feminism and finding your place in the world.

How to be Famous

Happiness always comes at a cost... 
 
Having grown up in a convent after the death of her mother, Lizzie Knight has never known what it’s like to have a real family. So when a strange woman turns up with promises of a new life in Liverpool, she is thrilled. 
 
Warm-hearted and kind, Phyl is everything she wants in a stepmother. But then Lizzie falls in love with the one man who should have been out of bounds. Should she follow her heart and risk losing it all? 
 
From the author of A Sister’s Duty and Lily’s War 
 
 
(Note: previously published as Going Home to Liverpool)

Mersey Girl

The virgin and the rake… 
 
The Duke of Arden is whispered to be the most magnificent lover in all of London. He is exactly who innocent Roslyn needs to teach her all about passion. 
 
Roslyn has been in love with her neighbour since she was a girl and she’s determined to marry him. But knowing that gentlemen lavish passion on their mistresses but seldom their wives, she has resolved to learn all she can from a master before she can catch her intended husband.But while the Duke is happy to tutor her in the art of love, will he also let her go…? 
 
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To Bed a Beauty: A Rouge Regency Romance

Anthony Lark has a list of names: 
Terry Dawtrey 
Sutton Bell 
Henry Kormoran 
 
He is hunting them down, and he won’t stop until every one of them is dead. 
 
But this is a killer with a conscience and crime editor David Loogan is about to find out that his latest manuscript is no work of fiction but a serial killer’s confession of what he’s done – or is about to do – to some very bad men...

Very Bad Men

In the Cornish mining village of Meryen, a secret never stays a secret for very long... 
 
No one knows this better than the beautiful yet distressed Tara Nankervis, who is forced to share a devastating secret with her much older and destructive husband, Joshua. 
 
Out of options, she plans to leave once and for all, taking her daughter Rosa Grace with her. But will she have the courage to leave everything behind, or is home truly where the heart is? 
 
Note: previously published as Out of Shadows

A Cornish Girl

She's no more than an unpaid servant... 
 
Lorinda is only a child when tragedy deprives her of her true family and, sent to live with her aunt in her boarding house, she grows up desperately craving affection. 
 
And although she finds friendship - and even love - in the boarding house, she finally sees a chance to escape her drab surroundings and unkind family. But is a marriage of convenience better than a love that's true?

Orphan Girl

Can she escape her past? 
 
 After being orphaned as a child, Mary is taken in by her mother's friend Nell and raised as her own. But when Nell dies her step-father takes too much of an interest in Mary and she is forced to leave home, landing a job as a bar maid. 
 
 Only Whitelocks is no spit and sawdust pub but a new gin palace in the centre of Leeds. Mary thinks she's landed on her feet. More so when she catches the eye of William Winn, the charming owner of a glamorous new hotel. But Mary is the daughter of a music hall singer and the adopted child of a prostitute. Will she ever be good enough for a man like William?

Gin Palace Girl

S. J. Rozan

Some crimes strike too close to home... 
 
Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative - and personal - case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD. They're holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets... 
 
With his partner, Lydia Chin, Bill tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Their search takes them to Gary's family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover that one of Gary's classmates was murdered. Bill and Lydia delve into the crime-only to find it eerily similar to a decades-old murder-suicide... 
 
Please note: this novel is published in the US as WINTER AND NIGHT

Blood Ties

(Bill Smith/Lydia Chin)

She is the downstairs maid; he is the Master&rsquo;s son... 
 
Forced to become a kitchen maid at Fortune Hall, Hetty Pearson strikes up an unlikely friendship with the younger son of the house, Richard. 
 
But Hetty is just a poor servant girl: what hope does she have of either winning Richard&rsquo;s heart or escaping his older brother&rsquo;s more base attentions? 
 
Note: previously published as THE JEWEL STREETS by Una Horne

The Servant Girl

Cora Carmack

Love. Romance. Sex. There’s a first time for everything... 
 
As far as Bliss Edwards can tell, she’s the last virgin standing, certainly amongst her friends. And she’s determined to deal with the ‘problem’ as quickly and simply as possible. 
 
But her plan for a no-strings one night stand turns out to be anything but simple. Especially when she arrives for her first class and recognises her hot new British professor. 
 
She'd left him naked in her bed just 8 hours earlier...

Losing It

Sharon Page

It is London's most secretive gentlemen's club - a place where no well-bred lady would dare to be seen. But Lady Jane Beaumont has no choice. Her friend Delphiniahas vanished, and Jane must enter into a dangerous charade to find her. 
 
Now, within the gilded walls of this erotic lair, Jane awaits the lover she has procured for the evening. But the man who enters her bedchamber is no stranger. He is Delphinia's brother and London's most notorious rake - a man on a rescue mission of his own. 
 
Christian is intrigued by the innocent beauty who clearly does not belong in the notorious brothel. And as the two seek out the damning secrets of the club...as Christian initiates Jane into the ways of true sensual pleasure, she knows she has entered the most dangerous place of all - where the price of temptation could be her heart... 
 
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The Club: A Rouge Regency Romance

Tracy Anne Warren

To escape an arranged marriage, spirited Lily Bainbridge has staged her own death and, disguised as a boy, fled to London and a life of freedom. 
 
Yet her plans to masquerade as an independent widow are thwarted by an encounter with Ethan Andarton, a powerful and dangerously attractive marquis who wants to make her his mistress. But Lily is afraid that if she gives the Marquis of Vessey her innocence, he'll steal her heart. 
 
Part two of Tracy Anne Warren's Mistress trilogy. Other titles in this series are: My Fair Mistress and His Favourite Mistress. 
 
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The Accidental Mistress: A Rouge Regency Romance

Scarlett Bailey

From reluctant bridesmaid, to accidental mother… 
 
Tamsyn Thorne has not been back to her home town of Poldore for five long years. 
 
But now her brother, Ruan, is about to get married and she has no excuses left. 
 
Her plans to arrive in Cornwall looking chic and successful are dashed when a huge storm turns her from fashion goddess to a drowned rat. Worse, she ends up insulting the local hunky vicar – and then finds a tiny baby abandoned in his churchyard…

Two Weddings and a Baby

Will she ever be anything more than an East End girl? 
 
Cissy Farmer longs to escape her life in London's Docklands where times are hard and money is tight. And when she meets the debonair Langley Makepeace, her dream seems within reach. 
 
But the price of belonging in Langley's brittle, sophisticated world could be much higher than Cissy ever imagined. Torn between Langley and her gentle childhood sweetheart, Eddie Bennet, she is forced to gamble on her future chance of happiness, a decision that will change her life forever... 
 
From the author of A Girl in Wartime and A Soldier’s Girl

An East End Girl

A gripping saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Coal Miner's Daughter 
 
War, tragedy and a shameful secret... 
 
When Molly Mason’s father dies in a pit accident, she is left penniless and alone. 
 
She finds work in a local factory, and cheap lodgings. However, when Molly rejects her new landlord’s advances, his revenge is swift: she finds herself accused of theft and thrown in prison. 
 
As the prospect of war grows ever close, Molly finds herself fighting a more personal battle, trying to find anyone willing to overlook her scandalous past…

Molly's War

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