A hauntingly romantic & utterly irresistible weepy from the author of the international bestsellers Me Before You & After You What happened to the girl you left behind? France 1916 Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening her home becomes riven by fierce tensions & from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait
- painted by Edouard
- a dangerous obsession is born which will lead Sophie to make a dark & terrible decision Almost a century later & Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston a wedding gift from her young husband before he died A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth & its troubled history A history that is about to resurface & turn Liv's life upside down all over again In The Girl You Left Behind two young women separated by a century are united in their determination to fight for what they love most
- whatever the cost Praise for The Girl You Left Behind' Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy & this won't disappoint A masterclass in storytelling that fans of Me Before You will adore' Elle' Another heart-stoppingly brilliant novel from Jojo Moyes' Closer' Wonderfully well-written & completely engrossing with exquisitely drawn characters in a brilliantly plotted narrative It will make you think long after you turn the final page' Daily Mail


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Boys best friends & a summer spent backpacking around Europe What could possibly go wrong? The perfect holiday read from bestselling YA author Sarah Mlynowski Sydney Aarons is leaving her Manhattan townhouse for a summer backpacking around Europe with her best friend Leela They're visiting London France Italy Switzerland & everywhere in between
- it's going to be the trip of a lifetime BUT The trip gets off to a bad start when Leela's ex-boyfriend shows up on their flight out of JFK When they touch down in London Leela Instagrams their every move in the hope Matt will come & find them Which he does along with the most gorgeous guy Sydney has ever seen Will Sydney's summer fling last the distance? & what will happen when they all head home?
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Hot on the heels of the Netflix show based on GIRLBOSS comes Sophia Amoruso's new workbook of tips doodles & fill-in-the-blanks that will help women become their best Girlboss yet A graphic & whimsical guide filled with exercises illustrations & plenty of scribble room The Girlboss Workbook is designed for both dreamers & doers It invites you (hell implores you) to get in there & mess it up Revisit GIRLBOSS's career wisdom & use it to draft your ideal cover letter answer practice interview questions & reflect on or even draw your mistakes & accomplishments GIRLBOSS started as Sophia Amoruso's story but The Girlboss Workbook is your story Use this book as a diary a mood board a stress ball & a tool for organizing & launching your wildest dreams ...

I was blown away The Girlfriend is the most marvellous psychological thriller '
- Jilly Cooper The Number One bestselling debut
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Dark secrets a devastating mystery & the games people play the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In & The Third Wife You live on a picturesque communal garden square an oasis in urban London where your children run free in & out of other people's houses You've known your neighbours for years & you trust them Implicitly You think your children are safe But are they really? Midsummer night a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square What really happened to her? & who is responsible? Utterly believable characters a gripping story & a dark secret buried at its core this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best ...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller The UK's best selling hardback debut novel of 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Evening Standard Observer & The Times California The summer of 1969 In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence & a decision made at this moment on the cusp of adulthood will shape her life ' This book will break your heart & blow your mind' Lena Dunham Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed In the summer of 1969 empty days stretch out under the California sun The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air & the sidewalks radiate heat Until she sees them The snatch of cold laughter Hair long & uncombed Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles The girls & at the centre Russell Russell & the ranch down a long dirt track & deep in the hills Incense & clumsily strummed chords Rumours of sex frenzied gatherings teen runaways Was there a warning a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever? ...

Disc 11 Here Come the Girls
- Ernie K-Doe 2 I Kissed a Girl
- Katy Perry 3 Don&t Stop the Music
- Rihanna 4 About You Now


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Gosport Hampshre 1943 & even in the middle of war the local pub provides a warm welcome thanks to its trio of barmaids A heartwarming saga for fans of Sheila Newberry & Daisy Styles Ruby has been living & working at the Point of No Return pub since her parents were killed by a bomb She loves the bustle of the pub; it helps take her mind off worrying about her fiance Joe away fighting in France The only thing Ruby doesn't like about the Point is Sylvie This singing siren may have a beautiful voice but she's out for all she can get including Joe Finally there's Marge a true party girl She's a great friend to Ruby & makes sure they have fun going out to dances & flirting with all & sundry but she's not as fond of her other role as a mother to two young children The three of them face many obstacles to fulfilling their dreams but the bonds of friendship & camaraderie that hold the Point together will keep them going through the darkest of times ...

Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels The Girls of Slender Means' Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor allowing for exceptions' In the May of Teck Club
- a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit'
- the young lady residents do their best to act as if the war never happened They practice elocution & jostle one another over suitors & a single Schiaparelli gown But behind the girls' giddy literary & amorous peregrinations they hide some tragically painful secrets & wounds' You girls are my vocation I am dedicated to you in my prime'' Reading the novel as a young woman was a random gift; rereading it today is to encounter the rarest of fiction & to appreciate the early & enduring genius of Muriel Spark' Carol Shields Guardian' One of Spark's most evocative novels' Anne Taylor Muriel Spark was born & educated in Edinburgh She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950 when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer & her many subsequent novels include Memento Mori (1959) The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) The Girls of Slender Means (1963) & Aiding & Abetting (2000) She also wrote plays poems children's books & biographies She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993 & died in 2006

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July 2016 Margot Goodwin arrives as the new curate at St Mark's Highbury She's one part exhilarated ten parts terrified This is the most important twelve months of her life Can she convince everyone
- herself included
- that she's more than a five foot eight redhead with a Ph D & a penchant for Max Factor's Mulberry Lipfinity? 328 pages Rowland Louise

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