As a girl Clara del Valle can read fortunes make objects move as if they had lives of their own & predict the future Following the mysterious death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful Clara is mute for nine years When she breaks her silence it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern & volatile landowner Esteban Trueba Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations The House of the Spirits is a magnificent epic of a proud & passionate family secret loves & violent revolution ...

In a cavern called The House of Thunder Susan Thorton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing & in the following four years the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite also died violently Or did they? Twelve years later Susan wakes in a hospital bed Apparently involved in a fatal accident she is suffering from amnesia She doesn't remember who she is or why she is there All she knows is that her convalescence is unfolding into a fearful nightmare
- & that the faces that surround her pretending loving care are those of the four men involved in that murder years before Have the dead come back to life? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? With the help of her neurosurgeon Susan desperately clings to her sanity while fighting to uncover who or what could be stalking her Originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols
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Precious Ramotswe has always idolised her father the late Obed Ramotswe She feels that she knows all about his life
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The first illustrated monograph dedicated to the history of the House of Worth the world's pioneering haute couture label ...

An engaging love story set in eighteenth century Whitby & on the romantic North Yorkshire Moors Penelope is a very young & beautiful girl refined & educated with no desire for an arranged marriage But she can hardly imagine how her life will change when she meets the charming handsome Robert Curzon set to inherit a great farm & its lands Listening to the echoes of the past can this love be carried from the shadows of the eighteenth century to the present day? Can true love really last forever in this exciting time-slip story? ...

The House on Cold Hill is a chilling & suspenseful ghost story from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Dead Simple Peter James Moving from the heart of the city of Brighton & Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for born townies Ollie Harcourt his wife Caro & their twelve-year-old daughter Jade But when they view Cold Hill House
- a huge dilapidated Georgian mansion
- they are filled with excitement Despite the financial strain of the move Ollie has dreamed of living in the country since he was a child & with its acres of land he sees Cold Hill House as a paradise for his animal-loving daughter a base for his web-design business & a terrific long-term investment Caro is less certain & Jade is grumpy about being removed from all her friends But within days of moving in it soon becomes apparent that the Harcourt family aren't the only residents in the house At first it is only a friend of Jade talking to her on Facetime who sees a spectral woman standing behind her Then there are more sightings of her as well as increasingly disturbing occurrences in the house Two weeks after moving in Caro out in the garden is startled to see faces staring out of an upstairs window of the house The window of a room which holds the secret to the house's dark history a room which does not appear to exist

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' We're going to a fine place' Idie told Homer to console him 'with gullies & monkeys & hummingbirds' Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island & is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover & monkeys clamber from tree to tree As a lady of property Idie can do as she pleases so she fills the house with exotic animals keeps her beloved horse in the hallway & carries a grumpy talking cockatoo called Homer on her shoulder But the island house holds as many secrets as it does animals & the truth behind Idie's inheritance is the biggest secret of all Perfect for fans of Eva Ibbotson & Katherine Rundell ...

Told in a series of vibrant vignettes The House On Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago For Esperanza Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete & run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life
- the fetters of class & gender the spectre of racial enmity & the mysteries of sexuality Capturing her thoughts & emotions in poems & stories Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness & create for herself a house all of my own quiet as snow a space for myself to go in the midst of her oppressive surroundings
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' Seductive & mysteriousthe perfect novel to while away a summer's afternoon' Express Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry is back with a delicious summer read Unlock the secrets of the mysterious house on Sunset Lake Casa D' Or the mysterious plantation house on Sunset Lake has been in the Wyatt family for over fifty years Jennifer Wyatt returns there from university full of hope as summer by the lake stretches ahead of her Yet by the time it is over her heart will be broken her family in tatters her dreams long gone Twenty years later Casa D' Or stands neglected a victim of tragic events Jennifer has closed the door on her past Then Jim the man she met & fell in love with that magical summer comes back into her life with a plan to return Casa D' Or to its former glory Their reunion will stir up old ghosts for both of them & reveal the dark secrets the house still holds close ...

An exciting re-launch of titles from the Nick Butterworth & Mick Inkpen stable Two men went to build houses One found a strong flat rock on which to build the other thought he'd like to live on a sandy beach What happened when the weather turned nasty? ...