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? ...

Lose yourself in a sweeping love story this summer
- perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries & Santa Montefiore Northern France 1917
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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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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? ...

When Dick Young's friend Professor Magnus Lane offers him an escape from his troubles in the form of a new drug Dick finds himself transported to fourteenth-century Cornwall There in the manor of Tywardreath the domain of Sir Henry Champerhoune he witnesses intrigue adultery & murder The more time Dick spends consumed in the past the more he withdraws from the modern world With each dose of the drug his body & mind become addicted to this otherworld & his attempts to change history bring terror to the present & put his own life in jeopardy ...

The unforgettable story about a family with a secret at its core from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell author of Ralph's Party The Making of Us & Before I Met You When a tragedy breaks a family apart what can bring it back together? The Birds seem to be the perfect family mother father four children a picture-book cottage in the country But when something happens one Easter weekend it is so unexpected so devastating that no one can talk about it The family shatters seemingly for ever Until they are forced to return to the house they grew up in & to confront what really took place all those years ago ...