It is late summer in East Sussex 1914 Amidst the season's splendour fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent who along with her charming nephews tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea of female teachers But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape & the colourful characters that populate Rye the perfect summer is about to end For the unimaginable is coming
- & soon the limits of progress & the old ways will be tested as this small town goes to war
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An elderly artist & her six-year-old gr&-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears whims & yearnings a fierce yet understated love emerges
- one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself Written in a clear unsentimental style full of brusque humour & wisdom The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story Tove Janssoncaptured much of her own life & spirit in the book which was her favourite of her adult novels This new edition with a Foreword by Esther Freud sees the return of a European literary gem
- fresh authentic & deeply humane

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A holiday read with heart & soul that will last a lifetime from the number one bestselling author of Songs of Love & War Antoinette's world has fallen apart her husband the man she has loved for as long as she can remember has died tragically in an accident He was her rock the man she turned to for love & support the man she knew better than she knew herself Or at least so she thought For as she arrives at the familiar old stone church for George's funeral she sees a woman she has never met before Phaedra loved George too & she could not bear to stay away from his funeral But as she sits before his wife she knows that what she is about to reveal will change all their lives forever This book is published in the US under the title The Girl From Paris ...

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han is the first in this gorgeous series if you want to lose yourself on the beach this is the book for you! Everything that happened this past summer & every summer before it has all led up to this To now Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at her family friends' house There's the swimming pool at night the private stretch of sandy beach & the two boys Unavailable aloof Conrad
- who she's been in love with forever
- & friendly relaxed Jeremiah the only one who's ever really paid her any attention But this year something is different They seem to have noticed her for the first time It's going to be an amazing summer
- & one she'll never forget ' This book has what every girl wants in a summer'
- Sarah Dessen' Impossible to put down & I read it in one afternoon'
- goodreadscom Jenny Han was born in Richmond Virginia & studied at the University of North Carolina She lives in New York working part-time as a children's librarian alongside her writing Find out more at wwwdearjennyhancom




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The bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series is now available is one gorgeous new edition with exclusive material inside! She has only ever loved two boys Isabel spends every summer at the beach But this summer is different This is the summer she turns pretty
- the year two brothers will notice her for the first time Conrad
- unavailable aloof
- who she's been in love with forever Jeremiah
- friendly relaxed
- the only one who's ever really paid her any attention Friendship is no longer enough From first kisses to first loves seasons pass promises are made & hearts are broken Now Isabel must make the most difficult decision of all Experience first love's butterflies with The Summer I Turned Pretty Collection
- for the first time all three books together in one Who will you choose? Contains exclusive extra material inside including Conrad's letters to Isabel The complete series

Includes:: The Summer I Turned Pretty It's Not Summer Without You & We'll Always Have Summer' This book is what every girl wants in a summer'
- Sarah Dessen About the author Jenny Han is the New York Time Bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series A former children's bookseller & school librarian she earned her master's degree in creative writing for children at the New School She lives in Brooklyn








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' Wonderfully romantic full of mystery & magic I fell in love with Ballykiltara!'
- Cathy Bramley You'll find a warm welcome in
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17th Century Russia remains very much a patriarchal society For the headstrong & wilful Katia daughter of Baron Alexei Sergeyevich Ulenka life in the terem (a palace sanctuary where the virtue of girls is safeguarded) is unbearable when all she wants to do is experience the freedom of riding a horse But ride a horse she does Dressed as a servant girl Katia meets & goes riding with the darkly intriguing German stable boy Wiley But Wiley is headstrong too & soon is challenged by the aristocratic Feodor Katia's cousin After three secret meetings Katia & Wiley start to fall in love but such a union could never be in a world where rich girls are seen as commodities to be used for advancement through marriage To give himself any kind of chance with Katia Wiley joins the dragoons with Pavel Katia's brother & then begins the years of physical emotional & intentional separation ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine's story is legendary She is an icon who has fascinated readers for over eight hundred years But the real Eleanor remains elusive
- until now Based on the most up-to-date research bestselling novelist Elizabeth Chadwick brings Eleanor's magnificent story to life as never before Young vibrant privileged Eleanor's future is golden as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137 her childhood ends abruptly Forced to marry the young prince Louis of France Eleanor is still struggling to adjust to her new role when Louis' father dies & they become King & Queen of France Leaving everything behind the vivacious Eleanor must face the complex & faction-riddled French court She is only 13 Overflowing with scandal politics sex triumphs & tragedies The Summer Queen is the first novel in a stunning new trilogy from award-winning & much-loved author Elizabeth Chadwick
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'A heartwarming charming & atmospheric story that made me long to escape to Mure Total joy'
- Sophie Kinsella A deliciously warm
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The Summer That Never Was is the thirteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series following on from Aftermath A skeleton has been unearthed Soon the body is identified & the horrific discovery hits the headlines Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965 The police found no trace of him His disappearance left his family shattered & his best friend Alan Banks full of guilt That friend has now become Chief Inspector Alan Banks & he is determined to bring justice for Graham But he soon realises that in this case the boundary between victim & perpetrator between law-guardian & law-breaker is becoming more & more blurred ...