Longer! Higher! Steeper! The sequel to the bestselling 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs is packed with another century of stunning ...

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize this is a superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning ' Saraswati ...

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize this is a superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning Saraswati ...

ANOTHER DAY
- Eighteen years after being disowned by her father for falling pregnant Kirsty Lennox returns to Paisley determined
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A new memoir from Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was forgotten. The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to look after Aimee & when she reads the referral Cathy understands why. Despite her reservations Cathy agrees to Aimee on
- there is something about her that reminds Cathy of Jodie (the subject of ' Damaged' & the most disturbed child Cathy has cared for) & reading the report instantly tugs at her heart strings. When she arrives Aimee is angry. & she has every right to be. She has spent the first eight years of her life living with her drug-dependent mother in a flat that the social worker described as 'not fit for human habitation'. Aimee is so grateful as she snuggles into her bed at Cathy's house on the first night that it brings Cathy to tears. Aimee's aggressive mother is constantly causing trouble at contact & makes sweeping allegations against Cathy & her family in front of her daughter as well. It is a trying time for Cathy & it makes it difficult for Aimee to settle. But as Aimee begins to trust Cathy she starts to open up. & the more Cathy learns about Aimee's life before she came into care the more horrified she becomes. It's clear that Aimee should have been rescued much sooner & as her journey seems to be coming to a happy end Cathy can't help but reflect on all the other 'forgotten children' that are still suffering...
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Its 1909 & Molly May her husband lost at sea & presumed dead has escaped from her cruel in-laws in Liverpool along the Leeds-Liverpool canal to Burscough Bridge. Here she gives birth to a baby girl. Handsome widower Nathan Collins employs her as a wet-nurse to his daughter Jessica. But tragedy strikes when Jessica is found dead in her cot. Molly is terrified that she will be accused of murder so when her own daughter is mistaken for Jessica she is unable to tell the truth. Acting as a nanny to her own child isnt as hard as Molly imagined especially as her relationship with Nathan deepens. But there is trouble ahead. Nathans scheming mother Dorothy wastes no opportunity to remind Molly of her lowly position. & how can Molly win Nathan who because of her lies is raising another mans child as his own? ...

It was as I was walking into the drama class that I remembered the girl I had bumped into & the green sweater just like mine. That was what had got Mrs Watt mixed up. She had seen the girl in the green sweater & thought it was me. That was the simple explanation. Wasnt it? Fay cant help thinking it odd that people start remarking on conversations she knows she hasnt had or saying they have seen her when she knows she was somewhere else. But then she starts hearing muffled footsteps behind her the flash of fair hair just like hers around the corner. Is she imagining things? ...

Im Jaz Parks. CIA assassin. Black Belt. Belly dancer at the Corpus Christi Winter Festival. The last is cover for my latest mission: retrieve a vital piece of biotechnology by killing the maniac who stole it. The thief is not your run-of-the-mill nut job either. Hes Chien-Lung an obsessive vamp whos invulnerable while wearing his armour
- which is constantly. Then there are the reavers ancient fiends who murder innocents & eat their souls. Only I can sense them. So its not long before they want me dead dead dead. & did I mention the nightmares? Theyre not your garden variety sit-up-&-screamers. These suckers may actually kill me before the reavers do.
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Emma Litton cant get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her fathers heart. Shed been at school in Europe since she was fourteen then found a job in Paris always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or at their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she meets Robert Morrow the handsome gallery owner & rediscovers her step-brother Christo she still feels compelled to probe into the truth about her past. But Emma might learn too late that it is the truth about herself she has to find & that letting go is the first step to keeping love. ...

A compelling novel by Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi: A zippy blend of glamour drama & sex Daily Mail The night before her lavish wedding to Oliver Bergin Cressida Forrest went to bed serene & happy. By morning she had vanished
- without apparent cause & without trace. Shocked anxious & uncomprehending the two families face a long & painful day of revelations as a complex fragile web of sexual marital & financial secrets is ripped apart by Cressidas disappearance. & the question they are all forced to ask is who really was the woman they thought they knew
- perfect daughter sister lover & wife never to be?

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