Inspector Thomas Lynley 8th Earl of Asherton feels some trepidation as he introduces his bride-to-be to his mother at the ancestral home of Howenstow in Cornwall. But Lynley's private concerns are soon forgotten as the brutal murder of a local journalist requires him to focus on the professional rather than the personal. The investigation tears apart powerful ties of love & friendship shattering the tranquillity of the picturesque Cornish community & exposing a long-buried family secret. Its consequences irrevocably alter the course of Thomas Lynley's life. ...

When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me.. . My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum Dad me
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In 1941 Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives & personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day sixty-five years later that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence Suite Francaise would be rediscovered & hailed as a masterpiece. Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis Suite Francaise falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Francaise is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However amidst the mess of defeat & all the hypocrisy & compromise there is hope. True nobility & love exist but often in surprising places. ...

When vibrant forty-something widow Annie Conroy spies her new neighbours having kinky sex in their back garden she decides it's time that she too woke up & smelt the erotic roses. & where better to begin her daring adventures than the luxurious Waverley Grange Country Hotel & its hidden den of iniquity: the chintz-clad but wickedly pervy Suite Seventeen? Under the stern but playful eye of exotic master Valentino Annie quickly discovers the shocking hidden depths of her own sensuality & surrenders herself body & soul to his outrageous games of power. But when the Waverley's entire future hangs in the balance & Annie has the means to help save it dare she gamble on going one step further...and giving her heart to the mysterious man who's come to control her? ...

As girls Nel & Sula shared each other's discoveries & dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams & Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns & no one least of all Nel trusts her. SULA is the story of the fear that makes people accept self-pity; the fear that will not countenance escape & that justifies itself through myth & legend. Sula herself is cast as a witch & demon by the people who resent her strength. They attack her with the most pervasive weapon of all the weapon of language & story. But Sula is a woman of power a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down. ...

The author of The Salt Road & The Tenth Gift Jane Johnson returns with a captivating historical novel The Sultans Wife set in Morocco. Morocco 1677. The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets Nus Nus slave to the King & forced into his live of servitude as court scribe is sent to the apothecary. There he discovers the bloody corpse of the herb man & becomes entangled in a plot to frame him for the murder. Juggling the tempestuous Moroccan king sorceress queen Zidana & the malicious Grand Vizier is his only hope to escape the blame. Meanwhile young fair Alys Swann is captured during her crossing to England where she is due to be wed. Sold into Ismails harem she is forced to choose: renounce her faith or die. An unlikely alliance develops between Alys & Nus Nus one that will help them to survive the horrifying ordeals of the Moroccan court. Brimming with rich historical detail & peppered with real characters from Charles I to Samuel Pepys The Sultans Wife is a story of enduring love & adventure. Jane Johnson writes the sort of books you want to tell everyone about
- they hook you from the first page & sweep you along with passion history & romance. Im addicted Katie Fforde An utterly compelling story". (Stuart Mac Bride author of Cold Granite). " Imagine the darkest Arabian Tale combined with Tremains glorious Restoration". (Essie Fox author of The Somnambulist). " An irresistible page turner
- I loved it". (Barbara Erskine). " Full of intrigue deceit skulduggery & murder. It has romance in it but also heartbreak & personal tragedy. Its deeply evocative of North Africa
- the sights the smells the culture but there are also great depictions of London at the time & the court of Charles II. I really enjoyed it". (Ben Kane bestselling author of Spartacus: The Gladiator). " Far more than a rip-roaring read: its a true work of art. Deftly recreating the court intrigue of the tyrannical Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail
- with all its trappings of superstition black magic & torture
- it sucks you down through interleaving layers steeped in blood sweat & raw adrenalin to a mesmerising bedrock of real history... The Sultans Wife gets inside you conjuring its magic long after you read the last line". (Tahir Shah author of The Caliphs House). Jane Johnson was raised in Cornwall but now lives for half the year in a remote mountain village in Morocco. Her first novel set in North Africa is The Tenth Gift & this was followed by The Salt Road. The Sultans Wife is her third Moroccan novel. She has been involved in the book industry for many years & combines her work as a publisher with writing for both adults & children."




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Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire Ten years ago Tiarnan humiliatingly rejected Kate. Now a famous model she can have any man. So why does she want the cold-hearted millionaire? Kate knows he cant give her true love. But as the sultry nights close in she sees hints of a different man beneath the hard exterior... The Savakis Mistress When Damon Savakis arch enemy Manolis loses his fortune Damon wastes no time in taking the ultimate revenge
- forcing Manoliss niece Callie to become his mistress! But hes unprepared for her bravery poise & purity. Shes paid her dues as his mistress...hell take her as his willing wife! Ruthless Tycoon Inexperienced Mistress When Cesar Caretti meets innocent Jude her pure beauty sets his Spanish blood on fire. But when a night of passion results in a baby there is only one option for Cesar
- marriage! & as he is a Caretti his proposal is not a question...its a command!

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In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe & unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages in some you are recreated based on your credit card records & in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been. In these wonderfully imagined tales
- at once funny wistful & unsettling
- Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions & offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here & now. His stories are rooted in science & romance & awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope love & death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.

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In the first book of The Runelords Raj Ahten the Wolf Lord of Indhopal uses magic to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. He seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule
- destroying anything & anyone in his path. Standing in his way is Prince Gaborn Val Orden who must fulfil a 2 000-year-old prophecy & become the Earth King a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the earth itself. Only then will humanity have a chance to survive...
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