Antoinettes 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 Georges funeral she sees a woman she has never met before. & in that instant the day she thought would close a door on the past becomes the day that everything she has ever known is turned upside down. Phaedra loved George too & she could not bear to stay away from his funeral. She only recently came to know him but their bond was stronger than any she has ever felt before. As she sits before his wife she knows that what she is about to reveal will change all their lives forever. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to reveal the truth. But what if the truth is harder to bear than the tragedy...? ...

In the small inlaid wooden box Matts mother had kept all his childhood memories. Amongst them are many photos of Matt as a child growing up. But something about the photos has always puzzled Matt
- was that really him? Why did he not remember those clothes? The toys? & where in the photos was his sister Imogen? He has a strange unresolved feeling that there is something missing in his life. Imogen is living with her husband a country vet & their gorgeous baby in a rented cottage. Since her childhood she has loved the Summer House a charming folly in the grounds of her oldest friends beautiful & ancient house on Exmoor & now they have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice. Meanwhile Matt begins to discovers the strange & tragic secret which has affected his whole life...
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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. & in that instant the day she thought would close a door on the past becomes the day that everything she has ever known is turned upside down. Phaedra loved George too & she could not bear to stay away from his funeral. She only recently came to know him but their bond was stronger than any she has ever felt before. As she sits before his wife she knows that what she is about to reveal will change all their lives forever. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to reveal the truth. But what if the truth is harder to bear than the tragedy…? This book is published in the US under the title The Girl From Paris ...

A secret love that will haunt a family for ever England 1918. Lady Helen believes her parents when they say she will never find a better husband than Richard but when he returns to the Front she begins to wonder just who it is she has married. His letters home are cold & distant
- & Helen realises that she has made a terrible mistake. Then Oliver Donovan enters her life & they begin an affair that leaves Helen pregnant & alone
- she is forced to surrender her precious baby. Over twenty years pass & a second war is ravaging Europe but that is not the only echo of the past to haunt the present. Laura Drummond is caught in a tragic love affair of her own & when she is forced to leave London during the Blitz she turns to the mother she never knew.

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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.. .and 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". (goodreads.com). 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 website."


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Sir Alfred Munnings retiring President of the Royal Academy chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people tuning in to the BBC's live radio broadcast. But as he approaches the end of his assault the speech suddenly dissolves into incoherence when he stumbles over a name
- a name he normally takes such pains to avoid
- that takes him back forty years to a special time & a special place. Summer in February is a disturbing & moving re-creation of a celebrated Edwardian artistic community enjoying the last days of a golden age soon to be shattered by war. As resonant & understated as The Go-Between it is a love story of beauty deprivation & tragedy.

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Sir Alfred Munnings retiring President of the Royal Academy chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people tuning in to the BBC's live radio broadcast. But as he approaches the end of his assault the speech suddenly dissolves into incoherence when he stumbles over a name
- a name he normally takes such pains to avoid
- that takes him back forty years to a special time & a special place. Summer in February is a disturbing & moving re-creation of a celebrated Edwardian artistic community enjoying the last days of a golden age soon to be shattered by war. As resonant & understated as The Go-Between it is a love story of beauty deprivation & tragedy.

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The only travel writing book on Gascony A Summer in Gascony" is a charming & humorous tale of an extraordinary summer spent in this relatively unknown part of south-western France the home of D Artagnan Cyrano de Bergerac gutsy red wine fine sweet wine Armagnac & sunflowers. It is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance & a lifelong love affair with Gascony with its village festivals dusty roads & sun-baked wine country. Stretching from Toulouse in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west from the river Garonne in the north to the Pyrenees in the south Gascony is a golden land of rolling hills & wide horizons swathed with vineyards sunflowers maize & pastures. It has a distinct identity which sets it apart from the rest of France & old affinities with England: the Gascons fought alongside the English in the Middle Ages & the Napoleonic Wars against their common foe the French. In the tiny hamlet of Peguilhan Martin Calder is introduced to the Gascon way of life: working in the fields shepherding & slaughtering sheep feeding the cattle harvesting the wheat watering the crops. He discovers a unique people fiercely proud of their independent heritage. Full of colourful characters: the charismatic & convivial Jacques-Henri the hardworking farmer whose family take Martin into their home & hearts; the yoga-practising Germans; & Pattes the mischievous stray dog; Madame Parle-Beaucoup the town gossip & Monsieur Fustignac whose pride in his Gascon heritage is unforgettable. But the real star of the book is Gascony itself with its strong spirit of independence & the simple pleasures it provides. Written by a true Francophile who has come to know the people & understands their way of life "A Summer in Gascony" evokes the spirit sights smells & sounds of this still relatively unknown & unspoiled other South of France." ...

Laughter sunshine & love
- spend summer in Orchard Valley The Bloomfield sisters Valerie Stephanie & Norah have returned home to
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A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; holiday lovers will struggle in the harsh reality of daily routine... As Schlinks characters navigate their lives we discover the many faces of love: the small betrayals hidden truths & abiding affections. In Schlinks trademark spare prose we come face-to-face with the desires & jealousies that define our daily lives with the fragility of happiness & with the abiding possibility of hope. Tender yet unsentimental achingly personal yet utterly universal SUMMER LIES asks what it means to love to deceive & ultimately to be human. ...