The hotly anticipated wedding of Iris Devonshire ravishing teenage daughter of celebrity couple Mia & Leo is to be held in the gardens of their grand Palladian pile alongside the Thames. But Mia & Leo worry that she's rushing into the marriage. Just ask their best friends since college Simon & Laney de Montmorency whose relationship is on the rocks again
- & they've already married each other twice. On the big day Iris's hellraiser fiance Dougie Everett is not the only one flying high. As Iris rides up the aisle on a white stallion a hot air balloon appears over the woods heading straight for the ceremony. Its arrival is about to transform the lives & loves of some of the wedding guests for ever. The Summer Wedding is a sizzling summer comedy set against the beautiful backdrops of the Chilterns Spain Africa & LA.
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Polly has always been the high-flier of the family with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart & barely on speaking terms. But then Polly's fortunes change unexpectedly & her world comes crashing down. Left penniless & with nowhere else to go she's forced back to the village where she & Clare grew up & the sisters find themselves living together for the first time in years. With an old flame reappearing for Polly a blossoming new career for Clare & a long-buried family secret in the mix sparks are sure to fly. Unless the two women have more in common than they first thought? ...

Deanna believed she had everything shed ever wanted. Diamonds a beautiful home a handsome successful husband who adored her. But Marc-Edouard led a jet-set life as an international lawyer & for three months
- for the summer
- Deanna would be alone. Until Ben found her. & together they found happiness on sun-drenched beaches. But they knew their dream had to end. They also knew that they couldnt live without each other. But Deanna & Ben hadnt foreseen the devastating changes that would happen to them by the time they faced.. .summers end.

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The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls" series following " Cherry Crush" & " Marshmallow Skye". Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. Summer has always dreamed of dancing & when a place at ballet school comes up she wants it so badly it hurts. Middle school ends & the holidays begin but unlike her sisters Summer has no time for lazy days & sunny beach parties. The audition becomes her obsession & things start spiralling out of control... The more Summer tries to find perfection the more lost she becomes. Will she realise
- with the help of the boy who wants more than friendship
- that dreams come in all shapes & sizes? Third must-have title in this gorgeous series from one of the UK's best-loved girls' authors Cathy Cassidy. Each sister has a different story to tell which one will be your favourite? Cathy Cassidy was voted Queen of Teen in 2010
- beating Jacqueline Wilson & Louise Rennison to the throne. Praise for Cathy's books: " Touching tender & unforgettable". (" Guardian"). Cathy Cassidy wrote her first picture book for her little brother when she was eight or nine & has been writing fabulous stories ever since. " The Chocolate Box Girls" is a sumptuous series starring sassy sisters super-cool boys & one of Cathy's biggest loves
- chocolate. Cathy lives in Scotland with her family."



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A land of summer...A human child...A dangerous test. Fer is the Lady of the Summerlands
- a magical realm on the other side of
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Carmen Tibby Lena & Bridget have been best friends all their lives. They live in the same small American town & usually spend every moment of their long summer holidays together. The year they turn 16 is the first time they have separate plans for the summer but the girls are determined to keep in touch. Tibby buys a pair of jeans in a second-hand shop & the girls discover that the trousers magically fit each of them perfectly despite their different figures & heights. They hit upon a wonderful plan of sharing the jeans throughout the vacation
- sending them on to the next friend when they feel the time is right. From Baja California to Greece from film-making to football the girls
- & the travelling pants
- encounter first love family upset & fatal illness. Secure in the knowledge that their friendship is constant
- & the symbol of it need never be more than a parcel-delivery away
- the girls survive their summer & return home with a wealth of new experiences to share. This is a perfect teen-chick summer read; a quirky humorous & memorable cut above the rest.




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Lena immerses herself in her painting & an intoxicating summer fling fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again. Carmen falls under the spell of a sophisticated college friend for whom a theatrical role means everything & the heritage of the Pants means nothing. Bridget joins a dig for an ancient city on the coast of Turkey & discovers that her archaeology professor is available in every way except one. Tibby leaves behind someone she loves wrongly believing he will stay where she has left him. Join Ann Brashares' beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling fearless novel. It's a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena Carmen Bee & Tibby here & now past & future together & apart. ...

Summer is always a special time for the four teenage best friends: Bee Tibby Carmen & Lena. They have the time to hang out get jobs share secrets discuss boys
- & wear the amazing jeans they call the travelling pants. This year there's an added poignancy as the girls know this is their last summer together before going off to different universities. With Lena defying her father Carmen resenting her mother Bee rediscovering her first love & Tibby trying to escape her family the air is fraught with tension. Can the strength of their friendship overpower the feuds in their families & leave the girls with happy memories of the third summer of the sisterhood?
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With a little bit of sand in pockets the Travelling Pants & the Sisterhood that wears them are back
- & ready to embark on their
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee in his thirties is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This the biographer senses is the period when he was finding his feet as a writer. Never having met Coetzee he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him
- a married woman with whom he had an affair his favourite cousin Margot a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him former friends & colleagues. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider someone who tried to flee the tribe & has now returned chastened. His insistence on doing manual work his long hair & beard rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. Sometimes heartbreaking often very funny Summertime" shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with " Boyhood" & " Youth"."
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