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Annie Madden and her husband, Peter, seemed to have the perfect life: two beautiful children, a wonderful home and each other. That was before everything changed. Now Annie must face a different future, after a devastating event casts a shadow over her family and their future. When she is offered the chance to pick up her previous career as a writer, Annie is reluctant. Hollywood bad-boy Senan Donnelly has scared off every other ghost-writer who has tried to tell his story, so why would she be any different?

Summer 1945. After victory in Europe, best friends Lily, Gladys and Beryl are looking to the future. But even with this happy news, their lives are far from simple. Despite Lily’s joyful summer wedding, she has doubts over what her heart wants now. As she adjusts to her role as young wife, could this signal the end of her position at Marlows? The return of Gladys’s husband, Bill, raises questions of their family life, as he struggles to find work after the navy, and for Beryl, big changes at her bridal shop are afoot.

From the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Literature 2015 ‘Explores with sharp beauty the mystery at the centre of loving anyone’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure How does the world see...

A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one, if you had the cash. Honeyville, they used to call it. A murder throws Inez and Dora together – two women from...

After 58 years of playing it safe, Lucia Lemon wants something more from life. If only she knew what.... Until she receives a package in the post from an old friend that will change her life forever. Inside, she finds a bundle of cash, a collection of old maps and a beautiful compass that no longer points north. Holding the compass in her hand, Lucia suddenly feels hopeful - for the first time ever, life feels full of possibility and the open road is calling. If only she’s brave enough to answer it.

Sue Young has never asked for much apart from a quiet life. She’s always been happy with her call centre job and dinner on the table at six o'clock. That was until a tragedy tore her tranquility into little shreds. With her life in tatters, Sue is persuaded to join a charity cycle ride led by morning TV’s Kath Fuller, who is having a crisis of her own, and Sue’s self-appointed support crew are struggling with their own issues. 

Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. Getting married. Her boyfriend’s family. Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate Cal is no stranger to running away himself. And he's also hiding secrets of his own. Can these two take a crazy risk, face the past and finally find a reason to stay?

‘A warm, witty and endlessly wise story’ Cressida McLaughlin ‘What a great book. I loved it.’ Debbie Macomber Is friendship meant to last forever? Charlotte Mayfield hopes so. Especially as she’s throwing some luxury glamping into the mix. After fifteen years of trying to be the...

Danny gets a terrible start in life and runs away from his drunken father when he thrashes him to within an inch of his life. But life on the streets is no better, and he falls into the clutches of evil men, finding that being big and strong for his age is no protection from the people who want to do him harm. Help comes in the form of Constable Jones, who is determined to help out the children who need it, and new friends Ron and Cassie, who are also runaways. Can Danny’s dream of a loving home ever be a reality?

Billie fled her Yorkshire upbringing to pursue her dreams of finding a cure for the illness which killed her mother, yet when her father gets sick, she must return home to save the farm. But the transition from city girl to country lass isn’t easy, not least because leaving London means leaving her relationship with Joely Chevalier, French pharmaceutical femme fatale, just as it was heating up. And when she gets to Yorkshire, Billie’s shocked to discover the family dairy farm is in dire straits.

Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong...and gay. Bart is young, rich, charismatic...and also, definitely, gay. Any doubts are dispelled by, in short order: that ghastly kiss; a torrid encounter for Bettina in the school boiler-rooms; and an eye-opening Parisian visit for Bart. Society will never stand for it. What else can they do but enter into a ‘lavender marriage’ and carry on indulging their true natures in secret?

Kate is not in a meaningful relationship but dreams of being a parent and pouring all her love into the tiny bundle of happiness that will her love unconditionally in return. Except without any partner on the horizon before her ovaries retire, Kate decides to take matters into her own hands and have one anyway. No one thinks this is a good idea, not her best friend, or her boss at the bookshop where she works—not even June, one of her elderly customers. Because what they can see, and what Kate can’t, is that it isn’t a baby that she needs at all—it’s something else entirely.

Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn – and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful. Missy was used to her small, solitary existence, listening to her footsteps echoing around the empty house, the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. After all, she had made her life her way.

University is supposed to be the best time of your life. But Imo’s first week is quickly going from bad to worse.  A stalker is watching her flat, following her every move, and Imo suspects that her new roommates are hiding dark secrets. When one of them suddenly disappears, the trauma of Imo’s recent past comes hurtling back to haunt her. And she begins to realise just how little she knows about the people she lives with.... 

Heiress Ariana Theodosis wanted everything that Hollywood had to offer, took it all, and is now paying the price. When she inherits a hotel on the beautiful French Riviera, she hopes it’s a chance to start again. Elizabeth and Robert Chappell were Hollywood’s fiery English golden couple. Their legendary breakups and passionate make-ups were tabloid gold, but now they are headed for divorce. Will they say their last goodbyes by the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean?

Candy, 21, startet gerade als internationales Supermodel durch. Tammy, 29, feiert Erfolge als TV-Produzentin. In New York macht sich die älteste Schwester Sabrina, 34, einen Namen als Anwältin, während Annie, 26, in Florenz für die Kunst lebt. Am 4. Juli treffen sie wie immer bei ihren Eltern in Connecticut zusammen. In diesem Jahr trifft die Familie jedoch ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag, der alles für immer verändert. Die Schwestern lassen ihre getrennten Leben hinter sich und ziehen zusammen, um gemeinsam zu heilen und füreinander da zu sein.

Nachdem Lena gezwungen ist, ihre Apotheke zu schließen, findet sie sich in einer tiefen Krise wieder. Nicole überzeugt Lena, sie auf dieser Reise zu begleiten, in der Hoffnung, dass ein Tapetenwechsel ihre Stimmung aufhellen wird. Doch was als einfacher Ausflug beginnt, wandelt sich bald in ein unerwartetes Abenteuer. In ihrer Not bittet sie Antonia und Kristin um Hilfe. Schnell eilen die beiden herbei.

Santa Claus weiß nicht, wo ihm der Kopf steht: Vor einem Jahr wurde praktisch auf den letzten Drücker zu Weihnachten ein großer Wunsch an ihn übermittelt, den er wegen technischer Probleme jedoch erst jetzt entdeckt: Xander, ein erfolgreicher Fotograf und Reiseblogger, wünscht sich nichts mehr, als dass seine beste Freundin Ellie seine Gefühle für ihn erwidert. Zunächst sieht es so aus, als könnte sich dieser Wunsch mit nur wenig Aufwand erfüllen lassen, doch dann taucht Patrice auf, ein smarter Anwalt, der Ellies Aufmerksamkeit stiehlt.

Seit sie ein kleines Mädchen war, liebt Iris Cooper nichts so sehr wie das Singen. Mit zwölf Jahren beginnt sie, mit ihrem Vater von Stadt zu Stadt, von Bühne zu Bühne zu ziehen. Das Leben mit ihm ist nicht einfach, doch auch nachdem sie sich befreien kann, kommt sie nicht zur Ruhe: Ihr neuer Manager nutzt sie gnadenlos aus.

Nach einem Schicksalsschlag, den Ana verkraften muss, findet sie Trost bei ihrem ehemaligen Schulkameraden, dem schwedischen Autor Tjorben, mit dem sie seit Jahren eine enge Brieffreundschaft aufrechterhält. Als es ihr wieder besser geht, reist sie zu ihm ins winterliche Svealand, um sich persönlich für seine Unterstützung zu bedanken. Doch als sie dort eintrifft, wird sie nicht von ihm, sondern von Jördis empfangen, die sich als seine Lebensgefährtin vorstellt. Sie versucht, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen und begibt sich auf eine Suche, die nicht nur ihr Leben verändern wird.