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The enemy is close to home in The Manor, a gripping gangland thriller from the top five bestseller Jessie Keane. Charlie Stone and Terry Barton have been blood brothers since the cradle. They grew up in the East End skimming along the bottom of the underworld, until Charlie took over the manor...

Amanda Cox is living in New York with a non-committal boyfriend and a student loan that threatens to crush her. That is, until she enters a raffle for a manor house in the British countryside of Northumberland–and wins...

It deeply irritated Leonora that she was always being caught in awkward situations with the village's new doctor, James Galbraith - especially since she was engaged to Tony. But James proved a sturdy support as she did her best to keep her parents' decrepit but much loved manor house running smoothly. There was little point in admitting her growing feelings for James, since he showed so little sign of caring for her....

Bloomsbury presents A Summer Wedding at the Cornish Manor by Linn B. Halton, read by Clare Corbett, Kim Durham and Dylan Matthews. 'Love, love, loved it!' – NetGalley reviewer, 5* *** This summer, save the date for Renweneth Farm's very first wedding! As the seasons change, so do the lives of...

Staring up at the magnificent, rose-covered walls of her grandmother’s house, Violet Fleury isn’t sure she’ll be welcome inside. After running from her hometown in Ireland to follow her dreams of acting, she’s back to play Irish legend, Kathleen O’Sullivan, in a local film. She’s vowed to tell the story of the woman her village is so proud of—and to build bridges with the family she drifted away from. But will they give her a second chance?

Brought to you by Penguin. A page-turning historical fiction novel of family, loss and survival. Perfect for fans of Evie Woods, Rachel Burton, and Daisy Wood. A hidden past. A devastating choice. A heartbreaking truth. After a terrible injustice forces Mary Tanswell from her position in service...

Fallon finds herself drawn into the charming world of the aristocratic owners of the estate—handsome widower Alexander Knight and his sensitive son Theo. As her eyes and Alexander's meet across plans to launch his new artisanal gin business at the local Christmas Fayre, Fallon wonders if her chaotic city life might have been masking a deep loneliness she's hidden all along…

A Cottage in Cornwall: Spring is in the air in Cornwall. Julianne's next event is a favour to her employer: coordinating the wedding of Lady Amanda's friend and mentor. But Julianne is distracted by personal matters. Her long-distance romance is on the rocks, and when Matthew returns to Cornwall, he brings news. Can she help Lady Amanda to pull off the perfect surprise wedding? And will Julianne and Matthew have their happily ever after?

1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria, Archibald's Café is the only place they feel like they belong. 1977: With London tense with anger, Amara decides to take action. 2010: Gina is a daydreaming artist whose efforts crumble into disaster. Her hopes for a career are over as she finds herself making lattes at the café where her grandparents went on their first date.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, “A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets.”—Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter “Extraordinary…Absolutely her best yet...

Erin Marinelli has her work cut out for her when she arrives at her late grandmother's Wisconsin home to prepare for an estate sale. But sifting through the overwhelming collection of figurines, outdated appliances, and dusty books, she finds something that captures her attention: a yellowed envelope of old photographs. In one, taken almost a century ago, a beautiful woman is seated with a young boy who looks uncannily like Erin's five-year-old autistic son, Will. Intrigued, Erin looks further into her family's history, and discovers parallels to her present-day life.

Sally Bishop thought her happily ever after would be all sunshine and roses. She fell in love with a flower farmer from sunny Southern California—how could it be anything else? But when a devastating diagnosis brings storm clouds and gray skies, Sally can’t help but feel like she’s come face to face with the barren landscape and hostile environment of the worst winter of her life. She’s never felt quite so isolated and lonely.

Grace Winters is tall enough to look any man in the eye, and her feet are big enough to wear her brother's shoes. But as commanding a presence as she may be, she's experienced a few too many goodbyes in her life. She also harbors a secret, one that might just be keeping her from embracing her future, from finding her own adventure...the very things she really wants. When she steps into the antique Otis elevator at Pemberton Manor--and on the toes of one mysterious August Jones--she might just discover a brand new way of seeing things.