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Her silence destroyed him. Only the truth will set them free. Catherine has experienced something so traumatic that she can't speak. Or won't speak. The doctors say the only way forward is to look into her past. Fifteen years ago, Catherine met the love of her life at university. Lucian was...

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

The compelling Number One bestseller from the author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and KEEPING FAITH. A woman wakes to find herself in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She doesn't know what she's doing there - or even who she is. She is rescued by a police officer, himself a...

Her fresh start is just beginning. But the world is on the brink of war. England, 1939. Lily Baker wants more from life. Working at the local cinema, she saves her pennies so she can have a chance to get ahead. After she’s attacked one night while locking up the cinema, she loses her heart to...

Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing pilots taking off and landing&;and she&;s bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed. She enlists Jean-Paul Breslau of the French underground to take her to the...

'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees'. 'You will be able to go to school'. Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered – first by a husband who never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the escalation of the Korean independence movements.

The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age. In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and...

A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani is...

Glamorous silent film star Eula Hartwin and her make-up artist Winnie had a devoted partnership through the roaring twenties. So how did Winnie end up on trial for stealing from Eula a decade later? London, 1923. The silent film industry is booming, and the picture houses are packed. Make-up...

Marriage isn’t always what it seems to be from the outside looking in. Many people see the glitz and glamour of a wedding ceremony and think this beautiful day is equivalent to the happiness that is shared between the bride and groom. Enter the world of Nina, who thought that she met the love of her life, but was only betrayed after it was all said and done. The pain that came with her marriage should have died when it ended, but unfortunately, it only carried on. Will Nina be able to let go of her past to create a better future?

Who can you trust if not the ones you love? That is the question at the heart of Family Pictures, an emotional, page-turning story about what it means to be a family from New York Times bestselling author, Jane Green "Green's novels consistently deliver believable, accessible, heartfelt, often...

Demetri's Picture Perfect Christmas is a holiday adventure packed with unexpected twists, heartwarming moments, and laugh-out-loud mishaps. Demetri is determined to create the perfect Christmas photoshoot for his family, but things go hilariously off-course when a series of chaotic events turn...

A tragic accident: One woman is left dead after she and another woman, both running away from their marriages, collide in the fog on a highway. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman, April, has left behind. Together, they try to solve the mystery of where April was running to, and why.

In the late 1970s, former Irish footballer "BlackJack" Kelly becomes entangled in the IRA, setting off a chain of tragic events that continue to haunt his family. Decades later, his son Emmet, unaware of his true heritage, travels from America to Ireland to meet his long-lost father. Set against a backdrop of political turmoil and family secrets, this gripping saga delves into the personal toll of violence and the enduring power of family ties.