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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lido comes a story about following your dreams, set over one single day. 'A moving and beautifully crafted novel about love, friendship and life' Mike Gayle *** Welcome to the café that never sleeps. Day and night, Stella's Café opens its doors...

Brought to you by Penguin. A hilarious story of love, dancing, fashion and a very unlikely friendship. If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do? You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big time...

A sexy agent hounds Wall Street's hottest new wolf in an exhilarating novel from New York Times best-selling author Lauren Layne. Ian Bradley is the definition of a Wall Street hotshot: seven-figure salary, designer suits, and a corner office. His drive off the floor is just as potent. Every woman who knows him has felt the rush. But now he's met his match in Lara McKenzie - a woman with the power to bring Ian to his knees. An ambitious, whip-smart daughter of FBI agents, Lara is a rising star in fighting white-collar crime.

Their secret love affair has lasted for decades - but will it last one more summer? For the last twenty-eight summers, Mallory and Jake have met to rekindle the passionate love affair they began all those years ago. Each married to someone else, with busy lives and happy families, they've...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Still Me by Jojo Moyes, read by Anna Acton. The third Lou Clark novel by Jojo Moyes, following the Number One international bestsellers Me Before You and After You Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in...

***THE SEQUEL TO THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING BOOK ME BEFORE YOU - THE FILM ADAPTATION WILL BE RELEASED JUNE 3RD*** Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of After You by the Jojo Moyes, the stunning sequel to the worldwide phenomenon Me Before You. Read by Anna...

Once upon a time, Luke Lane loved a little, stubborn, delusional girl, and that little girl was me. My fairy tale happy ever after always included my black-haired, blue-eyed, knight in shining armor, and that knight was Luke Lane. Then I grew up and convinced myself that it wasn't a fairy tale after all. It was Fate. I twisted Fate to make her story come to life, but Fate fought back, and now I am looking at a man I still love, but he doesn't feel the same. I have to walk away.

The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do? You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big time . . . you could hide under...

A sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller 28 Summers – Jake McCloud returns to Nantucket for Labor Day weekend 2023, this time without Mallory...

Twenty years ago, six Penn students shared a house, naively certain that their friendships would endure - until the death of their ringleader and dear friend Bea splintered the group for good. Now, mostly estranged from one another, the remaining five reluctantly gather at that same house on the eve of what would have been Bea's fortieth birthday.

Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again.

On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate...what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of 20 wishes. Anne Marie's list starts with "Find one good thing about life". It includes learning to knit, doing good for someone else, falling in love again.

She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It's a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.

Murder is a World Away... Rajasthan, 1929. Lady Ginger Gold never imagined her journey to India would draw her into the glittering yet perilous world of a royal court. Invited with her husband Basil to a lavish celebration at a maharaja's palace, she is swept into a realm of jewelled elephants, opulent banquets, and the thrill of a tiger hunt in the desert. But when a guest is gunned down during the hunt, whispers ripple through the gilded halls. Was the bullet meant for the victim —or for the maharaja himself?

When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies surrounding Ovum-to-Ovum (o-o) technology and stoke the fears of the public. What will happen to the numbers of little boys born? Is there a sinister conspiracy to eradicate men at play?

'A great book, truly hard to put down. Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times - all hallmarks of a bestseller' Lesley Pearse on The Girl in the Letter 'I was gripped by The Girl in the Letter. The story is compelling, twisty, heart-wrenching and thought-provoking. A novel...

Twenty-eight and filthy rich, Matt Cannon is the youngest broker on Wall Street. He may be a "boy wonder", but he's every inch a man. Ask any woman-any night. But when Matt's latest fling makes scandalous headlines, his clients get anxious, and his bosses at Wolfe Investments level an ultimatum: Keep his assets zipped, get a "real" girlfriend, and clean up his act. Only one woman can help Matt with something this hard.

Conall Devlin is a ruthless man, ready to achieve the ultimate success. So to acquire the missing piece of his property portfolio he’s willing to accept an unusual term in the contract…taming his client’s wayward daughter! Party girl Amber Carter appears to live a life of luxurious frivolity, but deep down she feels lost and alone in her material world. Until one morning her new landlord turns up, every inch pinstripe-clad perfection, offering her an ultimatum: either Amber is thrown out onto the streets or she accepts her first ever job – being at his beck and call day and night…

Logan McLaughlin can’t lose his Scottish family estate. But to rescue it, his grandfather’s will demands he weds! Logan avoids real relationships, having failed so significantly at love before. So when housemaid Layla suggests he take a convenient wife, he’s intrigued…Untouched Layla never imagined Logan would choose her! With her scars she feels far from the perfect bride. Yet to protect the only home she’s ever known, she’ll wear Logan’s ring…

An alpha among the wolves of Wall Street, Kennedy Dawson rose to the top of the pack by striking the right contracts at the right times. But there's one deal that's been giving him a run for his money - a pact to never again let his assistant, Kate, get under his skin. She may be smart, gorgeous, and sharp as a whip, but she's definitely off-limits. 

A hostage crisis erupts in San Francisco in this gripping novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Days before Thanksgiving, a supermarket in San Francisco’s bustling residential Marina district is busy with shoppers preparing for a holiday filled with family and love...

Rebellin, Designerin, Aktivistin - Vivienne Westwood. 1965: Geschieden und alleinerziehend, sieht Vivienne Westwood keine Alternative, als ihren Traum von einem anderen Leben abzuhaken und Lehrerin zu werden. Doch dann verliebt sie sich in den Kunststudenten Malcolm McLaren und eröffnet mit ihm in London einen Fashion-Shop, der zum Anlaufpunkt all jener wird, die gegen das Establishment rebellieren. Als Malcolm die "Sex Pistols" gründet und Vivienne die Outfits der Band entwirft, ist der Look des Punk geboren.