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A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke. During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window...

Ants live in communities, where everyone helps out. Everyone has a task for the community … Everyone is needed. No one has to know everything. One morning, Emelie can’t get out of bed. Her therapist calls it burnout. Her neighbour calls it the tiny work death. She needs to get away from the...

Step 1: Find perfect wife. Step 2: Save reputation from ruin. Step 3: Do not, at any cost, fall in love with Selina Peter Kent - newly inherited Duke of Stanhope - must become respectable. Between his radical politics and the time he interrupted a minor royal wedding with a flock of sheep - not...

He was perfect. Denim-blue eyes, a dazzling smile. And he hadn’t sent me a picture of his junk. Which is about as rare, these days, as a Dodo. When Sloane met Myles, everything fell into place. He loved a Martini almost as much as she did, shared her passion for four-cheese pizzas, and made...

Enemies become lovers, rivalry turns to romance, and convenient marriages create true love in these 12 addictive tales. Featuring Olivie Blake, Kelley Armstrong, Katherine Arden, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Tasha Suri, Melissa Marr and more. A gorgeous collection of 12 original fantasy romance...

Keep your family close, because your enemies are closer. University student Matt Pine has just received devastating news. Nearly his entire family have been found dead while holidaying in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI aren't convinced – and they won't tell Matt...

Seriously, why do guys on dating apps think I want a picture of what’s in their pants? I could open an art gallery with the collection I’ve got. Zoe really doesn’t want to die alone and surrounded by cats. But it’s not looking good: she’s had sex precisely twice in the last year, and...

Running from heartbreak, twenty-five-year-old Becca has moved to the cosy village of Honeyford. Living with her best friend Zac in a little stone cottage, and serving gingerbread lattes at the Cosy Kettle, is the perfect escape from her past. As Christmas rolls around, Becca has one big wish: to completely reinvent herself. When Logan turns out to not be all he seems, Becca is left wondering if he's really the one for her. With her party plans also going awry, can Becca save her beloved Cosy Kettle in time for Christmas?

Two sisters, haunted by more than their past... Just weeks after discovering each other’s existence, Jess and Hannah Ballard arrive at Fairhaven Hall, where they will learn the clandestine ways of the Durupinen, an ancient sect of women who control the Gateways between the worlds of the living...

The second instalment in the Taylor and Rose Secret Agents series from bestselling children’s author Katherine Woodfine. With Sophie still missing in action after their explosive mission in Paris, Lil decides to take matters into her own hands. On a new mission for the Secret Service Bureau...

The fourth and final adventure in the brilliant Taylor & Rose series by bestselling author, Katherine Woodfine. Top secret agents, Sophie Taylor and Lil Rose have set sail to New York City on an elegant ocean liner, ready to face their enemies and settle old scores. These two brave friends will...

When he proposed, I had to pinch myself. Up until then, his most romantic gesture was buying me a 128-piece tool kit. When recently engaged Nat flips through a bridal magazine, she spots a quiz on page 111 about being ready for marriage. After failing it, she’s determined to prove it wrong. If...

'A White Lotus-style frenemy implosion thriller... but with Brit girls from the nineties' CAROLINE CORCORAN At school, Darcy Starr was the girl everyone wanted to be - effortlessly beautiful, confident and most importantly, popular. Two decades later, she still appears to have the perfect life...

A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it. Katharine Smyth was a student when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence...

Get set for another incredible adventure with secret agents extraordinaire, Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lillian Rose! After the dramatic events of their mission to St Petersburg, Sophie and Lil know the truth - there's a double-agent at work at the Secret Service Bureau. Whilst Lil pursues a...

Florist Rosie Duncan's life couldn't be better, she has a flourishing business on New York's Upper West Side and fantastic friends. Moving to Manhattan to escape her heartbreak was the best decision she ever made. For the past six years, Rosie has kept her heart under lock and key – despite the protests of her inner circle. But then, a blossoming friendship with publishing hot-shot Nate thaws her resolve, sparking a blizzard of emotions. Meanwhile, her brother arrives in the Big Apple, hiding a secret – and she is forced to confront questions she has long been trying to ignore.

Having finally returned to New York, Elizabeth finds herself still struggling to come to terms with Toad's death. Haunted everywhere she goes by reminders of her dead family, she finds refuge in a surprising place. But when people start dropping dead in the streets, Elizabeth and her new friends...

A high-stakes love and death romance set in a luxury resort by a multiple award-winning, Carnegie-shortlisted author: They Both Die at the End meets Romeo and Juliet meets The White Lotus. DON’T FALL IN LOVE. That’s the only rule. In this world, everyone knows their death date. If you’re...

There’s a very particular reason why Chloe Sinclair has not met her Mr Right - he doesn't exist. And the reason he doesn't exist is because the right couples in history did not get together. It now falls to Chloe to travel back in time to matchmake like her love-life depended on it…Each of...

What if you couldn’t get away from the one who got away? Unlucky in love Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It’s December, and she’s taking a room in a crumbling Notting Hill house‐share with four strangers. On her first night Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor. They don’t kiss under the mistletoe, but as far as Jess is concerned, the connection is instant. She lets herself imagine how their relationship will grow over the following year. But when Jess returns from a Christmas holiday, she finds Alex has started dating someone else.