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Having completed his training to become an Adept-Lieutenant, Desmond is now ready to return to active service. Graduating top of his class and setting a base record for his scores, Desmond managed to achieve a lot, and so did his girls. Not a single member of Arsenal wasted their time at the...

Get swept away in the first three novels of the Ladies and Scoundrels series! These bestselling romances of love, loss, and redemption will keep you enthralled.

Evelyn Waugh is one of the pre-eminent English novelists of the 20th Century. This collection comprises six of his finest works, dramatised by award-winning writer Jeremy Front. Decline and Fall Paul Pennyfeather, an earnest, scholarly Oxford student, knows nothing of 1920's high-life - until...

Jake has united and empowered the beastkin into a formidable force, marching towards Life's Haven to reclaim their city and exact payback for countless lives lost. Yet danger lurks as enemy Champions, reptile betrayers, and a horrible curse test their resolve. The war to reclaim the world stretches beyond a single battle, for it is an unrelenting war for survival.

Summer has arrived in the Cornish town of Mount Polbearne, and Polly Waterford couldn't be happier. Because Polly is in love: She's in love with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she's in love with running the bakery on Beach Street, and she's in love with her boyfriend, Huckle. And yet there's something unsettling about the gentle summer breeze that's floating through town.

FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON AND THE WINTER SPIRITS COMES A BRAND NEW COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALES Featuring new and original stories from: Michelle Paver Stacey Halls Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha Pulley Elizabeth...

A novelist in her fifties living alone in the Chicago suburbs, Molly MacGregor has buried her mother, survived a painful divorce, mourned her ex-husband’s death, and spent twenty five years wondering what became of her sister. Now she’s caring for her aging father who doesn’t recognize her most days. But Molly is not alone. In the quiet spaces of her ordinary days, she senses a presence—steady, intimate, impossible to ignore. Not a distant God confined to Heaven, but a God who dwells within, offering comfort, courage, and companionship.

Secrets lie on the bookshop shelves in this cozy, compelling family mystery for readers of The Lost Bookshop and The Keeper of Stories! ‘I didn’t want to stop reading this book. It had me hooked’ Reader review ★★★★★ 'A gorgeous, emotional, and uplifting literary mystery perfect...

One of the leading ghost story writers of the Victorian era, Sheridan Le Fanu is renowned for his chilling tales of mystery and horror. His pioneering lesbian vampire novella Carmilla was a major influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula, and spawned numerous film adaptations including Hammer Horror's Karnstein Trilogy. Opening this anthology is a dramatisation of that classic tale, starring Anne-Marie Duff as Laura, the lonely girl living in a solitary Austrian castle, who strikes up a dangerous friendship with the mysterious, bewitching Carmilla. 

In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. The most difficult position in football? Being a goalkeeper. That’s what...

Dr. Julie McCray, astrophysicist, isn’t looking for second chance romance. Not even close. She’s focused. She needs to save the planet from a dystopian future as Earth temperatures soar. Julie’s rover, 40 million miles away, discovers living bacteria hiding under the Martian surface. Scientists examine its DNA profile and agree that, with a slight amount of genetic engineering, it can absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, exactly what the planet needs to survive. The President orders the government to commandeer Julie’s Mars mission and bring the living bacteria to Earth.

The second book in the gorgeous and bestselling Twin Crowns YA romantasy series – deeply romantic and bursting with high-stakes adventure! Praise for the Twin Crown series: “Twin Crowns cast a spell on me from the very first pages – I was thoroughly bewitched by this marvelous book!...

Polly Waterford is recovering from a toxic relationship. Unable to afford their flat, she has to move miles away from everyone, to a sleepy little seaside resort in Cornwall, where she lives alone above an abandoned shop. And so Polly takes out her frustrations on her favourite hobby: making bread. But what was previously a weekend diversion suddenly becomes far more important as she pours her emotions into kneading and pounding the dough, and each loaf becomes better and better.

They took everything from him. His future. His family. His freedom. Fifteen years in a cell, and those who put him there never looked back. Eldrindor was a boy when they buried him. Whatever crawled out fifteen years later is not that boy. In the dark he was trained. In the dark he learned patience. Which is only rage that has learned to wait. He came out carrying secrets and a name that belongs to no one. He calls himself Algherand now.

Welcome to the fifth volume in the Sex Slaves series by Mars Audio Books - Sex Slaves 5: Rough Love. This compilation comprises more stories of exotic slave-training compounds, abduction and forced submission, of a life of sexual servitude - where you must serve your master well...or else suffer the punishing consequences.

In this volume, three of the author's finest D/s works are presented as a single boxed set for your pleasure listening. Three finely crafted stories depicting tales of slave training, pain, lust, submission, and the demands of powerful, handsome Masters. More often than not, the road to submission paves the way to finding true emotional bliss, to finding the one thing that others simply do not understand - the joy of being a true submissive in every way to your Master's hand. As long, of course, as the submission is not forced submission. For if so...then what?

In this book, we see Tamras’s world open from the House of Merin and its immediate environs into the lands beyond its borders. She meets other peoples, whose ways are different from those she knows.

Polly Waterford loves running the Little Beach Street Bakery. She's at her happiest when she's creating delicious treats and the festive season always inspires her to bake and knead something extra special for the village residents. In fact, the only thing she loves more than her bakery is curling up with her gorgeous boyfriend, Huckle. She's determined that this Christmas is going to be their best one yet, but life doesn't always work out as planned....

It’s Bing’s bath time and he wants Flop to read him his favourite story. But books don’t like splashy baths, as Bing soon learns. Find out what happens when Bing’s bedtime book gets all drippy-wet and Bing and Flop are forced to use their imagination to finish the story. A charming new book about telling stories, overcoming adversity and the power of imagination. This World Book Day Bing book is sure to delight all toddlers!

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams is one of the three most important American dramatists of the 20th century, alongside Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. Acclaimed for their lyrical language, dark themes and vivid portrayal of the American South, his works have spawned several Oscar-winning films and been translated and performed worldwide. Collected here are some of the best, beginning with the play that launched Williams' career: The Glass Menagerie.