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It's Christmas, and Figgy Edmunds is celebrating by taking the festive special steam train from Swanage to Corfe Castle. When she bumps into her friends from the Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club, there's a moment of awkwardness. But then they're all stumped when the train steams through Corfe...

Persevilience (noun): the ability of an individual, group or organization to turn any situation, setback or meaningful experience into a positive opportunity to grow, to advance and secure their core interests. In an era of multiple unprecedented multiple challenges, new ways of thinking about how we meet them are called for. Enter Persevilience: Yes, it combines perseverance and resilience. But it does so much more than that. It is the ability to turn any setback into an opportunity, by embracing a mindset that is not just tougher, but more positive, and built on belief and integrity.

Discover the inside story of Red Bull Racing with Christian Horner’s candid and uncompromising autobiography, a gripping, behind-the-scenes account of life at pinnacle of Formula 1. For over twenty years Christian Horner built and ran Red Bull Racing, transforming a rookie team acquired for...

Five friends went to Corfu. Only four came home. That was ten years ago. The police called it a tragic accident. A drunken fall from a jetty. A body pulled from the Ionian Sea at dawn. Rowan lost her boyfriend, Chris, that night. She also lost every memory of what happened. Now, Chris's twin sister Daphne has announced she's getting married at the family villa in Corfu, and she wants everyone there. Rowan. Shay. Zora. Back to the island. Back to the place where everything fell apart.

A thrilling novella by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews, set in the spellbinding Hidden Legacy World.Show as little as possible. Make them think that illusion is all you have. Your life depends on it.Augustine Montgomery is an Illusion Prime, the highest rank of magic user. The...

A body in the begonias—and a tricksy killer who knows just how to disappear into the foliage. It sounds like a case for the Charity Shop Detective Agency! When word of Arthur Oliver's murder reaches Dogs Need Nice Homes Charity Shop, Fiona, Daisy and Partial Sue—the retired trio behind the...

Ilea has been fighting terrifying creatures of magic for a long time - now she’s become one of them. After her adventures on the deadly Krahen Isles, Ilea broke through and gained another question mark. However, while she worked on her Classes in the North, things did not remain idle on the Plains. The war with Baralia has come to an end, and with it the influence of one of the major Healing Orders of the world. More Orders are taking note of the rise of the Medic Sentinels. Conflict is brewing, and Lilith might just be the right envoy for the job.

Sherlock’s elder - and still more brilliant - brother, Mycroft (read by Rory Kinnear), is too busy to grieve this apparent loss. Working as an agent for the British government, Mycroft is tasked with the politics of maintaining an empire on the verge of collapse. But on the streets of London, a killer is on the loose. A sequence of bloody bodies litter the East End, murders which echo those of Jack the Ripper four years before. Against his better judgement, Mycroft is forced to step out from the shadow of his brother, and join the hunt for the truth.

An all new laugh-out-loud, spicy Christmas romance from New York Times bestselling author Meghan Quinn.Nothing says Merry Christmas like fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex's brother.Nolan never met a spotlight he didn't like. As a major league baseball player...

A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming???? Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I'm stuck in his body. But I'm doing things my...

From the globally bestselling author of Marble Hall Murders and A Deadly Episode comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne series set during a murder trial. Anthony has been called for jury service. On trial is the troubled son of a retired High Court judge. Lawrence Gascoyne stands...

Grace Morgan hasn't returned to Hayford in twenty years. Not since the accident that shattered her world. Not since she walked away from Jonas Scott—the boy she loved more than life itself—without saying goodbye. But when Sam, the friend who survived alongside them, passes away, his final wish brings Grace and Jonas back together for one last hike along the Limestone Way. Four days. Forty-six miles. And a trail haunted by the ghosts of their past.

Glasgow journalist Danny Delvecchio has spent his life running from the day his twin sister was murdered by serial killer Robert Liddle. Twenty years on, history is repeating itself; bodies begin appearing across the city, each posed like Liddle's victims. Then Danny receives a chilling message: Find her. Danny has twenty-four hours to save a young woman’s life. But the killer knows everything about him. Every move. Every fear. Every mistake that haunts his sleepless nights.

What if a little kindness could change the way you think, feel, and connect with others? How Kindness Rewires Your Brain explores the gentle power of compassion, self-understanding, and everyday acts of care. Discover how small shifts in the way you treat yourself and others can nurture stronger...

Michael has had a big life. A life of abundance and applause. But now he's dead (or at least he's pretty sure he is.) He is given the chance to return - but it comes with a catch. He ends up back in a time he’d tried to forget. He and his mum have been forced to start again after his dad's...

THE EMPOWERING, NO-NONSENSE MEMOIR THAT CELEBRATES POWERFUL, INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN FROM EASTENDERS LEGEND LACEY TURNER. Lacey Turner burst onto television screens in 2004, starring as the feisty, outspoken and much-loved Stacey Slater. For more than two decades, she has been at the heart of some...

The next BRAND NEW instalment in the page-turning Armstrong & Oscar cozy mystery series from bestselling author T.A. Williams Bologna, Italy's happiest city - or is it? A grieving father asks Dan to uncover the truth behind the death of his gifted son, a student at Bologna's prestigious Art...

In recent years it has become fashionable to tell a certain kind of story about Britain. At its least offensive, this story emphasises the worst aspects of Britain's past and neglects the best. At its most damaging, it denies, demeans or distorts the very fabric of our collective inheritance. In...

Six witnesses. Two are dead… will I be next? Faith was never expecting the knock at the door. She hasn’t seen Jacob since they were little children at Sunday school together. And what he says makes her shiver. “Someone is picking us off.” Because thirty years ago, six children at Sunday...

They say flames burn brightest in the darkness, and these are dark times for Izril. Perhaps, for the world. The Assassin's Guild and Circle of Thorns loom large over the continent as Lord Tyrion Veltras sends for aid, but there are only a few people who move when a miracle is needed. Adventurers...