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After travelling to the notoriously haunted Crowswood Castle to recover from illness, Cambridge student Vita Carew finds herself at the centre of a ghostly unsolved mystery. As renovations on the ancient castle near completion, old secrets emerge, and Vita must decipher the meaning of a hidden message in an old painting of the deceased previous mistress of the house. When workmen unearth human remains in the castle grounds, Vita finds herself piecing together the clues to a chilling decades-old mystery. 

Monsters don't always break in. Sometimes, they're invited . . . Maddie likes her life orderly. She manages and lives in the block of flats her father owns. Control is how she keeps anxiety at bay. Then, elderly Greta moves in. Greta is quiet, precise, frail, and unsettlingly observant. When...

The concept of self-care is, in fact, thousands of years old. This buzzword is rooted in a 2,500-year old Chinese philosophy. Yang sheng means to nourish life fostering your own health and wellbeing by nurturing body, mind and spirit. In this book, Katie Brindle teaches readers how to harness...

Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction.

Life is easy, it's men she'll never figure out . . . When hotel manager Daisy MacLean meets cocky sports hero Dev Tyzack, it's a no brainer—stay away. He is arrogant and sarcastic—but also incredibly sexy. Daisy tries her best to steer clear of him, yet soon comes to realize he is the one...

No one could have planned for this . . . Lara Carson left her family and boyfriend Flynn eighteen years ago without a word to anyone. Why has no one heard from her since? Does it mean anything that she's suddenly reappeared in Bath just in time for her ex–best friend Evie's wedding? And what...

During The Year Without Summer, a group of famous young writers gathered at a mansion. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her fiancé Percy Shelley, the promiscuous Lord Byron, and John Polidori, his sexually tormented physician. At the group's center was Claire Clairmont, Mary's stepsister. Those...

Now a TV series Starring Diane Kruger on Paramount+ “Taut, clever, compelling, and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.” —Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal—now a hit Netflix series—a new thought-provoking...

Katie and Tom's marriage is in trouble. So is their bank account. So, when Tom blindsides her by saying that his boss is sending him to Australia – permanently – Katie realises it might just be what they need to save their marriage. Trouble is, she doesn't like the heat, can't swim and hates spiders. Thrown into Sydney's sun, surf and school-gate politics, Katie finds unexpected friendship in glamorous, wealthy Naomi and bohemian Ann.

From Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men. Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's...

All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, the passion and achievements of women writers spanning one hundred years of innovation. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and...

Mairéad is single, child-free and head of a successful influencer talent agency. The young people at work may be mean to her, she hasn’t seen her only sister for nine years and she’s one bad date away from giving up on men completely – but other than that, she’s got life sorted. Until...

Mary hears on the radio that the British warship her husband is on has sunk, leaving few survivors. Waiting for daybreak to bring news, Mary escapes into memories of her past. Sincere and engaging - a ‘hot-water bottle’ novel - Mariana by Monica Dickens is full of sharply remembered detail...

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. Her...

'An absolute treat of an historical crime novel. Sheer perfection' – Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal The Art of a Lie is a beguiling cat-and-mouse thriller from The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Square of Sevens, Laura Shepherd-Robinson. That’s the trouble with...

The richest silk hides the deepest secrets . . . The Dressmaker of Draper’s Lane by Liz Trenow is an immersive historical novel set during the opulence and extravagance of the London silk trade in the mid-eighteenth century. 1768, London. As a foundling who rose from poverty and now runs her...

Under a Wartime Sky is an enthralling historical novel by Liz Trenow, based on real-life events at a top-secret wartime research station. Telling the story of the heroes behind the discovery of radar, it’s perfect for readers of Kate Furnivall and Rachel Hore. Bawdsey Manor holds a secret...

'A beautiful book. Powerful and captivating, the story will transport you to another time and place, plunging you headlong into the lives of its characters. Tracy Rees's writing is fluid, vibrant and evocative. Extraordinarily good.' - Hazel Prior Tracy Rees's latest novel The Elopement is an...

After renowned London fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades ago. She arrives with nothing but the clothes she stands in, at a loss as to how to rebuild her business from a quaint...

I Survived is Victoria Cilliers' chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case that made headlines around the world. Now the subject of a major Channel 4 documentary The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot. On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced skydiver...