'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters, Booker-shortlisted author of Fingersmith, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAll Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country. In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires, her sudden and intoxicating freedom. In her solitude, she starts to write - and finds herself writing... Views: 114
Sequin's mum is a talented seamstress and their little flat is overflowing with beautiful silks, fabrics, buttons and beads. It's a sparkling sanctuary, like a princess's wardrobe. While Mum works at her sewing machine late into the night, Sequin takes care of her baby brother, Stitch, and dreams of a place in the spotlight for her brilliant mum. But when tragedy strikes, their shimmering world disintegrates and Sequin is forced to confront the biggest loss of all ... Acclaimed creator Laura Dockrill sews together family, imagination and heart in this lyrical and completely unique Barrington Stoke debut. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 8+ Views: 114
Quiet towns hold the most secrets… Alone, stuck in a dead-end job and with no hope in sight, Libby Fortune feels like a failure. But when she receives a surprise inheritance from her late Uncle, it seems like her life is finally turning around. There's only one catch. Her uncle's will states that to claim it, she must live in the remote and quiet town of Lashire Bluff. Libby jumps at the idea – but upon arriving, something strikes her as odd about the town. Their seeming worship of her deceased family is rivalled only by the 18th-century mansion overlooking them. As Libby settles into her new home, a series of unexplainable events soon cause her to question if her inheritance is really worth it. But whenever she thinks about leaving, the hauntings only get worse. A mysterious letter… lingering shadows… creaking in the dark… windows shattering… A secret lies in the mountains around this sleepy town, one that stretches back through her bloodline for generations. One that doesn't want her to leave… If you like paranormal suspense novels with ghosts and otherworldly powers, then you won't want to miss The Fortune of Lashire Bluff. Grab your book now! Views: 114
"You'll love this character so much, you'll want her as your best friend."—Alyssa Maxwell, author of the Gilded Newport Mysteries and a Lady and Lady's Maid MysteriesPoppy Redfern is back on the case when two female fighter pilots take a fatal dive in an all-new Woman of World War II Mystery by Tessa Arlen.It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valor and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils, Poppy is thrilled to receive her first solo script project: a fifteen-minute film about the Air Transport Auxiliary, known as Attagirls, a group of female civilians who have been trained to pilot planes from factories to military airfields all over Britain.Poppy could not be more excited to spend time with these amazing ladies, but she never... Views: 114
A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very odd things have begun to happen. Crows gather near her wherever she goes, electronics short out when she touches them, and when she's upset, really upset, it storms. At first, she chalked up the unusual happenings to coincidence, but that explanation doesn't begin to cover the vivid nightmares that torment her. She can no longer pretend to ignore them. She has to find out the truth. And the only starting point she has is a mysterious letter from her father delivered ten years after his death, insisting she go to a town called Salem and risk her life to stop some unnamed... Views: 114
