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Who knows what might happen in a summer of love? • Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country • With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she's happy and very busy. She is not - repeat not - looking for love • And then, one glorious summer evening, Gus Beresford arrives • One-time explorer, full-time heart-breaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous - and, Sian tells herself, completely wrong for a romantically cautious single woman like her • But she and Gus have met before. And, despite Sian's best intentions, it isn't long before she's falling for him all over again

Love, honour – and obey? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match • Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others – but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she's had enough. So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime, she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple, and heads off to the land of opportunity • From the moment Sophie hits the bright lights of Manhattan she's determined to enjoy every minute of her big adventure. And when fate throws her together with Matilda, a spirited grande dame of New York society who invites her to Connecticut for Thanksgiving, she willingly accepts

Bidding for love can be a costly business... Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge extends only to the information she has crammed from daytime TV, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put out when she doesn't receive the warm country welcome she expected. Her curt cousin Charles and his fiancee Annabelle are determined to send Flora packing, and their offer to buy her out is tempting... until a strange warning makes her think twice. Stuck with a cat about to burst with kittens, Flora has little choice but to accept the offer to stay in an abandoned holiday cottage miles from any neighbours, let alone a trendy winebar

Will opening the door lead to love and happy endings? • Lorna and her friend Philly work together in the grounds of a beautiful manor house in the Cotswolds • But even though they are surrounded by family and friends, the door to true love remains resolutely closed - until the day they discover a beautiful secret garden deep in the manor's grounds • Could this be the sign that their luck is about to change?

May, Sally and Harriet have had enough • They may work at Quality Cleaners, but there is nothing quality about the way their boss, 'Slimeball' Slater, runs the business. Sick and tired of working for a crook, May, Sally and Harriet decide to set up their own business • Soon May finds she can afford the mooring fees for her beloved narrowboat, Harriet discovers she has a gift for painting, and Sally's dream of owning a place of her own is fast becoming a reality • It all seems to be going so well. But is it really? • And is it too much, May wonders, to want a man to share her newfound happiness?

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape • Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House, an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside • Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first century • Bearing all the attributes of a modern-day Mr Rochester, Matthew Ballinger is less than happy with the whirlwind that has arrived on his doorstep • The last thing either of them want is to fall in love • But will a trip to France change their minds?

Three years ago, Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart over Dominic Thane • Now she has a new job she loves, selling houses in the Cotswold countryside. And her boyfriend, Nevil, has just proposed • They're just right for each other, Bella tells herself. So why doesn't she feel happier? • Then Dominic turns up unexpectedly • And Bella begins to ask herself whether Nevil really is her perfect match after all

Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true • She has just moved to her aunt's beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds. If she can turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers • But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might even be afraid of cows • She'll need help, not just from her best friend Issi, but also from her wealthy and very eligible neighbour - who might just have his own reasons for being so supportive • Is it the farm he is interested in? Or Fran herself? • Warm, funny and wonderfully romantic, this is Katie Forde at her very best

A vintage wedding, romance, and a happily-ever-after ending - what more could you want from the 'modern-day Jane Austen'? • In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings • So they set up a business of their own: organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings • Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days • What none of them know is that their own romances are waiting just around the corner

On the death of Henry the fifth, a nine-month-old baby is made King of England. Ambitious men surround the baby king, including his two uncles, the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester. Shrewd and clever, Bedford seeks to uphold all his late brother had won and preserve it for young Henry the sixth. Gloucester, a man of poor judgment, greedy for wealth and power, has other ideas • In Lancastrian England and war-torn France, there are three women whose lives are to have a marked effect on the future. Katherine de Valois, haunted by an unhappy childhood, finds love in an unexpected quarter and founds the Tudor dynasty; Joan of Arc leaves her village pastures on the command of heavenly voices; and Eleanor of Gloucester is drawn into a murder plot and becomes the centre of a cause celebre

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca • As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers. But when one anonymous admirer inundates her with bouquets of yellow roses - on stage, in her dressing room and even inside her locked apartment - it becomes clear that this fan has become a potentially dangerous stalker. Distraught, Flavia turns to an old friend for help

П. Г. Вудхаус прекрасно знал, что выпивка может поднять настроение. А ещё он умел остроумно и с житейской мудростью описывать комические последствия злоупотребления алкоголем. В сборник Highballs for Breakfast вошли моменты из произведений Вудхауса, в которых кто-то заливает за воротник, набирается, пропускает по рюмочке, принимает на грудь… и, как следствие, попадает в какую-нибудь передрягу • Других писателей волновали неблагоприятные последствия выпивки, но творца Дживса и Вустера интересовало лишь таящееся на дне фужера удовольствие. Он хорошо разбирался в спиртном и описывал в своём фирменном стиле самые разные алкогольные напитки: коктейли, шампанское, портвейн, виски, бренди (с содовой, разумеется), пиво и даже потин, печально известный ирландский самогон