Bantam Press One More Christmas at the Castle Ashley Trisha

A moving and uplifting festive novella from Marcia Willett, perfect for fans of Katie Fforde and Fern Britton • Nestled in the Devon countryside, the Keep has always been a refuge for the Chadwick family: forever warm and welcoming through the challenges life has thrown at them. And the current occupants have certainly seen their share of challenges • Lulu and her small son, Oliver, are staying at the Keep while they find their feet. Freddie's commission as a naval chaplain has just ended and he too is grateful to have been welcomed at the Keep whilst he decides where to go next. And now Ed, the black sheep of the family, is finally coming home after ten years living in the USA • Ed's strange, secretive behaviour means that he often clashes with his family

World-renowned future forecaster, game designer, and New York Times bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear • How can we be confident about making plans? • How might we feel secure despite the future being unknown? • How do we learn to feel at peace with the unexpected? • Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies to help us recover our confidence and creativity in facing uncertain futures • By learning to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable you can better plan for a future you'd like to see

Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books and some things that aren't even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice • Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackville Street (est. 1761) to interview for their bookselling apprenticeship, a decision which has bedevilled him ever since • He'd intended to stay for a year before launching into some less dusty, better remunerated career. Unfortunately for him, the alluring smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap proved irresistible. Soon he was balancing teetering stacks of first editions, fending off nonagenarian widows with a ten-foot pole and trying not to upset the store's resident ghost (the late Mr Sotheran had unfinished business when he was hit by that tram)

Бекка Флетчер всегда ненавидела Рождество, но у нее есть свои причины быть Маленькой мисс Гринч. Однако теперь она не может избежать своей версии "хо-хо-ада", потому что едет в кафе Comfort Food, чтобы провести праздничный сезон со своей сестрой Лорой и ее семьей. Она ожидает глинтвейна, 24-часовых рождественских киномарафонов и всевозможных очень веселых пыток • Бекка и не подозревает, что кафе Comfort Food не похоже ни на одно другое место на земле. Расположенное на заснеженном холме, это место, полное дружбы, где могут исцелиться разбитые сердца, расцвести новая любовь и где рождественское чудо Бекки действительно могло бы произойти - если бы только она могла позволить этому случиться… • "Рождество в кафе Comfort Food" - это продолжение бестселлера 2016 года "Лето в кафе Comfort Food", который приглашает читателей, как новых, так и старых, устроиться в уютном кресле

Виндзорский замок, 1943 год • В то время как по всему миру бушует война, принцесса Елизавета сталкивается лицом к лицу с лихим морским офицером, которого она впервые встретила в Лондоне девять лет назад • Один из самых молодых первых лейтенантов Королевского военно-морского флота, Филипп олицетворяет собой все, что ей всегда запрещали. Нестабильность. Дерзость. Авантюризм • Но когда король узнает об их отношениях, все при дворе ставят под сомнение пригодность иностранного принца • Их связь - риск, на который ей никогда не разрешалось идти. Риск, от которого ее не остановит даже тень короны… • Роман Флоры Хардинг "Перед короной" проведет вас через дворцовые ворота и откроет увлекательный исторический роман о королевских тайнах и запретной любви, исследующий бурные ухаживания между принцессой Елизаветой и принцем Филиппом после Второй мировой войны

Все любят Рождество • Особенно Лиззи Кингхэм. Но в этом году ей кажется, что родные её не любят и не ценят. Они взвалили на неё закупку подарков, украшений и еды к празднику. И Лиззи задаётся вопросом: а что будет, если она исчезнет и заставит их разбираться с этими делами самостоятельно? • И вот она отправляется в своё любимое место: пляжный домик среди золотых песков Эвердина. Там Лиззи неожиданно для себя находит новых друзей, каждый из которых тоже от чего-то бежит. Вскоре её переполняет дух праздника, так что вокруг неё начинают сиять гирлянды, а аромат глинтвейна смешивается с запахом моря • А тем временем семья Лиззи ищет её изо всех сил, ведь без неё и праздник не тот. Успеют ли они найти её вовремя? И поверит ли она в силу и постоянство их любви? • Перед вами полная любви, надежды и праздничного настроения история прощения, из которой выйдет прекрасный подарок! • "Christmas at the Beach Hut" - третья книга цикла "The Beach Hut" Вероники Генри

Tuesday is Princess Celie's favourite day. Castle Glower magically grows a new room, a turret or sometimes an entire wing! No one quite knows how, or why, but luckily, Princess Celie has mapped out the Castle's many twists and turns • When the king and queen disappear and Councillors from neighbouring kingdoms arrive to advise Celie, a new tower and a secret passageway appear just as Celie needs them. The Castle is definitely trying to tell her something. But it's down to Celie to find her parents, hold on to the kingdom and protect her home before it's too late • The first page-turning adventure in a New York Times bestselling series

Key Words with Peter and Jane uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully and confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched and world renowned • In book 10b, Peter and Jane discover secrets at a castle in 54 new words including, 'arrange', 'asleep', 'river' and 'suddenly' • The Key Words with Peter and Jane books work because each of the key words is introduced gradually and repeated frequently. This builds confidence in children when they recognise these key words on sight (also known as the 'look and say' method of learning). Examples of key words are: the, one, two, he • There are 12 levels, each with 3 books: a, b, and c • Series a • Gradually introduces new words

Issy Randall, proud owner of the Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn't be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Caroline aren't quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend Austin is scouted for a possible move to New York, Issy is forced to face up to the prospect of a long-distance romance. And when the Christmas rush at the cafe - with its increased demand for her delectable creations - begins to take its toll, Issy has to decide what she holds most dear.This December, Issy will have to rely on all her reserves of courage, good nature and cinnamon, to make sure everyone has a merry Christmas, one way or another

The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley • Tina Devino makes more money teaching people to write than writing herself. A middling romance novelist who dreams of penning a bestseller, she’s increasingly forced to compete with younger, blonder debut authors for her publisher and agent’s attention • Feeling forgotten, Tina realises the only way up is to take her career and destiny in hand and build her own happy ending; which is perfect because, for a romance writer, Tina isn’t the most traditional of women… Although she does see her long term partner lover friend, Sergei, once a week which is ‘quite enough, thank you very much’. But her uncomplicated love life might soon need some unravelling when a mysterious Tube Man, unwelcome ex-husband and a shadowy figure in a butterfly mask waltz into the picture

The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes • A green bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper mill running on empty. The rider crouched on top in a rictus of pain has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from somewhere nearby, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged breathing • A battered van appears behind her, the customary cigarette dangling from its driver’s-side window… as he passes, she casually reaches down for some water, smiling broadly in the manner of someone having almost too much fun. ‘No sweat,’ she says jauntily to his retreating exhaust pipe. ‘Pas de probleme, monsieur

On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual • Flora MacKenzie is worried about her brother. Fintan hasn't got over the death of his partner, Colton, and Flora thinks he needs a project • The Rock - the rambling, disused hotel on the tip of the island - was Colton's passion project before he died. With Flora's help, Fintan is going to get the hotel up and running in time for Christmas, transforming it into a festive haven of crackling log fires and delicious food. But running a hotel, they are about to discover, is not that easy. Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can't peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her