Headline The Key Хьюз Кэтрин

Mary has been nursing a secret • Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear • Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must go back to where it all began to unlock...The Secret

Тина, ищущая спасения от своего несчастливого брака, работает в комиссионном благотворительном магазинчике. Однажды, перебирая сданные вещи, она обнаруживает в кармане поношенного костюма запечатанный конверт. Не в силах побороть любопытство, Тина вскрывает его и находит внутри письмо, написанное три десятка лет назад. Тина берется выяснить, кому было предназначено это письмо, кто его написал и почему оно так и не дошло до адресата… • "Письмо" Кэтрин Хьюз - это роман о любви, утрате и удивительных совпадениях • Книга на английском языке • Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked

A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians • Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? • Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? • Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? • What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? • How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? • Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance - it's language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back

It all began with a midwife's secret, long buried but if uncovered could save two families from the bitter tragedy that binds them. And prove the key that will free them all • 1969 On New Year's Eve, while the Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season, their little girl disappears. Suspicion falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished. Bobby protests his innocence, but he is sent away. Alice is never found • Present day Architect Willow James is working on a development at Yew Tree when she discovers the land holds a secret. As she begins to dig deep into the past, she uncovers a web of injustice. And when another child goes missing, Willow knows the only way to stop history repeating itself is to right a terrible wrong

People disappear. Secrets remain • 1940: In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she mysteriously disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. In London, on the brink of the Blitz, Nancy Rathmore is grieving Charlotte's death when a letter arrives containing a secret that she is sworn to keep - one that will change her life for ever • 2019: Decades later, Ellie Fitzgerald is forced to leave Dublin disgraced and heartbroken. Abandoning journalism, she returns to rural Kerry to weather out the storm. But, when she discovers a faded letter, tucked inside the pages of an old book, she finds herself drawn in by a long-buried secret. And as Ellie begins to unravel the mystery, it becomes clear that the letter might hold the key to more than just Charlotte's disappearance

The Thousand Lights Hotel is the gorgeous new novel from Emylia Hall, author of Richard and Judy Summer Pick THE BOOK OF SUMMERS. Set in idyllic Italy, it's the perfect holiday read, for fans of Louise Douglas and Hannah Richell • When Kit loses her mother in tragic circumstances, she feels drawn to finally connect with the father she has never met. That search brings her to the Thousand Lights Hotel, the perfect holiday escape perched upon a cliff on the island of Elba. Within this idyllic setting a devastating truth is brought to light: shaking the foundations upon which the hotel is built, and shattering the lives of the people within it • A heartbreaking story of loss, betrayal, and redemption, told with all the warmth and beauty of an Italian summer

The locals of the Cornish village of Polperran are grieving the sudden loss of Bea Kimbrel, a cornerstone of their small community • Now her reclusive, estranged daughter Alice has turned up, keen to tie up Bea's affairs and move on • But Alice receives a strange bequest from Bea - a collection of unfinished tasks to help out those in Polperran most in need • As each little act brings her closer to understanding her mother, it also begins to offer Alice the courage to open her clamped-shut heart. Perhaps Bea's project will finally unlock the powerful secrets both women have been keeping • The Kindness Project will draw you deep into the lives of two compelling women who should never have missed their chance to say goodbye. It will break your heart - and piece it back together again

The gritty new mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series, set in Edinburgh and the Scottish countryside; not to be missed by readers of Ian Rankin and Peter May • Nine years ago, divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community, she had been accused of theft, and it's assumed that she was unable to live with the shame. Now her former husband wants the case reopened. Marcia was framed, he says, to prevent her exposing a scandal. He wants justice for Marcia. And Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate, and daughter of retired Chief Constable Sir Robert Skinner, has taken on the brief, aided by her investigator Carrie McDaniels • When tragedy strikes and his daughter comes under threat, Skinner steps in. His quarry is about to discover that the road to hell is marked by bad intentions

Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. Years later when Tara receives a letter from a London solicitor its contents shake her to the core. Someone has left her a key to a safe deposit box. In the box lies an object that will change everything Tara thought she knew and lead her on a journey to deepest Spain in search of the answers that have haunted her for forty years • Violet Skye regrets her decision to travel abroad leaving her young daughter behind. As the sun dips below the mountains, she reminds herself she is doing this for their future. Tonight, 4th June 1978, will be the start of a new life for them. This night will indeed change Violet's destiny, in the most unexpected of ways

"Секрет Малленов" • К переизданию трилогии "Маллены" Рози Гудвин написала роман "Секрет Малленов" в стиле Кэтрин Куксон - заключительное продолжение одной из самых популярных серий Куксон • Каждое поколение семьи Маллен было омрачено несчастьем и трагедией, говорят, что они прокляты и это показывает драматическая белая прядь в их черных волосах. Ужасы Первой мировой войны наконец-то закончились, и, как и многие другие семьи, семья Малленов была опустошена потерями, ранами и воспоминаниями, которые почти слишком ужасны, чтобы их вынести. Но даже когда они пытаются восстановить свою жизнь после войны, тайны и ложь прошлых поколений всплывают на поверхность, вызывая разрушения иного рода • Язык издания: английский • To coincide with the re-publication of the Mallen trilogy, Rosie Goodwin has written The Mallen Secret in the style of Catherine Cookson - a final instalment to one of Cookson's most enduringly popular series

"Песчаный танцор" - интересный роман Рози Гудвин из серии книг о Кэтрин Куксон • Несмотря на писательский успех, жизнь Мэйзи никогда не была легкой. Но с помощью Гамильтона, воображаемой лошади, которую она придумала, чтобы сбежать от суровой реальности, ее юмор и смелость помогают ей выжить. Теперь, когда Мэйзи замужем за Томми, надежды на счастье разбиваются вдребезги: он становится ревнивым и властным, угрожая даже ее отношениям с любимым приемным сыном Гарольдом • После трагического несчастного случая Мэйзи неохотно соглашается вернуться в свой родной город Феллберн, Тайнсайд, чтобы начать все сначала. Но поведение ее мужа становится все более непредсказуемым, и один из его новых сотрудников, странный мужчина по прозвищу Песчаный танцор, вселяет страх в ее сердце каждый раз, когда она встречает его

Set in seventeenth-century Iran, The Blood of Flowers is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood • The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian storytelling tradition, we are never to know) lives with her mother and rug-maker father. On the sudden death of her father, our heroine and her mother fall upon hard times and are forced to travel to the bustling, beautiful, exotic city of Isfahan where relatives take them in • Everything is new: the grudging charity of her aunt, the encouragement of her uncle, one of the finest carpet-makers in the world, who begins to teach her his craft, the treacherous friendship of the daughter of rich neighbours. And there's an adventure ahead which will introduce her to the sensual side of life as well as to the cruelty of betrayal and rejection before she finds her way to contentment and possibly, even, to happiness, in a world full of contrasts and dangers