Hodder & Stoughton All I Ever Wanted Dillon Lucy

In phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun and friendship • But Hubert Bird is lying • Something has made him turn his back on people, and he hardly sees a soul • So when his daughter announces she's coming to visit, Hubert faces a race against time: to make his real life resemble his fake life before he's found out • Along the way Hubert renews a cherished friendship, is given a second chance at love and even joins an audacious community scheme. But with the secret of his earlier isolation lurking in the shadows, is he destines to always be one of the lonely people?

On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship, the Silver Wake, sends two people ashore to a stony strand. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired to do this by two of the most dangerous men alive. The consequences will affect so many lives both great and small, and possibly alter the balance of power in the world • One of those arriving on that night strand is a woman abducted by corsairs from her home as a child, escaping that fate, that destiny, years after, now trying to chart her own course - and bent upon revenge. Another figure, on the boat, bringing it to meet the secretive landing party at the city where they are going, is a merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith

Returning to the near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay tells a story of vengeance, power, and love • On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast, a small ship, the Silver Wake, sends two people ashore to a stony strand. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired to do this by two of the most dangerous men alive. The consequences will affect so many lives both great and small, and possibly alter the balance of power in the world • One of those arriving on that night strand is a woman abducted by corsairs from her home as a child, escaping that fate, that destiny, years after, now trying to chart her own course - and bent upon revenge. Another figure, on the boat, bringing it to meet the secretive landing party at the city where they are going, is a merchant who still remembers being exiled as a child with his family from their home, for their faith

Луиза Пенни — обладательница премии Агаты за лучший детективный роман года, она пять раз подряд получала премию Энтони. Её романы были переведены на 22 языка и получили экраницаю в сериале «Три сосны» с Альфредом Молина в главной роли • В свой первый вечер в Париже Гамаши собираются на семейный ужин с крестным отцом Армана, миллиардером Стивеном Горовицем. Но вечер заканчивается ужасом, когда Стивена сбивают с ног и он получает тяжелые травмы, что, по убеждению Армана, является не несчастным случаем, а преднамеренным покушением на жизнь пожилого человека • Когда у Стивена находят странный ключ, Арман отправляется на отчаянные поиски истины, которые приведут его с вершины Эйфелевой башни в недра парижских архивов • И когда Арман начинает раскрывать секреты, которые его крестный скрывал десятилетиями, он обнаруживает, что запутался в паутине лжи и коварства, которая угрожает уничтожить все — и всех, — кто ему дорог

A somebody. A nobody • A love story waiting to be written • All aspiring novelist Honor has ever wanted is to be successful. It's the only way she can impress the father who abandoned her, the boyfriend who gave up on her, and the nagging voice in her head that tells her she's not good enough • Still, wanting to tell a story is not the same as having a story to tell, and Honor knows she needs to find a new source of inspiration • When she's invited to spend a summer abroad in The Hamptons, Honor realises it could be the dream setting for a book, especially when a chance encounter provides her with the perfect leading man • But blurring fact and fiction is a dangerous game, and Honor soon discovers that writing her way to success might come at the expense of her own happy ever after

When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband's phone, she wants answers • Leah already has everything Megan has ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder • The only way Megan can get away with killing her twin is to become her • But then lockdown hits. How can she continue living two lives? And what happens if someone else knows her secret too?

A girl in a new country • A dark secret left behind • A dead body which might tell all • Ever since she was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka, Paloma has led a privileged Californian life: the best schools, a generous allowance and parents so perfect that Paloma fears she'll never live up to them • Now at thirty, Paloma has managed to disappoint her parents so thoroughly that their relationship will never recover. Unemployed and friendless, the only person still talking to her is Arun - the Indian man subletting her spare room. That is until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her fragile place in this country, and the next day is found face down in a pool of blood • On finding Arun's body Paloma flees her apartment

Вошедшие в данный сборник рождественские рассказы Энид Блайтон по праву считаются нестареющей классикой детской литературы. Эта книга - отличный подарок для тех, кто насладился этими историями в детстве и хочет познакомить с ними новое поколение читателей • Книга «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories» оказалась столь популярной, что издательство Hodder & Stoughton по просьбам читателей выпустило второй праздничный сборник, и именно его вы держите в руках! Энид Блайтон передаёт атмосферу Рождества с несравненным мастерством, какой бы аспект праздника она ни описывала: колядки, ожидание подарков, праздничный стол и, конечно, посиделки с родными и близкими… Да, в историях Блайтон, как обычно, нашлось место для озорства и хаоса, но добро и веселье в них всегда на первом месте! • Рассказы из этой книги ранее не публиковались в «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories»

All he wants is for them to say sorry • The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows the terrified victim begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number 2 • Detective Huldar joins the investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help question the murdered teenager's friends. Soon, they uncover that Stella was far from the angel people claim - but even so, who could have hated her enough to kill? • Then another teenager goes missing, and more clips are sent. Freyja and Huldar can agree on two things at least: the truth is far from simple. And the killer is not done yet • A brilliantly suspenseful story about the dark side of social media, The Absolution will make you wonder what you should have said sorry for

All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home • Just because she knows that her former best friend lives near the football ground, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that, and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora Braid for twelve years • But she can't resist. She parks outside Flora's house and watches from across the road as Flora and her children, Thomas and Emily, step out of the car. Except • There's something terribly wrong • Flora looks the same, only older - just as Beth would have expected. It's the children that are the problem. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were five and three years old

Letters from the only man she's ever loved • A keepsake of the father she never knew • Or just a beautiful glass vase that catches the light, even on a grey day • If you had the chance to make a fresh start, what would you keep from your old life What would you give away • Gina Bellamy is starting again, after a difficult few years she'd rather forget. But the belongings she's treasured for so long just don't seem to fit who she is now • So Gina makes a resolution. She'll keep just a hundred special items - the rest can go • But that means coming to terms with her past and learning to embrace the future, whatever it might bring

She has never approved of you. But it’s when her body is found the secrets really start to come out … • From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, Diana, she was kept at arm’s length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and perfectly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. Even so, Lucy wanted so much to please her new mother-in-law • That was five years ago • Now, Diana has been found dead, a suicide note near her body. Diana claims that she no longer wanted to live because of a battle with cancer • But the autopsy finds no cancer • The autopsy does find traces of poison and suffocation • Everyone in the family is hiding something. But what? And where will the secrets stop? • With Lucy’s secrets getting deeper and her relationship with her mother-in-law growing more complex as the pages turn, this new novel from Sally Hepworth is sure to add to her growing legion of fans