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Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the dark memories home brings, for as long as it takes to escape • But a reckoning is coming. Stuck together in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family's past. What happened to Durga's mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members disappear during the war? And who is to blame for the childhood tragedy that haunts her to this day? • In her stunning debut novel Catherine Menon traces one family's story from 1920 to the present, unravelling a thrilling tale of love, betrayal and redemption against the backdrop of natural disasters and fallen empires

Laugh out loud with the gorgeously romantic rural comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer • Polly is content and settled in married life, until one comment shakes everything up • 'You've gone all fat and complacent because you've got your man, haven't you?' • Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall she has let herself go. But watching a lot of telly and gorging on biscuits, not getting dressed until lunchtime and waiting for pregnancy to strike are not the signs of someone living an active and fulfilled life • So Polly does something rash • She allows her home to be used as a location for a TV advert. Having a glamorous film crew around will certainly put a bomb under the idyllic, rural life

Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen • Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the sandy coves of Cornwall, which should be blissful • But there's one small snag: she'll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda • And then her ex-husband shows up out of the blue, complete with his new wife • Can Flora spend the summer playing happy families with the woman who stole her husband's heart, and the mother-in-law who might have had a hand in it? • Could a holiday romance help her finally get over her him? • And will stumbling on the family secret change her mind about them all? • If you like Fern Britton, Katie Fforde and Jill Mansell, you'll love this irresistible and heart-warming summer read from the bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and About Last Night

A modern marriage, or a big mistake? • Ella was nineteen and madly in love when she married dashing young artist Sebastian Montclair. But that was a long time ago. Now Ella and the kids live in a ramshackle farmhouse while Sebastian and his paintings inhabit the outhouse next door - a family separated in every way but distance. Is it a marvellously modern relationship - or a disaster waiting to happen? • When charming gardener Ludo arrives on the scene and Sebastian makes a sudden and surprising decision, Ella sees a chance at a fresh start. Yet with two teenagers and her parents on the verge of their own late-life crisis, will Ella be allowed to choose her own path? And how long can she hide from the truth which haunts her broken marriage?

How many is too many? Dive into the hilarious, heartwarming bestseller from the author of A Cornish Summer • There isn't room in a marriage for three • Painter Imogen is happily married to Alex, and together they have a son. But when their finances hit rock bottom, they're forced to accept Eleanor Latimer's offer of a rent-free cottage on her large country estate. If it was anyone else, Imogen would be beaming gratitude. Unfortunately, Eleanor just happens to be Alex's beautiful, rich and flirtatious ex • And from the moment she steps inside Shepherd's Cottage, Imogen's life is in chaos. In between coping with rude locals, murderous chickens, a maddening (if handsome) headmaster, mountains of manure, and visits from the infuriating vet, she has to face Eleanor, now a fixture at Alex's side

Молодая пара влюбляется, женится и создает семью, как и бесчисленное множество молодых пар до них. Но Ламмхен и "Бой" живут в Берлине в 1932 году, и все меняется. Пока они отчаянно пытаются свести концы с концами среди издевательств начальства, неоплаченных счетов, чудовищных тещ и нацистских уличных бойцов, смогут ли они сохранить свою любовь? • "Маленький человек, что теперь?", роман, который принес Хансу Фалладе известность, рассказывает историю одной из самых трогательных пар европейской литературы и наполнен необычайной смесью комедии и отчаяния. Она была опубликована незадолго до прихода Гитлера к власти и остается навязчивым изображением невинных людей, чей мир вот-вот будет сметен навсегда • Книга на английском языке • From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany • 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' • A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them

As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. At first, the contrast between Nanga and Odili, a former pupil who is visiting the ministry, appears huge. But in the 'eat-and-let-eat' atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts - and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966, A Man of the People is an essential part of his body of work dealing with modern African history

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces • 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers' • Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and violence. This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of

'Let's be clear that it's not your professionalism which I question. If you understand nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, it's because from the very start you've been working with facts which had been falsified.' • Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. As his audacious plan to uncover the truth unfolds, he encounters rich American expatriates, some truly dangerous characters and their hidden motives

Two lives are about to be changed by one phone call • When Davey misdials Hannah's number, at first they think nothing of it • After all, Davey lives in Texas and Hannah lives in London • But when Davey gets a job in London, their paths are sure to cross. As messaging turns to video calling, this feels like the start of something • Weeks later, Hannah is waiting for Davey at the airport, but he never walks into Arrivals • When Hannah finds out why, her world is turned on its head. And with their future so uncertain, each must pick up the pieces of their lives • Will fate intervene once more to bring them together? Or will Davey always be the man that Hannah never met?

Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Comedie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution