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Could your dream home be your worst nightmare? • After what happened in London, Kirsty needs a fresh start with her family. And running a guesthouse in the Welsh mountains sounds idyllic • But then their first guest arrives • Selena is the last person Kirsty wants to see. It's 17 years since she tore everything apart • Why has she chosen now to walk back into Kirsty's life? • Is Selena running from something too? • Or is there an even darker reason for her visit? • Because Kirsty knows that once you invite trouble into your home, getting rid of it can be murder

Three Girls Missing • Twenty years ago: One rainy night, Olivia Rutherford is driving three friends home when a figure in the road causes her to swerve and crash. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself alone in the car - her friends have vanished • They Are Never Seen Again • Now: Journalist Jenna Halliday visits the close-knit community of Stafferbury to persuade Olivia to talk and solve the mystery of the girls' disappearance. But Olivia won't speak • What happened? • Is Olivia hiding something? • Why are the people of Stafferbury so frightened? • How many secrets can one small town hide?

Learn how to utilise cupboard staples and fresh ingredients in this accessible collection of low-budget, delicious family recipes • When Jack found themselves with a shopping budget of just ?10 a week to feed themselves and their young son, they addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness and creativity by embracing their local supermarket's 'basics' range • They created recipe after recipe of delicious, simple and upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap, including • · Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion • · Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion • · Onion Pasta with Parsley and Red Wine - an easy way to get some veg in you • · Carrot, Cumin and Kidney Bean Soup - tasty protein-packed goodness • In A Girl Called Jack, learn how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful and creating inexpensive, tasty food

A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp. (Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Elizabeth Is Missing will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core... (Emma Donoghue, author of Room). Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett. (Daily Telegraph). One of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down. (Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club). Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting. (Observer). If you're after a read you can't put down, then look no further. (New!). Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey: meet Maud... Maud is forgetful

A young man wakes up bruised and beaten, with no memory of who he is or where he came from • The press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man' • Naming himself Richard Kite, he spends the next ten months desperately trying to find out who he is. But despite media appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows him • Richard's last hope may be private investigator David Raker - a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers • Who is Richard Kite? • Why does no one know him? • And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago? • Could Richard be responsible for her death - or is he next?

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See • Rome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini's house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes'own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished

'Teacher wanted at the edge of the world . . .' • After the loss of her father, Una sees a chance to escape Reykjavik to tutor two girls in the tiny village of Skalar - population just ten - on Iceland's storm-battered north coast • But city life hasn't prepared her for the unforgiving weather nor inhospitable village life. Worse, the creaky old house where she lives is playing on her already fragile mind when she's convinced she hears the ghostly sound of singing • Then, at midwinter, a young girl is found dead • And one of the villagers must have blood on their hands

Arty has always lived in the Clearing, a commune hidden in the forests of south India. But her happy life, separate from the rest of the world, is shattered after a terrible event • For the first time, Arty must leave her home, and head into the intriguing but frightening outside world. On the streets of India, a chance encounter leads to her becoming an unwilling overnight celebrity • As she embarks on her journey, she discovers she is being followed by thousands of strangers, who seem to know her every move • Forced to fight against mysterious hashtags and being constantly photographed, how can she find the help she desperately needs? • Everything is changing too fast for this girl who came out of the woods... could she be running into a trap? • The new thriller from the acclaimed author of The One Memory of Flora Banks, perfect for fans of Karen McManus, E

Can she escape her past? • Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow workhouse • She now has a coveted position in the kitchens at Freeman's Department store in Liverpool and even the prospect of advancement. For Patty has always enjoyed baking and her flair for it has caught the attention of the store owner who intends to have her create elaborate cakes and pastries to serve at afternoon tea to Freeman's clientele • But when you're a workhouse girl you can never quite forgive your past and when you've fallen on hard times before, you're always aware how easy it is to lose everything

"The Girl on the Train", a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of Hull. Her adored father often travelled by sea to the Netherlands, leaving her with an unaffectionate mother and only her imagination of a little Dutch girl, Anneliese, to keep her company. When devastation ravages her tiny family. Annelise becomes the comforting friend Margriet needs for a long time to come • A few years later, Margriet is blossoming into a kind young lady. Keen to escape her mother and strike out on her own, she forms an unlikely friendship with some of the street children who roam the town • As Margriet acts upon her inspiration to help them, will the troubles of her past break her spirit, or will she be able to overcome them?

*Carer/Companion wanted for elderly lady* • *Young female preferred * Competitive salary* • *Room and board included* • Una Richardson is devastated after the death of her mother. Hoping for a fresh start, she responds to an advertisement and steps into the rich, comforting world of elderly Mrs Elspeth McKenzie • But Elspeth's home is not as safe as it seems • Kathryn, her cold and bitter daughter, resents Una's presence. More disturbing is the evidence suggesting two girls lived here before • What happened to the girls? • Why will the McKenzies not talk about them? • As the walls close in around her, Una fears she'll end up just like the other girls