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The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone • Six people, one big house and the party that brings it all down • Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them - until the gorgeous Jemima moves in. They're both falling for her, but which one of them does she want? • Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan are happily unmarried and have been for fifteen years - until Cheri moves into the flat above, and fixes her sights on Karl. Why should a little problem like his girlfriend get in her way? • Sooner or later this house is bound to implode • So when Ralph throws a party and invites the whole house, what could possibly go wrong? • If you like Marian Keyes, Jane Fallon, and Sophie Kinsella, you'll love this

Bee Beahorn had it all - a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle • At least, that's what her estranged sister, Ana, had always believed • Their lives were worlds apart. Bea was beautiful, extravagant and full of life. Ana was awkward, shy, and destined to live in Bea's shadow • But when Bea is found dead in her flat, Ana realises that everything she knew about her sister had been a lie • Ana is determined to find out the truth about her sister - and she might just find herself along the way

Have you ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into her twelve years after you last saw her and realizing you still fancy her rotten. This is what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again • Now imagine you're Nadine. You've been Dig's best friend for the last fifteen years, and you've just realized that you're in love with him. Delilah was your nemesis at school and it turns out she stills is. When she resurfaces, you might find yourself feeling extremely jealous and start doing really childish things. Like phoning your first love, Phil, just to get your own back • This is a story about ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends and what happens when you start messing with the past. And how sometimes what you're looking for isn't in the past or in the future, but right under your nose

For years, Toby has opened his door to the people who needed his help • For years, Leah has been fascinated by the mysterious house across the street and its unusual mix of occupants • They've never met - until Toby receives a letter that draws Leah inside • Finally, Leah gets to know the lives of the people she's wondered about for so long - a group of artists who have each lost their way • When Toby decides he needs to move on with his life, he knows he needs to help his tenants, too • Leah insists on helping his plan to bring them all happiness • But can she also make Toby's dreams come true?

A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics • Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world

They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues • There's Chris, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them • Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty' • Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself

The huge bestseller from the author of The Family Upstairs and The Girls - a love story for anyone who adored One Day in December and David Nicholls • Right person. Wrong time • Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet as teenagers, and instantly fall in love • But two weeks later, a misunderstanding forces them apart • When they cross paths seven years later they've been living very different lives • Yet neither of them has been able to let go of their first love • What happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time?

A stranger in the house can only mean trouble • The London family is in crisis • Newly-divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he shouldn't • Prize-winning writer Sean has a hot new girlfriend, and a dose of writer's block • Their brother Ned has just come back from Australia, leaving his girlfriend behind • And now they have a new lodger - a mysterious stranger • But is he the friend this family needs, or a troublemaker they could do without?

В семье Берд четверо детей, они отлично ладят между собой, разве что Риз, мрачный, замкнутый, выделяется на их фоне. Мэг плохо понимает брата. Впрочем, и Рори, и Бет, и родители — все его сторонятся. Потому что у Риза есть тайна. Тайна, из-за которой соседи обходят его стороной. И лишь во время пасхальных каникул, когда с Ризом случается беда, окружающие впервые обращают на него внимание. Мэг поражена — оказывается, многие его любили. Но любовь с трудом поддается разуму и никогда — классификации. Она бывает жертвенной, бескорыстной, а порой — разрушительной и опасной. Так что же разрушило жизнь Риза? Или… кто?

Помните ли вы свою первую любовь? А первую близость? Задавались ли когда-нибудь вопросом, как сложилась судьба у человека, который оставил столь глубокий след у вас в душе? Впервые Винс и Джой встретились еще подростками. Они провели вместе совсем немного времени - тайком, сбежав от родителей. Все оборвалось после одной чудесной и в то же время очень грустной ночи. Однако им повезло столкнуться позже… через семь лет. С тех пор пути Винса и Джой пересекалась удивительным образом, то забавляя, то приводя в отчаяние, ведь каждый новый эпизод грозил разрушить их устоявшиеся жизни. Что же это – знак или дурная шутка судьбы? И как им разорвать этот заколдованный круг?

Эдриан Вольф называет себя "не человеком, а гранатой". Кажется, он действительно не может организовать свою жизнь так, чтобы ничего в ней не разрушить и все были счастливы. У него три сына, две дочери, три дома, кошка, две бывшие жены и еще одна… мертвая. Майя погибла в результате несчастного случая, но Эдриан подозревает, что в этом может быть замешан кто-то из близких. Как только он начинает собственное расследование, в его жизни возникает загадочная рыжеволосая Джейн. Она явно питает к нему интерес, и Эдриан не против ответить ей взаимностью. Однако его не покидает чувство, что Джейн знает о его семье гораздо больше, чем он сам. В романе "Третья жена" автор исследует динамику взаимоотношений внутри семьи, заставляя героев пройти непростой путь от гармонии к ощущению краха, к восстановлению хрупкого мира и последующей нестабильности