Chandler Cohen lies for a living • When she accepts her next ghostwriting gig penning a memoir for cult actor Finnegan Walsh, it should be a dream job • However, Chandler knows him best as something else: her worst-ever one-night stand • She's determined to keep things professional. But when she finally admits to Finn that their night together wasn't as mind-blowing as he thought, he's mortified, and determined to make amends • So, they strike a deal. During the day, they'll work on the book, and at night, she'll school him in the art of satisfaction • As they grow closer, the line between business and pleasure starts to blur • Can Chandler and Finn have both, or will they have to choose?
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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?
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France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions
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Can two young, coal-miner's daughters survive on their own? • When their mother tragically dies, Mary-Anne and Eliza are left under the care of their drunken step-father. Unable to rely on him, they are determined to stick together. But things are complicated when Mary-Anne, the eldest, falls pregnant with the child of a married mine-owner. Scared and unsure what to do, the sisters try to hide Mary-Anne's pregnancy. But such things cannot stay secret for long
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Twenty years ago • 21-year-old Sophie Collier vanishes one night • She leaves nothing behind but a trainer on the old pier - • and a hole in the heart of her best friend Francesca • Now • A body's been found • And Francesca's drawn back to the seaside town she's tried to forget • Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out • Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn't returned • Everywhere she turns, ghosts from her past appear. The same old faces that always haunted her. But if someone knows what really happened to Sophie that night, then now's the time to find out . . . Isn't it? • Except sometimes discovering the truth can cost you everything you hold dear - your family, your sanity and even your life
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Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller • Hardwick Hall, sixteenth-century England • Formerly a beacon of wealth and power • Now a gilded prison • Hidden away, forgotten, one young woman seeks escape • But to do so she must trust those on the outside • Those who have their own motives • Discovery means death. But what choice has any woman trapped in a man's world? • Imprisoned by circumstance, Arbella Stuart is an unwilling contender for the throne. In a world where women are silenced, what chance does she have to take control of her destiny?
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