England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright – restless, stifled – makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife, is not the adventure – or the escape – that she hoped for….

Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for? Close the door…

What is the key to a good life? Directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, bring together over 80 years of research to reveal the true components of a happy, fulfilled life. In their ground-breaking book, The Good Life.  “Consider the feeling you get when you love someone, or when…

Practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. Carnegie’s advice will teach you how to make friends quickly and easily; increase your popularity; persuade people to follow your way of thinking; enable you to win new clients and customers; become a better speaker; and boost enthusiasm among…

A century-old trunk has been dug up near the railway village of Sterfontein. Inside is the lost journal of Victorian author Elizabeth Tenant – and what appear to be the remains of a child.  The day the sign appears in the sky, Elizabeth watches William Booysen carry the carcass away. It is slung over his shoulder, the head…

Hannah is trapped inside a coach with a handful of survivors, a brewing virus, and no way to call for help. Former detective, Meg is in a cable car suspended far above a snowstorm and surrounded by strangers. Carter and his ragtag compatriots manage a precarious survival, manufacturing vaccines against a deadly virus. But as their generator begins…

The Secret History  meets  Ninth House  in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York’s famed Met Cloisters museum.  PROLOGUEDeath always visited me in August. A slow and delicious…

The new thriller in James Patterson’s bestselling Private series, featuring private investigator Jack Morgan.  CHAPTER 1THE LIGHTS OF Beijing, city of twenty-two million souls, stretched as far as the eye could see and shimmered and danced in the July heat, adding a touch of magic to the darkness. Shang Li loved this city,…

A heart-wrenching yet laugh-out-loud celebration of friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.  Prologue“Edi. Are you sleeping?”I’m whispering, even though the point is to wake her up. Her eyelids look bruised, and her lips are pale and peeling, but still she’s so gorgeous I could bite her face. Her…