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After witnessing the brutal nature of the Nazi regime, Hannah, a quiet Jewish girl with a rebellious streak, escapes Germany with her traumatised young son. Leaving behind her dreams, she seeks refuge in Paris with a childhood friend, Kat, in the hopes that this tie to her past will provide a desperately needed sanctuary for them both. Though reluctant because of her own precarious situation, Kat agrees to help.

For My Boys is Claire’s heartbreaking story and her tale of determination to seek justice for her sons and give a voice to all children who are at risk at the hands of an abusive parent. Her battle with government and court bureaucracy will anger and shock, but Claire’s humbling and remarkable story of strength will inspire.

Including an audio-exclusive Q&A between the narrator and the author, Danielle Giles. 'Beautifully written . . . A dark and disturbing tale' – Laura Shepherd-Robinson, bestselling author of The Square of Sevens Mere by Danielle Giles is a hypnotic historical novel about fear and survival...

Dunegray, commander of the undead Cursed legion, has led it in terrorizing and spilling blood throughout the kingdom of Nahmval. When Zerael, a powerful young sorcerer, lifts the curse, Dunegray and her army must learn to live among the very people they oppressed. But the Curse never forgets its servants.

Drawing on their vast experience both in and out of sport, double Olympic medallists Helen and Kate tell the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how a team from the lower rankings forced its way to the top. They bring you into their team huddle to reflect and work through exercises to help improve your performance. Using their individual and collective stories, they demonstrate that successful teams are made up of people who are valued as human beings and supported to individually flourish.

The German invasion of the British Channel Islands shatters Dr. Ivy Picot's peaceful world, forcing her to shoulder the weight of her father's medical practice and hold together a family unraveling under the strain of war. As conditions worsen in Jersey with the arrival of thousands of forced laborers, Ivy's quiet allegiance to the Allies compels her to risk everything by providing medical aid to escaped workers—even as danger closes in.

'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space in your heart' — Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars ‘What a consummate storymaker Nina Bawden is’ — Michael Morpurgo, author of Kensuke's Kingdom Winner of The...

When renovation workers from Yukiko Curiosity Design uncover a body in a locked bedroom at Sibson Hall, a recently purchased estate outside Royal Tunbridge Wells, the scene looks like suicide—except for a handful of odd details that refuse to fit. The victim clutches a wooden mallet, there's no key to the locked door, and questions about ghosts and yakuza ties ripple through the household. DI Pat Hound, called away from her favourite coffee spot and less than thrilled at mixing menopause symptoms with crime-scene coveralls, senses there is more to the scene than meets the eye.

Fractured Echoes: You can’t fight what you can’t remember. Mick Holden is nobody special, a pub regular with a faded past, content to let Blackpool’s off-season gloom swallow him whole. But his quiet life unravels when he begins seeing things before they happen, television quiz answers, strangers’ movements, entire days. Events repeat. Faces vanish. And reality itself begins to rewrite the world around him. Drawn into the mystery is Alice Whittaker, a journalist who knows too well what it feels like to notice when no one else does.

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Nicci French's Catch Me When I Fall is a blistering thriller from the masters of psychological suspense. You're a whirlwind. A success. You live life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss lives life in a cyclone - her...

When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own. Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at each other’s throats? And why does the youngest sneak off at night? As Ingrid searches for answers, she grows ever more fearful that her husband will track her down. Set in late 19th century Scottish Highlands, WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ABBEY is a gothic mystery brimming with intrigue, ghostly drama, and family secrets.

She is the wife every man dreams of. She is the daughter-in-law every mother dreads. When newlyweds Paul and Emily return from their honeymoon, the future looks golden. Then they receive the devastating news that Paul's father has collapsed and rush to his hospital bedside. Grief soon draws them...

Based on the book of the same name, Born Guilty is a moving and elegiac play about one man's journey into the hearts of children raised by Nazi parents. As Peter, a Jewish journalist, tries to uncover the truth, he runs into psychological barriers more daunting than the towering walls of Auschwitz. Born Guilty is based on interviews with the now-adult children of Nazis.

Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. There, she meets charismatic author Richard Parry and indigenous potter Domingo, and together they explore the island. Ann’s encounters with the island’s hidden treasures becomes a journey deep inside herself, as she struggles to understand who she was, who she is, and who she wants to be.

Grace Harper spends her days finding dream homes for strangers—but her office is a nightmare she can’t escape. Bullied by younger colleagues and on a final warning from her boss, she hates her work but desperately needs to keep earning so she can save enough to escape to university. So when executive coach Oliver arrives to help the struggling team, Grace is keen to impress him by putting her best foot forward. What she doesn’t realize is that Oliver is a deeply damaged individual who is prone to dark obsessions. And he sees something in Grace that makes her very, very special.

For the residents of Meadow Lane, the terror began unobtrusively. A comet in the sky. A missing pet. But then those other things happened....

One secret is deadly. The other will heal the world. But which is which? Caught stealing medication for her illegal sister, Yara is forced to participate in RePay — a terrifying TV game show that will determine her sentence. Her only hope for freedom lies in surviving a risky biotechnology trial within the sterile walls of Watch Over Me, where ruthlessly passionate head engineer, Ms Wilding, reveals an unnerving agenda.

Sylvia Debair felt too invisible to make a difference. Now she is the focus of a galactic struggle for power. Her hidden truth catalyzes a search across two solar systems for the portal key relics in a race to save Earth. The energy portals at the Galactic Core Station feed Earth’s magnetic field. It is an unsustainable burden with the portal keys missing, but there is hope — clues to the portal key locations exist. Armed with a resilience honed by a past she cannot recall, Sylvia is determined to do more than survive — even as the discovery of herself unfolds.

Before dementia furthers its grasp as it embarks upon its dreadful journey within Ralph Reynolds, he takes a journey of his own. Convincing his loving son, Mathew, and estranged daughter Lizzie to accompany him, they travel from the Northwest of England to the Scottish town of Oban, hoping to bring them closer together.

The streets of Liverpool are not only blighted by the after effects of the latest COVID pandemic, they have another menace - a deadly horror threatening the lives of the girls working them. A serial killer is stalking the streets. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Slain, and experience the compelling world of thriller.