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Meet Harriet White, Sherlock Holmes' feisty – and entirely fake – assistant, in this gloriously fun mystery, perfect for fans of Anita Prose, Verity Bright and Janice Hallett. 🔎 London, 1932. A young maid steps onto a train… and disappears. Her family writes to the only person they can...

Philip K. Dick was an award-winning giant of American science fiction, right up there with Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. He became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series. Although he died fairly young at 53, he created many incredible sci-fi stories - 44 published novels and over 120 short stories! These 14 selections represent some of his most imaginative work. Included in this collection are: "Adjustment Team", "The Golden Man", "A World of Talent", "The Last of the Masters", "The Crystal Crypt", and more.

"Narrator Sophie Roberts's strong, polished, highly sophisticated voice effectively conveys the aura of fashionable society but maintains a firm narrative objectivity. Droll, fascinating, full of memorable characters and anecdotes, here is a perspective on a world and time that moved from...

Join amateur sleuth Harriet White in 1930's London for a glorious and page-turning Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery! A must-read for fans of Nita Prose and Janice Hallett. 🔎🕵️‍♀️ 'When did you become aware something was wrong?’ ‘...When the screaming began…’ Harriet White...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Holly Hepburn's Baker Street Mystery series! 🔎✨Join Harriet White in 1930's London for another glorious Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery, for fans of Helena Dixon, Nita Prose and Janice Hallett 🕵️‍♀️ Harriet White is settling into life in the post room...

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

The Virginia Woolf Complete Collection brings together all of her most iconic works, including all 9 of her published novels, a selection of her best short stories, as well as some of her most influential non-fiction writing. From the enduring importance of her ideas of female independence in A Room of One's Own to the modern masterpieces of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, alongside many more of her novels, criticism, and essays, this collection takes you across the broad breadth of Woolf's ever-inventive and timeless writings.

Der Ingenieur George Turner wurde ermordet. Er gehörte zu den wenigen Menschen, die von der Existenz des Maschinenmenschen Eva wissen. Irene Adler ist sich sicher, dass entweder Robur oder ein Mitglied des Zirkels Mr. Turner getötet hat, um an Eva heranzukommen. Sie bringt schnell in Erfahrung, dass Mycroft Holmes vor seinem Tod noch veranlasst hat, dass Eva in ein neues Versteck gebracht wird. Allerdings dauert es eine Weile, bis Irene Adler herausfindet, wo sich Eva nun befindet.

The Virginia Woolf Complete Collection brings together all of her 9 published novels, from her very first published work, the exuberantly youthful The Voyage Out, to the modern masterpieces of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, as well as the hugely ambitious and ever-relevant Orlando, alongside many other wide-ranging and ever-inventive works of fiction.

Using forbidden Marrangha magic and the three stolen vapours, the evil sorcerer Zharradan Marr has created a creature....but for what purpose?

Who was the real Diana? What was it like to be so privileged yet so anguished, so beloved yet so self-loathing, so spoiled yet so despairing? The Princess of Wales was all these things--far more complicated, conflicted, and intriguing a person than the wildly disparate saint or lunatic she is frequently portrayed to be.

Katie and Tom's marriage is in trouble. So is their bank account. So, when Tom blindsides her by saying that his boss is sending him to Australia – permanently – Katie realises it might just be what they need to save their marriage. Trouble is, she doesn't like the heat, can't swim and hates spiders. Thrown into Sydney's sun, surf and school-gate politics, Katie finds unexpected friendship in glamorous, wealthy Naomi and bohemian Ann.

Told almost exclusively through other characters' perceptions, conversations and memories, Woolf's groundbreaking novel centres around Jacob Flanders, a young man whose identity is difficult to grasp. Rather than presenting a conventional biography, Woolf assembles Jacob's presence from absence, evoking an air of emptiness and mystery, set against the haunting shadow of the First World War.

Charlotte Blood is about to discover the dark side of obsession in this gripping mystery. Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley. A team of archaeologists claim to have found the tomb of the original warrior Queen of the Britons – Boudica. It's the story of the century and investigative journalist...

Monsters don't always break in. Sometimes, they're invited . . . Maddie likes her life orderly. She manages and lives in the block of flats her father owns. Control is how she keeps anxiety at bay. Then, elderly Greta moves in. Greta is quiet, precise, frail, and unsettlingly observant. When...

Three women. One life-changing secret. Will honesty bind them together or tear them apart? Single mother Charlie can barely pay the rent, never mind give her son the chances he deserves. Desperate to escape mounting debt, she enters into a surrogacy deal with a stranger. High-flying Suzie is used to getting what she wants. Yet her biggest dream of being a mother is beyond her grasp. So when a chance for happiness comes her way in the shape of Charlie, why shouldn't she take it?

Wealthy clients looking for the cure to memory loss find themselves trapped in a remote mountainous facility in this ingenious thriller, perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Alex Michaelides. Struggling new single mom Natasha Walker is desperate to get back to her job as an investigative...

Kate Mitchell has built a life she’s proud of. A family. A career. A happy home. Then the messages begin. They’re subtle at first. Easy to dismiss. But then they become more ominous. Someone is watching her. Someone knows her every move. And the fear doesn’t fade when she locks the door. She knows who’s responsible. But fear has a way of blurring lines. Between love and control. Between protection and possession. Between what we want to believe and what we can’t bear to see.

We arrived at the beautiful, sprawling Spanish villa ready to celebrate – over twenty years of friendship, and of course, Alexis's big birthday. It's paradise. Alexis has pulled out all the stops, and like always, I know we're meant to be grateful… But the tensions begin on the very first night. The workaholic slipping off to take mysterious calls. The people pleaser afraid to speak out. The quiet observer snidely analysing every move we make. The former life of the party knocking back wine to forget it all. Even I, the peacekeeper, have secrets…

Tauche ein in die dystopische Liebesgeschichte von Rain und Aidan. Ein dem Vampirismus ähnlicher Zustand ist im Jahr 2081 die Lösung gegen Krankheit und Alterung. Über die Hälfte der Bevölkerung hat sich zum Schutz vor der Sonne in eine moderne Welt im Untergrund zurückgezogen: Vampirya. Hier lebt auch die junge Rain über ihrer kleinen Bäckerei im Bahnhof. Rain und Aidan sind zurück in Vampirya und stehen vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens. Die Hoffnung auf Gerechtigkeit für die Welt im Jahr 2083 eint sie alle.