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A captivating comic novel from Angela Thirkell's much-loved 1930s Barsetshire series: trainee barrister Colin Keith makes an ill-advised foray into teaching at Southbridge School. To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates - chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School.

Two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. You’ve got to have a partner who refuses to let you quit. Drew was never much of a runner. Until his dad’s unexpected diagnosis. Mia has nothing better to do. Until she realizes entering Half...

Matt Fitzgerald has already made a name for himself in the endurance-sport community with books like 80/20 Running, How Bad Do You Want It?, and Iron War. He is an accomplished amateur runner, but if he follows the training, nutrition, and lifestyle of an elite runner, just how fast could he go? He is approaching his mid-40s, so the time to do this is now. He at last has the financial means to do nothing but train.

"A great book to finish off your summer reading."—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author Some families we’re born into Some we find for ourselves When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for a genetic test, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing...

'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell 'Emotionally high-voltage' Metro From the author of The Man I Think I Know *** Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn't always that way... Kerry Hayes is a single mum, living on a tough south London...

From summer sparks to second chances—can one night turn into something real? Casey Mohegan doesn’t do small towns or serious relationships. As a globe-trotting travel photographer, she’s built a career on staying in motion. But when a matchmaking app pairs her with a driven resort director in Hollyvale, she agrees to meet—expecting nothing more than a fun distraction and a good story. Skye Kerne doesn’t have time for distractions—especially not the flirtatious, sunshine-haired photographer who seems determined to derail her carefully planned Christmas in July festival. After ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio. From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home … “My...

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as disconcerted as they are overjoyed. As the...

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally...

'Trisha Ashley writes with remarkable wit and originality - one of the best writers around' KATIE FFORDE, author of A Springtime Affair It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man of over forty is in possession of a major defect . . . Cassandra Leigh has woken as if from a bad dream...

Discover the beautiful, escapist new novel from beloved author, Holly Hepburn, Healing Hearts on Thistledown Lane, coming in paperback Spring 2026. When Daisy’s mother falls ill she is forced to return home. With her twin sons in tow, she moves back to Half Moon Farm, her family’s ancient...

Family, friendship, sisterhood, the magic of new beginnings and angst of struggling family relationships...mothers, daughters, brothers and sisters, sons and cousins...all finding their inner strength, facing life’s unexpected challenges, and sometimes starting over after tragedy and heartbreak, and every once in a while...finding the one true love of a lifetime. Everyone has a story... Amanda’s legacy was simple and unbelievably complicated...her sons were determined to make it happen exactly as she wanted. Hannah was distraught and in a downward spiral after her father’s death...her...

Brought to you by Penguin. An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko: one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change At the turn of the twentieth century Pirbhai, a teenage boy, is taken from his village in India...

Tommy Williams has a problem. Will his new boss be the solution, or tear his world apart? Captain Tommy is the one committed member of the Half Moon Bay Resort dive team, and has mounting family responsibilities. Despite its beautiful St. Croix location, the resort has been plagued with dive professionals who are anything but. The situation is about to change. New dive instructor Alex Monroe is a complete stranger—one who doesn’t like personal questions. But he shakes things up immediately, and Tommy is left to decide whether that is good or bad. Will Alex’s presence right their ...

When dreams clash with realities, will they be brought closer together or flung apart forever? Sara Collins has been patient, enduring endless setbacks with her dream spa at Half Moon Bay Resort in St. Croix. Just when things are coming together, life throws her a major league curve ball. Jack Powell has finally cemented his dream job when their relationship faces its first real test—his family at Christmas. Then the resort dive manager makes him an offer too good to refuse. Except it comes with complications. When the couple believes they’ve surmounted all obstacles, they are faced ...

The superb new novel from the bestselling author of Half A World Away and All the Lonely People. Inspired by a box of mementos found abandoned in a skip following a house clearance, The Museum of Ordinary People is a poignant, thought-provoking but ultimately uplifting story of memory and love...

The Stag and Hen Weekend is the story of Phil and Helen, a couple in their thirties about to commit their lives to one another . . . that is of course if they can just manage to get through their respective stag and hen weekends (his: Amsterdam; hers: a country house and day spa in the Peak...

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer, the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer—one that had tragic consequences. Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake, Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them.

Brought to you by Penguin. ARE YOU READY TO ENTER THE HALF BURNT HOUSE? The spine-tingling new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Richard & Judy pick THE WHISPER MAN It begins with the house – and a body: Alan Hobbes stabbed to death in his own bed. For years, he’s lived...

We're approaching peak sweater weather and I'm officially defrosting – Fall is my time to shine. But before we get into all the autumnal festivities, I'm here with a solo episode this week to recap my summer. My summer started off with a bang in May. I had 2.3 million events in May, and went on a dream vacay to Hawaii the first week in June. I recap those events for you in this episode, but, once June came around, I needed a serious reset. My overflowing schedule has always helped me distract myself from how I'm really feeling on the inside, and in this episode, I share how I learned to ...