Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, you can turn straight to the section y...
"Elsie Silver's writing is a true revelation!" ALI HAZELWOODSmall-town, big characters, four addictive love stories...meet the single dads of Rose Hill's recreational bowling team. Perfect for fans of steamy romance, Lucy Score, and Elsie's smash hit Chestnut Springs series.She's been driving him wild for years.. . the good kind of wild.The kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend's little sister and knowing you can't have her. Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant ...
THE FIRST PHONE CALL SHOCKS A FAMILY A box of photo albums is found in the attic of a house in Höfn, a small fishing village on the south coast of Iceland. The new owners return it to the man who sold them the house, along with a muddied child's shoe with a name written on the sole: Salvor. The man is baffled; they never knew anyone called that.Shortly after the phone rings - it's the nursing home where his mother, an Alzheimer's patient, lives. She's suffered a heart attack ...
Passion, deception, an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. 'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS' Sunday Times'My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz' Shari Lapena'Sheer genius ... A joy from start to finish' INDEPENDENT Secrets can kill.Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price...
NOW WITH TWO BONUS CHAPTERS INCLUDING AN FAQTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFORTNUM & MASON'S DEBUT FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN ECONOMIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it...
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, comes a sweeping romance about the sustained power of chance encounters.When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful.Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can’t resist. Their connection is undeniable. I...
Kto chce być najlepszy, musi być nieustępliwy. Siła charakteru to warunek sukcesu ― w różnych dziedzinach życia: w sporcie, w biznesie czy też w sytuacjach towarzyskich. Przez wiele lat jednak błędnie uważano, że siła charakteru bierze się z mentalności opartej na szerzeniu strachu, fałszywej brawurze i ukrywaniu wszelkich oznak słabości. Ten model poniósł wielką porażkę.Dzięki tej książce dowiesz się, w jaki sposób skutecznie realizować swoje ambicje w trudnych warunkach. Po...
Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter’ NIGEL SLATER ‘A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat’ THE TIMES The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako...
Opowieść, w której wszystko jest możliwe.Konrad właśnie opuścił szpital i czeka na opiekunkę społeczną, która ma odwieźć go do domu dziecka. Kiedy tam trafia, zaczynają się dziać wokół niego rzeczy niemożliwe do racjonalnego wytłumaczenia. Granice między snem a rzeczywistością się zacierają, a w jego głowie panuje coraz większy chaos.Co sprawiło, że znalazł się w tym miejscu? Jak wyglądało jego życie wcześniej? Kim tak naprawdę jest? Okazuje się, że nie tylko Konrad ma proble...
Puchar od Pana Boga to zbiór opowiadań, w których sport stanowi pretekst do opowieści o sprawach najważniejszych: życiu i śmierci, miłości, przyjaźni i pasji. Ota Pavel pisze o zwycięstwach i porażkach równie ujmująco jak o sarnach i rybach. Doskonała lektura dla czytelników ceniących szczerość, wrażliwość i piękno. Może każdy z nas dostanie puchar od Pana Boga, ale będą one różnej wielkości, w zależności od tego, jak zachowywaliśmy się na tym świecie. Jeden będzie zrobiony n...
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY AND RULES OF CIVILITY'A knockout . . .Table for Two is a winner'NEW YORK TIMES'There is no better writer working today'CHRIS CLEAVE'He makes it all seem effortless'TANA FRENCH'There is a great deal to relish in Table for Two . . .If you take only one book on holiday this summer, you couldn't ask for a better literary capsule wardrobe'THE TIMESMillions o...
Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta...Nesta Archeron has always been prickly – proud, swift to anger and slow to forgive. And since the war – since being made High Fae against her will – she's struggled to forget the horrors she endured and find a place for herself within the strange and deadly Night Court.The person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-...
THE THIRD BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES'With bits of Buffy, Game Of Thrones and Outlander, this is a glorious series of total joy' STYLISTFeyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit - and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must de...
The second book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ...and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for eac...
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY'One of my favourite authors' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us'Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones and The Six-----Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person...
Discover the gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door'The most addictive book I've read in ages…Just brilliant.' Lisa Jewell'Fast paced, tightly-plotted and with twists so well executed they floored me. Loved every word!' Claire Douglas'Genius. I loved it.' Andrea MaraWelcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood.A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended...
No 1 Bestseller and Irish Book Award Winner! "A profound, important work, simultaneously wise, instructive and a love letter to humanity" Irish Times A ground-breaking new framework for embracing middle age and beyond Middle-age is cross-roadsy - having arrived, you're looking back in wonder about how you got here, and also looking ahead, thinking: where to next? The realisation that neither time nor choices are limitless is both daunting and exciting - this is the moment to ...
WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023‘If you haven’t read it, you’re missing out’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY 'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years...please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue t...
The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle’s Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* ‘Addictive’ Grazia ‘Hugely entertaining’ Observer ‘Provocative’ Mail on Sunday THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it.So what if it means stealing Athena’s final manuscript? So what if it means ‘...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remem...
'It's impossible not to be moved' Stephen King'Stunning...this novel will break your heart and fire up your courage' Mail on SundayThe New York Times bestseller, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child and a TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF APRIL 2023Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left ...
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