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This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there. There is even Fanny Hill trying not to discover what physical love is about when set upon by an old roué who has paid for the privilege. Though of special interest for lovers and their special lover’s day of St. Valentine, it is an amusing and sometimes surprising collection.

In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.

When a classmate gets hospitalised with a serious illness, Taylor realises with a shock that she hardly knows a thing about the girl. Would people say that about her if she met the same fate? Taylor couldn’t bear that, so she sets out to make herself memorable! She plunges herself energetically into a new sport, fancy outfits, the launch of the website for her online magazine and major protest in aid of Period Justice at school – all the while feeling unsure how to grab another opportunity she really wants: a second kiss with Duncan!

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Jessie doesn’t believe in love at first sight. Until one sunny Saturday in London, a fire alarm in Whole Foods throws her into a stranger's arms. Cal is charming and funny: their chemistry is instant. Quick-fire flirting turns into the most romantic day of Jessie’s life. But that evening they're forced apart before swapping numbers. Jessie is devastated – has she just lost the one? After weeks of searching, Cal turns up on her doorstop holding two dozen red roses. It feels like fate. The only thing is, they’re not for her…

In this volume your flesh may creep and crawl a little bit as our classic authors delve into the world of vampires. Some stories you may be familiar with but for most these will be new and unsettling experiences.

Jessie knows that love at first sight doesn’t exist. But, one sunny Saturday in London, a fire alarm in Whole Foods throws her into a stranger's arms. Cal is charming and funny: their chemistry is instant. Quick-fire flirting turns into the most enchanting day of Jessie’s life. But that evening they're forced apart before swapping numbers. Jessie is devastated—what if she’s just lost the one? After weeks of searching, imagine her surprise when Jessie opens the door at her nannying job to Cal holding two dozen red roses. The only thing is, they’re not for her…

Eigentlich ist das romantisch verschneite Filmset in Bayern der perfekte Ort für ein erstes Treffen: Hier lernt Bestseller-Autorin Evie den Hollywood-Star Duke kennen, der die Hauptrolle in der Verfilmung ihres neuesten Liebesromans spielt. Leider sind sich Evie und Duke vom ersten Moment an nur in einer Sache wirklich einig: Sie können sich nicht leiden! Bald sorgen ihre ständigen Streitereien für negative Schlagzeilen. Um den Film zu retten, ringen Evie und Duke sich zu einem verwegenen Plan durch.

If Taylor Blake’s life were a TV show, the cast of characters would be very, very small. However, all that is about to change! Because now Taylor is in Year Nine and she gets to be a host for the French Exchange program. There’s going to be cool parties and sophisticated conversation and … well, Taylor’s first kiss! It’s called French kissing because they invented it, didn’t they? She might even meet the love of her life! So even though things have been dull and rubbish for practically Taylor’s whole life, in seven days everything will be very different.

Flo Greenberg: highly strung. Over-achiever. And desperate for a relaxing Greek holiday with her family. Jamie Kramer: her brother's best friend. Pain in the arse. And somehow on Flo’s relaxing Greek holiday too… With two surprise weeks of sharing meals, boat trips and sun-loungers, Flo must endure the company of this irksomely chiselled Lothario. But after what happened last year, she’s determined not to let him get the better of her.

Ever since The Embarrassing Meltdown Incident, Flo has been on an enforced break from life. Namely, her over-achieving, high-strung ways. And the timing couldn’t be better, as her family sets off to Greece for their summer vacation. Enter Jamie Kramer…literally. Jamie is Flo’s brother's best friend. Also known as a pain in her backside. And her family’s "adopted" son after he lost his parents. Sure, she has empathy for the guy, but does that mean he always has to tag along?

The Simple Jane flows from the creative little girl who colored with a handful of crayons all at a time, and saw opportunity around every bend, to the teenager who was misunderstood and molded by family and culture to be who they believed she should be, concluding with the young adult who sailed into the sunset by happily ever after. She had followed the path that was "the right way" and had now become a master at pretend.

Nichts wünscht sich die 30-jährige Londonerin Penny Bridge mehr, als Mutter zu werden – vielleicht auch, weil sie ihre eigene Mutter schon früh verloren hat. Doch mit der Liebe hat Penny einfach kein Glück. Das ändert sich auch nicht, als ihr der Zufall gleich mehrmals den Traummann Francesco vor die Nase stellt. Denn kurz darauf muss Penny aus London nach Derbyshire ziehen, um sich um den Pub ihres erkrankten Onkels zu kümmern. Zu ihrer eigenen Überraschung genießt sie es, sich um das Team zu kümmern, zu kochen und den Pub-Besuchern leckere neue Gerichte zu servieren.

TouchPoint Press presents Nightmares of Strangers, an anthology of 13 eerie stories that will spark feelings of unease and paranoia with just the right helping of fear to last beyond the night - a devilish deal, the return of the murderous H.H. Holmes, a ghost that isn’t what it seems, and other spine-tingling tales that will make you double-check the locks, look under the bed, and wonder what really made that loud “thump” in the attic.

As she touches down in Italy, Izzy couldn’t be more excited. She’s needed a reason to let her hair down, and she knows that the wedding of the year in a lavish Tuscan castle will be just the ticket. On the morning of his best friend’s wedding, everything is going wrong for Sam. And when he finally reaches the hotel and unzips his luggage, his day goes from bad to worse. Izzy has a case full of men’s shirts and chinos. Sam has a case full of make-up palettes and bikinis. Could a fateful meeting to switch their bags back be the start of something special?

Flitterwochen ohne Ehemann. Auf alles war Annie vorbereitet, damit ihre Hochzeit perfekt wird - nur auf eines nicht: dass Alexander sie vorm Traualtar sitzen lässt! Erst eine Begegnung mit ihrem Jugendfreund Patrick zeigt Annie, wie sehr sie sich selbst verändert hatte, um Alexander glücklich zu machen. Kurz entschlossen nimmt sie Patrick mit in die 5-Sterne-Flitterwochen nach Australien, die ohnehin schon bezahlt sind. Natürlich sorgt das romantische Ambiente dafür, dass sie sich näher kommen als geplant.

Keeping hens is easy. This friendly, chatty book gives you all the everyday information you need to keep your hens happy and safe. It covers all the questions you might have: How many hens to keep? What to feed them? What about a cockerel? Will they get on with the dog or destroy the vegetable patch?

Selten hat Izzy einen Kurzurlaub so nötig gehabt - und selten hat sie sich so sehr darauf gefreut, denn sie ist zur wohl glamourösesten Hochzeit des Jahres eingeladen, die auf einem Schloss in der Toskana stattfindet. Sams Begeisterung über die Einladung hält sich dagegen in Grenzen, nachdem ihn seine Freundin am Flughafen eiskalt abserviert hat. Prompt verschüttet sein Neffe im Flugzeug auch noch ein Glas Milch über Sam.

Discover the surprising art of reconnecting with your inner child in order to make your adult life that little bit simpler. You can own your own home and want to build a blanket fort on a bad day. Hell! On a good day, too. Give yourself permission to seek praise, ask for help, and have something soft snuggled against your face because you're sad. You can pay your bills on time and still exclaim out loud when something is really f--king cool, run a business and wear cat-covered thermals under your suit.

Read by Juliet Stevenson and Simon Callow, A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology that collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens’ ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new - from John Donne’s Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Rudyard Kipling’s "Christmas in India", from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to Laurie Lee’s "Cider with Rosie".