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Flossie Teacake, the youngest member of the family, is back! As always she is clad in her magical fur coat which turns our heroine from a timid ten year old into an extremely exciting 18 year old! Nothing stops Flossie and her helter-skelter life which races along at its usual frantic pace. This time she manages to become a dancing teacher at the Grapefruit Dance Studios in Covent Garden...

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a chief happiness officer? What can the chemical composition of your brain tell a potential employer about you? In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: the Happiness index, Gross National Happiness, well-being and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live our lives.

‘Oh, if only I could have a room like this!’ said Flossie Teacake, as she gazed at the wonderful things in her sister Bella’s bedroom. A few minutes later, both Flossie and the most wonderful thing in the room had disappeared down the stairs as Flossie’s dreams began to come true...A magical story about a young girl with an extraordinary fur coat, from best-selling author Hunter Davies.

She is Amylia Sylvers. And she is about to show the world that even the most unexpected can burn the brightest.

Pure Verzweiflung treibt Abby dazu, ausgerechnet den Mann zu kontaktieren, den sie eigentlich für immer vergessen wollte. Denn sie weiß, er wird ihr erneut das Herz brechen. Sechs Jahre liegt Abbys erste Begegnung mit Brian zurück, und seitdem lässt er sich aus ihren Gedanken und Träumen nicht mehr vertreiben. Als jedoch ihre Zwillingsschwester Vicky verschwindet, sieht Abby sich gezwungen, Brian um Hilfe anzuflehen.

Dive into this revealing portrait of Stranger Things fan favorite Lucas Sinclair and get to know Lucas like never before. The thrilling adventure of Stranger Things continues where season three left off, with fan favorite Lucas Sinclair finally telling his own story in his own words. Lucas...

Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy...weaken the enemy by sabotage and destruction of morale and to lend aid and assistance to local efforts to the same end in enemy occupied territories."

Weite Wiesen, kleine Häuschen und blühende Bäume, so weit das Auge reicht. Maddie freut sich über einen Neustart auf dem Land. Gäbe es da nicht ein kleines Problem... Nach einem Skandal verliert Maddie Porter ihren Job in einer PR-Agentur. Da kommt ihr das Angebot gerade recht, ein luxuriöses Anwesen auf dem Land als exklusiven Urlaubsort zu vermarkten. Und sie verlässt London, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch als Maddie vor Ort eintrifft, ist sie entsetzt: Das sogenannte Anwesen ist eine Ansammlung alter Cottages, die stark renovierungsbedürftig sind.

Niedliche kleine Häuschen, wilde Wiesen und überall der süße Duft von Blumen in voller Blüte. Es ist Sommer im kleinen Cottage auf dem Hügel, und der erste Gast zieht ein. Isobel ist auf der Suche nach einem Zufluchtsort, aber ihre Vergangenheit scheint sie einzuholen ... Als Tom auf den Dächern der Cottages arbeitet und den traurigen Klang von Isobels Geige im Wind hört, ist er tief berührt. Wer ist diese mysteriöse neue Untermieterin, und warum kommt sie ihm so bekannt vor? Isobel scheint etwas zu bedrücken, und Tom möchte ihr helfen.

Standing at the edge of the gateway, I understand two things. One, I have no idea what I’m doing. Two, the gateway to Hell is not closing. Now, there may be only one option left to me, to all of us. I may have to enter the one place I’d hoped to avoid throughout this journey. I may have to enter Hell. Unfortunately, a change in events takes the choice away from me.

“There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” —Sigrid...

Legenden und Gerüchte über das Ödland sind im ganzen Land zu hören. Und über die Kreaturen, die darin ihr Unwesen treiben. Braith weiß um die Gefahr, die das Betreten dieses unwirtlichen Landes mit sich bringt. Doch es ist seine einzige Chance, verbündete Vampire für die Rebellion zu finden, und seinen Vater, den grausamen König, vom Thron zu stürzen.

From one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa. "Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!" —Jenn Lyons, author of The...

Fetishist of working women Arthur Munby, irascible antiquary General Pitt Rivers, feminist Barbara Bodichon, and other historical figures of the Victorian epoch wander through the backdrop of the novel as Anna's anomalous love for Lore Ritter, and her friendship with freethinking and ambitious Miriam Sala, carry her into areas of uncharted desire, while Beatrice, forced to choose between her beloved Will Anwyl and the evangelist Christian Ritter, who marked her out as a wife when she was only a child, is pulled between passion and duty.

Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end of World War II. Ailsa Roberts, the writer of the diary, shows herself to be a vivid and intelligent young Englishwoman who is sailing with her little daughter on the Empire Glory to join her husband, a Welsh RAF sergeant stationed in Egypt, where Britain still occupies the Suez Canal Zone.

In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit. Thirteen years later, their children meet: a woman and a man exposed to the sins of their fathers.

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away is a stunning short story collection on human nature and identity. Stevie Davies' latest work, it is bound to captivate and charm the listener.

Sebastian has long been haunted by the disappearance of his father, Jack Messenger: celebrated travel writer, potential spy and murder victim, his absent presence and equivocal past continue to cast inescapable shadows over his son, who must also contend with his ageing mother's fragmented memory and his own dereliction of a partner. So who is the stranger that buttonholes Sebastian at an academic conference on the Welsh coast, and reveals lies and transgressions neither outgrown nor comprehended? How does he know Sebastian, and what are his connections to Jack Messenger?

Camille Coduri reads this brand-new novelisation of the Ninth Doctor’s debut TV adventure. "Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move - and kill - are taking up key positions, ready to strike. Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life....

The Waves: Terence Davies's dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's story. Episode 1: Louis, Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda recall their childhood and first steps into adulthood. Episode 2: Louis, Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda struggle to come to terms with life after Percival.