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A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once-predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long-frustrated desires. When Mr. Gosling leaves his family to peruse his sexual vices, the Gosling daughters, who lack experience and self-independence, find shelter in a matriarchal commune. However their new life is threatened by the community elders' views on free love.

The Crowdies have worked the same landscape on the Scottish coast for generations. When Bern Crowdie passes away, everyone expects the farm to pass to his youngest daughter Nina who, with her young son Barnaby, has been living and working with her father for the past five years. Her older sister Bette left when she was eighteen, vowing never to return. Now a successful lawyer in London, it’s doubtful she’ll even make the funeral – or the reading of their father’s will.

At the heart of a tiny community in a remote village just inland from the Aberdeenshire coast stands an unexpected lighthouse. Built two centuries ago by an eccentric landowner, it has become home to the only bookshop for miles around. Rachel is an incomer to the village. She arrived five years ago and found a place she could call home. So when the owner of the Lighthouse Bookshop dies suddenly, she steps in to take care of the place, trying to help it survive the next stage of its life.

Anna moves to Crovie, a tiny fishing village on the Moray Firth, for a fresh start. But when she arrives, she realises her new home is really no more than a shed, and the village itself sits beneath a cliff right on the edge of the sea, in constant danger of storms and landslides. Has she made a terrible mistake? Yet as she begins to learn about the Scottish coast and its people, something she thought she’d lost reawakens in her.

Michelle Cameron’s name is associated with the most abhorrent of crimes. A child who lured a younger child away from her parents and to her death, she is known as the black girl who murdered a little white girl; evil incarnate according to the media. As the book opens, she has done her time, and has been released as a young woman with a new identity to start her life again. When another shocking death occurs, Michelle is the first in the frame.

Andy believes that she has left her past far behind her. But when she gets a call from Peter's mother to say he's gone missing, she finds herself pulled into a search for answers. Bored and restless after their final school exams, Andy, Peter, Em and Marcus broke into a ruined manor house nearby and quickly became friends with the boy living there. Blond, charming and on the run, David's presence was as dangerous as it was exciting.

Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of followers on Instagram, an unstable lover, a wayward son, a hoard of secrets, an aching heart, and a cyberstalking blackmailer who calls himself The Invisible Knight. As the Wiltshire town of Abury prepares to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its favourite son, Morgan, Gwen's former best friend, is on her way back to Abury after two decades away.

In einem kleinen Dorf in Schottland, mitten auf dem Festland, steht ein Leuchtturm. Im Inneren der alten Gemäuer, die dick genug sind, um Sturmfluten zu trotzen, befindet sich ein kleines Antiquariat. Hier, umgeben von alten Büchern, hat Rachel vor vielen Jahren einen Neuanfang gewagt – und Freunde gefunden. Sie verbringt ihre Tage mit Literatur, Kaffee und Shortbread, beobachtet ihren Chef Cullen und seinen Freund Ron beim Schachspiel oder schlichtet die Streitigkeiten ihrer ewig zankenden Stammgäste Edie und Ezra.

Luisa hat sich aus dem Leben zurückgezogen – sie leidet unter ihrer unerträglichen Chefin, hat ihren Traumjob als Landschaftsarchitektin abgeschrieben und trauert immer noch um ihren Mann, den sie vor vielen Jahren verloren hat. Eines Tages erhält sie ein Angebot, das sie aus ihrem grauen Alltag befreit: In Collaton, einem Küstenort im Nordwesten Englands, soll sie auf einem verwilderten Stück Land einen Gemeinschaftsgarten anlegen, wie sie es sich immer gewünscht hat. Schnell wird Luisa klar, dass sie eine Menge Arbeit erwartet.

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Introducing 1982 Ragnarök by Anthony McNally a captivating and unique blend of military thriller, horror, and sci-fi. Based on the author's own experiences as a Falklands War veteran, this gripping fictional tale takes listeners on a journey through the realms of Heaven, Hell, and Valhalla. The story follows the protagonist, Billy Smiler Brannon, a fictional paratrooper who finds himself caught between the afterlife and the battlefield.

Ever fall head over heels in love with a guy or feel like you'd jump off a bridge for him? Well that's Sam's problem. It's the first week of college, and he's following his jock of a roommate around like a puppy dog. It's pretty pathetic and he knows it. Then he sits down next to this little nerd in his English class and things change. The Three of Us is a story of first loves, coming of age, and friendship.