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They shared a secret no one must ever know... When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies' father is invalided out of the Great War, the whole family has little choice but to move to the infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff.

Giuseppe Balsamo was born in the mid-eighteenth century in the slums of Palermo, Sicily, he would rise from obscurity to become the legendary Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, whose dangerous charm and reputed healing would make him the darling - and bane - of upper-crust Europe.

For eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read six words on cinema or television screens: 'Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England'. This book offers insight, anecdotes and interviews with some of the producers, directors and more.

Ferne McCann is a TV personality, style icon and influencer and for the first time she's telling her story. In Cross My Heart, Ferne tells her own story in her own words.

Downloaded over ten million times a year the Football Ramble podcast has established itself as the essential, independent voice of football punditry.

Then she receives a phone call from a woman at a country hotel, confirming details of a booking Rick made before he vanished. Soon Gina is unsure that Rick even made the booking - but one thing is clear: both mother and daughter are in serious danger.

Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private - was in charge of security for the World Cup in Bazil. A lethal plan put in motion during the World Cup is set to decimate Rio, and turn the Olympics from a worldwide celebration into a horrifying spectacle.

The new romantic Christmas story from New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Ashley Davison is desperate to spend the holidays with her mother in Seattle.

Whit Allgood is renowned for healing the victimised. But now the people of his City have turned their backs on all who use magic, and Whit is faced with a terrible choice: give up his power or let good people die.

'A staggeringly beautiful meditation on love, legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living.' Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's WifeBOSTON, 1980Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and home-schooled.

'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you'll love this' Red Magazine Pull up a chair for the true story of the Umbrian Thursday night supper club.

The Football Manager Guide to Football Management is for anyone who has ever believed that they could do a better job than their club's manager. It's for anyone who has ever tried to prove that point by taking the hot seat in the management simulation Football Manager.

The terrifying new Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle`Muna's fortunes changed for the better on the day that Mr and Mrs Songoli's younger son failed to come home from school.'Before then her bedroom was a dark windowless cellar, her activities confined to cooking and cleaning.

What Lenny doesn't know is that Molly is desperate to join the war effort, and with her sights set on joining the WAAF, chances are they will see each other again.

London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, suspects a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall.

First as Ambassador to the UN, and then as Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK's highest authority on the ground, Sir Jeremy Greenstock was centre stage in the tumultuous days leading up to the Iraq war and witnessed first-hand its tremendous impact.

'explosively paced... fills the workaday office with a glorious plot, giving voice to the John McClane fantasies lying dormant in cubicles across the world.' THE GUARDIANThe Regional Office and its band of super-powered female assassins protects the world from annihilation. But a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now the Regional Office is under attack Rose is a young assassin leading the assault, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah - who may or may not have a mechanical arm - fiercely devoted to the organisation that took her in as a troubled young woman. On the day that the Office is attacked, Rose s and Sarah s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as we know it just might come to an end

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Liverpool. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes whenever she can. But her situation at home starts to worsen as her uncle grows surlier and more violent. Eventually, the worst happens and Lizzie is forced to flee.

A heartfelt and wondrous debut lauded by Philipp Meyer (New York Times bestselling author of The Son) as "astonishing", introducing a supremely gifted and exciting new voice in fiction.

THE FIRST EMPIRE HAS RETURNED.THE NEW GALACTIC UNION HANGS IN THE BALANCE The Lightship Impulse is gone, sacrificed while defeating First Empire ships the fragile new galactic alliance hoped it would never see again. For Peter Cochrane, serving as third officer on the Starbound and tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a newly re-discovered system, the wounds of battle may have healed, but the war is far from over...

New York attorney Trevor Mann's world shatters when he receives a phone call telling him his girlfriend has been shot dead in a mugging. But the circumstances point to something more calculated than a random attack.

Tells stories of some of the lost trains of Britain, that evokes the glories of a bygone age. This book deals with the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them.

At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth. The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.

Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamoured of the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence.

When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, DC's most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it's time to start asking some serious questions-no matter what the consequences.

When grieving mother and New York journalist Charlie Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children after her only son passes away, she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet she soon realizes these are not the hallucinations of a bereaved mother.

With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease of life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet's past.

In the Young Readers Edition of The Martian: Classroom-appropriate languageDiscussion questions and activitiesQ&A with Andy Weir Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he s alive and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. Damaged machinery, the unforgiving environment, or plain old "e;human error"e; are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit, he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor.

And as her detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, she has to face the very real possibility that the stalker she's convinced will take her life could be all in her head - or the very real danger that finally brings her down.