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In an island community facing extinction, can hope rise stronger than grief? Sisi de Mathilde lives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. With the seas rising, the birth rate plummeting and her community under threat, she works as a scientist, reporting on local climate conditions to help protect her island home. But her life is thrown into turmoil when she finds herself newly widowed and unexpectedly pregnant. When a group of outsiders try ...

David Aguilera's life is collapsing around him. After the catastrophic loss of the vessel under his command and a perilous trek across the Baltics to safety, he returns home to find himself unable to reconnect with his family. Frustrated by his inability to express what he is feeling, his wife Margalit moves out to stay with friends, taking their children with her.As David anxiously awaits the official inquiry into his conduct, he turns to tho...

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She's had this feeling before. This feeling of marking time. Of pressing her nose against a window and watching as everyone else lives their best lives. Isla Wintergreen has not seen her grandfather since she was seven, but when she unexpectedly inherits his cottage on the Isle of Skye, she cannot resist the opportunity to escape her purposeless life. As she slowly becomes a part of the island community, she learns more about the family she ne...

Photography led guide to plastic free gardening. Includes extensive guidance and tips on how to create and maintain a beautiful flower garden and productive vegetable plot whilst helping to combat plastic pollution.

Chief Whip Esme Kanha decides to investigate the death of the Minister for Personal Information, suspecting foul play. But in a world where 'what can see watches and what can hear listens', she must tread carefully in a deadly game against political corruption. The first in the Kanha and Colbey legal thriller series.

I love how this seemingly quiet novel is also one of extremes: funny and tragic, captivating and disturbing. Joanna Campbell has written a mind-bending and enigmatic story that blurs the lines between thought and reality' -- Claire Fuller, author of Costa prize-winning Unsettled Ground'You go too far, my friend. You are near dangerous ground.' Neil Fischer owns a village. Having inherited his father's former hometown of Marschwald in East Germ...

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North-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn't pay much attention to 'political business' - she is more concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her best friends.Yet when her father disappears without a trace, Joya's life falls apart. Forced to drop out of school and support her mother by working in a garment factory, she refuses to accept that her father is gone forever, spending her nights sewi...

England, 1926. Lady Isobel Farrar, an ageing widow, finds herself dwelling on a long-buried secret: as a young woman, she gave up a child for adoption. Now she can't help but wonder what became of him. When she finally tracks down her long-lost son, will the two be able to lay the past to rest?

In an island community facing extinction, can hope rise stronger than grief? Sisi de Mathilde lives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. With the seas rising, the birth rate plummeting and her community under threat, she works as a scientist, reporting on local climate conditions to help protect her island home. But her life is thrown into turmoil when she finds herself newly widowed and unexpectedly pregnant. When a group of outsiders arri...

On a windswept island off Cape Cod, Delilah moves into a cottage by the shore. After growing up in precarious circumstances with her Abuela, both of them hiding a terrible secret, all Delilah wants now is a beautiful place of her own - and she's paid a high price for it. The neighbors watch the newcomer and wonder about her. They don't like it when she plants a wild and colorful garden in the front yard, and they like the visits from her marri...

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Following a move to the Netherlands, a young woman dissects the developments of her new life. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from. As her feelings of dislocation grow, larger anxieties about her purpose - or lack of it - begin to encroach.

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Growing up in London with Tunisian parents, wayward Nessie finds herself caught between cultures. Her parents don't want her becoming too English, while at school she doesn't feel ' white enough' or ' African enough' to fit in with any group. She even has multiple names: Nesrine officially, Susu to her family, Nessie to everyone else.And then there's Mrs Brown: a charismatic woman who befriends her parents and soon becomes the glue holding the...

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