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This book will change the way you think about success.

Mac’s school trip to Paris turns into an adventure she never imagined.

Dying is the best way to revive your musical career … even if you’re not really dead.

Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie returns to Paris to attend the Christmas Eve wedding of her Dad's old friend, Rudee Daroo, and the love of his life, dancer Sashay D'or.

Mackenzie — just “Mac,” thanks — is a regular fourteen-year-old girl, until a school trip to Paris leaves her tangled up with a cast of shadowy characters, crazy cabbies, and … are those real-life

During the hazardous years of the Depression, Christine Winter, with the indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession, meets a stranger and finds her life changed beyond recall.

Hannah Massey is the matriarch of her family but her daughter, the apple of her eye, creates an explosive situation.

Matthew lies in a hospital bed, wondering what place there is for a blind man in the new social order of a Britain adjusting to post-war austerity.

Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household.

This powerful and enthralling novel spans more than three decades, from the 1880's to the First World War, and tells the story of Ward Gibson, his family, and those whose destiny is influenced

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.

Catherine Cookson's own story; of her mother and her harsh childhood growing up in a poor English family.

Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops.

Joseph Rooney, dustman, is looking for lodgings. Ma Howlett welcomes him but he feels strange and shy. Then he meets Nellie and suddenly things are not so bad.

When Fred suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. A series of disasters threaten to ruin their holiday.