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Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate. And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation. When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels – and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder. As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong. Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds – and the girls reveal a chilling defence no one saw coming – he begins to question everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement. Who’s telling the truth? Who can be trusted? And what really happened to Christian Shaw?
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Cromarty, The Black Isle, 1831. As seagulls shriek & rise on the coastal winds, a circulating library in the port town of Cromarty is meeting for the first time. Ostensibly united by a love of books, the demands of social convention have brought together a disparate group of people. Charlotte Mackenzie, the remote & fragile wife of the local laird, seeks an escape from a loveless marriage; her best friend, Rachel Mackay, a former governess who is ardently in love with her own older husband, the town’s minister; the young schoolmaster, John Learmonth, newly arrived from Edinburgh with secrets in tow; & the gentle bank clerk, Ludovic Cameron who dreams of a new life across the ocean, far from his erstwhile schoolmate, Farquhar Hossack. Whenthe laird befriends a wounded officer, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium of the community.
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A happily childfree-by-choice teacher decides to fake a pregnancy to get a year off work. Pulling off this ‘immaculate misconception’ should be easy enough, right? Wrong . . .
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The Holiday meets Lost in Austen, with a sprinkling of Bridgerton steam?
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£14.99
An anthology of unforgettable poems by, for and about parents.
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1593, Scotland. King James VI launches a bloody witch hunt across the length and breadth of the country to rid the land of evil. But they are already within his court. Disguised as a lady-in-waiting, Elspet Balfour has been sent from Orkney to serve the Queen Anna of Denmark, the witch-hunting king’s new bride, at court in Edinburgh. For Anna is pregnant and, against her husband’s decree, wishes for her highly anticipated baby to remain with her after birth. She seeks a binding spell from Elspet, a ‘spae wife’, a wise woman and herbalist, to protect her unborn child. While Elspet struggles to keep her identity secret in a court that wishes her dead, another woman seeks her aid – Kitty Muirhead, unwed and impoverished, desperate to rid herself of her burdens past and present. Kitty and the queen could not be more different, but they may yet be each other’s salvation. They must concoct a plan to save one another.
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Exploring the fine line between dishonesty and reinvention, ‘Saoirse’ is an evocative and compelling story of a woman perpetually in flight. In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithà and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home that she has always longed for. She tends not to talk about her past, and those that love her have learned to accept that the full story is too painful for her to disclose. When her Dublin exhibition unexpectedly wins a prestigious award that invites a swarm of publicity, Saoirse is left panic stricken. The unanticipated recognition threatens to expose a decade’s worth of buried memories and past crimes.
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A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely – and you’ll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won’t want to believe it.
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They call her Sycorax. Seer. Sage. Sorceress. Outcast by society and all alone in the world, Sycorax must find a way to understand her true nature. But as her powers begin to grow, so too do the suspicions of the local townspeople. For knowledge can be dangerous, and a woman’s knowledge is the most dangerous of all. With a great storm brewing on the horizon, Sycorax finds herself in increasing peril – but will her powers save her, or will they spell the end for them all?
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Across a bridge, in view of cherry blossom lies the Marble Cafe where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favourite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this magical little cafe behind the trees. Without even realizing it, we may touch and change someone else’s life. Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish. The small, everyday acts that we do can offer unexpected encounters and ultimately change a life.
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In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends. In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel ‘Prep’ a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion. Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.
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£16.99
An exquisite slow-burn forbidden love story between a priest and a teacher, laced with passion and faith, set between Rome and England during the tumultuous twentieth century
