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Charles Wenmouth is a young lay preacher in 1870s Cornwall who finds himself drawn to a local blind girl by the faith she maintains despite her disability, but after one Sabbath spent preaching, he returns to his village to hear devastating news. Will he face the doubt that has long threatened to...

Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body?

This is a new, updated edition of BAAF's popular and comprehensive guide to the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child's origins. It conforms to legal requirements in England, Wales and Scotland, and includes illustrations and helpful case studies.

When Eloise receives news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage. With two young children, rent overdue and almost nothing to live on, she has no alternative but to turn to his estranged family for help. Court is also the author of 'Mermaids Singi...

This is just one of Leslie Thomas's novels being reissued with a new jacket. Edward Richardson, who lives in a sleepy village scarcely beyond Heathrow, jets around the world faster than his marriage can tolerate.

A powerful story of love and deception set against the true events of one of the most secret and terrifying of Heinrich Himmler's wartime projects - the Lebensborn Nazi breeding programme.

Having left the small Irish town where she grew up, Izzie is now very much a New Yorker. She's big and beautiful and runs a model agency for plus-sized women. But she's just broken one of her cardinal rules and has fallen for a married man and now it's make or break time.

It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species. Gabby reappears in his life wanting his help in tracing the history of 'The Mysterious Bird of Ulieta', a creature once owned by the great 18th Century naturalist Joseph Banks.

60 years ago, a Hungarian scientist discovered how to artificially trigger a polar shift, but time has forgotten his work - until now. Austin, Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team must find out who has access to this powerful technology before the Earth is made to pay.

An insightful take on the search for love, tolerance and faith in a tightly-knit Jewish community in London, 'Disobedience' follows the story of Ronit, who is returing to the capital on the occasion of the funeral of her estranged father.