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  Description The recipe for a perfect summer… Step 1: Mix together a group of mature students Step 2: Add in a handsome host Step 3: Season with a celebrity chef Step 4: Bring to the boil at a luxurious cookery school in France! Waltho Williams has no idea what he’s letting himself in for when he opens the doors to his beautiful French home, La Maison du Paradis. But with dwindling funds, a cookery school seems like the perfect business plan… Divorcée caterer Caroline needs to be able stand on her own two feet. While warm-hearted Fran hopes to help her beloved husband fulfil his lifelong dream. And for food journalist Sally it’s a PR opportunity – until a certain celebrity chef gets under her skin… But will the eclectic group be a recipe for success, or will the mismatched relationships sink like a souffle? Whip out an apron, grab a wooden spoon and take a culinary trip to La Maison du Paradis… Review A great relaxing read but it might make you hungry! This is the first book I hav...

  Description Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community – seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms. When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death. The police are baffled. Reluctantly, they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle. How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive? Review This is the first Anthony Horowitz novel I have read and it won't be the last. A man living on a desirable Close is murdered. He's managed to alienate all of his neighbours, but...

  Description 'As  delicious and comforting  as a freshly baked sponge. A most, heartwarming story and delightful debut' Ruth Jones, bestselling author of  Love Untold 'An  absolute delight.  A lovely novel full of  warmth, courage and heart , Jenny Quinn is a heroine you’ll cheer for every step of the way' A J Pearce, bestselling author of  Dear Mrs Bird ‘Calling all  Great British Baking Show  fans: this  charming  novel will fill the cake-shaped hole in your heart with the kind of  feel-good suspense  we love from the likes of Paul Hollywood ’   Good Housekeeping ---- Mrs Quinn is the unlikely star of Britain's favourite baking show, but could her newfound stardom cause her biggest secret to unravel? Jennifer Quinn has a secret. Her love of baking has just won her a spot as a contestant on a primetime TV show. It's only the second time in fifty-nine years that she's kept something from her beloved husband Bern...

  Description 'Full of Sara Cox's natural warmth and wit'  PRIMA 'Relatable, observant and funny'  WOMAN & HOME Josie's life is fine. Absolutely, completely fine. Nice husband, brilliant best friend, a gorgeous kid at uni. The big house of her dreams on its leafy London street is a lifetime away from the Lancashire farm of her childhood. So what if her mother is tricky, and James isn't in love with Josie any more, and maybe she's not in love with him either? It's great to have time to herself now Chloe's flown the nest . . . isn't it? This is the life Josie never believed possible. The life she needed when her heart was breaking as a child, when her mum wasn't coping and Josie had to grow up too fast. So why this feeling, nibbling away at the edges of Josie's thoughts? The sense that she has lost something. That she has lost herself. If Josie is to truly live, she must now take back the reins and confront her future. And to find h...

  Description 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original'  ERIN KELLY ' Delicious'  i-D Magazine ' Salivatingly well-written'  RENA MATSUI The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food ...

  Description The teachers thought they knew her. They were wrong... 'Must read'  Bella 'A brilliant thriller'  Closer 'Gripping and powerful!'  Lauren North 'An addictive page-turner'  Samantha Tonge 'School run revenge at its best'  Jacqueline Ward 'The end was a triumph, absolutely brilliant!'  Rona Halsall When single mum Ruth has a brief fling with Rob, she's mortified to discover that he lied to her. He lied to her, because he's married. Worse still, he's the husband of Janine, head of the PTA at the primary school where Ruth works as secretary, and when the truth of their fling is discovered, Ruth suddenly has a lot of enemies at the school gates. Threatening texts begin to arrive, rumours abound and the staff room becomes hostile. But when it also starts to affect her son, a student at the school, Ruth realises you can do anything if you convince yourself it's for the sake of your child. Even murder. A page-turning...

Description The instant  Sunday Times  Bestseller from the author of  The Flatshare 'Read this! Absolutely loved it!' Christina Lauren 'This book is perfect' Rosie Walsh ' Beth is quite rightly earning her title as "Queen of Uplit"'  Prima Addie and her sister are on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, who she hasn't seen since their traumatic break-up two years earlier. Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. And with four hundred miles to go, they can't avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship . . . Will they make it to the wedding? And, more importantly, is this really the end of the road for Addie and Dylan? Review This book was not what I was expecting based on the two previous books I have read by this author. Nearly a DNF. ...