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In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation, Jane Austen introduces us to the handsome, clever and very flawed Emma Wodehouse. While she is perfectly content with her life and has no interest in love or marriage for herself, she enjoys nothing more than matchmaking those around her. Mr Knightly tries to talk Emma Woodhouse out of this but when she pushes on anyway, her life, and the lives of the friends around her, are irreversibly changed....

Beatrix Manning, cousin to the beautiful Lady Cordelia, wants to be a famous novelist. Although she enjoys reading out her silly stories to the Literary Gathering of Dubious Merit, she has secretly been working on a book that she hopes will change her fortunes, but it requires a rewrite due to some unflattering caricatures of the Ton within the pages. Felix Drake, a budding publisher and printer intent on growing his business, is flattered and grateful when an old friend invites him to read to her wealthy friends.

It was a ghastly horror of a house party. Miss Penelope Childe and all the others were awaiting the end of the wicked earl's rotten life. The disinherited son, the new heir, the illegitimate son - all of them are there. Murder is done. The centuries-old curse has struck again. Penelope alone heard the supernatural scream and sees the ghosts that no one else can. Penelope is a reluctant bride-to-be, contracted to wed a man she's never met before. She intensely dislikes her betrothed, the rakish Lord Taredell.

Après une dernière frasque qui a failli les détruire, elle et la réputation durement gagnée de sa famille, Alexia Myers, étudiante, décide de reprendre sa vie en mains. Transférée dans une nouvelle université, loin de tout ce qu'elle connaît, elle s'applique à être tout le contraire de ce qu'elle était auparavant. Une nouvelle - et meilleure - version d'elle-même. Lorsqu'elle rencontre Asher, Lexi fait tout pour le garder à distance : son ancienne vie est derrière elle.

C'est quoi le Grand Amour ? Pourquoi vous voulez tout et son contraire ? Quels sont les besoins affectifs qui guident vos choix ? Comment surmonter les conflits ou survivre à la routine ? Parce que l'amour est un mécanisme complexe, construire une relation durable nécessite d'en comprendre le fonctionnement. À l'heure des sites de rencontres et du tout-jetable, Inge Cantegreil-Kallen vous donne les clefs nécessaires pour tisser, jour après jour, une relation profonde, riche et sereine avec votre partenaire.

Dix nouvelles de Françoise Bourdin. Dans Hors saison, la nouvelle qui donne son titre au recueil, deux histoires se croisent. Celle de Sabine, dont le couple bat de l'aile et qui part faire le point à Honfleur, et celle de Jag, qui connaît bien la maison dans laquelle Sabine trouve refuge car c'est là que vivait son grand amour autrefois. L'une craint de passer à côté du bonheur, l'autre a peut-être laissé le sien lui échapper.

Married out of the schoolroom to her childhood hero, Kate had believed that life would finally hand her a happy ending - right up until her husband abandoned her for foreign shores less than an hour after their wedding. Since then she has forged a place for herself in society, and endured the cruel gossip about the state of her marriage, for even though she has been forced to face the Ton alone, she is still a Duchess.

Lord Robert discovers his betrothed, Theresa Huntington, in the arms of her childhood friend. He finds it difficult to believe their protests of innocence. He rides off to war, informing her that she is free of their betrothal. But Theresa doesn't want her freedom. She loves him. By Christmas, when she hears nothing more from him, she fears he has been killed. Surely Lord Robert can't be dead!

Idyllic memories. A perfect childhood. A secret buried for 30 years. None of us could remember why we drifted apart. We spent our childhood marauding around our village in our little gang, coming of age, belonging, and getting into 'bother' as mum called it. But nothing bad ever really happened. Or did it? Children see things that adults don't. It's as simple as that. Innocuous or bizarre coincidences aren't really that. Mysterious goings on can't really be shrugged away. There was something else happening, something terrible, but the adults were too busy doing life to see.

Isabella Snowley knows full well that her family are on the brink of ruin, which is why she must try to stop her brother from getting himself killed in a silly duel. Tracking down the aloof Earl of Colbourne and asking him to withdraw made perfect sense when she formulated the plan. But standing in a dark street at four o'clock in the morning has quickly shown Bella her foolishness.

Dogs bring with them a lot of fun and love, but they certainly need a lot of attention. In this follow-up to All About Archie: Bringing Up a Puppy, Helen shares her experiences of living with her young dog, Archie. You’ll also hear from other puppy and dog parents about the reality of life with their new best friend. And not forgetting Archie himself, who wants to add a little doggy perspective!

When you are framed for murder, you only really have one option: emigrating to America. That is the decision that Samuel, the Earl of Kincardine, takes when on his 30th birthday, a suspicious death seems to point to him as the murderer. He needs respectability, and that comes with a wife and wedding ring. The only trouble is, the ship he's aboard only has one single woman aboard: Miss Margaret Berry. Seduction may not come naturally to the Earl, but Samuel is determined. He will enter his new life as a new man - even if Margaret seems to have secrets of her own.

Enter worlds of steampunk and terror, where you’ll meet ghosts that will raise the hairs along your arms. Among the tales, you’ll encounter a serial killer stalking a country road and a vacation destination riddled with evil. This collection of short stories explores the different writing styles and genres of Amazon best-selling author Jordan Elizabeth.

Lady Henrietta has been in love with her neighbour since she was eight years old, and always known they were fated to be together. Unfortunately for her, Lord Cottingham seems oblivious to the fact they were made for each other. When Henrietta is forced to acknowledge that Cottingham thinks of her as nothing more than a friend, she is determined to make him realise just what a diamond he has let slip through his fingers by making the ton fall in love with her instead.

L'archipel de Stockholm vit des heures inquiétantes : des cadavres de jeunes hommes échouent sur ses côtes. Un tandem de flics est missionné : la jeune Malin, enceinte, et son supérieur Manfred, dont la fille est entre la vie et la mort. En parallèle, la vie de Samuel, adolescent rebelle, bascule quand sa mère jette à la poubelle des échantillons de cocaïne que le baron de la drogue lui a confiés. Alors que Samuel trouve une planque sur la petite île de Marholmen, Malin et Manfred font fausse route.

Londres 1942 : profitant du couvre-feu, un tueur hante les rues de la ville. En quelques jours, il assassine et mutile quatre femmes. Son modus operandi interpelle Scotland Yard et la presse, qui le surnomme aussitôt le Blackout Ripper. Les messages qu'il laisse sur les scènes de crime, conçus comme des indices codés, imposent bientôt aux enquêteurs une piste inquiétante : le criminel semble s'inspirer des leçons du mage noir Aleister Crowley et de son manuscrit démoniaque, "Le Livre de la Loi".

James, Viscount of Paendly, has had enough of women. Bored with his traditional, constrained life as a Viscount, he is on his way home with nothing but 27 years of life experience to his credit. The one thing he could never have predicted was the entrance of Miss Rowena - known to him as Rebecca - entering the carriage, raging about an elopement gone wrong and desperate to save her reputation.

Le 24 septembre 1941, pendant le Blitz qui écrase Londres sous des tonnes de bombes, Amelia Pritlowe, infirmière du London Hospital, apprend la mort de son père. Celui-ci lui a laissé une lettre posthume lui révélant que sa mère n'est pas morte d'une maladie pulmonaire, comme l'histoire familiale le prétend ; Mary Jane Kelly a été la dernière victime de Jack L'Éventreur. Amelia Pritlowe avait 2 ans.

Prince Éduard of Aviroux is hunting down the Great Whisperer, the spy helping the French nobility escape the guillotine, and he’s so close when thwarted by the delectable Giselle. In all his years, he has never seen a woman like her: resourceful, cunning, and ready for a fight. What he doesn't realize is that she's just the spy for whom he's looking. Now trapped on an island together with food running out fast, Giselle is attracting his notice for all the wrong reasons, and it surely won't be long before secrets, as well as clothes, start to fly.

He’s hot, he’s a rock star, and he’s a whole lot of trouble. One lick of lead guitarist Tyler Cook and that’s all it takes - Katie’s addicted. She jumps on his tour bus and into his life as impetuously as she does everything else, and no matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, she can’t manage to quit him. After all, the man plays guitar like he loves women - plugged in, turned on, and set to the ultimate high. Every girl wants him, but Katie is the only girl he wants. Until it all comes unplugged and their world goes blacker than black.