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A parents worst nightmare.
A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter’s life, a devil’s choice. The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie’s daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter, Amelie, who is the joy of both her and her husband’s lives.

But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukaemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant.
They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found.

Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine’s own father. But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.

Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter’s life when she knows that even this may be futile.

I know I’ll land a husband… but will he be the one?

The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage – A hilarious romcom that will redefine your views on love and matchmaking!

Meet our British-Bengali protagonist, a spirited, acerbic woman on a quest for Mr Right. But in a world where tradition and modernity collide, her journey to find love takes a delightfully unexpected turn.

Young, free and single, our heroine finds herself caught between two worlds, never fully fitting in with her English friends or her Asian community. As time ticks away, she embarks on a dual mission — her own dating adventures and the rollercoaster ride of an arranged marriage hunt orchestrated by her larger-than-life family.

From her adorable yet overbearing mum to the army of pretend aunties and profiteering opportunists, everyone becomes invested in finding her the perfect match. With humour and wit, she embraces the chaos of this unconventional approach to love, never quite sure if her ideal partner lies within the boundaries of tradition or if she’ll discover something entirely unexpected.

The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage is a fresh and captivating debut novel by former journalist Halima Khatun. She explores the complexities of family dynamics, identity, and the eternal search for belonging. This is not your average arranged marriage romance — it’s a romcom that breaks barriers and challenges preconceptions.

Prepare to be swept away on a laugh-out-loud journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. Get ready to redefine your view of matchmaking and immerse yourself in a story that will leave you smiling long after you’ve turned the final page.

The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage is a romcom like no other, defying stereotypes and offering a fresh perspective on the joys and pitfalls of finding love, or a boy you can at least grow to like. Don’t miss this heartwarming and hilarious tale.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried…

Ruth didn’t hesitate. She aimed and fired in the direction of the flash, squeezing off three rapid shots. The muzzle of her own weapon lit up the barn in staccato bursts, revealing fleeting glimpses of the whimsical wonderland turned battlefield. Shadows danced across the faces of smiling clowns and cartoon characters, their frozen grins taking on a sinister quality in the flashes of light.
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In this explosive new Baker & Tate mystery, Texas Ranger Ruth Baker faces her darkest case yet — one that strikes at the heart of her own family.

When twenty-three children vanish from a school bus in Caldwell, Texas, the case becomes personal for Ruth Baker — her daughter Ava should have been on that bus. Partnered with fellow Ranger Aaron Tate, Ruth uncovers a haunting connection to the infamous “Red Barn Killings” from twenty years ago. But as they dig deeper, they discover that Caldwell’s most powerful figures may have been protecting a terrible secret all along.

With the FBI closing in and dangerous revelations about her late husband’s death coming to light, Ruth must decide how far she’ll go to expose the truth — even if it means destroying everything she thought she knew about her hometown.

A poignant, heart- warming novel of loss, love and renewal.

The fifth novel from the award-winning bestselling writer Richard Clark.

In 1974, a married couple flees Cyprus as Turkish bombs rain down on their home town of Famagusta. Nearly half a century later, a young woman’s life is tragically changed forever as Russian troops bombard her village in war-torn Ukraine. Seeking refuge on the Greek island of Crete, their lives collide. Generations apart, can shared experiences help mend them?

Criss lives in a special kind of prison. He can see and hear everything around the world, yet a mesh restrains his reach, forcing his cooperation. His creator, Dr. Jessica Tallette, believes his special abilities offer great promise for humanity. But she fears the consequences of freeing him, because Criss, a sentient artificial intelligence with the intellect of a thousand humans, is too powerful to control. Tallette’s world is upended when the Kardish, a race of alien traders, announce that they want Criss for themselves, expressing their desires with ominous undertones. She turns to the Union of Nations for help, and they task Sid, a special agent, with leading the response. Sid believes that Criss is Earth’s greatest weapon and asks him to confront the Kardish. But can the AI be trusted? And what is humanity’s role if an interstellar battle among titans starts to rage?

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year… “

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is a haunting masterpiece of psychological horror and gothic beauty — a chilling tale that explores the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, and the living and the damned.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits the crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, a man afflicted by strange fears and a mysterious malady. Inside the decaying halls of the Usher estate — where silence, shadows, and dread reign — he witnesses a terrifying unraveling of both the house and the human mind.

Through poetic prose and suffocating atmosphere, Poe crafts one of literature’s most enduring symbols: the House of Usher, at once a physical ruin and a mirror of psychological collapse. The story’s haunting imagery, eerie tension, and deep emotional resonance make it a cornerstone of Gothic fiction and a timeless study of obsession, fear, and mortality.

A masterwork of suspense and symbolism, The Fall of the House of Usher is Poe at his finest — dark, elegant, and unforgettable.