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The Guilty One: Part of the Love…Maybe ebook short story collection.When William Henley accepts Samuel Flynn’s proposal of marriage, he’s on top of the world. But soon delirium turns to disaster as Will discovers that Sam has been hiding a secret. And it’s one that will change their lives forever.***This is a short story, which you can also buy as part of the Love…Maybe Eshort Collection***

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the City's darling, her name linked in gossip columns with film star Caspar Jensen. She has come a long way from Simon Archer, the man who invented a brilliantly simple game of chance and skill in a prison camp forty years ago, a game that is the foundation of Harriet's business empire. She has come a long way from her family, friends and former lovers. But when things start going wrong, Harriet finds that in love, as in the game, the quickest way to a goal can be the riskiest…

Do fairytale dresses bring fairytale endings?Every dress has a history, so does Phoebe…Phoebe always dreamt of opening her own vintage dress shop. She imagined every detail, from the Vivienne Westwood bustiers hanging next to satin gowns, to sequinned cupcake dresses adorning the walls.At the launch of Village Vintage, Phoebe feels the tingle of excitement as customers snap up the fairytale dresses. Her dream has come true, but a secret from her past is casting a shadow over her new venture.Then one day she meets Therese, an elderly Frenchwoman with a collection to sell, apart from one piece that she won't part with …As Therese tells the story of the little blue coat, Phoebe feels a profound connection with her own life, one that will help her heal the pain of her past and allow her to love again.

Survival is hard in a land where no woman can live aloneLayla is just thirteen when the men with the beards and guns burn down her beloved father’s school and begin to terrorise the Swat valley region of Pakistan.She has to flee, exchanging the tranquil beauty of the Himalayas for the squalor of a camp for refugees from the Taliban near Peshawar. With her life torn apart by tragedy, Layla must choose between the old fashioned way of life with her family – or a journey into independence which could threaten her very survival.Trying to find out what lies behind mysterious deaths at the camp is foreign correspondent Ellen Thomas. As a strong woman in a man’s world, Ellen is used to risking her life to uncover the truth. United by the gentle schoolteacher who had risked his life to save books, the paths of Layla and Ellen collide in a common cause.

The Romantic One: Part of the Love…Maybe ebook short story collection.A snow storm in the village has meant waitress Rachel is working an extra shift on Valentine’s Night. Hopefully, though, she’ll still get home in time to have her prosecco with her boyfriend Jamie and tell him her secret…Daniel is stuck in the snow. He should have left work earlier but he hopes his girlfriend Claire will understand – especially when he produces a very special gift.He stops to shelter and wait out the storm in a hotel he passes.Who’d have thought that this one decision could change more than one life forever …***This is a short story, which you can also buy as part of the Love…Maybe Eshort Collection***

It was a matter of life and death …7 May 1915Gerda Nielsen is on her way from Brooklyn to Liverpool aboard the ill-fated Lusitania.Jack Walsh is returning to England to take up a post helping the war effort.As he and Gerda spend more and more time onboard together they realise that each has found someone very special.It’s the afternoon before they dock in Liverpool, and tragedy strikes. As the torpedoed ship lists to one side Jack and Gerda must make frightening decisions that become a matter of life or death …A beautiful, romantic and moving tale based on a tragic true story.***Don’t miss NO PLACE FOR A LADY, the epic historical love story by Gill Paul, out July 2015***

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday.From the magnificent ‘To Room Nineteen’, a study of a dry, controlled middle-class marriage ‘grounded in intelligence’, to the shocking ‘A Woman on the Roof’, where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s, bears stunning witness to Doris Lessing’s perspective on the human condition.

The Bittersweet One: Part of the Love…Maybe ebook short story collection.Clara goes to the same London landmark every year, for the same heartbreaking reason.But what if things change this year? What if there’s snow…***This is a short story, which you can also buy as part of the Love…Maybe Eshort Collection***

The Feel-Good One: Part of the Love…Maybe ebook short story collection.It’s Valentine’s Day and, for single girl Kate, the only thing that could make that worse would be having to go to her own fortieth birthday party as well!Every year it’s the same: people asking if she has got herself a man yet. And every year she has to say no. Once upon a time the idea of a fabulous, successful career seemed more important than ‘settling down’ but now she’s beginning to wish she hadn’t bid her teenage crush goodbye to take a job in London …If only, thinks Kate, she and her best mates could turn back time and be twenty one again.But Kate should be careful what she wishes for …***This is a short story, which you can also buy as part of the Love…Maybe Eshort Collection***

A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.In 'King Billy is a Gentleman', the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. 'Curved Is the Line of Beauty' is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In 'Third Floor Rising', she watches, dazzled, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity.With a deceptively light touch, Mantel locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.