![]() ![]() It's a flawless plan (if you look at it through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses).īut how can you pretend to be in love with someone - and get away with it - in front of the people who know you best?īrimming with characters you can't help but fall for and off-the-charts chemistry, HAPPY PLACE is Emily Henry's best novel yet. She studied creative writing at Hope College, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. The New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and Book Lovers is out with a new novel. Emily Henry is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, Beach Read, and the forthcoming Happy Place. ![]() The cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be together here and they can't bear to break their friends' hearts. Emily Henry talks about new book, 'Happy Place' Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth. For one glorious week they leave behind their lives, drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people. Which is how they end up sharing a bedroom at the cottage that has been their yearly getaway with their best friends for the past decade. ![]() Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pride and Prejudice is an all time favourite classic of mine. I’m always a little anxious about whether it will ruin my love for the original book. Modern retellings tend to be the latest trend around these days. Don't miss the rest of the Jane Austen Academy series, where sassy girls, hot guys and Jane Austen collide! ![]() The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beachside California boarding school. And it’s about to turn the Academy-and the lives of its students-totally upside down… But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with. And when Lizzie’s quest to stop those changes blows up in her face, taking her oldest friendship with it, she has nowhere else to turn but to Dante, with his killer blue eyes, his crazy-sexy smile, and his secrets… Secrets Lizzie can’t seem to leave alone, no matter how hard she tries… And Lizzie knows Dante is a snob with a gift for pressing her buttons.īut things are changing fast this year at the Academy. It’s obvious that Dante thinks he’s way too good for Lizzie. She’s a driven study-a-holic just barely keeping up with tuition. He’s a snooty Exeter transfer with more money than Google. To say Lizzie and Dante are polar opposites is the understatement of the century. 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In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Technically speaking, A Christmas Carol was published by Chapman & Hall. ![]() ![]() He received his Bachelors of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition. ![]() ![]() And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.įrom these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together-their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. A teenage girl-her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house-is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. ![]() ![]() A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. ![]() |