Love is on the menu.  With a side order of lies.

When Laura Parker first crosses forks with Adam Bayley, she's only after one thing: his custard doughnut. But when she takes a closer look she sees a talented, handsome man who outshines the string of jokers she's been dating.

There's just one problem. Adam's job means Laura has to keep her job as restaurant critic for The Dish, a secret. 

How can you expect your boyfriend to be honest if you're not quite telling the truth yourself?


THE DISH - Stella Newman - Audio Extract

Scot 'Scat' Delaney is a world famous jazz singer. He has ample opportunity to stray and his girlfriend, Alice, needs to know she can trust him.

Introducing Florence Love, Private Investigator. 

Florence has just ten days to entrap an A-Lister. Whilst sticking to her cardinal rule:

One kiss, with tongues, five seconds - case closed.

A master of body language, evolutionary science and nifty disguises, her approach is unconventional, her success rate excellent. But targets are rarely as beautiful as Scat. Never fall for the target. 

That is very bad form indeed.

The Last Honeytrap marks the energetic launch of a brilliant new series.  Once you've met Florence Love, you'll see the world in glorious technicolour at last.

THE LAST HONEYTRAP - Louise Lee - Audio Extract

When Steffie helps her two siblings organize a surprise wedding anniversary party for their parents her only worry is whether they'll be pleased. What she doesn't know is this is the day that her whole world will be turned upside down.

Jenny wants to be able to celebrate her ruby anniversary with the man she loves, but for forty years she has kept a secret. A secret that she can't bear to hide any longer. But is it ever the right time to hurt the people closest to you?



MY MOTHER'S SECRET - Sheila O'Flanagan - Audio Extract

Inspired by author Emylia Hall's new novel THE SEA BETWEEN US, I'm Always With You is a unique track written by Alwyn Hall, Emylia's father, and recorded for the book's video trailer. The trailer was recorded on location in Cornwall and you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5GlSae5TOs

More about the trailer:
The music was recorded exclusively for the trailer by Kate Haines, and Ed Wallis and Jim Wallis of My Sad Captains (Bella Union). The trio worked out a new arrangement of the song I’m Always With You, which was originally written by Emylia’s father, Alwyn Hall, and first recorded in 2005. Some of the lyrics from I’m Always With You appear in The Sea Between Us.

While The Sea Between Us is a tale of girl meets boy, it’s also a paean to pleasure giving pursuits – surfing, art, music, woodwork. People find their creative calling, they makes things for one another out of love, and fold their hopes and dreams into their work – a splashed canvas, a perfectly carved scallop shell, a song. The trailer for the novel was made in the same spirit – friends, old and new, coming together to make something beautiful, for the pleasure of the process, and the buzz of creation. 

About The Sea Between Us:
In a remote Cornish cove, on one of the last days of summer, Robyn Swinton is drowning. She is saved - just - by local boy Jago Winters, and it is a moment that will change both of them forever.

Over the next seven years, Robyn and Jago's paths lead them in different directions, to city streets and foreign shores. Will the bond forged that day be strong enough to bring them back to one another, or has life already pulled them too far apart?

You can buy it here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Between-Us-Emylia-Hall/dp/1472211979


I'm Always With You - the song inspired by THE SEA BETWEEN US

On the morning of Lily's twenty-fifth birthday, it's time to open the very last letter written to her by her beloved mother, who died when she was eight.

Learning more about the first and only real love of her mum's life is a revelation. On the same day, Lily also meets Eddie Tessler, a man fleeing fame who just might have the ability to change her world in unimaginable ways. But her childhood friend Dan has his own reasons for not wanting Lily to get too carried away by Eddie's attentions.

Before long, secrets begin to emerge and Lily's friends and family become involved. In the beautiful Cotswold village of Stanton Langley, nothing will ever be the same again...

YOU AND ME, ALWAYS - Jill Mansell - audio extract

Happy Birthday, darling girl...

Ever since she can remember, Roisin has received a birthday card in the post. Signed with love from the birth mother she has never met.

Brought up by her adoptive parents, Keeley and Doug, Roisin has wanted for nothing. But on her thirtieth birthday a letter comes that shakes her world.

For Keeley, who's raised Roisin as her own, the letter reminds her of a guilty secret she's been hiding for thirty years.

And for Nell, keeping watch in the lighthouse, the past is a place she dare not go. Until a young runaway arrives seeking shelter, and unwraps the gift of hope for them all...

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