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A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr.Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe… or if you are a child from the wrong social class… or a singer without work and the rent to be paid.Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

Black Mirror meets David Nicholls in this dark and funny novel about love in dystopian timesLONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR FICTIONKarl has let his debts get wildly out of control and, in desperation, has sort of semi-accidentally committed credit-card fraud. Now he could have to go to prison, so when he and his wife Genevieve are instead offered a place on a mysterious self-improvement scheme called The Transition, they agree. It’s only six months, after all, and at first all it requires is that they give up their credit cards and move into the spare room of their ‘mentors’, Janna and Stu, who seem perfectly lovely…‘A total page-turner’ Nathan Filer , author of The Shock of the Fall‘The sort of book that has you walking blindly through seven lanes of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page’ The Times‘Very funny, compassionate and scathing. Just the ticket for fans of Jonathan Coe’ Laline Paull, author of The Bees‘Richly enjoyable, tenderly devastating’ Guardian

Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane are “the sort of people that wonderful things happen to.” And the children have yet more adventures ahead of them. Following up on “Five Children and It” and “The Phoenix and the Carpet”, they once again meet the wish-granting Psammead fairy. This time, he guides them to an ancient Amulet that will help them find their hearts' desire, but it is only half an amulet, and the search for the other half will have them whizzing about through time.

Sassy heroines and irresistible heroes embark on sizzling sexual adventures as they play the game of modern love and lust. Expect fast paced reads with plenty of steamy encounters.Thea Mitchell has everything – almost. On the dance floor the gorgeous model-turned-dance-instructor abandons herself to the sensuous throb of the tango and…her imagination. But reality’s a different matter. A disastrous affair has left her with cold feet in the bedroom and no juicy gossip about her love life to serve up to her worried friends.Until Brady McMillan tempts her to believe that the perfect partner really does exist…and proves that his moves – on and off the dance floor – are as hot as she can handle!