Thirty-five million miles into space, a species of Martians sets eyes on planet Earth. With their own planet doomed for destruction, the Martians prep <more...>are to invade. Their weapons are ready and their aim is ruthless.The war of the worlds is about to begin.

There's only one thing worse than being jilted on the day of your wedding, being ditched a week before you have to be your friend's chief bridesmaid. <more...>Lizzie Jordan, drama school graduate, is waiting for her great break and in the meantime is happily settled with her boyfriend Richard, until she hears those fateful words "We have to talk." There is only one thing to do, escape to Hollywood and success. But running away from Richard has its own hazards.

In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer has been bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. Before the old woman <more...> dies, she utters the word foreign, which may be the only real clue the police have to go on. And they need to work fast. The press has reported the dying word, and white supremacists have threatened a nearby refugee camp, vowing to take justice into their own hands. Recently divorced, overweight, drinking too much and not sleeping enough, and maybe failing for the beautiful but married prosecutor Anette Brolin, Police Inspector Kurt Wallander doggedly leads the investigation into a crime for which there seems to be no reason, or certainly not one Wallander is sure he wants to know.

Nothing could tear Lola and Dougie apart, except his mother. Seventeen-year-old Lola has no intention of accepting when her boyfriend's mother offers <more...>her money to break up with him. Then Lola discovers a secret that makes her think again, and the only way she can help one of the people she loves most in the world is to take the money and break Dougie's heart. Ten years later, when Lola meets Dougie again, her feelings for him are as strong as ever. She'll do almost anything to get him back, but she can never tell him the truth. Can she overcome his bitterness and win his heart? She's attractive, persuasive, and endlessly optimistic, but even Lola's got her work cut out for her this time.

Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling as a teenager, what with her NHS specs, unfortunate hair and wonky teeth. Thankfully she's blossomed since <more...>then. But when she meets Kerr McKinnon one starry summer's night and discovers, days later, who he actually is... well, that's when the problems really start.

When Millie Brady saves Orla Hart's life she doesn't realise how drastically it will change her own, not least because the boyfriend who was asking he <more...>r to move in with him at the time stormed off in a huff. Actually, Millie's relieved. She's happy to enjoy a man-free summer in Cornwall. But Orla has other ideas. She's determined that Millie should meet the man of her dreams. Trouble is, Millie's taste in men doesn't tally with Orla's. The one who really interests her is Hugh Emerson, and he's the man with whom Orla's adamant she mustn't get involved...

New Year is looming and best friends Liza, Dulcie and Pru are making their resolutions. Liza wants to get married, she's never had any trouble hooking <more...> a man. The trouble is, she can never stay interested once she's got him. Dulcie thinks marriage sucks. Her husband, Patrick, may be gorgeous and charming, but the impulsive Dulcie needs more excitement in her life. She wants a divorce. Pru loves her roving husband, and she secretly enjoys the periods when he's making up for his outrageous behaviour. All she wants is to stay married. Liza, Dulcie and Pru have no idea what the New Year has in store, but Fate has some sneaky plans up her sleeve...

Twenty-something Nadia is happily involved with long-term boyfriend Laurie when she is rescued from her broken-down car by Jay and ends up spending th <more...>e night with him, entirely platonically, not that she isn't tempted, and who would know about it?

When Daisy hears who's about to get married in the country house hotel she runs with her father, her friend promises that there won't be any trouble b <more...>etween her and her ex-boyfriend. But he has other ideas. The thing about hotels is you never know who you'll meet or whether they're going to stay.

It all starts with a shiny, red, sit-on lawnmower. When Nancy spies her Christmas present from her husband sitting on the lawn, she realizes the jewel <more...>ry she thought was for her must be sitting on someone else. Her best friend Carmen isn't surprised (she never liked Jonathan) and persuades Nancy to leave Edinburgh and come and stay in her luxury London flat. Carmen gave up on romance after the death of her adored husband. But she feels an unexpected spark when a handsome charity worker called Joe calls round. Next door, Mia is playing cupid with her father, the gorgeous Connor O'Shea and Nancy, not least because she'd like to see the back of his current pushy girlfriend. But her arrows are just as likely to cause chaos as to ease the path of true love...