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A podcast about two friends sharing their interests and nostalgia with each other and all of you. We think you're gonna like this podcast!

Close to Rome, set among ancient ruins and freshwater springs, languishes the magnificent Villa Rospo, a jewel in the Tode family portfolio, and one they had virtually forgotten - until Sir Ecgbert and Alice decide it's the perfect place for their honeymoon. Now suddenly everyone wants a piece.

Now that Emily is off the shelf, all eyes turn to Olivia. Feeling unprepared for the marriage mart, let alone matrimony, Olivia arranges a fake engagement with her cousin’s friend. Thomas Corley finds the proposal amusing and timely. With a title and fortune in the balance, it is just the thing to keep his father at bay.

Explore the world of cryptids with Dr. Daisy, PhD in anthrozoology.

Victoria Allington, the Dowager Countess of Sunningdale, has finally discharged her motherly duties. Both her daughters and her eldest son are married, and her youngest son is on his way to a promising career in His Majesty's Army. She should be content. Yet, when an old friend remarks on her ever-expanding list of complaints, Victoria admits something has to change.

After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock.

Henry Allington, the Earl of Sunningdale's younger brother, has just returned to London to complete his military training after spending four years in Paris with his sister, Prunella, and Major Fitzsimmons. That had been the plan. However, he has fallen in love and has no idea how the family is going to react to the news.

What happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present, fizzle into a loveless bond of duty? Victoria and Albert were the royal couple that broke the mould - it may have been an arranged match, yet their union was a passionate, tempestuous relationship between two extremely strong-willed individuals.

Take the guesswork out of harnessing the power of the Cricut machine to create awe-inspiring artwork and crafts with the ultimate guide to Cricut for Beginners! If you want to get started making stunning art and beautiful crafts such as scrapbooks, but don't know how to get started or you just can't figure out how to use the Cricut Design Space, then this guide is just what you need.

After 15 years of trying to be the perfect wife, maybe Charlotte’s best friends from uni - Freya, Emily and Izzy - can still glimpse the woman she’d once set out to be. Freya is up for it. Could a powwow with her yesteryear besties helps her knock some sense into her useless husband? Emily’s hiding her own crisis from her parents, colleagues and now, her mates.

Start your week off on a positive note with us as we share insights and strategies that can make a difference. Each week one of us will share something we have watched, listened to or read that we found inspiring, motivational, interesting, or thought-provoking with each other and you. Our hope is that some of these ideas will inspire you to give them a try in your own lives or incorporate into your mindset to boost your mood and wellbeing - maybe even to change your life!

Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective - celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt.

The perfect Christmas present for Rainbow Magic fans! Join Rachel and Kirsty in five festive audio adventures with our favourite fairies! The Wishes and Stars Collection includes five exciting stories: Chrissie the Wish Fairy, Gabriella the Snow Kingdom Fairy, Holly the Christmas Fairy, Paige the Pantomime Fairy and Stella the Star Fairy.

50 Risks to Take with Your Kids is an easy-to-use framework of challenges for children aged up to 10. You’ll find risks that build physical skills, social confidence and character development, plus some all-important parenting risks that will encourage you to think a little differently about raising children. This book is not about developmental KPIs, and it’s certainly not about judgement. It’s about teaching kids to recognise and assess risk before they enter those ‘risky’ teenage years and about readying them to take on life and all that it brings.

Jackson Barrington, the future Earl of Norwich, is enjoying a pleasant sojourn at Sunningdale Manor. He has just completed his studies and is planning to see the world before joining the peerage.

Penelope Gillingham knew it was her duty to marry. But she never could understand her father's insistence on a hasty match with the first eligible, titled gentleman he could foist upon her. When she meets a duke who shares her views on the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, marital bliss suddenly becomes an enjoyable prospect. But, alas, things are never as simple as they seem.

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her out of Paris, her research unfinished and her sense of self unmoored. At the eco-farm Noa Noa, named for his adventures in Tahiti, she comes under the influence of its charismatic and domineering owner, Paul. As his hold over her tightens and her plans come unstuck, she finds herself entangled in a strange, uneven relationship.

Best friends Jess and Lily love all animals. But when they follow a mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest – a place where animals live in tiny cottages and sip dandelion tea at the Toadstool Cafe – their summer holidays suddenly become much more magical! Goldie has invited Lily, Jess and kitten Bella Tabbypaw for a sleepover! The girls can’t wait to spend a night in Friendship Forest, but brave little Bella decides to go exploring on her own – with the Boggits! Lily and Jess must head into the tunnels underneath the forest to find her, but will Grizelda the witch get there first?

A fallen gives up her heavenly duties as a virtue for her beloved immortal that has waited for her rebirth on Earth for centuries. While Heaven hopes that with time Desiree will forget about her one true love. A bigger plan is unraveling behind the scenes, a child is to come from a dominate demon who wants Desiree for his collection Secret plans, heavenly lies, angels following the wrong side. Desiree is misguided and led to believe her one true LOVE will enter the heavenly realm. Hundreds of years later she learns what her Love has become to await the re-birth of his one true love. Without...

After thirty-five years of marriage, I was done! Children all grown and on their own left no more reasons to lie. We agreed to go through the motions one last Christmas before we broke the news. Then, an accident changed everything. And I found her secret journals. All these years I’d been wrong! But how can I get a second chance if she can’t remember our first? I’ll find a way to bring her back, And I’ll pray that she’ll forgive me. Because one way or another, I won’t rest until we’ve rekindled the love we should have known all along. *Book three in the Rekindled Love Series ...