Bøger af Helen Cooper

A deliciously vengeful and sinister suspense novel, about two women whose friendship cracks after one of their sons murders the other's from the author of The Downstairs Neighbor and The Couple in the Photo. In a close-knit English village, Chrissy and Alice were once best friends. So were their sons Leo and Robbie. Until the night Leo killed Robbie with a single, devastating punch. Leo went to prison, Chrissy lost her pub, and Alice poured her anger into a twisted project: leading a village committee to take over Chrissy's "cursed" bar. When Leo is given early parole, the villagers are incensed and fearful about the prospect of his return. But as Chrissy arrives to collect Leo from prison, he isn't there. The prison staff tell her he has already been released, but nobody knows where he's gone. As the village closes ranks, Chrissy realizes her former friends are suspects in her son's disappearance, not least still-bitter Alice. Is this about Leo and what happened that terrible night? Or does it go further back, into a dark past none of them wants to revisit?

It was only supposed to be one night! We met at a wedding. He was hot. And I'd been in a year's drought. He smiled. We got drunk.We flirted. We hooked up. I left early the next morning without saying goodbye. It was only meant to be a one night stand. I didn't want the awkward morning after moment. Not at all. Then I went home for the weekend. And he was there. Sitting on the couch chatting to my dad. Turns out he was more than just a stranger. Turns out that my one night stand was about to cause a whole heap of trouble. Turns out that it never just stops with one night.

Sophie and Max have been in love with each other for years. But Max thought she was off limits because she was his sisters best friend and much younger than him. When they both realize that they want to be together and are in love, they finally get together to start their new life, happy and excited for their new baby to join them. Ella Van Harkel is Max's sister and Sophie's best friend and she has relationship issues of her own. When she decides to join an online dating service, she has no idea that she is being manipulated by people from Max's past. The path of true love never goes smoothly and when Max's ex Alexis comes back to town with explosive news, Sophie isn't sure how to think or feel. She tells Max she wants to learn more about his dark past and as they go down the path of his troubled history, they begin to unleash secrets so dark that neither of them will ever be the same again.

Meg had no idea what she was getting herself into when she accepted a job at the Private Club. She also hadn't planned on meeting a man like, Greyson Twining. A man who's handsome devilish looks made her forget her principals and her mind. When Meg realizes that there is a lot more going on at the Private Club then she had ever imagined, she decides to stick around to try and figure out exactly what's going on. Only she never imagined that the truth could be so deadly and worrying. Eventually, Meg finds herself stuck between her attraction to Greyson and the stark facts telling her that, Greyson is a bad man. A very bad man. Meg has to decide what to believe, her heart or her brain, before it's too late.

What would you do if the hottest man on earth made you an offer you couldn't refuse? What if it was the offer of a lifetime? The sort of offer that would make you blush as he offered you whatever you wanted to make you accept. What if the offers were so spicy, so naughty, so scandalous that you wouldn't even want to tell your best friend? If you were me, you would say yes. There are three things you should know. His name is TJ Walker. He's 28, hot as can be and he's my brother's best friend. TJ asked me to be his fiance for four weeks. I'm hoping to make the engagement real. I know. I can't believe it either. What am I thinking? There are so many things that could go wrong by accepting to be TJ's four week fiance? But, I can't stop thinking that there are also so many things that could go right.

From twice-Kate Greenaway WINNER comes an exquisite story within a story, featuring a mouse who is forced to tell stories to save his life, a cat who plans to eat said mouse as soon as the story is finished, and our protagonist's protagonist, a princess in trouble. Gorgonzola watched Brie with her tail twitching .

A brother and sister try their best to settle in a new home. The boy makes new friends but his sister remains haunted by the past. Trying to help his sister, the boy catches a butterfly and brings it into the house. She needs to free the butterfly but that would mean going outside. Facing her fears, she also begins the process of saving herself.

This volume reflects the multiplicity of English poetry between 1100 and 1400. The chapters focus on the historical, linguistic, and poetic transitions of the period, including major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression.

Three friends make their pumpkin soup the same way every day. One day the Duck wants to stir instead, and after a horrible squabble, he leaves the cabin in a huff. The story will resonate for any child who has known the difficulties that come with friendship. Full color.

"When the rescuers meet the boat, there are only two people left: a little one and a bigger one. The bigger one remembers the uncertainty of the trip across the ocean, but the little one has stopped thinking about all that. Can the little one and a very special butterfly help the big one move forward?"--

A poetic, powerful story about a little brother and a big sister finding a new home and new hope after being rescued from a boat lost in the dark sea.A little brother and his big sister try their best to settle in a new home, where they have nothing left from before except each other. The little one makes new friends and quickly learns to laugh again but his sister remains haunted by the shadows of their past and hides away in their broken house. Trying to help his sister, the little one catches a butterfly for her and brings it inside the house. His sister knows that she needs to set the butterfly free ... but that would mean going outside. In taking the first steps to face her fears and save the butterfly, she also begins the process of saving herself.

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.Romance was the most popular secular literature of the Middle Ages, and has been understood most productively as a genre that continually refashioned itself. The essays collected in this volume explore the subject of translation, both linguistic and cultural, in relation to the composition, reception, and dissemination of romance across the languages of late medieval Britain, Ireland, and Iceland. In taking this multilingual approach, this volume proposes a re-centring, and extension, of our understanding of the corpus of medieval Insular romance, which although long considered extra-canonical, has over the previous decades acquired something approaching its own canon - a canon which we might now begin to unsettle, and of which we might ask new questions.The topics of the essays gathered here range from Dafydd ap Gwilym and Walter Map to Melusine and English Trojan narratives, and address topics from women and merchants to werewolves and marvels. Together, they position the study of romance in translation in relation to cross-border and cross-linguistic transmission and reception; and alongside the generic re-imaginings of romance, both early and late, that implicate romance in new linguistic, cultural, and social networks. The volume also shows how, even where linguistic translation is not involved, we can understand the ways in which romance moved across cultural and social boundaries and incorporated elements of different genres into its own capacious and malleable frame as types of translatio - in terms of learning, or power, or both.

Two crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this outstanding collection.

Kate Greenaway award-winning Helen Cooper's first foray into fiction is an exquisite delight, that is brought to life by her stunning pencil drawings.

By the Kate Greenaway MedalistDeep in the woods in an old white cabin, three friends make their pumpkin soup the same way every day. The Cat slices up the pumpkin, the Squirrel stirs in the water, and the Duck tips in just enough salt. But one day the Duck wants to stir instead, and then there is a horrible squabble, and he leaves the cabin in a huff. It isn't long before the Cat and the Squirrel start to worry about him and begin a search for their friend. Rendered in pictures richly evoking autumn, Helen Cooper's delightful story will resonate for an child who has known the difficulties that come with friendship. Included at the end is a recipe for delicious pumpkin soup.

This work includes foreword by Ian Botham, OBE, former England Cricket Captain and father of a daughter with Type 1 Diabetes

Every day, Cat, Squirrel and Duck make pumpkin soup - the best you've ever tasted. So, they make fish soup, mushroom soup and beetroot soup, but will the new soups be as delicious as their favourite? Poor Duck gets hungrier and hungrier and grumpier and grumpier, until at last Cat comes up with a soup that might just be .

He is utterly convinced that the bear will gobble him up if he doesn't feed it, so every day he carefully opens the door, throws in some food and slams it shut quickly - wham, bang, thump!Find out what happens when a nastly smell pervades the house and Mum and William decide to investigate .

Ella's got a project. After ten years she has completed her piano concerto and now she needs the help of Liz and Beth to get it performed. But first they've got some history to negotiate and some old scores to settle.

Pumpkin Soup. Made by a Cat, a Squirrel and a Duck, waiting just for a pipkin of salt, to make it the best you ever tasted . . . But the salt jar smashes and there is none left for the Pumpkin Soup! But not everything goes to plan . . . Fans of Pumpkin Soup will be delighted by this sequel with its warm and vibrant illustrations.