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Kate Charles

Life in the clergy is quiet, respectful, peaceful - or so Callie Anson believed when she began her new job as curate to Reverend Brian Stanford at All Saints' church in Paddington. Little did she realise just how wrong she could be. After the traumatic end of her relationship with fianc&e...
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Christopher West

When the body of a senior Beijing official is found floating in Hong Kong harbour, its wrists fastened with handcuffs, Inspector Wang Anzhuang of China's Public Security Bureau is sent to investigate. Against the backdrop of a colony preparing to lower the Union Jack for the first time, Wa...
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Roy Lewis

Solicitor Eric Ward maintains a small criminal practice on Newcastle's Quayside. This simple life, however, is soon to change. Eric's reluctant attendance at an annual dinner leads him to meet Ben Shaw, a merchant banker, who seems to know an awful lot about him. What Shaw tells Eric leads...
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Phillip Callow

Few writers have been so conspicuously torn as D.H. Lawrence in his search for emancipation from his mother and in the forging of his sexual identity. In this biography, Philip Callow examines the influences that shaped Lawrence: his mother, whose hold over him was enormous; his first love...
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Judith Cutler

When a colleague becomes seriously ill, Chief Superintendent Fran Harman has to delay her impending retirement to oversee an investigation into a recent spate of 'happy-slappings' and minor assaults in the area. The wave of incidents has ignited a media furore and Fran soon finds hersel...
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M J Trow

With girlfriend DS Jacquie Carpenter back at work and little baby Nolan rapidly growing into a feisty toddler, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell, Head of Sixth Form at Leighford High, decides to hire an au pair. The exotic Juanita Reyes hails from the sun-drenched isle of Menorca, and whilst the goo...
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Justine Trueman

Would you like to... Be able to afford more designer outfits? Stop fighting with your partner about money? Get out of debt? Manage your mortgage? Invest your savings? Set up a suitable pension? This practical guide is the the ultimate accessory for the modern woman - and will help to ac...
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Sofie Laguna

Nominated for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction Unlike anything you will have read before... Meet Hester. A child of dark beginnings and few words. Living a painfully sheltered existence forced upon her by reclusive parent...
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Priscilla Masters

It is the year 1787. A man hastily puts the finishing touches to his beloved jug as police descend upon him. Arrest him and hang him. Almost two centuries later, the same jug reappears, but where has it dwelt since the fatal day of its creator? And what is the meaning behind the grotesque ...
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Margaret Thornton

Life for Maisie Jackson has been far from happy for a number of years - ever since her mother re-married after her beloved father's death, and her new stepfather and stepbrother moved into their small terraced house in Armley, Leeds. Suffering abuse at her cruel stepbrother's hand, and mer...
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Joyce Holms

Solicitor Tam Buchanan and his friend and colleague Fizz Fitzgerald arrange to get away from it all on a hill-walking holiday in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. Unfortunately, their idyllic break is ruined somewhat when they witness an horrific car crash. Administering First Aid, Fizz an...
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June Francis

A tender tale of the ties that bind families together... and threaten to tear them apart.  As the First World War rolls on towards its end, it takes its toll on the inhabitants of Victoria Crescent in Chester. Alice Bennett's relief at hearing her husband, Sebastian, is alive is temp...
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Priscilla Masters

Jakob Grimshaw has eked out a precarious living as a Staffordshire moorland farmer by selling off some of his land to Gabriel Frank, a local businessman, who seized the opportunity to build a select development of nine houses, the Prospect Farm Estate. But having been sold a rural idyll, ...
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Sangeeta Bhargava

1855. Lucknow, India. As tensions simmer in the heat of repressive colonial India, an English woman and a prince of Avadh defy their own and their societies’ prejudices and fall in love. But in a world where private happiness is at the mercy of wider events, even as Salim ...
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Priscilla Masters

In separate locations in Leek, Staffordshire, three separate tableaux are being performed. DI Joanna Piercy is writing to her lover Matthew to try and explain recent events; her sidekick Mike Korpanski is filling in his insurance form after his wife has had a minor prang in the car; and an...
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D J Levien

Elliot Grubman is in trouble. One year ago he was worth over a hundred million dollars, earned from Swagbelly - 'the magazine for today's gentleman'. He had everything in the world - a wife, a young son, and a five-story New York townhouse. Now he's divorced, his boy won't talk to him, and...
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Lawrence Scott

Winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Robert de la Borde comes to England in the 1980`s from the Caribbean after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. In Bristol, his brother`s journals prompt Robert to visit Ashton Park Monastery, which Jean Marc entered in...
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Angela Murrills

An unabashed celebration of the joys of food and cooking, Hot Sun, Cool Shadow follows the story of award-winning food-writer Angela Murrills and the artist Peter Matthews, who travel together to the southerly French region of Languedoc.  The Languedoc is famed for its landscape, lege...
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Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins is one of the wittiest columnists in America today and is back with her own personal Hall of Fame of America's most outlandish politicians; the wicked, the wise and the witless drawn from more than thirty years of reporting. Who Let the Dogs In? takes us on a wild ride through...
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William Dietrich

Visit the new Ethan Gage Website  The first book in the New York Times bestselling historical adventure series. The world changes for Ethan Gage – one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin - on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a...
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Freda Lightfoot

1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind, a pregnant widow on her way to the home of her late husband&...
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A tense and contempoary thriller for those who love Minette Walters and Kathy Reichs, dealing with controversial psychological issues such as Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. Dr Daniel Gregory is a GP in a market town in Stafforshire.  Divorced and denied visiting rights to his seven ye...
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Ken McClure

Dr Steven Dunbar works for Sci-Med Inspectorate, a secretive agency that investigates crimes with links to the world of science. He is therefore bemused when the deathbed confession of a convicted psychopath lands on his desk.  But it emerges that another man is already serving a life...
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Patricia Hall

The dark of the night. Two girls are running for their lives.  Terrified, one falls, and unable to get up, she forces her friend to go on without her, to save herself. For her there is no escape as their attackers close in. The following morning the body of a young girl is found in...
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Juan José Millás

Elena Rincon has everything going for her: money, a successful, attractive husband, a beautiful daughter and a luxury flat. Despite all this, she is bored. Filling her days with endless glasses of whisky and numbing her senses with a steady intake of cannabis, Elena is in a rut. Vowing to...
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Mulgray Twins

When a Customs and Revenues Officer on the brink of exposing a huge money-laundering outfit is murdered in Tenerife, there is only one team capable of ensuring Operation Canary Creeper's continuance and success.  DJ Smith must use all of her cunning and experience to trap the devious ...
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Colin MacInnes

A Twentieth Century Classic London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless – the absolute beginners – were creating a world as different as they dared from t...
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Joan Lingard

Set in Edinburgh, After You've Gone is a moving story about a woman torn between her husband and another man in 1920s society. Willa is a polite and respectable young woman, trying to cope with the tedium of her life whilst her husband is away on a year-long cruise with the Navy. Living w...
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Christopher Buckley

Nick Naylor is just a regular guy trying to earn a living. In these neo-puritanical times, it`s a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you`re compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick`s just doing what it takes to p...
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M J Trow

At Leighford High, the ever-resourceful Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell is acting as Head of History whilst Peter Moss partakes in an American exchange.  His counterpart is Hector Gold, accompanied to Leighford by his eccentric family. In particular, Hector’s father-in-law, ...
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Kate Charles

If Callie Anson thought life was going to be peaceful, she was dead wrong. After one particular stormy night, her flat is deemed unliveable and she finds herself moving in with the vicar, Brian Stanford, and his wife Jane; a woman who can barely hide her dislike of the woman curate. But...
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Frank Smith

Monica Shaw, a pupil at Thornton Hill an exclusive school for girls, has killed herself. Or has she? The coroner is forced to close the case. DCI Paget is not satisfied. A week later Paget is called to a brutal murder at the riding stables that adjoin Thornton Hill. Is there a coincidence...
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Susanna Kearsley

Winner of the RT Book Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction Novel Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award Selected by Woman & Home as one of the 5 Best Time-Slip Novels (together with The Time Traveller's Wife, Labyrinth, The Return and A Secret Alc...
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H R F Keating

The long-awaited new Inspector Ghote novel From HRF Keating, recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding service to Crime Fiction. Newly-promoted Inspector Ghote is thrilled to be granted casual leave until he takes up his post, as it allows him to spend time with his heav...
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Derek Wilson

In 1577, five tiny ships with 164 men set sail from Plymouth. At that time, Francis Drake had no idea that he was embarking on the greatest personal maritime adventure ever, nor that he would circumnavigate the globe. No mariner had attempted the feat for fifty years; no captain had ever s...
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Carol Anne Davis

What drives attractive male cousins to rape and kill ten young women? Why do an altar girl and her boyfriend lure innocent victims into their customised torture van? Couples who kill comprise only twenty percent of killers - but they often murder serially and are responsible for particul...
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Colin MacInnes

An Allison & Busby Classic - a new reissue Frankie Love, new to his profession as a ponce, seems to run his illegal life on strictly fair principles. Ted Justice, recently appointed member of the vice squad, finds his upholding of the law complicated by love for his girl... Love is...
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Paul Magrs

All The Rage is the story of a pop band - from their first appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest to the K-Tel Greatest Hits CD. Spanning the 1980s, the career of Things Fall Apart encompasses the best and the worst of the decade that taste forgot. It is all here; dodgy haircuts, fashio...
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Catherine Shaw

Don't know what to do with a Sudoku? Let mathematician Catherine Shaw guide you through the intricacies of the international puzzle craze, unlocking the logic behind 'magic squares' and helping you on the way to success. Far from being your average puzzle book, Shaw not only aims at initi...
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Christopher West

Special Offer - 40% off! Submit promocode CWM3 in your shopping basket to receive the discount Disappointed in her love affair with a wealthy businessman, Julie is left feeling bereft and heartsick, not just with her failed relationship but with her whole way of life. When the New Ch...
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Cathy Lamb

When Julia Bennett leaves her abusive fiancé at the altar, she knows life will never be the same again. Seeking comfort, she heads to her Aunt Lydia’s rambling farmhouse where she is welcomed by an eccentric, warm, and wise group of women. Meeting once a week for drinks and th...
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M J Trow

Having had his retirement snatched from him by malfunctioning technology, Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell finds himself facing yet another year at Leighford High School.  Jacquie’s hopes of a dedicated house husband are dashed and she is annoyed further when a family holiday...
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Marjorie Eccles

What could make a successful, happily married man take a gun and shoot himself? What made a young artist on the brink of fame throw himself to his death? These are the questions facing Chief Inspector Lamb and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Cogan. Neither victim left a note behind to e...
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Darin Strauss

Born in 1811, joined at the chest and sharing a stomach, Chang and Eng were the original Siamese twins. This is their amazing story - a story that follows them from the royal court of Siam, through their working lives as the most famous freaks in the world and finally to small-town America...
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Sarah Grazebrook

Maggie seems to be going up in the world. Compared to living with her large and impoverished East London family and watching her mother being worn down by life and childbearing, working as a maid is a big improvement. Meeting very different people like the Pankhursts, Maggie is introduced ...
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Colin MacInnes

London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien motherland. Liberal England is about to discover the legacy of Empire. And when Montgomery Pew, assistant welfare officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune, re...
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Sarah Harrison

The blockbusting novel is the stuff of writers' dreams. In How to Write a Blockbuster, Sarah Harrison draws on her own experience to tell you what you can do to make that dream into a reality.In this entertaining and inspiring guide she offers advice and observations on: What consti...
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Daniel Blythe

They’ve got it all. And now they’re about to lose it… Tom and Ella Barclay think they have life all worked out: with a smart house in suburbia, two lovely children at private school, creative and interesting jobs. And best of all, a happy marriage…? But bene...
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Judith Cutler

Tobias Campion is happily settled as vicar at Moreton Priory. He finds the new lady living of Moreton Hall a charming and generous spirited member of his parish who is only too willing to help Tobias and his friend Dr Hansard look after the less fortunate in the community. Lady Chase&rsquo...
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Clare Curzon

Margot is a furiously ambitious woman and director of new drama series, All Fired Up. Tensions and passions run high between the cast and crew, with Margot battling with a lead-actor who can’t act and deciding whether to accept the amorous attentions of the lowly but handsome Cameram...
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Madge Swindells

The well-heeled village of Temple Minnis, placid and picturesque, presents a façade as smooth and calm as its deep, dark lake. But all is not as it seems. Simon Shepherd's marriage is a sham, his daughter running wild. When he awakes one night to the smell of woodsmoke, his fur...
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Cath Staincliffe

  'People disappear every day.  Most of them choose to.  Have you ever been tempted?  Slip on a coat, pick up your bag and walk, or drive, or run.  Turn your back on home, family, friends, work. Why do people do it?  Because they can?  Because staying...
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Paul Magrs

Iris Murdoch pops into an internet chatroom to discuss sex, literature and life-after-death with the impetuous Funkymonkey ... Marion from the delicatessen counter fatally crashes her Fiesta while yelling into her mobile phone ... and the evil Dr Fu Manchu chases Virginia Woolf screaming t...
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Alison Joseph

Sister Agnes is about to take her final vows, but is worried about giving up all her earthly possessions.  If she ever leaves the convent, how would she survive with no home and no finances?  However, Agnes's concerns are put into perspective when Walker McFadden, a lodger at the...
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Penelope Evans

After her husband faces a crisis on the underground, Sara Ravenscroft finds herself moving to Devon to start a life away from the city. But it is here in the country that the haunting dream which has plagued her since childhood starts to creep into the everyday.  A small girl in a whi...
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M J Trow

For Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell, the only mystery that has arisen so far this year at Leighford High is the question of how to use a computer. The ‘dinosaur’ Head of Sixth Form just cannot get to grips with technology, and doesn’t see the need to know how to send ...
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Daniel Blythe

Does the sight of a house festooned in glowing coloured bulbs with an illuminated reindeer in the garden bring you out in a cold sweat? Or is the thought of days of endless cold turkey sandwiches enough to make you become a vegetarian? And what of the adorable little carol singers - does t...
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Zoë Sharp

Bodyguard and ex-Special Forces soldier Charlie Fox would do anything to take her mind off her partner; shot, left for dead and now lying in a coma. So concentrating on a new assignment seemed like the perfect way to escape the pain, and her own empty apartment. The job: to protect the ...
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Penelope Evans

Kate Carr's world revolves around her father, the most charismatic and mesmerising minister preaching in Edinburgh. She is his first fruit, his offering and Keith Carr is moulding her in his image, training her to have it, his special power. Convinced that he and his daughter are God's cho...
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Manette Ansay

From the author of Vinegar Hill, the million-copy bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick, comes a haunting and eloquent story of small town life. 'In a little Wisconsin town about a hundred miles southwest of the town where I grew up, a misfit boy was kidnapped by a group of high school kids...
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Susan Kelly

A dangerous new drug has emerged into the nightclubs around Newbury. Entrium Trilenium, otherwise known as Entry, is easy to manufacture, looks deceptively like ecstasy, but is incredibly lethal. After the deaths of two young girls at a local nightclub, Superintendent Gregory Summers an...
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Susanna Kearsley

Winner of the Catherine Cookson Award The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason.  As if Greywethers were a portal between wo...
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Freda Lightfoot

The Lake District, 1908.  Livia, Ella and Maggie Angel appear to lead a privileged life in a large country estate, with seemingly little to disturb their happiness, but since the death of their mother, their family home has been far from a quiet haven for them. Their father, Josiah, r...
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Jerry Stahl

`Life`s a pie-fight and then you die` Abandoned as a boy in Kansas, Fatty Arbuckle found adulation in Hollywood in the early days of cinema. During his heyday he was more popular than Charlie Chaplin and became the first screen actor to make a million dollars a year. But in 1921 Fatt...
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Ken McCoy

When Ron Crusher is forced at gunpoint onto the parapet of a 12-storey office block in the centre of Unsworth, he suspects that he's being used to distract the police while a criminal gang escapes and that his life will be spared.  After all, he can't recall any grudges from his army ...
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M J Trow

With the beginning of a new school year under way, Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell prepares to get stuck into his curricular routine and is looking forward to his forthcoming wedding to fiancée DS Jacquie Carpenter. The immediate task in hand for senior staff members is the hiri...
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Harriet Russell

Embark on a puzzling journey through Royal Mail. Open this book, and you will discover a most curious and diverting collection of illustrated envelopes, all of which have been sent through the Royal Mail system. In Envelopes, Harriet Russell has created a wealth of different ways of com...
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Rod Usher

Ned Quinn's impulsive response to a lonely hearts ad draws him out of his self-imposed solitude into the Queensland outback and an unexpected affair. But Quinn suffers from schizophrenia, and his developing relationship with Jennifer Duncan is threatened by the fears of the small valley co...
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Mary Scott

Bryan Greyshott was a high-flying, dare-devil oil executive; now he is confined to a wheelchair. Disaffected and dystopian, he has ended up in a bleak north London suburb. He attends The Centre, a 'community resource' where he and his fellow wheelchair-users are routinely patronised by smi...
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Francis King

This is Francis King at his very best. He enters not only the world and sensibilities of Stefano, old and declining, a prince from an ancient Sicilian family with an unfinished novel in him, but the simple, good-natured and damaged heart of Steve, an Australian hitch-hiking the world, who ...
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Penelope Evans

      'I was four when I killed my baby brother.' Rose can't even remember how it happened, but in the aftermath only her older brother, Max, remained the same. Beautiful Max, stepping in between her and a world that has changed too much. Rose needs him more than...
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Judith Cutler

One cold, wet evening in an otherwise unusually dry April, a man falls from the fifth floor window of a hotel in Hythe.  Did he jump or was he pushed? Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is already struggling to juggle her work and private life: she is having difficulties find...
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Paul Magrs

Karla Sorensen used to be big in horror films. In the Sixties and Seventies no self-respecting low-budget bloody schlocker shocker was complete without the Queen of Vampires presiding over it. She was well-qualified; after all, at the age of ten, she sold her soul to the devil. Now, altho...
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June Thomson

This fictional biography celebrates the most famous friendship ever recorded. In the course of tracing its development, June Thomson gives fascinating insights into the personalities of these two very different individuals whose relationship was to last for over forty-six years. Those i...
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Anchee Min

This is the epic tale of one woman's life - of her journey from poverty to notoriety, from the slums to the Forbidden City. Hers is a story of defiance and determination, politics and passion - this is her quest to become a heroine. Becoming Madame Mao is a powerful novel tracing the...
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Zoë Sharp

The cult calling itself Fourth Day is well-funded and highly jealous of its privacy. Five years ago Thomas Witney went in to try and get the evidence that the cult’s charismatic leader, Randall Bane, was responsible for the death of Witney’s son, Liam. Witney never came out. ...
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Penelope Evans

Reeling from her husband's betrayal and struggling to rebuild her marriage, Grace daydreams about a life in which everything has returned to normal. But even through her thin veil of optimism she can see that her life is unravelling before her eyes. Soon, however, she finds that a fantasy ...
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Zoë Foster

Sometime it’s better to kiss than to make up… Hannah Atkins – the girl most likely to be sporting unblended foundation, orange wrists or a wobbly trail of liquid eyeliner – has bluffed her way into the position of beauty editor at Gloss magazine. Just as she&rsquo...
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Deborah Cooke

The second book in the Dragon Diaries series. Zoë Sorensson yearns to come into her powers as the only female dragon shifter. But being part of two worlds is more complicated than she expected. It’s bad enough that she’s the target of the Mages’ plan to eliminate ...
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Clare Curzon

Research biologist Piers Egerton has been working on a top-secret project for a number of years and has finally realised it is something he wants no part of. But the people he works for think he knows too much and he realises his life is in danger. Lee Barber is a perfectly competent trai...
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Marshall Karp

Five cops. Drinking beer, playing cards, busting balls. I’ll never forget that Sunday night. It was the happiest time the five of us would ever spend together again. A group of women, including Mike Lomax's girlfriend and Mrs Terry Biggs, have partnered with a bestselling mystery ...
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Robert Nye

An Allison & Busby Classic - new reissue Expansive, sprawling, unruly and oversized - like his stomach and everything about him, the memoirs of the most beloved comic figure in the history of literature take the unsuspecting reader into the world of a character so audacious that, app...
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Margaret Thornton

It is August 1900 and ten-year-old Maddy Moon is relishing the prospect of a long summer in Scarborough stretching out ahead of her. While watching the Pierrot shows on the beach, she meets and befriends another young girl, Jessie, who is holidaying in Scarborough for the summer. Maddy i...
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Catrin Collier

CAPE COD STANDARD  MONDAY SEPT 2ND 1968 In the early hours of Sunday morning a custom built, imported European automobile left the approach road to the Brosna Estate, crashed and burst into flames. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the vehicle with four people inside, being driven errati...
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Martyn Waites

When Newcastle-based journalist Stephen Larkin is called down to London to help find a missing girl, he is unprepared for the violence of life in the capital's underbelly. Caught up in a world of transsexual prostitutes, gun-toting Yardies and psychotic hitmen, Larkin must learn to fight d...
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Zoë Sharp

Charlie Fox has a new client: a multi-millionaire mother who is looking for protection from a nuisance ex. When Simone decides to escape his unwanted attentions and the scrutiny of the press by going to America, it should make Charlie's job easier, what with the main character she is prote...
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Anthony Burgess

Nothing Like the Sun is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will’s maturation into sex and writing. My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, Coral is far more red than her lips&rsquo...
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Catherine Aird

Detectives Sloan and Crosby are at a loss as to why Jack Haines’s greenhouse has been broken into; some expensive orchids have been destroyed but nothing seems to be missing. But something sinister is at work, and their suspicions are confirmed when a woman goes missing... What in...
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Clare Curzon

  When Sandy Craddock witnesses his detested half-brother deliberately mown down by a hit-and-run driver outside his own place of work, he guiltily assumes that he himself was the intended victim.  He has, he believes, made mistakes that could earn him real enemies. Complicating...
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Laurie R King

In this crackling short story, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King reveals an unforgettable new twist in the adventure that led supersleuth Sherlock Holmes to discover his first (and finest) apprentice, Mary Russell.   Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark ...
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Mulgray Twins

 Meet the world's most unusual undercover team... It can be tough working undercover for HM Revenue & Customs, but DJ Smith has more than a little help from her trained sniffer cat, Gorgonzola, a moth-eaten Persian with gourmet tastes and a mind of her own. This first investiga...
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Tim Lebbon

A vivid and epic journey that dares to cross the forbidden boundary separating us from all we fear – and desire – the most. Shrouded in mystery from time immemorial, the Great Divide – a treacherous sheer cliff soaring miles into the clouds above – has long provo...
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Jonathan Gash

The dark streets of Manchester's underworld, home to a horde of gamblers, drunks, prostitutes and their punters, plays host to a vigilante of the worst kind. Wanting to rid the city of evil, the assassin constructs a poisoned dart and scours the newspaper headlines for the next victim. ...
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Alex Wheatle

'She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into - the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.' But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendents of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the w...
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Daniel Handler

When Joseph goes off to stay with his girlfriend Cynthia for the summer, he knows that she's close to her family. And why not? Her mother's a fantastic cook, her father is a caring, sharing kind of guy and it's obvious that Cyn's affectionate younger brother, Steven, has been missing her s...
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June Francis

When Adam Rhoades tires of the political climate in Ireland and decides to leave for America, his daughter Rebekah's future happiness is threatened. For Rebekah, against her father's wishes, has fallen in love with handsome young Republican, Daniel O'Neill. Then Daniel, too, is forced to f...
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Marjorie Eccles

The year is 1919 and the population of Great Britain is still struggling to its feet after being hit by the atrocities of the First World War. Progress is slow, even in quiet spots like the village of Broughton Underhill, on the edge of the Black Country. Gradually, soldiers return, wounds...
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Alison Joseph

Trawling through piles of tatty Victoriana and mawkish lives of the saints in the library at the Order of Bermondsey, Sister Agnes discovers the seventeenth-century Hawker archive, a collection of hand-written journals telling the story of Alice, her husband Nicolas and their son who died ...
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Sally Spedding

After enduring six years of his wife Kathy`s depression, Tom Wardle-Smith moves his family from England to to St Sauveur in the South of France, in the hope of saving his marriage from the flames. Their new neighbour, farmer Samson Bonneau, has other ideas - he had failed to secure the lan...
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M J Trow

When Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell took his kids from Leighford High on an archaelogical dig, all should have been learning and fun. The professionals were very excited - was the grave they had found that of Alfred the Great? No, because the corpse was not Saxon and it wasn't a king, but an alto...
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Patricia Hall

When a teenager is involved in a hit-and-run accident after taking Ecstasy at a local nightclub, The Carib, his father wants to know who supplied him with the tablets. Faced with silence from the boy's friends, as well as growing tension between the club's owners and the predominantly Musl...
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C J Emerson

Taking this baby feels no different from any of the others. People move aside long before Jess reaches them. Who needs a bell? she thinks; they can see I'm unclean. The corridor from the delivery room seems endless as she walks towards the nurses congregated at their station. The chatter q...
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Kate Charles

Callie's flock are far from innocent lambs... Life may not be getting any easier for curate Callie Anson, but it is definitely getting more interesting. When a young man goes missing - with a heavily pregnant wife at home - the local police are baffled. Has he run away from his imminent n...
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Anna Jacobs

It is 1910 and life in Wiltshire is far from pleasant for Mattie Willitt and her sisters. Bullied by her stepfather, who attempts to force her into an unwelcome marriage, Mattie decides her only hope for happiness is to run away. With no destination in mind and neither food nor shelter, M...
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John Wilcox

1914. Outnumbered British forces are desperately trying to hold off the oncoming German soldiers in France. Star shells – commonly called ‘starlight’ - fly high into the night, illuminating the chaos, violence and death taking place in the French trenches below. Like so ...
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Campbell Armstrong

Only four men in the whole of the US could have known when the shipment of ten millions dollars to the IRA was scheduled. One of those four must be responsible for the slaughter of the couriers and hijacking of the funds. Only one man is trusted by the terrorists to go after the money. ...
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Rupert Holmes

1970s Hollywood: O'Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews, is bent on unearthing secrets long ago buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. These two highly desirable men, once inseparab...
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June Francis

Vivien's mother Hilda had always been the black sheep of the family: the only person to have a child out of wedlock; the first person in the family to shake the dust of Liverpool off her feet and emigrate to America; the very last person Vivien had expected to see again. But then, quite su...
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Anna Jacobs

1910. Sisters Mattie, Nell and Renie have all managed to escape their oppressive and bullying father, but now separated, the girls must draw upon their strength and courage to build new lives for themselves. Renie, the youngest sister, is living with the newly married Nell, happy in her...
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Gesine Bullock-Prado

Gesine Bullock-Prado, was the head of her sister's (Sandra Bullock) production company. She had a closet full of designer clothes and the ear of all the influential studio heads, but she was miserable. The only solace she found was in her secret hobby: baking. With every sugary, butter...
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Alex Gray

The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of murderous events happening backstage... When George Millar, the orchestra's leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer...
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Brian Eastman

Meet Laura Thyme and Rosemary Boxer, two women who come together in the midst of life-changing crises and help each other to embark on a new life. When Laura discovers that her husband has left her, she travels straight to the house of her best friend, Sam Trent, for some much needed sympa...
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Christopher Buckley

Washington TV host John O. Banion is arguably the most powerful man in Washington. He has it all: wealth, political influence, and the power to mock the president on live television. But his privileged life is thrown into upheaval when he is abducted by aliens... twice. Little does he know...
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Christopher Buckley

One of America's most hilarious novelists and bestselling author of Thank You For Smoking returns with a biting comedy about generational warfare, political shenanigans and the power of PR spin. Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, is outr...
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Tudor Gates, Patrick King

How could you get one of the world`s most famous criminals out of his hiding place in Rio? And once he was out, what would you do with him? And what if it all went wrong? Kidnapping Ronnie tells the true story of the abduction of the notorious Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs from Brazil...
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Jennie Melville

A cottage in the picturesque village of Brideswell seems the ideal retreat from the pressures of work for top policewoman Chairmian Daniels. But when the village beauty, Chloe Devon, disappears and a part of her corpse is discovered in London and another in a shallow grave in the village, ...
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Margaret Irwin

Growing up in the shadow of her dead mother, the infamous Anne Boleyn, young Princess Elizabeth has learnt to be continuously on the watch for the political games played out around her. It is never certain when one might rise in, or precariously fall out of, royal favour. When her dista...
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Rachel Caine

The New York Times bestselling series following Claire and her friends as they survive in the town of Morganville, run by vampires. A chance for fans to own a stunning hardback edition of the first three books in the bestselling Morganville Vampire series: Glass Houses, The Dead Girls' Da...
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Jonathan Gash

Kneeling to receive Holy Communion at St Saviour's Church in Dublin one Sunday, it suddenly dawns on Magda Finnan how she can earn God's blessing. She vows to kill Father Doran. A cleaner at the St Cosmo Care Home for the Elderly, the nineteen-year old remains haunted by her upbringing ...
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H R F Keating

Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens has resolved to resign after the new Assistant Chief Constable at the head of the CID has made her feel somewhat inferior in her job.  However, her thoughts of resignation are abruptly interrupted when the pro-hunting politician Robert Roughous...
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H R F Keating

Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens took great pride in her twin sons deciding to follow her into the police by moving to London and joining the Met. Imagine her horror when, as she sits with her husband over evening drinks, the phone rings and she learns that Graham has been killed b...
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Molly Ivins

If there was ever a book to make you glad that you don't live in the US, this is it! Bushwacked is the story of George W. Bush's America - and it's a powerful, furious indictment of his right-wing 'Christian' values and the damage they are doing to an entire nation. Ivins and Dubose write...
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Brian Battison

Nearly four hundred years ago Isobel Perkins was burned as a witch. As the flames licked her body she hurled a curse at the aldermen and their issue for all time. Joyce Regent, a London author hounded by the press, comes to live in the witch's cottage. Has the witch returned to Bridgetown...
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Patricia Hall

Earnshaw's Mill is one of the last remnants of Bradfield's past, but times are changing and its future is hanging in the balance. The Earnshaw family's problems spiral out of control when their son is murdered. As Michael Thackeray's team investigate the death, the mill is left teetering o...
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Rachel Moore

Three years on from the end of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Jessie Penwarden is struggling to be recognised as an adult by her over-protective parents. Ever since her brother was killed in the war, the Reverend Penwarden and his wife have tried to shield Jessie from any dangers...
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Margaret Thornton

Kathy Leigh never knew her mother, who she’d been told had died many years ago in a freak accident. Raised by her reserved father, Albert, and loving Aunty Win in 1950s’ Blackpool, she leads a happy childhood. It is a time of glamour and excitement for the town, but although op...
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Margaret Irwin

July, 1553. Sibling rivalry has never been more tumultuous and perilous than between the daughters of King Henry VIII. Queen Mary Tudor has just won possession of the throne, but her younger half-sister – the beautiful and vivacious Princess Elizabeth – holds the hearts of the ...
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Rachel Caine

In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans have learnt to coexist in relative peace. Then comes Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead and let chaos rule - and Claire and here friends are the only ones who stand in his way... C...
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Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith grew up in New England during the 1950s, the daughter of an extended French-Italian family. Smith's neighbourhood was typical small-town America - everyone's door was left unlocked at night, and the school, church, library and grocery shop were all within walking dist...
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Yvonne Collins, Sandy Rideout

Fifteen year old Luisa Perez is not going to win any awards for school spirit. In fact, she and her friends make it a point to avoid all activities considered "extracurricular." So when her English teacher volunteers her to be an anonymous columnist for the school paper, Luisa's ...
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When Satanism first began to penetrate popular culture in the 1960's, through the lyrics of The Beatles and The Stones, it was intended as a harmless rebellion against conventional society. Yet, inevitably, this encouraged more radical extremes to follow, with Black and Death Metal bands b...
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Christopher West

Beijing, People`s Republic of China. Inspector Wang of the Public Security Bureau is expecting a pleasant and well-earned night out at the People`s Opera House. Instead, he finds himself face to face with a murder victim. A victim who has slipped through the hands of even China`s relentles...
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Daniel Easterman

The untimely and brutal death of an old man sparks a chain of events that will put his nephew in danger as he races across Europe to Egypt, to solve one of the oldest mysteries in the world: the location of the tomb of Christ and the sword that pierced his body on the Cross. In 1942 Ger...
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Tania Crosse

An endearing tale of warmth and friendship, love and hope set in the city of Plymouth and the wilds of Dartmoor in the 1950s. The future seems rosy for Plymouth schoolgirl Anna Millington as she studies for teacher training college. But Anna’s life isn’t all that it appears....
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Campbell Armstrong

Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow's criminal underworld - which he needs the way a junkie needs a fix - he's barred from participating in the inves...
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Carol Anne Davis

Why does a young woman lure teenagers into her car then participate in their horrific rape and torture? What makes a nurse lethally inject the healthy babies in her care? Women, statistically, aren`t a violent breed ... but the female of the species can be just as deadly as the male. From...
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Catherine Aird

Detectives Sloan and Crosby are on the case once again. This time it's a young girl, found dead in the river. But what connection does she have to the recently deceased Josephine Short? And who broke into the Josephine Short's old room at the Berebury nursing home? The Detectives are fa...
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Mo Smith

Delicious, healthy and simple recipes for the time-pressured cook. It's all about making the most of your money and your time in the kitchen. Come on, get Lazy! Mo understands the problems of making sure your family eats well, using the best seasonal ingredients, whilst realising that few...
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Bill Naughton

Alfie’s not really a bad guy. It’s just that he has this overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that ‘birds’ are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There’s Ruby - ‘A lust box in beautiful condition’; Clare - ‘You’re ...
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Patricia Hall

As one of the few local clinics to offer abortions, the May Anderson Hospital is used to controversy. But when a young girl is gunned down as she leaves, almost everyone is outraged. Only thirteen years old, Dana's life has ended before it had really begun. Reporter Laura Ackroyd and her ...
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Margaret Thornton

1907. William Moon’s heart swells with pride at the achievements of his daughter, Maddy. When, at eleven, she won the talent contest held by the Pierrots on Scarborough beach, William knew it wouldn’t be long before she asked to join their touring company. Now that day has come...
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Jonathan Gash

Lovejoy has been wrongfully imprisoned, again. So when he is offered a way out by visitor Ellen Jaynor, he takes it, although it becomes clear that there is a big catch involving speed-dating, marriage and the perfect robbery. Forced to use his antiques knowledge for representatives of ...
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Thomas Moran

James Blatchley is the longest-term patient in a New York intensive care unit. For months he has lain in the same bed, lapsing in and out of comas, breathing and eating through tubes. Nuala is the Irish nurse who monitors his heart-rate, changes his bedclothes and haunts his dreams. She is...
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Rachel Moore

Spring 1944. The War has taken the men away but brought other, more interesting American men into the small village of Columbine near Falmouth. All of the girls are aflutter but Kerry is different. Kerry has her own sweetheart, only he is away serving in France. Isn’t she tempted to ...
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Sangeeta Bhargava

In her sparkling sapphire necklace and matching blue hair ribbons, Princess Mili cannot wait to explore life beyond the palace walls with her best-friend and soul-mate Vicky. Naïve and mischievous, the girls set off for one of the best schools in all of India, pulling pran...
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Thomas Steinbeck

Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his father's footsteps with a brilliant story collection. Down to a Soundless Sea resonates with the rich history and culture of California, recalling vivid details of life in Monterey County from t...
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Margaret Duffy

When Patrick Gillard resigned his commision as Co-ordinator of Defence Studies at Camberly army staff college, his wife Ingrid Langely was more than a little concerned. Out of the blue, the perfect project for Patrick turns up. Patrick is recruited as a techinical advisor to the UK sh...
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Zoë Sharp

Bodyguard and ex-Special Forces soldier, Charlie Fox is recovering from being shot on her previous assignment and is itching to go back to work. It is while she is receiving the last of her physio that Charlie's life in the slow lane picks up a gear. She sees her austere father fending off...
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Tania Crosse

Lily’s Journey is a 1950s saga set in Dartmoor. When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother, she is sent from London to live with her estranged father in the wilds of Dartmoor. In a remote cottage, Lily struggles to adjust to her new life with the dour Sidney Latham. As his...
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D J Levien

Fresh out of college and hungry for success, Nathan Pitch, twenty-one and full of ambition, lands a job in the mailroom of a leading Hollywood talent agency. But life in Hollywood is fraught with minefields - who to sleep with, who not to sleep with, who to schmooze, who to use. Movin...
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Cathy Lamb

This is a story about a family that’s fallen apart and ends up being put back together again. It’s about a Queen Anne house, a bakery, a motorcycle, a mid life crisis Corvette, flowery smelling pink letters,  an amusing divorce, burning bras, a crime writer, love, a kid wh...
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Manette Ansay

Another hugely acclaimed novel by the author of the multi-million-copy bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick, Vinegar Hill. When Abigail Schiller's younger brother Sam disappears at the age of seventeen, unable to conform to his father's ideals of masculinity, Abby is devastated. Haunted ...
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Judy Flower

An indispensable guide to understanding how star signs affect your baby and family dynamics. Do you have a Piscean Einstein on you hands or an Aquarian Mozart waiting in the wings? What should you expect from your Aries baby: temper tantrums or the silent treatment? And how will a chi...
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Patricia Hall

Karen Bastable is a woman longing for more excitement in her life, and illicit group meetings in a local forest have added plenty of spark and pleasure recently. That is until one night she meets a man in search of a more sinister kind of gratification. When her abandoned car is discovered...
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Margaret Thornton

It is 1945 and the charming market town of Middlebeck is thriving once more. For fifteen-year-old Maisie Jackson, life could not be better; school is going well, her best friend Audrey is a constant source of fun and Maisie's mum is finally free from the cruel clutches of her now ex-husban...
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Margaret Thornton

It’s the summer of 1914 – the last peaceful summer Britain will see for four long years. Tilly Moon has long looked to her elder half-sister, Maddy, as a role model. Maddy’s love of music inspired Tilly to follow in her footsteps, becoming an accomplished pianist. If ther...
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Carol Anne Davis

Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Society regards children as harmless ­- but for some the age of innocence is shortlived, messy and ultimately murderous. Mary Bell, Robert Thompson...
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Judith Cutler

An unidentifiable woman is found on a roadside, beaten into a coma and raped.  The man who finds her, troubled by his inability to resuscitate her, spends hours at her hospital bedside, talking to the woman everyone calls Elise.  Two years later Elise's condition is downgraded to...
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Gordon Wells

Writers' Questions and Answers is a mine of useful information for both the beginner and the more experienced writer alike. When you're just starting out you need all the help available and even those expanding their interests into different fields may also come across questions to which t...
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Kate Forsyth

An utterly captivating reinvention of the Rapunzel fairytale weaved together with the scandalous life of one of the tale's first tellers, Charlotte-Rose de la Force. Charlotte-Rose de la Force exiled from the court of the Sun King LouisXIV, has always been a great teller of tales. Sele...
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Graeme McLagan

Guns and Gangs lifts the lid on a hugely unreported but important modern-day problem - an expensive problem both in terms of money and young lives. After terrorism, the single greatest worry for law enforcement agencies is gun crime, and in particular the so-called `black on black` shootin...
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Tony Hillerman

Former Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simpleminded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help, and Chee and his fiancée, Bernie Ma...
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Ken McCoy

Kevin Kilpatrick has served nine years of a life sentence for two vicious murders he pleaded guilty to but didn't commit - fearful of the threat to his family posed by the real killers. Ex-cop turned builder Sam Carew helped to put him away, so when Kevin's daughter appeals for his help ...
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Judith Cutler

Actress Vena Burford is ‘resting’ between jobs. But needs must, and with few voice-over jobs in the pipeline, Vena takes on a few jobs for friends and family around the idyllic Stratford-Upon-Avon. But interior design leads her to violent threats and showing prospective buyers ...
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June Francis

1952. Orphaned as a young child, Emma Booth was raised by her grandparents in a Lancashire village. When she stumbles across a letter written in 1940 from a certain Mrs Lizzie Booth, the revealing contents make Emma realize everything she believed is a lie – her widowed father had, b...
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Frederic Lindsay

In shock as they came down from the house in the hills, Meldrum pressed his hands together to hide their trembling from his detective sergeant. What motive could account for what they had seen? But then, what motive could explain Charles Manson and his followers, who had butchered film sta...
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Colin MacInnes

(Please note, copies available are unused but the old 1980 editions) Frankie Love, new to his profession as a ponce, seems to run his illegal life on strictly fair principles. Ted Justice, recently appointed member of the vice squad, finds his upholding of the law complicated by love for ...
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Christopher Buckley

Can you imagine a world where the Pope appears on Oprah to promote his latest book? Where mad cow disease could be used to counteract illegal immigration into the USA from Mexico? If you've ever wondered what Christopher Buckley's alternative New York Times bestseller list might look like,...
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Ruth Dudley Edwards

WINNER OF THE GOLDSBORO LAST LAUGH AWARD The latest hilarious and scathing satire from Ruth Dudley Edwards '...the Turner Prize...is named after an innovative painter of genius and is awarded annually to whatever bluffer has caught the eye of the knaves and fools who dominate the contemp...
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Priscilla Masters

Callum Hughes has been labelled a killer and a psycho.  He has been labelled by the press, by his classmates and most of all by the family of the boy he stabbed.  Roger Gough has been labelled a victim. He is described by everyone that the police question as a sporty, funny and p...
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Catherine Aird

The dramatic theft of an 18th Century painting is discovered just moments before the old manor house uniquely depicted in the background of the portrait is set alight; coincidence? Does the reputation of the Baronet, the subject of the painting, as a hell-raiser and member of the Crustacea...
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June Francis

Liverpool 1926. Patsy Doyle is settling into her role as a live-in maid in the Tanner household, but her new job is not going as smoothly as she expected. Since Mr Tanner returned from the Great War, the Tanners’ relationship has become increasingly strained. Mrs Tanner’s frivo...
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Graham Kibble-White

What was your favourite comic as a child? Everyone has one - the one you would faithfully read each and every week then take to school to swap, the one you collected in dusty piles under the bed and refused to throw out. Was it the Beano, or perhaps Dandy, Nutty, The Eagle, or 2000AD? No...
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Patricia Hall

Stepping over the threshold of a once-happy family home turned charnel house, DCI Michael Thackeray knows he’ll be faced with a grim sight. After all his years in the force, he’s come to realise that you can never truly become inured to the sight of death. Especially when there...
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Diana Pullein-Thompson

'Christabelle Lang? She can't still be alive.' She is and, forced out of her self-imposed exile through the unwanted attentions of James,a young art historian eager for her reminiscences, Christabelle relives the memories of her life as a painter during Fitzrovia's colourful heyday between...
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Martyn Waites

Stephen Larkin is back in his native Newcastle. Working as an agency journalist, he`s busy blackmailing the powerful into keeping their campaign promises. But he still feels dissatisfied, which is why he jumps at the chance to track down a child abuser with friends in high places. Cyni...
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Jonathan Gash

KwayFay was once a 'Cockroach Child', a homeless scavenger on Hong Kong's waterfronts. Now grown, she lives in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes, and commutes each day to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying bribes if she has to, and keeping silent when abused. Her...
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Richard Jay Parker

Nominated for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger forward this email to ten friends each of those friends must forward it to ten friends maybe one of those friends of friends of friends will be one of my friends if this email ends up in my inbox within a week I won’t slit the...
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Joyce Holms

Always in search of a good story, Fizz Fitzgerald finds it hard to hide her impatience when elderly Mrs Sullivan is shown into her office. Genteel and motherly, Mrs Sullivan can only spell one thing: boredom. Fizz is more than shocked, therefore, when Mrs Sullivan asks Fizz to help prove h...
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Charles Spencer

For Will Benson, life cannot get much worse. Cuckolded, overweight and in career meltdown he is at his lowest ebb. Attempting to concentrate on his column in the shambolic trade rag, Theatre World, through a fog of lunchtime drinking, he recalls wistfully his halcyon days as a cub reporter...
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Hazel Holt

Something peculiar is going on at the Group Medical Practice in Taviscombe. Sheila Malory can’t help but feel it may be linked with the unexpected arrival of Dr Morrison. Arrogant and cold-mannered, his alleged misdiagnosis of a local patient who later died has made him the focus of ...
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June Francis

1919. When young Tilly Moran falls out with her elder sister, Alice, she decides it is time to fly the nest and moves from the family home in Chester across the Mersey to Liverpool. Always more determined and spirited than her staid sibling, Tilly is undaunted by the prospect of living alo...
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Yvonne Collins, Sandy Rideout

LOVE Inc. YOUR RELATIONSHIP IS OUR BUSINESS Zahra, Kali, and Syd would never have met if their parents' marriages hadn't fallen apart.  But when the three girls collide in group counselling, they discover they have something else in common: they've each been triple-timed by the same...
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June Francis

When Nellie marries a man who does not meet with her mother’s approval she is cut off from her family. With her soldier husband Teddy away, a pregnant Nellie is forced to face alone the horrors of the blitz. Only when a bomb destroys the family home is she reunited with her younger s...
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Anna Jacobs

After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willett sisters find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. Nell, the middle daughter, has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from marrying against her father’s wishes. The...
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Lawrence Scott

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 1938 is a tumultuous year on the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol, which houses a leper colony and a convent. In the sultry heat of the dry season a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island’s doctor, Vince...
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David Armstrong

Every week, agents and publishers in this country receive hundreds of manuscripts from would-be authors. Of these, fewer than one per cent will make it into print. David Armstrong was one of the one per-centers, his first crime novel plucked from the slush pile at a major publisher and pub...
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Susanna Kearsley

Moving between fast-paced modern-day London and Canada to the dangerous, double-crossing streets of war-time Lisbon, comes this thrilling mystery and intriguing love story from a brilliant new voice.   When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St Paul's ...
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Patricia Hall

Laura Ackroyd, the journalist girlfriend of DCI Michael Thackerary, becomes drawn into the plight of Jenny Holden and her daughter Anna when she writes an article about domestic abuse. Suffering violence at the hands of her husband, Jenny takes flight to a women's refuge. But her dreams of...
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Susanna Kearsley

In the 1920s, in a beautiful Italian villa called Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D’Ascanio lived for Celia Sands. She was his muse and his mistress, his most enduring obsession and the inspiration for his most original play. But the night before she was to perform the leading ro...
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Deborah Cooke

BOOK ONE IN THE DRAGON DIARIES SERIES Zoë Sorensson is a perfectly normal teenage girl – only she’s always been told she’s destined for great things. Because Zoë is the Wyvern – the one female dragon shape shifter with special powers. But Zoë is at t...
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Gwendoline Butler

When Major Mearns receives a large delivery, he knows it is the beginning of something unusual ... Inside the sacking are two human legs.  The legs belong to one of Mearns's fellow soldiers, and the deliveries of body parts continue.  Major Mearns and his mate Sergeant Denny need...
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Richard Ollard

Samuel Pepys is unique: the scope and candour of his Diary makes it one of the greatest books ever written and one of the most important historical documents in English. He lived through the Civil War, the Protectorate, the Restoration, the Dutch Wars, the Plague, the Fire of London and th...
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Ken McCoy

In the rundown northern town of Unsworth, the only thing the locals can celebrate is a victory by Unsworth Town FC. Sam Carew, an ex-cop-cum-brickie, is starting work in the family firm with his father, Ernest. All is going well until Sam's father is found dead on the building site, one of...
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Dr Dale

Worried about what to do in the event of zombie uprising? Well, worry no more! Using his expertise gathered from years of research via films and Wikipedia, the world's leading (errr, only) Zombologist, Dr. Dale, has compiled this rigorously researched A-Z list of everything you need to kn...
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Freda Lightfoot

Two years have passed for Livia and her sisters and  finally all seems well for them. Livia is set to marry Jack and her sisters are, for the moment, settled on Todd Farm. Livia also wants to bring back to life the neglected family business: is she prepared to jeopardise her future li...
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Carol Anne Davis

What drove Harold Shipman to murder over 200 of his elderly patients? Why did Beverly Allitt kill the babies in her care? This book examines the formative influences and careers of British, American and European doctors, nurses, dentists and paramedics. Going beyond the usual killers-on...
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Michael Wale

Allotments have become the must-have accessory for urban dwellers. This is a warm and engaging insight into life on a London allotment: a tender story of flowers and food, sheds and greenhouses, gardeners and local councils. A book to be cherished by any city resident who has dreamt about...
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Angela Thirkell

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ‘There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream’ In these beautifully nostalgic memoirs, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew...
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Yvonne Collins, Sandy Rideout

Fed up with her parents and all their ridiculous rules (they keep a binder full of them), fifteen-year-old Kendra Bishop writes away to The Black Sheep, a reality TV show that offers the chance to swap families with another teen. But when the camera crew, led by brash TV producer Judy Gree...
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Mary-Rose MacColl

The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl wasn't a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was Catherine. 1925. Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to strike out into the warm waters of her Australian home just as she's done sin...
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Priscilla Masters

On a late summer’s Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at a secure psychiatric unit in Stoke-on-Trent. Six months earlier, her predecessor, Heidi Faro was brutally murdered by one of the inmates in the office she has now inherited. As Claire is ...
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Derek Wilson

In pursuit of a private vendetta, the young Niccolo Machiavelli leaves his beloved Florence in the grip of the fanatical friar, Savonarola, and travels to Rome only to be lured into the service of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI and his power-hungry son, Cesare. Machiavelli soon becomes embro...
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Chris Gordon

Everything you ever wanted to know about sexual oddities from around the world – and through history – can be found in this witty and engaging volume. Read about the antics of the Egyptian Pharoah who was a serial castrator (his collection totaling over 13,000); about the an...
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Mary Nichols

1918. Young Lady Helen Barstairs, the dutiful daughter of Lord Hardingham, believes everything her mother and father tell her. So when her parents say she will never find a better husband than Richard – ‘brave, handsome, wealthy, such a charming man and quite a catch’ &nd...
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Suzanne Rindell

Louis Thorn and Haruto ‘Harry’ Yamada are the star attractions of a daredevil aerial stunt team that traverses Depression-era California: Eagle & Crane. The young men have a complicated relationship, due to the Thorn family’s belief that the Yamadas – Japanese i...
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Beryl Matthews

London 1890. Queenie Bonner is only two years old and oblivious to the dirt and squalor of the slums she lives in. She is the youngest of ten children and is happy with her brothers and sisters.  Harry, the eldest, is the one she loves the most. One day when they are all having a rou...
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Priscilla Masters

Something is amiss at a small primary school in the village of Horton. A local man, Joshua Baldwin, has been sitting in his car outside the school watching the children as they play. So DI Joanna Piercy is called out to investigate. She meets with the teachers and with Baldwin and eventual...
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Daniel Easterman

'His heart was beating like a drum at dawn. Something clawed at his stomach, something with talons from his worst nightmares.' An invitation to visit one of Cairo's antiquarian booksellers sets in train a series of terrifying ordeals for Jack Goodrich. Having been shown a priceless sword ...
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Sophie Chen Keller

***BOOK OF THE MONTH*** ENTER CODE BOTM3 FOR £2 OFF For the first time in my thirteen years, I have a story of my own to tell and I am the one who will tell it. It is only at The Lavenders, his mother’s unusual bakery, that twelve-year-old Walter Lavender feels at home. There...
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Anna Jacobs

 This collection of stand-alone short stories is a treat for new readers and dedicated fans alike. In each of these 17 stories, an ordinary person takes on an extraordinary journey to a new life, discovering facets and strengths they never knew they possessed. Across a variety of time...
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Suzette A. Hill

Shortlisted for the Kobo eDunnit Award Suffolk, 1955. Rosy Gilchrist is asked by her friend Lady Fawcett to join her on a trip to Southwold to visit Delia Dovedale, an old school chum she hasn’t seen in years. Rosy reluctantly agrees to be her companion on the reunion jaunt, but on ...
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Mickey Spillane

In Mickey Spillane's classic private-eye novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love - they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no-one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologi...
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Menna van Praag

In a forgotten nook of Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite pens wait for the next person who, with Clara Cohen’s help, will express the love, despair and desire they feel to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. Cla...
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Priscilla Masters

Over the years, the residents of Shrewsbury have become used to the occasional flood – living close to the River Severn, it comes as no surprise. But the latest deluge stirs up more than just mud and silt, and the locals are horrified by what comes floating to the surface… Co...
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Lauren Willig

Determined to secure another London Season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation: to infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned...
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Jane MacKenzie

'The war was a complicated time, Mademoiselle. Not everything is easy to discover.’ In war-torn France, charismatic Spaniard Luis elopes with high-born Elise from Paris and takes her to live in a small village in Catalonia. Little do they know that war will rip them apart, send...
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Menna van Praag

Since her parents’ mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta’s dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta’s charming tiny store appears quite ordinary to passe...
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Jessica Brockmole

1952. B-list movie star Louise Wilde's acting career has stalled and her marriage is on shaky ground when she learns she's inherited the entire estate of screenwriter Florence Daniels, a woman she has never met. Her confusion grows when she discovers a cache of old photographs of MsDaniels...
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Lauren Willig

RITA Winner for Regency Historical Romance 'There seems to be a message written inside your Christmas pudding. And it's in French. MEET ME AT FARLEY CASTLE, TOMORROW AFTERNOON. MOST URGENT.’ Her great friend Jane Austen warned her against accepting a position at Miss Climpson&rsq...
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Suzette A. Hill

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO LAST LAUGH AWARD 2014. London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing meaning to her gruesome death. It...
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Maggie Bennett

In the early years of the 1960s the market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall, medical registrar, is taking a refresher course in obstetrics prior to becoming a general practitioner. He is immediately attracted to Dr Shelagh Hammond, obstetric house s...
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Charles Belfoure

In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gent's, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is...
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Mickey Spillane

Mickey Spillane said 'If the public likes you, you're good.' The public liked him - enough to make him one of the bestselling novelists of all time. Not just because he was good, but because he was the best. What's more, he was the first. Mickey Spillane's classic Mike Hammer detective nov...
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James Anderson

The Earl of Burford can’t believe his luck; Rex Ransom, his favourite star from the ‘talkies’, and his hot-shot producer, Haggermeir, want to film their next feature at Alderley, the family’s seventeenth-century country estate. Somewhat less enthusiastic is the Coun...
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Lehla Eldridge

A culinary journey for ex-pats and travellers alike. The South African Illustrated Cookbook is a compilation of recipes dear to South Africans from all walks of life and traditions.It includes Xhosa, Cape Malay, Zulu, English, Indian, Afrikaans, Portuguese and new South African dishes. I...
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Jane Alexander

Whatever your fantasy, live it with Make-Believe™. The only limit is you.  Cassie worked at Imagen, the tech giant behind the cutting-edge virtual reality experience Make-Believe™, and she got to know the product well. Too well.  But Cassie has been barred from her...
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David Pesci

The gripping novel based on a true story of slavery Please make court understand we free men who want be free again. We want go home. We pray you to win our case. You our friend. We trust you. In 1839, fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slav...
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Jill McGivering

 Isabel, born into the British Raj, and Asha, a young Hindu girl, both consider India their home. Through mischance and accident their stories intersect and circumstances will bring them from the bustling city of Delhi to the shores of the Andaman Islands, from glittering colonial par...
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Cynthia Jefferies

1660, England. War is at an end, yet for Christopher Morgan his personal conflict rages on. Haunted by the tragic death of his wife, Christopher is despearate to escape the pain her memory brings, although looking into the eyes of his young son, Abel, he cannot help but be remind...
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H R F Keating

In his newest case Inspector Ghote finds himself working outside of the police force, as he becomes involved in tracking the brutal killer of a lowly peon, one of the underclass in Bombay society.   Because of his low status, Bikram’s death would be ignored but as his s...
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Catherine Aird

When flirtatious golfing beginner Helen Sewell, goes in search for her wayward golf ball in the dreaded 'Hells Bells' bunker, she is not prepared for the horrible surprise that lies buried under the soft sand. When a body is discovered by two lady golfers buried in the steepest bunker ...
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Rachel Caine

In the Houses of Montague and Capulet, there is only one goal: power. The boys are born to fight and die for honour and – if they survive – marry for influence and money, not love. The girls are assets, to be spent wisely. Their wishes are of no import. Their fates are written ...
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June Tate

Southampton, 1912. Jessie is just nineteen when her father passes away and her mother decides to return to her native Ireland. But Jessie, headstrong and independent, prefers to take charge of her own destiny and finds employment at a workman’s cafe, becoming the darling of the dockw...
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Tim Lebbon

Nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy Kel Boon thinks he has managed to escape his past life as an agent in the secret organisation, the Core, protecting the blissfully unaware Noreelans from the threat of the lizard-like Strangers - creatures from beyond the known...
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Sylvia Broady

It is 1945 and while England is once again at peace, it is a time of challenge. Returning soldiers are strangers to their families; women have managed to keep their families safe and fed on their own.  When Rose meets Joe, a widowed airman with a young son, she gives them her friendsh...
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Priscilla Masters

From her surgery window Dr Megan Banesto watches as the body of Bianca Rhys is dragged from the local pond - a paranoid schizophrenic (famed for her outrageous claims and stories), her death doesn't come as a surprise to the local community. Soon after, when a ten year old child goes missi...
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Bridget Asher

‘Every good love story has another love hiding within it.’   Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloub...
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Fiona McIntosh

Provence, 1942 Luc Bonet, brought up by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps, finds his life shattered by the brutality of Nazi soldiers. Leaving his abandoned lavender fields behind, Luc joins the French Resistance in a quest for revenge. Paris, 1943 Lisette Fore...
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Max Wallace, Ian Halperin

Friday, 8th April 1994. Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew was Cobain had been murdered. That April, Cobain went missing for several days, or so it seemed: in...
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Rachel Caine

The first four books in the #1 Bestselling Morganville Vampire Series Welcome to Morganville. Just don’t stay out after dark... Morganville is a small town filled with unusual characters – when the sun goes down, the bad come out. In Morganville, there is an evil that lurks...
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Penelope Evans

Hey you! After all these years? 'Only one person used to write to her like this. And she fell for it. And kept on falling, deeper and deeper, until there was nothing there to catch her. Except me. I picked her up and put her together. Held her together like glue that takes an age to bind....
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Judith Cutler

England 1810. Young Parson Tobias Campion is excited and nervous to be starting at the small parish of Moreton Priory. But his first night in the village brings excitement of the wrong kind when he has to intervene in the attempted rape of housemaid Lizzie Woodman. Even in the normal cour...
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Anna Jacobs

Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his death, she begins to make plans for her own future – funded by the inheritance she was promised. But Sebastian, her conniving and  controlling brother, has very different ideas and will not allo...
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June Thomson

In Sherlock Holmes’s London, reputations are fragile and scandal can be ruinous. In order to protect the names of the good (and not-so-good), Dr Watson comes to the decision that his accounts of some of his friend’s most brilliant cases must never see the light of day. Conceali...
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Beryl Matthews

A new novel from a much-loved storyteller 1919, London's East End. Robert Hunter is eagerly awaiting the return of his father from the war. Next door, Ruth Cooper's family arealso preparing to welcome her dad, whose ship was lost at Jutland. After five years ofeparation and anxiety - and,...
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Fiona Sussman

Winner of the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel Carla and Kevin Reid are celebrating their wedding anniversary with their son Jack. The family together, some good food, a perfect night. On a murderous collision course with this joyous yet fragile gathering, is Ben Toroa, an un...
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Anna Jacobs

Rosalind’s husband forces her to move from Australia to England because of his job with a multi-national company. But he’s called away to deal with a crisis in Hong Kong and she’s left to settle into a new country on her own. One by one, her three grown-up children need h...
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Martin Edwards

Lawyer-turned-writer Nic Gabriel is stunned when womanising Dylan Rees, his host at a champagne reception at the Houses of Parliament, is knifed by an ex-girlfriend and bleeds to death in front of him. It’s not just the horrific murder, but the fact that the ex, Ella, had apparently ...
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Brian Eastman

Laura Thyme`s cousin`s son has recently become ordained, and is now the vicar of several small country parishes, the largest being Baffington. When Laura goes to visit him, she meets several of the locals, and witnesses the sudden death of one of them. A year later, Laura and Rosemary are ...
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Sylvia Broady

1930, Hull, East Yorkshire. Alice Goddard is fleeing through a rain lashed street from her violent, bullying husband Ted and fearing for her life and that of her two-year-old daughter Daisy. Running to the police station for help, she becomes involved in a road accident. Seriously injured,...
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Patricia Hall

Recently divorced, Jay Morton returns to her hometown of Pendle Bridge with her daughter Kate. She quickly secures a job helping to set up a museum at the sinister-looking Pendle House, now derelict and overgrown. While searching for artefacts in the attics at Pendle House, Jay stumbles ac...
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Kate Forsyth

Once upon a time there were six sisters. The pretty one, the musical one, the clever one, the helpful one, the young one . . . And then there was the Wild one. Dortchen Wild has loved Wilhelm Grimm since she was a young girl. Under the forbidding shadow of her father and the tyranny of ...
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Menna van Praag

When tragedy strikes Alba Ashby, she finds herself at the door of a house she’s never noticed before. Number Eleven, Hope Street in Cambridge is no ordinary house. Its walls are steeped in the wisdom of past residents: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker and Agatha Christie to name a few....
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Gary Donnelly

DI Owen Sheen vowed never to return to Ireland, but he needs answers to the questions he has surrounding his brother's death. On loan from the Met to the PSNI, he is meant to be setting up a new Historical Offences Team, but instead he finds himself partnered with DC Aoife McCusker to work...
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Rupert Holmes

1940, San Francisco. Ray Sherwood has arrived in town on tour with the Jack Donovan Orchestra and plenty of bad memories. But in meeting two women on the same day Ray is shaken out of his stupor. One of the women, Gail, wants his help in orchestrating her avant-garde composition Swing Arou...
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William Dietrich

Visit the new Ethan Gage Website The third book in this pacy historical adventure series – thrills, spills and puzzles galore! Ethan Gage wants to enjoy the fruits of victory after helping Napoleon win the Battle of Marengo. But an ill-advised tryst with Bonaparte’s married...
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Robert Nye

An Allison & Busby Classic - new reissue ‘By the time I have finished I think you will have to admit it. There is no man or woman alive in the world who knows more than old Pickleherring about the late Mr Shakespeare.’ From a dingy attic above a brothel in Restoration ...
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Jane MacKenzie

During Spain’s turbulent 1960s, in a mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her powerful husband and alienated from her family. Carla hates everything her parents stand for. She has embraced the student movement against Franco’s regime...
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Ivo Fornesa

Seeking a quiet spot to write his memoirs, Laurent de Rodergues secludes himself in Saint-Chartier, a village in the heart of France. Yet his tranquil life is soon disturbed by Carlos, an eccentric millionaire determined to give the town’s medieval château a costly and controve...
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Frederic Lindsay

There’s a fine line between fact and fiction… Following the publication of his latest crime novel, Barclay Curle receives a letter from a woman accusing him of writing about the murders she has committed. Is it just the wild ramblings of a crazed fan, or could there really be...
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Daniel Handler

In their affluent San Francisco high school, Flannery Culp's group, the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique, but to Flan they are indispensable. She needs Kate, despite her incessant gossiping. She needs Gabriel, even though he has a barely requited crush on her. She needs V...
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Jamie Ford

A New York Times Bestseller William Eng has lived at Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage for five long years, ever since his mother’s listless body was carried from their Chinatown apartment. When, during a trip to the movie theatre, William glimpses an actress on the silver scre...
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Mary Nichols

June, 1944. Since her father's stroke, Jean has been trying to run her parents' small farm almost single-handedly and is in desperate need of help. Karl, a German prisoner of war captured when the Allies invade France in 1944, turns out to be just what she needs. He is polite, hardworking ...
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Mimi Thebo

Maggie White has a problem. It's not her nightmare commute, the difficult tampon launch or the fact that her marriage is on the rocks. No, Maggie's real problem is that Saint Peter is visiting her in the bedroom every night - and he looks like Sean Connery. He's got a PR problem or, m...
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Susanna Kearsley

Winner of the RT Reviewer’s Choice Award When Eva’s film star sister Catrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Trelowarth, Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Catrina’s ashes and thus return her to the place where she belongs. But i...
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Beryl Matthews

1944.  Ruth Aspinall loves flying and soon becomes an accomplished pilot.  When war breaks out and the Air Transport Auxiliary is formed she is anxious to join them.  In America, brother and sister, Jack and Lucy Nelson, experienced pilots, make their way to England, also d...
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Menna van Praag

The Cambridge University witches have been meeting for as long as the university has been around – over 900 years – they meet mainly to discuss books, though they do so on the roofs of the colleges and they drink hot chocolate while up there. The members are limited and selecti...
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Suzette A. Hill

Dedicating a monument to an eminent member of a Cambridge college should be a simple matter of course, but plans for a statue honouring Sir Percival Biggs-Brookby are far from set in stone and the committee face many obstacles to decision-making - not least among themselves. Despite alread...
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Jack Trevor Story

This classic black comedy became a bestseller, praised for its succinct style and its original blend of mystery and humour, and made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1955. On the outskirts of a small English town, young Arnie discovers the body of a middle-aged man in the woods. Three p...
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Beryl Matthews

1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father’s death, penniless but armed with an iron will. Determined to put London behind her and find a place to call home, her search takes her to the New Forest where she stumbles upon Lord Frenshaw’s estate. Her skill at handling some ...
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Margaret Kaine

Deploring social injustice, Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency, concealing the fact that she’s a member of the aristocracy. But Deborah has become accustomed to keeping secrets. It began eight years ago in 1918 when her dashing French lieutenant was tragically killed. Amid a...
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Michael Howell, Peter Ford

Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1862, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take...
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Caroline Moorehead

Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century’s most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remains widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy with her Irish mother after the death of her wealthy American father. They settled in the Vi...
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Alison Joseph

She may wish it otherwise but now that Sister Agnes is, as Father Julius solemnly teases her, a ‘fully paid up’ member of the convent, any thoughts that life might go more smoothly with her final vows taken are soon proved mistaken. Outside the oppressive confines of life in...
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Anthony Burgess

From the author of A Clockwork Orange ‘You may expect to meet all manner of wickedness in what follows – pork-eating, lechery, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, the most ingenious varieties of cruelty, assassination, the worship of false gods and the sin of being  unc...
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Beryl Matthews

As World War II breaks out, four friends consider the changes that war will mean. Tomboyish Becky plans to join the ATS, her neighbours Bob and Jim the navy and army respectively. Only Becky's brother Will is left out of the excitement; because of a slight physical disability, he is forced...
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Suzanne Rindell

New York, 1958. Three people striving to make their mark on an unforgiving city. Can they navigate the passions, the pitfalls and the power games as they reach for success? Cliff Nelson, a privileged New Yorker, is slumming it around Greenwich Village, enjoying the idea that he is the nex...
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Kwei Quartey

Gordon Tilson is a lonely widower who befriends a young woman online. When her sister is injured in a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill and runs off to Ghana to surprise his new love. But he soon disappears without a trace… Frustrated by the...
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Jessica Mann

From the bestselling author of Out of Harm's Way, this utterly compelling novel blends fact and fiction, past and present to make for a tantalising read that both haunts and intrigues.  1940: SS The City of Benares is carrying child evacuees to safety from wartime Britain, among the...
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Robert Barnard

At the age of three, Kit Philipson was abducted whilst on holiday with his family in Italy. He grew up adored by his adopted parents but as the woman he though was his mother lay dying she told him her terrible secret and gave him the name and address of his real family. Isla Novello is t...
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Tom Drury

Paul Nash is an accountant. Having testified against the Mob bosses for whom he has laundered money, he is placed in the Witness Relocation Program. Stripped of his identity, with a false name and a false life, Paul grows restless. Unable to settle in any one place, he drifts - from rural ...
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James Anderson

And then there were eight… Understandably, Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another house party at Alderley, his beautiful country mansion. After all, the previous two could at best be described as disastrous, since a couple of their guests were unceremoniously bump...
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June Tate

1934. Talented eighteen-year-old dancer Bonny Burton joins the chorus at Southampton's Palace of Varieties and becomes fast friends with gifted choreographer Rob Andrews. When the pair are spotted by a talent scout, they are contracted to appear in the West End. Soon, Bonny becomes the dar...
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Rachel Caine

A thrilling collection of the first three books in the Weather Warden series including Ill Wind, Heat Stroke and Chill Factor. Some Weather Wardens control fire, others control earth, water, or wind – and the most powerful can control more than one element. Without Wardens, Mother N...
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Margaret Irwin

This stunning novel from the acclaimed author of Young Bess breathes new life into the little-known story of the great love of Mary, Queen of Scots. The young and trusting Mary, Queen of Scots, is sailing home to her kingdom after years in exile. The danger from her cousin, the English Qu...
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Cathy Lamb

Madeline O'Shea tells people what to do with their lives. A renowned life coach, she inspires thousands of women through her thriving practice-exuding enviable confidence along with her stylish suits and sleek hair. But her confidence, just like her fashionable demeanor, is all a front. F...
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Susan Wooldridge

Winner of the Big Red Read Award for Best Debut Novel 2010 Runner up for the Big Red Read Fiction Award 2010 On March 1st 1933 the luxury liner, SS Etoile, sets sail from Southampton en route for New York.  England has finally emerged from the terrors of the Great War and yet the n...
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June Thomson

SECRETS, SUSPENSE, AND CONSPIRACY. LONDON THROUGH THE EYES OF THE GREAT SHERLOCK HOLMES  A further seven tales have been rescued from the battered tin dispatch-box which came into the possession of the famous Dr Watson’s namesake. Deliberately unpublished to protect the names o...
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Charles Belfoure

A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man’s unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the Second World War. 1942 Paris. Architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him huge wealth – and maybe a death sentence.He has to design a secret hidi...
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June Tate

September, 1914. Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Mrs Evans' prestigious gown shop in Southampton. Hard-working and well-liked by customers, she has also started to take on a few private clients to supplement her family's meagre finances. Daisy's ambition, ultimate...
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Edward Marston

For Lord Westfield’s men, sometimes murder takes centre stage…The reign of Elizabeth I has seen a flowering of English theatre. The esteemed theatrical company called Lord Westfield’s Men have enjoyed many a success but it falls to Nicholas Bracewell, the company’s...
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 It is 1800 and in the quiet village of Felpham hearts are stirring and passions are rising. At Turret House, the elegant estate of celebrated poet William Hayley Esquire, there is much excitement at the arrival of another poet and engraver, William Blake, to the village. But yo...
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June Francis

When her mother leaves Liverpool for a new life in Cardiff, Rita Taylor has little choice but to go and live with the aunt she never knew she had. Grudgingly Margaret Sinclair, the local Pawnbroker, agrees to look after her wayward niece. Despite an initial battle of wills the two soon bec...
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Mary Nichols

Norfolk 1939. The start of World War II brings about dramatic changes for the de Lacey family. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth is expected home any day from France when an accident detains her with the war rumbling ever closer.  Her sister Amy has returned from finishing school full o...
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Georgia Hunter

The Kurc family shouldn’t have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five Kurc siblings do everything they can to find ...
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Rebecca Tope

A brand-new collection of twelve short stories, featuring the popular characters from Rebecca Tope’s Cotswold mystery novels. A suspicious funeral, a fatal encounter at a garden centre of all places, and a country walk marred by the discovery of a hidden corpse, are just some of the...
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S M Hardy

On the brink of a breakdown, two years after the death of his fiancée, Jim Hawkes quits his high-powered job in the City to rent a cottage in the Devonshire countryside seeking some well-needed rest. But Slyford St James is far from the peaceful haven Jim was hoping for. Almost imm...
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Katharine Moore

An enchanting comedy of manners of old age, set in an old people's home in the heart of the English countryside.
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Jonathan Gash

When six-year-old Davey Charleston is kidnapped during a family holiday in Florida, his distraught parents finally accept that he cannot be found. They return to England to mourn the loss of their son. However, Davey's grandfather, Bray, is not so williing to accept Davey's disappearance; ...
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Ted Lewis

The original novel of the classic cult film starring Sir Michael Caine. Doncaster train station, and Jack Carter is heading home for a funeral - his brother Frank's. Frank had been found dead and drunk in his car at the bottom of a cliff. Now, Frank was a mild, sober man, so why did he la...
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Margaret Irwin

A single collection of the three Elizabeth novels, by Margaret Irwin: Young Bess, Elizabeth, Captive Princess and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain. Margaret Irwin beautifully recreates the life of the vivacious Princess Elizabeth, the girl who will one day be Queen. But Elizabeth`s pat...
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Budd Schulberg

‘I could’ve had class. I could’ve been a contender. I could’ve been somebody.’ Former boxer Terry Malloy and his brother Charley, the crooked lawyer known to all as ‘the Gent’, are members of the tough, mobster-connected Longshoreme...
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Lauren Willig

After years abroad, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, has returned to England to avenge the murder of his mentor. To uncover the murderer's identity, he must infiltrate the infamous, secret Hellfire Club. But the Duke has no idea that an even more difficult challenge awaits him – in a romant...
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Laurie R King

In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery – available together for the first time – Laurie R. King blends her long-running brand of crime fiction with historical treats and n...
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Jane MacKenzie

From the deserts of North Africa, to the waters of Scotland, the Second World War touches the lives of two women from two very different worlds. In Alexandria, Fran finds her world turned upside down as Rommel’s forces advance on the idyllic shores of Egypt. The life of luxury and st...
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Sylvia Broady

Jessica is grieving for her beloved father, Jacob Kingdom, a trawler owner fondly remembered by his crew. But a confrontation with her mother leads to Jessica being cast out from the family home and the reveal of a shameful secret. It isn’t long before she meets a charismatic trawler...
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Katharine Moore

Late in life Letty Sanderson yields to a romatic whim and buys the rundown house where she spent holidays as a child and tries, through her choice of tenants, to recreate the blissful atmosphere of the past. But her tenants' hopes and aspirations do not quite fit Letty's dream.
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Susanna Kearsley

With its dark legends and passionate history, the windswept shores of Scotland are an archaeologist’s dream. Verity Grey is thrilled by the challenge of uncovering an ancient Roman campsite in a small Scottish village. But as soon as she arrives, she can sense danger in the air. &nbs...
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Christine Pullein-Thompson, Diana Pullein-Thompson, Josephine Pullein-Thompson

‘Are your twins normal?' Mrs Pullein-Thompson was asked. ‘Good God, I hope not,’ she retorted. The twins were Diana and Christine who, with their elder sister, Josephine, wrote more than 150 books, which have sold in their millions around the world. Fifty years after the...
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Mary Nichols

 HALF PRICE UNTIL END OF NOVEMBER - CODE WMA50 1940. London is facing the full wrath of the blitz and amid the chaos Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. She is evacuated to Bletchley to live with her aunt Constance, where she forms a...
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Suzette A. Hill

Primrose Oughterard, an eccentric artist living in East Sussex, has recently taken custody of her dead brother’s cat and dog, Maurice and Bouncer. The brother – the Revd Francis Oughterard – has had the misfortune to murder one of his parishioners, and (aided and abetted ...
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Jamie Ford

A short story from Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.  
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Marjorie Eccles

Life at Charnley is blessed for the Jardine children, Harriet, Vita and Daisy, who live in an idyllic Edwardian country manor with their loving parents, Beatrice and Amory. But one night, after a party celebrating their mother's birthday, their dreams of a propitious future suddenly come c...
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June Thomson

A mysterious veiled lady carries a counterfeit painting into an art dealer’s office. A widow with three hands slips out of a church door. A farmer lies dead in a barn, his son accused of his murder.A skeleton with a silver locket is unearthed in a back garden.What do they have in com...
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Johanna Winard

1942 - a quiet Lancashire village will soon be divided by war In the autumn of 1942, fifteen year old Ruby is collected from her aunt’s guesthouse by her grandfather.  She is taken to live with him in a village in industrial Lancashire, where a few days after her arrival, a num...
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Philip Kazan

1922. Young Zoë Haggitiris is forced to flee with her family during the Turkish invasion of Smyrna. When tragedy strikes in the midst of their escape, Zoë is found floating alone in the icy waters and is rescued by a passing ship. Caught up in a sea of desperate refugees, her lif...
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Mary Nichols

Julie Monday, abandoned by her mother and raised in a children’s home, enjoys a rare moment of happiness when at the age of eight she visits the Essex seaside and meets eleven-year-old Harry Walker. They spend a happy few hours together, but at the end of the afternoon, she must retu...
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Fiona Sussman

‘This is the sweet memory of Mme, my dear mother. The first sweet memory . . . Sometimes her laughter bursts into my head or I hear her call me – my name full and round in her mouth. Frustratingly though, as with all the memories I have of Mme, her face always blurs under the p...
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Catherine Aird

After the much-loved Calleshire business man, Derek Tridgell, seems to cry foul murder with his last breath, Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby are sent to investigate. Clearly there has been a death, that of Mr Tridgell, but the pressing question is – have...
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Beryl Matthews

As if everyday life in London’s slums wasn’t hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children, the day that ne’er-do-well husband Bert walks out on his family as rent day draws near is a particularly dark time. In the wake of his desertion, the family pull together to ...
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Katharine Moore

Roberta Curling has lived her whole long life in the same comfortable Edwardian house. Now, following a serious fall, her anxious grandchildren try to persuade her to move to something more manageable. And as she prepares to leave, each thing she packs brings the past vividly to life again...
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Deryn Lake

A captivating tale of intrigue, lust, power and mystery about the great King Charles VII of France and the women who inspired and loved him - women closely linked to the Knights Templar and The Priory of Sion and who played a key part in history, shaping the destiny of men...
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Jamie Ford

1909, Seattle. At the World’s Fair a half-Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle’s famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki-san, a Japanese mai...
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Heather Cooper

1862, Isle of Wight. Growing up in the small seaside town of Cowes, free-spirited Eveline Stanhope feels trapped by the weight of expectation from her well-to-do family. Her mother and two elder sisters would rather she focus her attention on marrying well, preferably to the wealthy Charle...
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Tony Hillerman

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is back in another mystery from America's legendary crime writer Tony Hillerman. Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by his former colleagues, who seek his help in solving a particularly p...
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Beryl Matthews

London 1920.  Dora Bentley’s father had been killed in the War and their mother, Harriet, works at night at Grants clothing factory in order to support her family.  While she is at work Dora looks after her brother, twelve-year-old Tom, and little Lilly. Their mother is alw...
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Barbara Mutch

A seashell and a sealed letter form a tenuous connection to a forbidden wartime romance 1937. Simon’s Town is a vibrant and diverse community in a picturesque part of the Union of South Africa. At the heart of the town is the Royal Navy port, and Louise Ahrendts, daughter of a shipb...
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Maggie Bennett

North Camp, a growing Hampshire village, has been briefly energised by the cessation of the Great War and the years of peace that followed. Now, however, with the beginning of the Second World War, the lives of the inhabitants are plunged once more into chaos. Tom Munday, carpenter of t...
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June Tate

Southampton 1920. Phoebe Collins rose to the challenge of running the family fruit and veg stall when her father did not return from the front. The work outside in Kingsland market in all weathers can be hard, but with her mother and younger brother Tim to support, she’s determined t...
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Richard Hopton

September 1810. Raids across the Straits of Messina to disrupt preparations for the French invasion of the island have been repulsed with heavy casualties. George Warne, a bright young British officer, suspects treachery back in Messina, and is ordered to investigate. Warne uncovers a shad...
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Judith Cutler

Josie Welford desperately hopes for a fresh start. Widow to one of Britain's most wanted criminals, she begins a new venture as the licensee of the local pub in Kings Duncombe, and soon becomes a thriving member of the community. That is until Inspector Nick Thomas, the man who put her hus...
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Joan Lingard

Cormac, born and brought up in Belfast, living now in Edinburgh with his wife and children, is an art teacher, an admirer of Rodin and a sculptor himself. When he tries to transmit his enthusiasm for Rodin to his students he finds his words tend to fall on stony ground, except when it come...
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Margaret Irwin

The final evocative instalment of Margaret Irwin’s timeless trilogy, following the triumphs and tragedies, the battles of wit and will between Henry VIII’s spirited daughters, Bloody Mary and Elizabeth. Philip, Prince of Spain, the unwilling bridegroom of Queen Mary, has be...
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Menna van Praag

 Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match cusomers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude’s life is not overflowing with the love she wishes for. ...
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Edward Marston

London, 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways. But the gleaming modernity the railways represent does have a darker side. One filled with murder, blackmail and destruction which will take Inspector Robert Co...
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Marjorie Eccles

 It is the year 1910 and the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found on the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwynd's Shropshire estate. A reluctant heir to the estate, Sebastian Chetwynd is already battling with divided loyalties: his ambition for a career of his own and his father's ex...
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