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1) Red clocks
Author
Publisher
The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.RED CLOCKS is at once a riveting drama whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy,...
2) Home fire
Author
Pub. Date
2017
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Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2018
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In this freewheeling, feminist history of modern Britain, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women?s lives from the mid-nineteenth century onward. These were uncompromising women who seized - or created - opportunities for themselves and who refused to be bowed by tradition, convention, or their generation?s hostile, entrenched...
4) The crash
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
As the world falls apart, a deadly conspiracy comes together . . . THE BRAND NEW 2023 THRILLER FROM BRITAIN'S TOP POLITICAL JOURNALIST - NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER IN HARDBACK, EBOOK & AUDIOBOOK. London, 2007. It's summer in the City: the economy is booming, profits are up and the stock market sits near record highs. But journalist Gil Peck is a lone voice worrying it can't last. Deep in the plumbing of the financial system, he has noticed strange...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Description
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically. Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2023
Description
'A heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I couldn't put this book down' BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE VANISHING HALF Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she...
7) Upside down
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Series
The Men Of The Sisterhood volume 1
Publisher
Zebra
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Behind every member of the Sisterhood, there's a man who knows better than to get in her way. Now the guys are bonding together, in the first in a thrilling new series from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. Through public triumphs and private sorrows, the men in the Sisters' lives-husbands, friends, colleagues, and lovers-have offered invaluable aid and support. In the process, they've become an informal brotherhood of their own, able...
8) The players
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Pub. Date
2025
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England, 1685. Decades after the end of the civil war, the country is once again divided when Charles II's illegitimate son, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, arrives in Dorset to incite rebellion against his Catholic uncle. Armed only with pitchforks, Monmouth's army is quickly defeated by King James II's superior forces and charged with high treason. Those found guilty will be hanged, drawn and quartered. As Dorset braces for carnage, the redoubtable...
Author
Publisher
Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett, read by Sandro Monetti. Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad men, and venture capitalists? And, in light of recent data breach scandals around companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, what does that...
10) Scar tissue
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Pub. Date
2020
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Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad. That's about to change. When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Description
In this New York Times bestselling collection, National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Jericho Brown to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on the darkest corners of American history, wrestle with the struggles the country faces today and imagine a better future. Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's groundbreaking...
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Series
Trial and Retribution volume 1
Description
It is every mother's nightmare. Her child is missing, found murdered. Her lover is the prime suspect. It is every police officer's dread. A child murder. A circumstantial case. It is every solicitor's dream. Twelve men and women will decide the verdict. But only YOU can decide if justice is done for the victim.
13) The second woman
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Pub. Date
2021
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Artemis leaves the remote Greek island she grew up on to start a shiny new life in 1990s London with her British husband, a successful entrepreneur. Finally, she has escaped the ghosts of her past. Until she is found hanging from the stairs of her beautiful family home. Two decades later, the apparent suicide of an heiress uncannily mirrors Artemis? mysterious death. And when the ensuing investigation uncovers links to a criminal cartel, National...
14) The enemy inside
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Series
Paul Madriani volume 13
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015
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Description
Defending an innocent young man, defence attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this tale of suspense from bestselling author Steve Martini.
15) To die for
Author
Series
Travis Devine volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
Description
* * * * * Some secrets are too dangerous to keep . . . TWO SUSPICIOUS DEATHS When Dwayne and Alice Odom are killed, the police report states clearly that it was a drug overdose. So why is their daughter, who was there when they died, claiming that?s not the truth? ONE YOUNG SURVIVOR Betsy Odom doesn?t trust the police but when she finds herself in the FBI?s custody after her parents? deaths, she knows she has to be careful. Her uncle wants to adopt...
16) The betrayals
Author
Publisher
The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2020
Description
From the Number 1 bestselling author of THE BINDINGIf everything in your life was based on a lieWould you risk it all to tell the truth?At Montverre, an exclusive academy tucked away in the mountains, the best and brightest are trained for excellence in the�grand jeu: an arcane and mysterious contest. L�o Martin was once a student there, but lost his passion for the grand jeu following a violent tragedy. Now he returns in disgrace, exiled to his...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Journalist M�nica Guzm�n is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted-twice-for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, M�nica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we?re not using: our own built-in curiosity.� � Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure we?re right and everyone else is ignorant (or...
18) Long time gone
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Publisher
Canelo Crime
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Thirty years ago, Baby Charlotte vanished. Today, she's still in danger. When Dr Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site as part of a research assignment for a fellowship in forensic pathology, her life is thrown into turmoil. Sloan's DNA profile suggests her true identity is that of Charlotte Margolis, aka 'Baby Charlotte', whose case captured the nation when she mysteriously disappeared along with her parents in 1995. Despite...
19) Birdcage walk
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Pub. Date
2017
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It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol?s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the 200-foot...
20) The lawyer
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
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A psychological thriller from best-selling author Valerie Keogh you won't want to miss!! What if someone from your past tried to destroy your future? When Melanie Scott is promoted to junior partner, she thinks she has put her past behind her and while out celebrating her promotion, she meets the handsome and charming Hugo Field. Melanie has her doubts and is haunted by her mother?s critical voice, which reminds her that she?s messed up before. But...
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