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The River Maid volume 1
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The stunning new novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtLondon, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father?s beck and call.Then, one night, she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who ends up renting a room in Essie?s house,...
2) Two sisters
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Pub. Date
2020
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Don?t miss the new book from Sunday Times bestselling author, Josephine Cox!The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father?s farm and yearn for something more out of life than drudgery and toil.Ellen, loyal and honest, is her father?s favourite, but Georgina is impulsive and unreliable, and can?t please a father who has never shown her love.The big house, Grindle Hall, offers them both a chance of betterment, but while Ellen follows the steady...
3) Sarah's gift
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Waterfront volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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Sarah has been married and widowed three times and seen great success in her business life. Now at the age of ninety-four, she signs her final will and testament pleased with how it will throw the cat among the family pigeons. She has left her luxurious home in a waterside development in Mandurah, Western Australia, to two female relatives in the UK, on the condition that they live in the house together for a year after that which they can sell it...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2017
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Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape poverty at the turn of the 20th Century, but bad fortune dogs the family as the years pass. Angela marries her childhood sweetheart but tragedy is heaped upon misery when he is called up in the Great War and dies at the Somme. She gives birth to a young daughter called Constance who she must rear on her own, but the worst is yet to come when Angela is raped...
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Mulberry Lane volume 3
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Aria
Pub. Date
2018
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Times are hard for all on Mulberry Lane as the war rages into yet another year. Desperate times push people into dangerous situations, and the residents of Mulberry Lane are not exempt. Menacing shadows lurk on dark street corners, threatening the safety of those who are alone and vulnerable. When Peggy's twins are born early Maureen and Nellie are there to lend a helping hand. The mothers of Mulberry Lane stick together despite the grim conditions...
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Aria
Pub. Date
2018
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The hedonism of London in the roaring '20's is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary country existence. Until a chance meeting with the charming Richard Fortescue at a society ball changes her life for ever. Swept off her feet by the dashing Richard, and his renowned fortune, Annabel soon realises all that all that glitters isn't gold. Her bid for freedom has come at a terrible price and she finds herself trapped inside a marriage that behind...
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She turned the picture of the Christmas card over with her frozen hands. The scene showed a family at Yuletide as they gathered around the magnificent tree. Standing stiff with cold on the icy cobbles, Alice could only dream... With the snow falling steadily, Alice and her ailing mother have found themselves on the cold streets of London with only debts to their name - forced to rely on the begrudging charity of cruel Aunt Jane. Determined to rid...
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Detective William Warwick volume 1
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This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father?s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London?s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of...
9) Without Sin
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Howes
Pub. Date
2005
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Large print ed.
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11 12 hrs, 45 mins
10) Heads you win
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018
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Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to...
11) The classroom
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Pub. Date
2018
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But the classroom is the one place she should be safe.Isn?t it? Don?t miss the chilling new psychological thriller from A.L. Bird, author of The Good Mother and Don?t Say a Word, perfect for fans of S.E. Lynes, Sherryl Brown and Lisa Hall.
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Avon
Pub. Date
2018
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The third thrilling novel from the author of Ella?s Journey and Alice?s Secret, prepare to discover the truth about Sarah ?Sarah dreams of a more exciting life? but will she get more than she bargained for?Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company, she longs to be reunited with her mother and sisters in Manchester.When she meets the mysterious Joe Bancroft, she feels her luck might be changing. And,...
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Maze
Pub. Date
2017
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Ella is trying to put the past behind her, but the past won?t always stay hidden.The truth is, Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lane End Cottage in the tiny Yorkshire village they had lived in all their lives. A scandal that her sister Alice was blamed for.But Alice is no longer here. So it?s up to Ella to pick up the pieces and do the best she can for the family she loves so dearly.Ella?s luck finally...
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Black & White Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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Scottsville, Arizona, 1989 In small-town America, Joy Sheldon loves the plants that bloom in the desert but longs too for the sea?s elemental wildness. It?s a dream never realised - and now, facing the brutal truth that her husband is a cheat, Joy learns of unimaginable secrets in her early life. Riven by betrayal and loss, a chance encounter with the enigmatic Lewis, Joy embarks on a journey to seek her true identity - and to discover why the sea...
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Corvus
Pub. Date
2018
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'A gripping page-turner - the twists kept coming!' Catherine Ryan Howard You can only hide for so long... Lizzie Bradshaw. A student from the Lake District, forced to work away from home, who witnesses a terrible crime. But who will ultimately pay the price? Emma Taylor. A mother, a wife, and a woman with a dangerous secret. Can she keep her beloved family safely together? Stella Taylor. A disaffected teenager, determined to discover what her mother...
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HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2018
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He doesn?t know his name. He doesn?t know his secret. When Daniel woke up from a coma he had no recollection of the life he lived before. Now, fourteen years later, he?s being forced to remember.A phone call in the middle of the night demands he return what he stole - but Daniel has no idea what it could be, or who the person on the other end is. He has been given one warning, if he doesn?t find out his family will be murdered.Rachael needs to protect...
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Empire Street volume 4
Pub. Date
2017
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Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead of thinking about romance, is determined to do her bit for King and country. Her life as a WREN means she is kept busy much of the time, but when Kitty finds herself stationed back home on Merseyside, she meets up again with Frank Feeny, the brave young officer who has always held a place in her heart. Britain is on the verge of victory, but will Kitty embrace the future and learn to love again?....
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Pub. Date
2018
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The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn?t about to make the same mistake again. Alice and her best friend Edith are based in the East End but before...
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Debbie Macomber, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
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A young woman finds herself torn between two very different men in this warm, compassionate novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. � Abby Carpenter longs for the type of romance she reads about in books. She loves her volunteer work teaching English as a second language, and has found her relationship with her boyfriend, Logan, just as fulfilling. But lately, she?s thinking she needs a little spice in her life. Then she...
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Corvus
Pub. Date
2019
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Holly Seddon's first three thrillers in one fast-paced, dramatic collection 'Gripping... as addictive as the best box sets' Independent on Holly Seddon Try Not to Breathe Alex is sinking. Slowly but surely, she's cut herself off from everything but her one true love - drink. Until she's forced to write a piece about a coma ward, where she meets Amy. Amy is lost. When she was fifteen, she was attacked and left for dead in a park. Her attacker was never...
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