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Amberley Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
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It is hard to imagine the Middlesbrough area before its industrial might was established. In 1801, the area was a small hamlet with a population of just twenty-five. Middlesbrough's growth began with the development of the coal export trade in the area, but expanded rapidly with the discovery of extensive iron ore deposits in the Cleveland Hills. The burgeoning manufacturing town subsequently gained the nickname 'Ironopolis' and was hailed as 'the...
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HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2018
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Mary Smith is turning her very ordinary life upside-down! She?s bought herself a one-way ticket to Rome and is ready for a summer she?ll never forget.Men might be off the cards for waitress Mary, but within hours of arriving at the utterly charming family-run La Dolce Vita pizzeria, she?s already fallen in love with the bustling capital!Only Dante Rossi, the mysterious (and drop-dead gorgeous) chef seems displeased with her arrival. And in the heat...
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The river maid volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
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The third book in the stunning ?River Maid? series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtAs the ship glided into the harbour, guided by the wintery waters of the Thames, Rose took a deep breath. Had she done the right thing? Leaving everything behind her to follow the man she loved?But as London refused to appear through the thick fog that engulfed it, Rose felt more lonely than ever?Raised in Australia, Rose Munday is on the way back to the city...
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Pub. Date
2013
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Famous for its attractive scenery, abbey, trademark jet jewellery and Dracula, it could be argued that Whitby needs little introduction. But as this volume sets out to show, there is far more to Whitby. The Abbey, of course, is the best-known and loved building here, but perhaps fewer people know of the important role it played in shaping the development of the church in England. And while the jet industry has a long history, boatbuilding, fishing...
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Little Cornish Kitchen volume 1
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HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2018
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St Aidan: a cosy Cornish village where friendships are made for life and it?s always cocktail hour somewhere? The Little Cornish Kitchen is going on tour! When internet sensation ?Cressida Cupcake? has a soggy bottomed TV fiasco and faces bake-off backlash she jumps at the chance to spend some time hiding out in St Aidan, dog sitting for her brother. Picturesque Seaspray Cottage is meant to be Cressy Hobson?s port in the storm but with her blog sponsors...
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Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2016
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Lonely Planet Pocket London is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Rise over the city on the London Eye, uncover the past at Kensington's museums, and explore Soho, Greenwich and the Tower; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of of London and begin your journey now! Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off...
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Pub. Date
2017
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The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the family, is the ideal narrator, drawing on diaries, letters...
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HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2018
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Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her just that. Leaving behind a broken marriage she has some very important decisions to make.Will needs his wife, he needs her to open up to him if they?re to ever return to the way things once were. But he may have damaged any possibility...
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The Lonely Hearts Travel Club volume 1
Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2016
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?Brilliant, life-affirming, perfect escapism.?HeatWhat if you had a second chance? to find yourself?Instead of slipping on her something borrowed and tripping up the aisle to wedded bliss, Georgia spends her big day wondering where it all went wrong.Forced to make a bucket list of her new life goals by best friend Marie, it?s not long before travel-virgin Georgia?s packing her bags for a long-haul trip to Thailand.Yet, Georgia?s big adventure doesn?t...
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The Lonely Hearts Travel Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
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?This is a story with real heart. We absolutely loved it.? - Heat?the perfect first-sunny-afternoon in the garden book!?- Kathleen GrayLet yourself go?Starting the Lonely hearts Travel Club was supposed to be the second chance that gave Georgia Green back her life. She thought it would be just like travelling, but the reality is far from rosy as she realises that starting a new business is definitely not a beach!So when Georgia finds herself on an...
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Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2013
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"Mr Fernando led me into a dark room that was lined with book-cases and smelled of leather and damp. The polished, concrete floor of the library was covered with white jasmine flowers that had blown through the windows during the storm. He began to select from the shelves a collection of disintegrating books. ?If you are going to read any of them, it should really be this one,? he said as he passed me two thick volumes, embossed with gold lettering...
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Pub. Date
2013
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The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. ?GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived? (The Times). ?It?s not my fault. It?s yours. You shouldn?t shine. You shouldn?t make me do this.? THE GIRL WHO WOULDN?T DIE Kirby is lucky she survived the attack. She is sure there were other victims were less fortunate, but the evidence...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
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From the chalk downs of the south coast of England to the heathery moorland of the Shetland Isles, and from the holy island of Lindisfarne in the east to the Atlantic frontier of western Ireland, Orchid Summer is a journey into Britain and Ireland's most beautiful corners. The flowers that are the focus of this treasure hunt are exquisite and diverse. Some resemble insects and develop scents that mimic the smell of a virgin female wasp in order to...
14) Before the storm
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Ford Street
Pub. Date
2007
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Fox and BC travel through time from the distant future to 1901. Elite cadets in the Imperial Army, they are young, handsome, well-mannered ... and now, mutineers. They have journeyed into the past to save the opening ceremony of Australia?s first parliament from being bombed. In order to carry out their mission, they have to enlist the help of three ordinary teenagers. But why does the future need changing? Who sent the cadets on their mission? And...
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Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from...
16) Narrow minds
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Accent Press
Pub. Date
2011
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In her debut memoir�Narrow Margins�Marie Browne saved her family from financial ruin by moving her long-suffering husband three children and a dog on to a houseboat called�Happy Go Lucky�in search of a less stressful, alternative way of life. Now in Narrow Minds the family find themselves sucked back into normality, they?re pretty much back where they started, horrible house, no boat and the kids are beginning to threaten mutiny. Facing perky...
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Gill Books
Pub. Date
2020
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It?s a dark, rainy afternoon on Dublin?s jammed M50. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles? car. She is 29, a highly successful radio presenter, model and influencer, but she can?t stop the panic building in her head and chest. The internal state that she has been trying to ignore is finally spilling over into something undeniably physical. She is petrified. She looks to her boyfriend and says, ?I don?t know who or where I am.?...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
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Unabridged ed.
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A disillusioned nurse suddenly learns how to care. An injured young sportsman wakes up find that he can see only in black and white. A desperate old widower takes too many pills and believes that two angels have arrived to usher him through purgatory. Two agoraphobic men called Dave share the symptoms of a brain tumour, and frequently waken their neighbour with their ongoing rows. Separate lives, running in parallel, destined to collide and then explode....
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?My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve. The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn?t been for his ?time machine??? When Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad?s time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, and setting his school on fire....
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Picador
Pub. Date
2025
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Europe is racing towards the future. Steam travel is the emblem of progress; industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and ever greater deprivation; and on an autumn day in 1895 a young woman determined to make her mark on history boards the Granville to Paris Express with a bomb. With her travel the train crew and her fellow passengers: the men who run the engine, who have built a life together away from their wives; a little boy travelling...
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