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1) Room
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A major film starring Brie Larson Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orange Prize With an introduction by John Boyne Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra. Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on...
2) Yellow Room
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Canelo
Pub. Date
2020
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Secrets are like scars... Haunted by a tragic childhood accident, Chala?s whole life has been moulded by guilt and secrets. After the death of the stepfather she adored, Chala is thrown into turmoil once again. Volunteering in Kenya seems to offer an escape, and a way of re-evaluating her adult relationships, although violence and hardship simmer alongside its richness and beauty. The secrets of the Yellow Room are still with her and she can?t run...
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2021
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Hare's Landing, West Cork. A house full of mystery... Rachel Lambert leaves London afraid for her personal safety and determined to uncover the truth behind the sudden death of a homeless man with links to a country house hotel called Hare's Landing. New York-based crime reporter Caroline Kelly's career is threatened by a lawsuit and she needs some thinking space away from her job. But almost as soon as she arrives, Hare's Landing begins to reveal...
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Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
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Two unexpected flatmates. One shared space. Will they cross the line into love? Rosie had the perfect evening lined up: she'd come home early, slip into a sexy dress and surprise her boyfriend with date night. What she was not expecting was to find his bags packed and herself unceremoniously dumped. But she can't even think about her heartbreak when she faces the more pressing matter of making rent this month. And in desperate times, she agrees to...
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Jane Hawk volume 2
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
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The second gripping thriller in an exciting new series featuring FBI agent Jane Hawk, from the master of suspense and New York Times No.1 bestselling author. ?Do what you were born to do?These are the words that ring in the mind of a mild-mannered and beloved teacher as she drives a car full of burning gasoline into a hotel. This catastrophic act of terror, which kills herself and many others, is deemed to be the tragic death of someone who was clearly...
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The Women's Auxiliary Air Force volume 1
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2020
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When Evie?s dreams come crashing down, she?s determined to still make something of herself in these trying times? It is 1939 and working class Evie Bishop has received a scholarship to study mathematics at Oxford when tragedy turns her life upside down. Evie must seek a new future for herself and, inspired to contribute to the war effort, joins the Women?s Auxiliary Air Force as an Ops Room plotter. Posted to a fighter station on the Sussex Coast,...
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DCI Matilda Darke volume 3
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Killer Reads
Pub. Date
2017
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'DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine? Elly Griffiths The third book in Michael Wood?s darkly compelling crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. Feared by the people of Sheffield, Starling House is home to some of Britain?s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison. Now the building?s latest arrival, Ryan Asher, has been found brutally murdered - stabbed twelve times,...
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Profile Books
Pub. Date
2017
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When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to...
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2015
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Understated and heart-warming, this is a story of love and determination that shows how everyone can be a superhero in their own way. When Adam meets Robyn he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her, to play Batman to her Robin, whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's...
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Aria
Pub. Date
2020
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Rosie Anderson was hoping to whisk her young son Danny away for a lovely Christmas with family, far from the hustle and bustle of her life in London. But then her boss at the head office - aka Susan the Sacker - suddenly assigns her to go in incognito and save a tiny inn in Cornwall from being closed permanently. Rosie doesn't know why The Old Bell Inn is performing so badly but it's on her to sort it out!� Hours in the car later, Rosie arrives...
11) Fear games
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Nightmare Room Thrillogy volume 1
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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Twelve ultra-smart kids have been selected to take part in a survival competition called Life Games, which is being held on a tropical island. But who, or what, is the enemy? A 3-part series within The Nightmare Room, the Thrillogy will reveal all...April can't wait to go the Life Games competition. Only eleven other kids were chosen to take part in the tough physical challenges, and April knows she will survive and win the $100,000 prize. What poor...
12) No survivors
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Nightmare Room Thrillogy volume 3
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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Twelve ultra-smart, ultra-competitive kids have been selected to take part in a survival competition called Life Games. Not only will they have to overcome the dangers of life on a tropical island, they'll also have to face the evil presence that lives there...waiting for its next victim. No Survivors April must return to the island where the games began. But now the evil is ready to play the final round. And this time, there is just one rule-win,...
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Nightmare Room Thrillogy volume 2
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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Twelve ultra-smart, ultra-competitive kids have been selectedto take part in a survival competition called Life Games. Not only will they have to overcome the dangers of life on atropical island, they'll also have to face the evil presence thatlives there ... waiting for its next victim. What Scares You the Most? April is stranded on the island! She's desperate to escape and get back to her normal life. But April's life will never be normal again....
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist Grace. It's not the most obvious job - she's queer and an atheist for starters - and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation...
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Harry Corbin volume 2
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Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2012
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The new mystery from the author of Bodies in Winter - NYPD detective Harry Corbin hasn't been allowed to work on a homicide case for almost a year following his unearthing of corruption amongst his colleagues and superiors. So when a young woman's body is found dumped and mutilated on a sweltering New York morning, Corbin jumps at the chance to redeem his career and solve the case - and finds himself on a journey into the dark and secretive world...
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The Women's Auxiliary Air Force volume 2
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Canelo Saga
Pub. Date
2020
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When there?s so much to be afraid of, can May help bring festive cheer to the Ops Room? After failing to help evacuee siblings whom she witnesses being separated, May wishes she?d had the confidence to speak up. When Jess suggests a pantomime to boost morale on the station, May is desperate to help - but is held back by her own insecurities. With her low self-esteem also affecting her relationship with Squadron Leader Peter Travis, May is fed up with...
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Book Guild Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
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The Cotswold Manor Hotel welcomes an eclectic mix of guests, and on one fateful Friday evening, two witnesses overhear an argument in a neighbouring room, followed by a loud thud. The next morning, the maid discovers the room has been vacated; all that remains is a dried bloodstain on the carpet. Detective Chief Inspector Chloe Taylor attends the scene, and soon after, a body is discovered in the lake on the hotel grounds, launching a murder inquiry....
18) Mirrorland
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The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2021
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With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can?t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the...
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'Omg what an ending, I did not see that coming! What a brilliantly gripping book... I loved it!' Reader review, 5 stars Annie is five when her beloved big sister, Gemma, leaves for school and is never seen again. The police search for weeks and Annie never gives up hope that Gemma will one day come home to her. Now, twenty years after her sister mysteriously vanished, Annie returns to her childhood home to care for her ill mother. Opening the door...
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2014
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From locked-room mysteries to murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks he has learned from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. See if you can solve the crimes before the inspector the clues are there!.
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