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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2012
Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers remarkable characters, intriguing plots, and freshly imagined Regency settings in this unforgettable trilogy about three noble brothers. A Regency era battle of wits, wills, and the sexes, with a wily old duke determined to see the succession of his line secured, and his three headstrong sons equally determined to resist the bonds of matrimony. THE HEIR: The Earl of Wyndham, weighed...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Susie and her sister have never been close. These days they barely speak. So when Danielle messages her out of the blue and begs to meet, Susie knows something must be wrong. But what Danielle tells her seems crazy. Her husband, Simon, may be a bully, but surely he wouldn't hurt her? Then the accident happens. And Susie is forced to rethink everything. Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? And who, really, is the killing type? JANE CORRY - THE QUEEN...
83) Horror movie
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
The monster at the heart of a cult 90s cursed horror film tells his shocking and bloody secret history. Slow burn terror meets high-stakes showdowns, from the bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World. Summer, 1993 - a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film. Steeped in mystery and tragedy, the film has taken on a mythic, cult renown,...
Author
Publisher
Corsair
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Mouse never did fully suit her nickname.� Tiny she may have been, but timid never. After less than twenty-four hours in London she had bluffed her way into an audition at a famous theatre, infuriated its forceful young stage director, and amused its kind if quite amoral actor-manager. She had finally landed not a part but a toehold as a junior secretary.� During her involvement in the engrossing affairs of the Crossway Theatre she met her friends...
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Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison?s first book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can?t fail to make you laugh out loud. There are six things very wrong with my life: 1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years. 2. It is on my nose. 3. I have a three-year-old sister...
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Publisher
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
Description
This is James in his comfort zone, cooking the food he loves best. This irresistible collection of recipes ranges from fancy dinners to impress friends, to those times when you just need to make a satisfying lunch for two. The chapters reflect this and are divided into Little Lunches, Family Favourites, Weekends, Spice Suppers, Food with Friends, Summer Nights, Sunday Night Bites, Sweet Treats and Posh Puds. Much-loved for his trademark wholesome,...
87) Hold
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Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2018
Description
?You have to imagine. That?s how I told myself.? ?Imagine what?? ?Imagine that you are the kind of girl that can cope with it, even if you are not.? Belinda knows how to follow the rules. She has learnt the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi to be a housegirl.Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven years old and irrepressible,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Description
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016
Description
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2 FACT NOT FICTION BOOKCLUB* 'I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond which would last a life-time' Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentine boarding school, and endless summer holidays. He even...
90) Birdy Flynn
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Pub. Date
2017
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Description
It is the summer and a group of children are playing down by a stream when they do a terrible thing. Something that Birdy tries unsuccesfully to avert. While the other children in the gang find it easy to forget what they have done, Birdy is trapped in the moment and feels bound to do something to make ammends. But how does a child face up to responsibility and find the courage to do the right thing?.
91) Firefly dance
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Publisher
Bell Bridge Books
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Bright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of hope float against the black descent of night. The sweetest of small and innocent creatures finds its way through the shadows. Fireflies seem to dance on sheer air, illuminating the space between heartbeats.Children give off a similar brave glow, despite the challenges of their young lives. The lessons of childhood are often painful, the shedding of fragile wings in the gloam of an...
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Series
Nell Ward volume 6
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Since their YouTube channel, Following Finchmere, has taken flight, showcasing Dr Nell Ward's sustainability transformation at her family's Finchmere estate, it's her partner and colleague, Rav, who's become the star. Amongst Rav's fan mail and gifts, Nell makes the chilling discovery that one person's obsession with him has metamorphosed into a deadly threat. Just as Finchmere flings open its gates to welcome swarms of visitors to their idyllic summer...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. A Viking would understand the work they do: sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the hay;...
94) Mr smiley
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no more smuggling, no more fake passports. He would retire to a quiet life with his family in the Balearic Islands of Spain. It didn't quite work out that way. This was the mid-nineties - the height of the ecstasy and clubbing boom - and Ibiza was...
95) The blue hour
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Publisher
BAD PRESS iNK
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Shortlisted for the Holyer An Gof awards 2022, semi-finalist in the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Awards 2022 The Blue Hour - two love affairs and two summers, 75 years apart ?the literary equivalent of a strong gin and tonic on a warm summer's evening: refreshing, invigorating and inspiring?a stunningly good debut. Beautifully written, this honest, emotional and moving novel had me hooked from the opening pages. �I could not stop reading until...
96) The Pisces
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Pub. Date
2018
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Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend have a dramatic break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety - not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic...
97) The catch
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Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020
Description
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick THE HOLIDAY, comes an unmissable new thriller. She says he's perfect. I know he's lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter's new boyfriend . . . The doting father Ed finally meets his daughter's boyfriend for the first time. Smart, successful and handsome, Ryan appears to be a real catch....
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Nina has always played it safe. But when her divorce papers come through on her fortieth birthday she decides enough is enough. She?s always chosen the sensible route, staying in her stable job and marrying her rather boring ex. In fact - she realises - she?s chosen security over excitement for years. Ever since she refused to elope with her first love: beautiful, poetic, thoughtful Pierre, the man she met aged 17, on her French exchange. The only...
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Publisher
Citadel
Pub. Date
2012
Description
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote, she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!" Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice. It was June 1, 1962, her thirty-sixth birthday. Famed photographer and reporter George Barris had come to see Marilyn on the set of what would be her final,...
100) Helsinki noir
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Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Readers should be prepared to keep the lights on at night after finishing this unnerving collection." --Publishers Weekly "A gripping collection...Whether you are already a fan of the gloomy Finns or are new to the uniquely sinister aspect of Scandinavian literature, this book will provide steady entertainment." --Reviewing the Evidence "This is a good collection of all kinds of stories." --Journey of a Bookseller "Mystery and true crime readers...
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