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41) The bass rock
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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In 1720s Scotland, a priest and his son get lost in the forest, transporting a witch to the coast to stop her from being killed by the village. In the sad, slow years after the Second World War, Ruth finds herself the replacement wife to a recent widower and stepmother to his two young boys, installed in a huge house by the sea and haunted by those who have come before. Fifty years later, Viv is cataloguing the valuables left in her dead grandmother?s...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
It had felt a bit like being haunted, being pregnant. Unexpected thumps, and moments when she would be reminded that there was a little person living inside of her. For a while afterwards, sometimes it would feel like she was still inside, and Kate would tap her stomach, or say something to the baby before she remembered that she was alone. In this dark, glittering collection of short stories, Deirdre Sullivan explores the trauma and power that reside...
43) Italian Girl
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Nothing sings as sweetly as love, or burns quite like betrayal Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is haunted...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Description
During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the village by her Englishness, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach...
45) 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...
46) Yellow Room
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Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2020
Description
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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Garway church was built by medieval Knights Templar. After seven centuries, the Welsh border village is still shadowed in their mysteries. Why do the local pubs have astrological names? What happened in Garway to intimidate the Edwardian ghost-story writer M.R. James? And why is it impossible to find a builder prepared to restore the ancient Master House, a few fields away from Garway church? Deliverance Consultant Merrily Watkins is ordered to investigate...
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Series
Crescent City volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
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Perfect for fans of Jessica Jones and True Blood, this is a blockbuster modern fantasy set in a divided world where one woman must uncover the truth to seek her revenge. Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. Every night is a party and Bryce is going to savour all the pleasures Lunathion - also known as Crescent City - has to offer. But then a brutal murder shakes the very foundations of the city, and brings Bryce's world crashing down....
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia?s most exasperating challenge: how to escape the chaos of London for a remote, relaxing--and above all romantic--retreat from prying eyes and wagging tongues. But the lovers? plans are foiled when their first cozy interlude of the weekend is disrupted by the appearance of a stunning woman from Tobias?s past. Aspasia Gray?s beauty is as haunting...
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The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a 17th-century clergyman accused of witchcraft ... a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets ... a paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily Watkins and her teenage...
51) The nesting
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Atmospheric, gothic, spine-chilling... The new thriller from C.J Cooke will haunt you long after you turn the last page... ?Vivid and compelling? Sunday Times bestselling author Rosamund Lupton ?A gorgeous, atmospheric book that chilled me to the bone? Sunday Times bestselling author Samantha Downing ?A taut, scary thriller that winds the suspense so tightly you can barely breathe? New York Times bestselling author Simone St. James ?Best read with...
52) Trust no one
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A woman haunted by her past and a killer who won't let her forget. ?A long, long time ago, you did a bad, bad thing, Now it?s time to pay...? When I first found the note, I assumed it was a prank. But then I am lured to a house where I witness a gruesome murder, and I realise the threat is real. But who is tormenting me though, and why? Noah Keen, my boyfriend, is determined to get to the bottom of things, and soon other familiar faces appear from...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
'When Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind. Then comes Eli. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal,...
54) The fire child
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Pub. Date
2016
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When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept from single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow House in Cornwall, she gains wealth, love, and an affectionate stepson, Jamie.But then Jamie?s behaviour changes, and Rachel?s perfect life begins to unravel. He makes disturbing predictions, claiming to be haunted by the spectre of his late mother - David?s previous wife. Is this Jamie?s way of punishing Rachel,...
55) The dying game
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Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
?Oh, it?s really quite simple. I want you to play dead.? On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the other candidates react...
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Pub. Date
2017
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1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London,...
57) Brooklyn
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Series
Eilis Lacey volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
Description
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship,...
58) The war child
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
London, 1939. Orphan Clara Knight is haunted by childhood memories of her house being bombed and fire raining from the sky - she was miraculously pulled from the rubble, finding herself all alone. Determined to make a difference with her life, she has found solace in nursing and helping others. When the storm clouds of war return and a tragically injured soldier arrives at the hospital, Clara is instantly drawn to him and the stories he shares. When...
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Pub. Date
2018
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What did she see?It?s been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside.Anna?s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Alice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and her memory still casts a long shadow. In the long, hot summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs...
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