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The Likeness

Written by Tana French

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The LikenessBy Tana French Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of In the Woods. She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is...

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All the Colours of Darkness

Written by Peter Robinson

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All the Colours of DarknessBy Peter RobinsonA beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a...

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All the Colours of Darkness

Written by Peter Robinson

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All The Colours of DarknessBy Peter Robinson A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a...

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Bright Shiny Morning

Written by James Frey

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Book SynopsisWelcome to L.A. city of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs.Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity.Freys...

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Mr Wrong: My Life as a Fool for Love

Written by Mark Barrowcliffe

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How many partners should it take to find The One? Meet a man with a commitment problem. Women wouldn't commit to him. Mark Barrowcliffe has had around forty girlfriends in all, depending on what your definition of a girlfriend is.He's now happily married, but why couldn't he hold on...

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The Palace of Strange Girls

Written by Sallie Day

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I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea. Blackpool, 1959.The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth, just out of hospital,...

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Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

Written by Gyles Brandreth

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'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday...

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Mister Roberts

Written by Alexei Sayle

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A modern fable from Alexei Sayle: darkly funny, wonderfully inventive and full of glorious one-liners. It is both an original coming-of-age story and an unusual take on the cirrupting influence of power.Reader's Review:Mister Roberts is an interesting mix of Spanish travelogue and...

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All we ever wanted was everything

Written by Janelle Brown

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In the heat of a west coast summer three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly. Janice, a devoted mother and housewife who's approaching fifty, is cold-heartedly abandoned by her husband; her elder daughter Margaret, a magazine editor, is...

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Emma's Luck

Written by Claudia Schreiber

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Emma lives alone in a big farmhouse with her animals for company: she talks to her chickens, cuddles up to her pigs in the sty and caresses her cows. But she also must make a living from her livestock, selling meat and making sausages. For Emma, it's all part of a natural process, and...

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