Kristin Atherton
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English
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An unmissable thriller of 2023 from the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of One Last Secret and Both Of You... An overprotective father has lived as a recluse until his adult daughter - Stacie Jones - returns from Paris, in need of radical brain surgery. Peculiarly, he appears to almost welcome her illness, it does at least mean she is back under his roof - and his control. In the meantime, the country is rapt with the scandalous case of...
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home. But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash. As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London - and the stories it hides - for a rural escape to her parents' farmhouse in the Chilterns. But Lucy gets more...
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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To be handsome and poor is misfortune enough; but to be both plain and penniless is a hard fate indeed. In Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the middle of the five Bennet girls and the plainest of them all, so what hope does she have? Prim and pious, with no redeeming features, she is unloved and seemingly unlovable. The Other Bennet Sister, though, shows another side to Mary. An introvert in a family of extroverts; a constant disappointment...
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English
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Berlin, 1938: it's the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling reporter Georgie Young is posted to Berlin, alongside fellow Londoner Max Spender, she knows they are entering the eye of the storm. Arriving to a city swathed in red flags and crawling with Nazis, Georgie feels helpless, witnessing innocent people being torn from their homes. As tensions rise, she realises she and Max have to act - even if it means putting...
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English
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When her city falls to the Greeks, Briseis's old life is shattered. She is transformed from queen to captive, from free woman to slave, awarded to the god-like warrior Achilles as a prize of war. And she's not alone. On the same day, and on many others in the course of a long and bitter war, innumerable women have been wrested from their homes and flung to the fighters. The Trojan War is known as a man's story: a quarrel between men over a woman,...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who will restore England to its former glory. At a party hosted by her...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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1910, India. Young and curious Alice grows up in her family's sprawling compound with parents as remote as England, the cold country she has never seen. It is Raju, son of a servant, with whom she shares her secrets, but when they get too close, Alice's father drags them apart, sending Raju far away and banishing Alice to England ... 1944. Intelligent and kind Janaki is raised in an orphanage in India. The nuns love to tell the story: Janaki's arrival...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Whatever your fantasy, live it with Make-Believe?. The only limit is you. Cassie worked at Imagen, the tech giant behind the cutting-edge virtual reality experience Make-Believe?, and she got to know the product well. Too well. Now she has been barred from her escape from the real world and legally gagged by the company. Her dream job now seems to be part of a larger nightmare and Imagen is not done with her yet. With Imagen holding all the cards...
10) Angel mage
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara. A seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic to have ever lived, a genius at...
11) Spare room
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Beautiful double room to let to single person. Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, can?t believe her luck when she finds a beautiful room to rent in a large house. The live-in owners are a kind and welcoming couple. Everything is fine until she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. But when the couple insist this man didn?t exist and that Lisa is their first tenant, Lisa begins to doubt herself. Compelled to uncover the secrets of the man...
12) Just my luck
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2020.
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English
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It's the stuff dreams are made of - a lottery win so big, it changes everything. For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends, the Pearsons and the Heathcotes. Over dinner parties, fish & chip suppers and summer barbecues, they've discussed the important stuff - the kids, marriages, jobs, and houses - and they've laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything more than a tenner. But then,...
13) I know you lied
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The news of her mother's death hits Nell as if she's been shot. The letter must be some kind of prank, but who could be so cruel? Because Nell's mother died nearly 30 years ago. When Nell was just a tiny baby, her parents died in a car crash, leaving her to be raised by her devoted grandmother, Lilian. So when the lawyer's letter arrives, informing her of her mother Sarah's very recent death, it destroys everything Nell thought she knew. Her grandmother...
14) The Hidden girls
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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How does the saying go? Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you ... For Ruth - a new mother recovering from postpartum psychosis - every day is difficult and, after months spent hearing voices in the walls and trusting no one, she's no longer confident in her own judgement. Neither, it seems, is anyone else. So, when she hears a scream from the local petrol station one night, she initially decides it must be her mind...
15) The midwife
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Pan
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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1838. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked and near death, on the Northumberland moors. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there. But she can remember how to help a woman in labour and how to expertly dress a wound, and can speak fluent French. With the odds against her, a penniless single woman, she starts to build her life from scratch, using her skills to help other women around her. She finds a happy place in the world....
16) Worst idea ever
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Georgia and Lydia are so close they're practically sisters. So when Lydia starts an online business that struggles, Georgia wants to help her - but she also understands Lydia's not the kind to accept a handout. Setting up a fake Twitter account, Georgia hopes to give her friend some anonymous moral support by posing as a potential customer. But then Lydia starts confiding in her new internet buddy and Georgia discovers she doesn't know her quite as...
17) Faking friends
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Best friend, soulmate, confidante ... backstabber. Amy thought she knew everything there was to know about her best friend Melissa. Then again, Amy also thought she was on the verge of the wedding of her dreams to her long-distance fianc�. Until she pays a surprise trip home to London. Jack is out, but it's clear another woman has been making herself at home in their flat. There's something about her stuff that feels oddly familiar ... and then...
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Series
Princess Olivia Investigates volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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'The more we find out about the world around us, the more we can work out other, more complicated things, such as how the universe began or how life got started on Earth . . .' Olivia Alez is delighted about finally living a life away from the royal palace in the mountains that used to be her home, after the Kingdom of Alez decides it doesn't want a royal family any more. Now she can finally give up boring princess lessons and learn about real things,...
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Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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1861. George's life changes forever the day he meets Lucy. She's beautiful and charming, and he sees a future with her that his position as the second son in a wealthy family has never offered him. But when Lucy dies in a suspected poisoning days after rejecting George, he finds himself swept up into a murder investigation. George loved Lucy; he would never have harmed her. So who did? Now. On the surface Cassie is happy with her life: a secure job,...