Louise
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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You're feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you're claustrophobic). Now you've got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You've made new friends on board - led by your hedonistic young neighbour, Kit - and just had your first official 'water rats' get-together. The day after the drinks, Kit isn't on the morning boat. The river landmarks...
3) Snowflake
Author
Publisher
Manilla Press
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the...
4) Those people
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Language
English
Description
Could you hate your neighbour enough to plot to kill him? Until Darren Booth moves in at number 1, Lowland Way, the neighbourhood is a suburban paradise. But soon after his arrival, disputes over issues like loud music and parking rights escalate all too quickly to public rows and threats of violence. Then, early one Saturday, a horrific crime shocks the street. As the police go house-to-house, the residents close ranks and everyone's story is the...
Author
Series
Penguin Life Expert volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Take charge of your menopause and feel great Dr Louise Newson is the UK's leading menopause specialist, and she's determined to help women thrive during the menopause. Despite being something that almost every woman will experience at some point in their lives, misdiagnosis, misinformation and stigma are commonplace. In Preparing for the Perimenopause and Menopause, Dr Newson will demystify the menopause and show why every woman should be perimenopause...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise - STATE OF TERROR. STATE OF TERROR follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked...
8) Our house
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Language
English
Description
When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror and confusion. She and her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years and have no intention of selling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs? And why has Bram disappeared when she needs him most? Bram has made a catastrophic mistake and now he is paying. Unable to see his wife, his children or his home, he has...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Young couple Joe and Christy Davenport's dreams come true when they buy their perfect house. And they happily overlook the fact that the previous owners seem to have fled overnight. But once moved in, Christy witnesses strange behaviour from her new neighbours. And the more her attempts at friendship are met with silence the more she's convinced the only way to discover the truth is by unpicking the shocking story of her predecessors, Jeremy Fraser...
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can?t fail to make you laugh out loud. What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab? ? It's a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex God? ? I think I have snog withdrawal. My lips keep puckering up? ? I tried snogging the back of my hand, but it's no good? ? It's been over a week. I wonder if it's my nose? ? I have a HUGE nose that means I have to live for ever in the Ugly...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
It's summer when Elm Hill lido opens, having stood empty for years. For Natalie Steele - wife, mother, teacher - it offers freedom from the tightly controlled routines of work and family. Especially when it leads her to Lara Channing, a charismatic former actress with a lavish bohemian lifestyle, who seems all too happy to invite Natalie into her elite circle. Soon Natalie is spending long days at the pool, socializing with new friends and basking...
14) Black water
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Language
English
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Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up a mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him - and that his life may now been in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own past tragedy, and begins a passionate affair. Their relationship makes Harper realise that exile comes in many forms - but can Rita and Harper save each other while they are putting...
15) The second cut
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid 'Compelling, immersive and brimming with life' Graeme Macrae Burnet Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Long ago, Andrew made a childhood wish, and kept it in a silver box. When it finally comes true, he wishes he hadn?t? Long ago, Ben made a promise and he had a dream: to travel to Africa to volunteer at a lion reserve. When he finally makes it, it isn?t for the reasons he imagined? Ben and Andrew keep meeting in unexpected places, and the intense relationship that develops seems to be guided by fate. Or is it? What if the very thing that draws them...
17) Apple Tree Yard
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Language
English
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'Safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement, but you can never buy them back.' Yvonne Carmichael is a geneticist, a scientist renowned in her field but one day, she makes the most irrational of decisions. While she is giving evidence to a Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, she meets a man and has sex with him in the secluded Chapel in the Crypt beneath the Great Hall of Westminster. It's the beginning of a...
19) I am dust
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Language
English
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The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer? Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years. But who will be brave enough to take on the role of ghostly goddess Esme Black, last played by Morgan Miller, who was murdered in her dressing room? Theatre usher Chloe Dee is caught up in the spectacle. As the new actors arrive, including...
20) The heights
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Language
English
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'The Heights' is a tall, slender apartment building among the warehouses of Tower Bridge, its roof terrace so discreet you wouldn't know it existed if you weren't standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that's when you see a man up there - a man you'd recognise anywhere. He's older now and his appearance has subtly changed, but it's definitely him. Which makes no sense at all since you know he has been dead for over...