Tuppence Middleton
1) Those people
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Language
English
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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...
2) The gifts
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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It can take something extraordinary to show us who we truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger ....
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
London. 1850. The greatest spectacle the city has ever seen is being built in Hyde Park, and among the crowd watching two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to...
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Series
The seven sisters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"-a fabulous, secluded castle that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sister were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to their true heritage- a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in...
Publisher
EiV
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
British comedy drama based on a true story. While on a stag weekend in Cornwall, London music executive Danny (Daniel Mays) is tasked with signing a group of local fishermen who perform together as part-time sea shanty singers. Despite the uphill challenge of convincing all of the ten men, who want no part of fame or fortune, to sign with him, Danny embeds himself in the community and succeeds, only to find out from his boss that the idea to sign...
6) Dickensian
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
All 20 episodes of the BBC drama set in the combined fictional worlds of Charles Dickens' novels. Taking place in Victorian London, the series follows some of Dickens' iconic characters including Inspector Bucket (Stephen Rea), who is investigating the murder of Jacob Marley (Peter Firth) and suspects Sikes (Mark Stanley) and Fagin (Anton Lesser). Meanwhile, Amelia Havisham (Tuppence Middleton) inherits her father's estate and searches for love and...