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Puffin
Language
English
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Will is desperate to win the Giant Jelly Baby competition and be named 'the best boy in the world'. But his big brother Marty always beats him to it. Then one day Will's wish comes true - he's the best boy in the world at last! Marty is not happy, and decides that something must be done.
4) Carver
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
What if Lehman Brothers was brought to its knees not by the economic collapse, but the deliberate and wilfull actions of one man bent on financial terrorism. Moreover what if it was only a dry-run for an attack on the financial capital of the world, the City of London.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers. Amit does not know that Avinash, his dependable...
6) Blackwater
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
How do you know when you're in too deep? Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey's life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?.
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It?s 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black are waking up to a very different Ireland - one that widens the chasm between them and brings their beloved father to his knees. Facing a devastating choice that will put their livelihoods - and even their lives - on the line, the brothers soon learn that the biggest danger comes when there is nothing to lose. A sharp snapshot of a family and a nation...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice and hope amid the perils of the Second World War. August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are living with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbour for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
.. Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn't; prize-winning novelist Sean's got a hot new girlfriend and a dose of writer's block; and Ned's just back from Australia, without the girl he took with him - or a clue what he's going to do with his life. If that wasn't enough for one household,...
10) Dodgers
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty - leave the only home they've ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When his father dies, Fat Charlie Nancy discovers that not only was the late Mr Nancy actually the god Anansi, but that he also has a long-lost brother, Spider, who is everything Fat Charlie is not. When Spider begins to take over Fat Charlie?s life, flat and even his fianc�e Rosie, Fat Charlie is forced to make a pact that lands him in trouble with the gods themselves... Anansi Boys is a story of love, laughter, music and murder, old gods and new...
12) The war at Troy
Author
Series
The Troy Quartet volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there. Enraged by the betrayal of Helen and Paris, Menelaus and his brother, the High King Agamemnon, gather their allies and set out to conquer the city of Troy. Aboard their ships and behind the city?s walls are figures whose names and deeds echo through history - the wily strategist Odysseus, the Trojan...
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Daisy's worst ever enemy Chloe is desperate to win back her friends so she announces she's going to have THE BEST SLEEPOVER IN THE WORLD. Chloe's party is going to have a swim in a luxury pool, a special makeover for every guest, and a real live meeting with a social media superstar. All Chloe's old friends are invited, even Daisy's best friend Emily. But Daisy is left out. Daisy's sister Lily is non-verbal but she's learned Makaton at her new special...
15) Losing Nicola
Author
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain; that is until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. But on Alice?s 12th birthday, Nicola disappears, only to be found days later, battered, bruised and dead. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will the truth be too much to handle when she starts to suspect...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's unequal love. As men, the competition continues - for status, money, fame, women. They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead. But which brother killed him?
17) The escape
Author
Series
John Puller volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Military CID investigator John Puller has returned from his latest case to learn that his brother, Robert, once a major in the United States Air Force and an expert in nuclear weaponry and cyber-security, has escaped from the Army's most secure prison. Preliminary investigations show that Robert - convicted of treason - may have had help in his breakout. Now he's on the run, and he's the military's number one target. John Puller has a dilemma. Which...
18) People person
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's 30, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size...
19) Brother
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
We were losers and neighbourhood schemers. We were the children of the help, without futures. We were, none of us, what our parents wanted us to be. We were not what any other adults wanted us to be. We were nobodies, or else, somehow, a city. Michael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. Coming of age in the outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against careless prejudices and low expectations. While Francis...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Penguin audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
'The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six ...' 1645. When Alice Hopkins' husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex town of Manningtree, where her brother Matthew still lives. But home is no longer a place of safety. Matthew has changed, and there are rumours spreading through the town: whispers of witchcraft, and of a great book, in which he is gathering women's names....
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