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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells...
3) Songbird
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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In 1976, Madeleine is a young and vibrant girl, singing in a club and in love. But murder lies ahead - murder that will force her to vanish and live looking over her shoulder. 20 years later, just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brink of total devastation.
4) The lessons
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Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of students: glamorous Emmanuella, who always has a new boyfriend in tow; Franny and Simon, best...
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Picador
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others - particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one...
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ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ? St Valentine?s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ? An Australian classic, the disappearance of three...
8) Too late
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Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it?s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother?s care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her...
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Occasional papers. New volume OPN5
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BIM Management House
Pub. Date
1969]
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English
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder volume 1
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Electric Monkey
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far...
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