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Author
Publisher
Bluebird
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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In 'My Lovely Wife', Mark takes us through harrowing years with compassion and candour, as he and Giulia renegotiate their relationship, anchored by an abiding devotion to each other and their family. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, this book is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we best care for the people we love? What and who do we live for?
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Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Nicola's husband, Dominic, retires they decide not to spend their days finding hobbies to fill the time until Countdown is on. Instead, they fulfil their life-long fantasy of buying a country house and filling it with their dearest friends. Reliving their youth and spending their children's inheritance. Joined by seven of their friends they club together to invest in a château in Normandy. Group dinners, fine wine, beautiful scenery - they're...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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You'd be wrong. By the end of the first chapter you'll be hooked. After fifty pages you might not sleep until you finish. And when you read the very last line, you'll ask yourself one question: How well do you really know the person you love most?.
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English
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London, 1939. As war is declared once more, a shadow falls over Britain. The staff at the luxurious Buckingham Hotel must do all that they can to keep their important guests happy, but behind the scenes they are scared. Away from the glitz and the glamour of the ballroom they must face this new reality. Newlywed Nancy knows that her brave husband, debonair dancer Raymond de Guise, will want to fight for his country and enlist. She loves and supports...
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English
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'The Buried Giant' begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A retired couple, Gerry and Stella, travel to Amsterdam for a holiday to refresh the senses, do some sightseeing and generally take stock of their lives. Their relationship seems easy, familiar - but over its course we discover the deep uncertainties between them. Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Things are not helped by memories...
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English
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20 years ago, Dennis Danson was arrested for the brutal murder of Holly Michaels, which occurred 10 miles from her home in Red River county, Florida. Now, the accused is at the centre of a true crime documentary that is taking the world by storm - its one goal being the desire for the truth, to free the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice. Sam is a viewer obsessed with the documentary, and starts to write to Dennis in prison. Soon she sets up...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It was the ideal marriage of convenience. .. until they met. Cassandra DeWitt has seen her husband only once - on their wedding day two years earlier - and this arrangement suits her perfectly. She has no interest in the rude, badly behaved man she married only to secure her inheritance. She certainly has no interest in his ban on her going to London. Why, he'll never even know she's there. Until he shows up in London too and Cassandra finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
All she wants is to run. Until desire stops her in her tracks! Keren fled the island of Agon heartbroken, convinced her marriage was over. Now she must return to face her gloriously handsome estranged husband Yannis and end things for good. Instead, she finds herself marooned on Agon, and Yannis insists she spends three final days with him! With nowhere to run from the fierce longing he reawakens, Keren must open her eyes to the whole truth. Not just...
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English
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When a boxset of Broadchurch is more appealing than having sex with your husband, then perhaps it's time to hide the remote. Cait and Matt have been married for 30 years. They are rock solid; an inspiration to others; stuck together like glue - aren't they? But Cait can't shake off the feeling that something is missing. They are fit and healthy, if a bit skint - but the whole world should be their oyster now that Matt has retired, giving them the...
12) The first lady
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
As he steps out of his hotel in Atlanta with the love of his life, the last thing President Tucker expects is to be greeted by the flashing cameras of the media. Or for his affair to be revealed to the world. The President must act to stop the scandal from spiralling out of control, just weeks before the vote for a second term. But not before he figures out how to keep the First Lady on his side. Grace Tucker, however, has other plans. Betrayed and...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Their New Year's Eve reunion... could make or break their marriage! Rebecca Matthews has one New Year's resolution: divorce Donovan Scott. So being snowbound with him at his mountain mansion is not part of her plan. Especially when it's clear the sizzling chemistry that led to their elopement is still very much alive! Van wants to know the real reason Becca left - it's clear to him there's more to tell. With only twenty-four hours before the snowstorm...
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Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rule #1: their chemistry stays in the past. Rule #2: until they get to the bedroom! When Aisha married Pasco Kildare, she was naively following her heart. But Pasco's single-minded ambition led to them living separate lives. Now, thrust back into the South African billionaire's world - as his business partner! - she'll rewrite the terms of their relationship... Now wildly successful, Pasco knows his workaholic ways have caused irreparable damage....
15) Left you dead
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Series
Roy Grace volume 17
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT ROY GRACE INVESTIGATES ?Peter James has penetrated the inner workings of police procedures, and the inner thoughts and attitudes of real detectives, as no English crime writer before him? The Times NO BODY. NO TRACE. NO CRIME? Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do - with a long drive, a visit to a country house and a quick stop at the local supermarket on the way home. But this Sunday ends...
16) Little lies
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste - two women with seemingly perfect lives ... and their own secrets behind closed doors. But then a small incident involving...
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Series
Woolworths volume 3
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English
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The Woolworths girls have come a long way together ... Fun-loving Maisie is devoted to her young family and her work at Woolworths. But her happy life with her RAF officer husband and their baby daughter leads her to think of the family she left behind ... With the war now into its fourth year, what will she find when she sets about searching for them? Sarah and her husband, Alan, are blissfully happy and long for a sibling for their daughter. But...
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It is 1788. 21-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony...
19) The salt path
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English
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The landscape is magical: shape-shifting seas and smugglers' coves; myriads of sea birds and mauve skies. Raynor writes exquisitely . . . It's a tale of triumph: of hope over despair; of love over everything . . . home was no longer about bricks and mortar. It was a state of mind' The Sunday Times Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing...
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