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2017
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It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzy Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the 200ft drop...
2) In too deep
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Five years ago Maura fled life in Dowerby and took on a new identity, desperately trying to piece her life back together and escape the dark clouds that plagued her past. But then a reporter tracks her down, and persuades her to tell her story, putting her own life in danger once again.
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Set at the onset of World War One, 'A Long Long Way' evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie Dunne and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. It also explores and dramatizes the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland.
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In the summer of 2013 David Suchet will film his final scenes as Hercule Poirot. After 24 years in the role, he will have played the character in every story that Agatha Christie wrote about him (bar one, deemed unfilmable) and he will bid adieu to a role and a character that have changed his life. In 'Poirot and Me,' David Suchet tells the story of how he secured the part, with the blessing of Agatha Christie's daughter, and set himself the task...
5) Respect
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2014
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English
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Chantelle has everything going against her. She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have...
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..' Dominic Hall grows up in the sixties on a brand-new estate, along with the other families who escaped the river. But the Tyne is still an overwhelming presence, and most of the fathers work in the shipyards. Dom is torn between his new mates: Holly Stroud, his enchanting neighbour, and Vincent McAlinden, who's something else altogether - a wild, dangerous boy with murderous instincts. After his mother's death, Dom has to decide who he is, what...
8) Con law
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John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's 35, handsome and unmarried. He teaches karate and con law, law school vernacular for constitutional law. He is a recognised constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning. Consequently,...
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Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leila has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home.
10) The charmer
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Maria is an ambitious young graduate about to embark on a journey round the world with friends. Her life is a million miles from that of her early childhood in Manchester. A life she had escaped from when her mother was murdered. When a letter informing her that she has inherited a property arrives, it changes all her plans.
11) Broke
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2013
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Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best. But she doesn't want to know just how bad things are until his gambling habit brings the debt collector to her door. And Amy's troubles are only beginning. Someone else wants Mark for herself, and she is ready to steal Amy's man, her self-respect and even her children.
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It is 1945, and victory marches fill the streets of London. Before long Brenda's skills as a real life Mary Poppins are in demand again. Moving from house to house, Brenda never stays long, but just enough time to sprinkle a little magic. Word quickly spreads of this wonder nanny, who gets up to feed fretful babies in the middle of the night, who delivers quiet wisdom, and calmly restores order and happiness. Facing tragedy in her own life, Brenda...
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When a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power. Missing Aboard the Staten Island ferry, a tourist sees something she shouldn't have - soon no one can find her. But if she didn't jump, and she's not on board, where is she? Lieutenant Eve...
15) Shafted
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2008
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Gutted when his latest show is axed, Larry's unimpressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show. However, it rockets his career back to prime time stardom. When shy, lovely Stephanie enters his life he's suddenly back on the top of his game. This is going to make some people very, very angry indeed.
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2011
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Bourne's enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne.
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Crime reporter Eve Singer's career is on a downward slide when a spate of bizarre murders - each carefully orchestrated and advertised like performance art - begin in her patch. Covering these very public crimes revives her byline, and when the killer contacts her to discuss her reports, she is suddenly on the inside of the biggest murder investigation of the decade. But as the killer becomes increasingly obsessed with her, Eve realises there's a...
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