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1) Rivals
Author
Series
Rutshire Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has...
2) The show
Author
Series
Swell Valley volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe Nestled in a glorious patchwork of fields, surrounded by chocolate box villages, Wraggbottom farm means everything to Gabe and Laura Baxter. But love and tradition doesn?t pay the bills. Luckily, Laura has an idea that will share the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show that will save the farm! Until the interfering new vicar,...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool - but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes. Clever and pretty, 10-year-old Amy is perfect for her purposes. It is the beginning of a long journey for Amy, as she desperately searches for the family she lost, and a home where she can be free...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ... Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly 20 years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut. Caroline...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year?s Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of Big Ben. We have no idea what is about to hit us, no idea of the seismic waves of change approaching.The 80s transformed life as we knew it. Music, style and culture exploded in a haze of dayglo...
Author
Publisher
Robson Press, The
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Not all women certainly, but an identifiable number of them - including almost all heiresses - find themselves drawn to, even marrying, a thoroughgoing wrong?un who steals their money, cheats on them and sometimes beats them up. Why, to these educated, rational, rich and otherwise balanced young women, is Mr Wrong irresistible? What is it about him, what is it in them? In short, what is the nexus between wealth, celebrity, sex and self-destruction?...
Author
Series
Xenakis reunion volume 1
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The virgin's request... is even more outrageous than the billionaire! As she steps into Castor Xenakis's mansion, it's clear Glory Albright is completely out of her depth. Yet, if she's to fund her sister's urgent medical treatment, she can't fail. Glory must make a bargain with the gorgeous playboy whose name is synonymous with scandal... After everything cynical Castor has witnessed, there's almost nothing he's surprised by. But naive Glory's offer...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland ... At 15, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosires, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money to maintain three carriages if she wanted to, and she was on her way to see Bernard Rosier under very different circumstances. There was no pride in Katie Mulholland's heart, however, only fear, for...
9) The future
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The new novel from the Women?s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction. The Future is a handful of friends hatching a daring plan. The Future is the greatest heist ever? Or the cataclysmic end of civilisation? The Future is...
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars and that she is about to encounter the strangest, craziest group of people in existence. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jet set; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money - and a fabulous novel about what it means to...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The deal: a date with the tycoon. The consequence: her nine-month secret! One flash of Curtis Hamilton's mesmerising smile and Jess Carr's traitorous body overrules her sensible head. What is she thinking, agreeing to accompany the notorious playboy to an A-list wedding in the French Alps...? Curtis's last fling left his name splashed over the media, his reputation tarnished. In striking a just-for-show arrangement with Jess, Curtis hopes the innocent...
Author
Series
Jet-Set billionaires volume 4
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Claiming their shock baby... ...in Fiji! After their one magical evening together ended in disaster, Carrie Barrett assumed she'd never see super-rich Massimo Donati-Wells again. So a glimpse of him nine months later sends her into labour - with a secret she didn't even know she was carrying! Massimo will be there for his child - unlike his own father. On his private Fijian island he'll offer Carrie an arrangement that's convenient for them both....
13) Who I am
Author
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls.
14) The great Gatsby
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald?s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt and boots with wings....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch ? Mastermind, Moonlighting ? Porridge, Parkinson ? Peter Kay takes you on a journey into the wonders of TV -back to the days when Dusty Bin was a household name, Robin of Sherwood was a pin-up and the Brookside siege was the event of the year. For a young telly-loving Peter growing up in Bolton, TV meant Sunday bath nights with a black-and-white portable, the unbridled...
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