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Author
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
But then disaster strikes. The homicidal dilettante Gideon Raikes, enraged at Sir William's attempts to put him behind bars, engineers a very public attempt on his life. The ensuing investigation begins to disinter some gruesome Porteous family skeletons and Adelaide is forced to contemplate desperate measures to secure the safety of her husband and three children. Set in late Victorian London and rural Essex, this well-written novel features the...
2) Home front
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From a distance, Michael and Jolen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid dependable marriage, exciting careers and children they adore. But after twelve blissful years together, the couple has lost their way. They are unhappy and edging towards divorce. Then an unexpected deployment tears their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, caring for the children and waiting for news. When the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and Strictly Between Us tells a bitter-sweet tale of high passions, infidelity and revenge. Watch your back . . . I want to make my husband fall back in love with me. Let me explain. This isn't an exercise in 1950s wifeydom. I haven't been reading articles in old women's magazines. 'Twenty ways to keep your man'. That couldn't be further from the truth. I want him to fall back in love with me so that...
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Language
English
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Description
Emma is beginning to wonder whether relationships, like mortgages, should be conducted in five-year increments. She might laugh if Chris had bought a motorbike or started dyeing his hair. Instead he?s buying off-label medicines and stockpiling food. Chris finds Emma?s relentless optimism exasperating. A tot of dread, a nip of horror, a shot of anger - he isn?t asking much. If she would only join him in a measure of something. The family?s precarious...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Tamsin and Michelle have been inseparable since childhood. Even now they spend all their time together along with Patrick, Michelle's handsome husband. Except Tamsin's brilliant assistant Bea (without whom Tamsin's life would fall apart) has heard a nasty rumour that Patrick is playing away. Determined to uncover the truth, Tamsin devises a honey trap to test his resolve, using Bea as bait. But she never counted on Bea having her own agenda.
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Language
English
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Description
Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago, Heidi's daughter was murdered. A year later, Jason's son Barney disappeared. Their shared loss brought them together. By chance, Heidi meets a boy she's certain is her husband's long-missing son - but Jason is equally convinced it's not him. Is Heidi mad? Or is Jason hiding something? And can their fragile marriage survive Heidi's search for the truth?
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
What would you do if your husband became another person overnight? 'It's a funny thing, when the future you dreamed of can never be anywhere but the past' When Molly married Alex Frazer, she knew it was forever. Theirs would be the perfect future. In sickness and in health. However, after a night out with his twin brother, Graeme, a terrible injury leaves Alex with permanent brain damage. In a single moment the man she married is transformed into...
8) Suspects
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Language
English
Description
Welcome to Willow Close, where everyone is a suspect . . . Nina and Conrad best thought they'd discovered their dream home. But on the day they move in, a body is found - the victim attacked and killed in the woods. As police start to question the residents, they discover that they all have their own secrets. Behind each door, strange and even dark things are happening . . . Now everyone is a suspect. And no one is safe.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred and ten stories below him, the lives of eight strangers spin towards each other... Corrigan, a radical, passionate Irish monk working in the Bronx with a clutch of prostitutes; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son...
10) Little disasters
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal - a new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us. You think you know her? But look a little closer She is a stay-at-home mother-of-three with boundless reserves of patience, energy and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess. Then one moment changes everything. Dark thoughts and carefully guarded secrets surface...
11) Birdcage walk
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
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...
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