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1) Avon Street
Author
Publisher
The Mystery Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Robbed of everything he once had, and trapped in a merciless vendetta, James must now take on Nathaniel Caine and his gang to survive. Alone, he cannot hope to win, but to find allies he needs to learn to trust in a world of betrayal. Each of those who promise help has their own secrets, hidden in silences, half-truths and lies. And asked if it is fate, destiny, or simply chance that brings them together, each of them would have a different answer....
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The news of her mother's death hits Nell as if she's been shot. The letter must be some kind of prank, but who could be so cruel? Because Nell's mother died nearly 30 years ago. When Nell was just a tiny baby, her parents died in a car crash, leaving her to be raised by her devoted grandmother, Lilian. So when the lawyer's letter arrives, informing her of her mother Sarah's very recent death, it destroys everything Nell thought she knew. Her grandmother...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one-year-old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn't deserve ever to feel good again. But her counsellor, Erika, won't give up on her. She asks Beth to make a list of all the good things in her life. So Beth starts to write down her story, from sharing silences with Foster Dad No. one, to flirting in the Odeon on Orange Wednesdays, to the very first time she sniffed her baby's head. But at the end of her story, Beth must...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Marina is adopted. She's always known this - but the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. Baby Blue, the newspapers nicknamed her at the time, after she'd been found wrapped in a blue shawl, in the hallway of a large, shared house in London. 24 Harrington Gardens. That was the house. And it's still standing now Marina is an adult; still split into flats. And one of them is to let. Of course, Marina knows that the chances of her uncovering...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When their eldest son drowns overseas, Gill and Gabe, desperate to protect their unwell teenaged daughter from the news, decide they must hide the truth from her at all costs - a decision that has ripple effects throughout their family. Told through alternating perspectives, with frequent flashbacks to the past, the story unfurls, revealing the key moments that have shaped each character into the people they are today. For fans of Celeste Ng, Delia...
7) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The look he was giving her. Serilda had never been looked at like that before . . . The intensity. The heat. The raw astonishment. He was going to kiss her. Cursed by the god of lies, a miller?s daughter has developed a talent for storytelling - but are all of her tales as false as they appear? When one of Serilda?s stories draws the attention of the devastating Erlking, she finds herself swept away into a world of enchantment, where ghouls prowl...
8) Brightstorm
Author
Series
The Brightstorm Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Twins Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm receive word in Lontown that their famous explorer father has died in a failed attempt to reach the southern-most point in the world. Not only that, but he has been accused of stealing fuel before he died! The twins don't believe the news, and they answer an ad to join a new attempt to reach South Polaris. It's their only hope of learning the truth ... and salvaging their family's reputation. As the winged ship...
9) Birdy Flynn
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It is the summer and a group of children are playing down by a stream when they do a terrible thing. Something that Birdy tries unsuccesfully to avert. While the other children in the gang find it easy to forget what they have done, Birdy is trapped in the moment and feels bound to do something to make ammends. But how does a child face up to responsibility and find the courage to do the right thing?.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy volume 19
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
New York, Autumn, 1907. Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other?s opinions in all things. So when he tells her they?re moving...
11) The affair
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It started in Lake Como, where it should have ended ? Connie McGabe longs for the summers where she leads tours across Europe. But it?s on the glamorous shores of Lake Como that she is truly swept away, when Jared, a much younger man, falls for her. Despite resisting his advances, Connie finds that he?s got under her skin. And so begins a long, hot, intoxicating summer where Connie succumbs and breaks her marriage vows. At the end of the season Connie...
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