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1) Get Carter
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jack Carter has come back to Doncaster for his brother Frank's funeral. Frank was found dead and drunk in his car at the bottom of a cliff. Frank was a mild, sober man, so why did he land up dead in his car at the bottom of a cliff? Jack thinks his death doesn't add up and decides to ask questions. But he is told to stop by Gerald and Les who run a porn 'firm' and Jack is their hit man. Frank did as he was told, but Jack is not like that.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Albert John 'Jack' Martin was a 32-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jasperville, Quebec. A small town a thousand miles from anywhere. For Jack Devereaux, it's a thousand miles too close. Running from a troubled childhood, Jack left home as soon as he could and never looked back - until the day a stranger calls, begging him to return to Jasperville. Jack's brother Calvis - the little boy he left behind all those years ago - has viciously attacked a man and left him for dead. Nobody knows why he did it, though Jack...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of 1939, and after touring an unsettled Europe to promote her latest book, Romily Temple returns home to Island House and the love of her life, the charismatic Jack Devereux. But when Jack falls ill, his estranged family are called home and given seven days to find a way to bury their resentments and come together. With war now declared, each member of the family is reluctantly forced to accept their new stepmother and confront their...
5) The last gun
Author
Series
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jack Crawford, badly wounded in the Civil War, returns home to find it much changed. His parents have been massacred, and the family ranch has fallen into the hands of empire-building Vic Bannon. Crawford becomes town sheriff and finds himself in opposition to Bannon. Crawford must step up to the mark and defend the home he now barely recognizes.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find...
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Madeleine Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of Jack Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Jack is a hero of the Spanish-American war, an inventor, and a canny businessman. Despite their 29-year age difference, and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong...
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After the birth of their son, Eliza naively hopes her husband Jack will put his gambling habit behind him and become more responsible. But then he loses their home and abandons her, leaving Eliza with no choice but to return to her parents' house. She inadvertently attracts the attention of the ruthless mine owner Jonathan Moore. But can she sacrifice her reputation to protect her son?
Author
Series
Kingmaker volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Lent, 1469 The recent wars between the House of York and the House of Lancaster seem over. The Yorkist King Edward sits on his throne in Westminster, while the Lancastrian claimants are in exile or under lock and key in the Tower. But within the family of York there is discord. The Earl of Warwick conspires against his King, and while to one another's faces they are all smiles, their household men speak in lies and whispers. No man comes to court...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When 8-year-old Mirren Gilchrist is orphaned after a tragic accident, she is sent to live with her estranged relatives deep in the Yorkshire Dales. She struggles to fit in, her town ways a mystery to the country children. One day, fleeing school - and the cane - she takes refuge from a fierce snowstorm in the ruins of a stone cottage. Legend has it that World's End is haunted but Mirren has finally found somewhere she can call home and her love affair...
11) Gentleman Jack
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Eight-part BBC period drama starring Suranne Jones as landowner Anne Lister. Based on her own diaries, the show follows Lister as she returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832 to find her ancestral home at Shibden Hall has fallen into a state of disrepair. In an effort to improve its fortunes, Anne attempts to regain control of and reopen her family's coal mines while also entering into a series of controversial relationships with other women. The...
12) A united kingdom
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Ent
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star in this romantic drama based on the true story of an African prince who fell in love with a white British woman in the 1940s. While studying in England, Prince Seretse Khama (Oyelowo) meets Ruth Williams (Pike), a beautiful young woman who immediately steals his heart. As the two begin a highly controversial love affair, they battle every day against prejudice and hate, hoping that their love will keep them together....
13) Maya the Bee
Publisher
Enchanted Animation
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Children's animation following the adventures of Maya the Bee. After discovering Buzzlina Von Beena (voice of Jacki Weaver)'s evil plot to become queen, young outcast Maya (Coco Jack Gillies) is banished from her hive. Joined by her best friend Willy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), grasshopper Flip (Richard Roxburgh) and young hornet Sting (Joel Franco), Maya sets out to finally end the fighting between bees and hornets in order to save the Queen (Miriam Margolyes)...
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Series
Elements of Cadence volume 1
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Sarah J Maas?s Crescent Citymeets Uprooted in acclaimed YA author Rebecca Ross?s brilliant first adult fantasy.Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armour, and the smallest cut of a knife can instil fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home, but that mischief turns to malevolence as girls...
15) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Jack Huston stars in the title role of this historical epic adapted from Lew Wallace's novel. Jewish Prince Judah Ben-Hur is falsely imprisoned and enslaved by the Romans after being betrayed by his best friend Messala (Toby Kebbell). After enduring five years in the galleys of a Roman slave ship, Ben-Hur manages to escape when the vessel he is bound to is attacked and sunk in an ambush. Soon after, he is taken in by Arab sheik Ilderim (Morgan Freeman),...
16) One of us
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Four-part BBC mystery drama. After a young, newly-wed couple is murdered in their home in Edinburgh, shortly after returning from their honeymoon, their families, the Douglases and Elliots, are left devastated. When the prime suspect makes his way to the childhood sweethearts' former home in the remote countryside, he crashes his car en route and is rescued by the shocked Douglases and Elliots. They lock him up for the night in the outside shed but...
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Series
Deverill Chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
It is 1939 and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. But much has changed for the Deverill family and now a new generation is waiting in the wings. Martha Wallace came to Dublin from her home in America to find her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. Then she discovers that her mother comes from the same place as JP, and her fate seems sealed. Bridie Doyle, now Countess di Marcantonio...
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
All seven episodes from the fourth series of the TV drama starring Matthew Macfadyen as a detective trying to maintain the law on the streets of Whitechapel in the wake of the Jack the Ripper murders. Set in 1897, H Division's newly-retired Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen) returns to Whitechapel to investigate the murder of a rabbi. Once again, he is assisted by Detective Inspector Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) and American forensics expert...
Publisher
Acorn Media UK
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Four-part ITV drama starring Robbie Coltrane as a famous comedian accused of historical sex abuse. 65-year-old beloved, British celebrity Paul Finchley (Coltrane), one half of a popular TV comedy duo, is rocked by an allegation of rape dating back to the 1990s. After being taken in for questioning by the police, Paul and his loyal wife Marie (Julie Walters) must face the accusations and media attention brought with it. While Marie questions why she...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
All ten episodes from the second season of the medical drama directed by Steven Soderbergh and set in the early 20th century at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York. In this series, Dr. John 'Thack' Thackery (Clive Owen) is receiving treatment for his drug addiction which includes the administering of heroin. Spiralling from one addiction to another, Thackery is unable to return to his position as chief surgeon in the hospital. When Edwards (Andre...
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