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France eagerly awaits the day the young King, Louis XV, comes of age and breaks free from the rule of his ministers. The country envisions Louis bringing back glory and prosperity to France. However the young King is too preoccupied with the thrills of hunting and gambling to notice the power struggle going on in his own court.
11) Rough justice
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Sean Dillon returns in an action-packed tale of lies, deceit and deadly power play. Dillon has his hands full after a British cabinet minister, whilst on a tour of Kosovo, shoots a Russian soldier who is about to commit an atrocity.
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On the morning of 20th June 1837, an 18-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England. Lord Melbourne - worldly cynic and constant companion to the queen, himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal proves to be her guiding light - until the dashing Prince Albert appears and she falls hopelessly in love.
13) The bed I made
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I haven't given up on you and I'm not going to. It's time to stop playing hard to get now. When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn't hesitate long before going home with him. There is something undeniably attractive about Richard - and irresistibly dangerous, too. Now, after eighteen exhilarating but fraught months, Kate knows she has to finish their relationship and hopes that will be the end of it. But it is only just the...
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DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops,...
17) White jazz
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Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet. Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce...
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