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Anatomy Of A Scandal
The word-of-mouth sensation the sunday times bestseller a richard & judy bookclub selection now a number one netflix series ‘timely and compelling’ shari lapena ‘impressive’ the times ‘gripping’ observer ‘sensational’ clare mackintosh a high-profile marriage thrust into the spotlight. a prosecutor who believes justice has been a long time coming. a scandal that will rock westminster. and the women caught at the heart of it. praise for anatomy of a scandal: ‘magnificent’ marian keyes ‘intelligent, subtle and thought-provoking’ louise candlish ‘the definition of a page-turner’ elizabeth day ‘almost impossible to put down’ louise o’neill ‘once the trial of mp james whitehouse starts, you could not have prised the book from hands for love or money’ jake kerridge, sunday express ‘an absolute masterpiece – prepare to be very impressed’ heat ‘a lot of reviews claim that a novel has them ‘hooked from the start’ – but with this story, it’s painfully true’ grazia ‘a timely thriller about marriage, but also about power, who wields it, and how that affects who we believe’ stylist ‘well-written, pacy and full of twists and turns’ independent ‘new netflix series lays bare the toxic privilege of those in power… friend’s performance is eerily plausible. his whitehouse is charismatic and smoothly persuasive, his eloquence barely concealing his arrogance… equally strong is miller as sophie, who is forced for the first time to examine her own cosseted way of life and the principles she has sacrificed to preserve it’ financial times ‘this drama will immediately entire fans of house of cards, apple tree yard and the undoing…. miller is excellent as the elegant, brittle sophie, who is forced to watch her beautifully organised house fall out of order, the heart of a drama that manages to feel both aesthetically glossy and morally gritty’ sunday times culture ‘feels like it could have been ripped from the headlines’ evening standard ‘a cautionary tale for our times’ daily telegraph **out now: reputation, the thrilling and timely new novel from sarah vaughan**
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A Dance With Dragons
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction. tyrion lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, king joffrey, has escaped from king’s landing with a price on his head.
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A Christmas To Remember
Set in the exclusive buckingham hotel, this christmas-themed 1930s romance is perfect for fans of downton abbey and mr. selfridge. london, 1938. this christmas, you are cordially invited to the wedding of the year! when fiercely independent chambermaid nancy nettleton first moved to london and the buckingham hotel, the last thing on her mind was finding love, let alone falling for the debonair demonstration dancer raymond de guise. as the festive season approaches, life at the exclusive hotel is busier than ever, with guests arriving from around the world, seeking comfort, relaxation and refuge as tensions build across europe and it looks like another war is imminent. behind the scenes, the staff work tirelessly, ensuring the smooth operation of the hotel, guarding the secrets of their guests – but they have many of their own that they fear will be revealed. as the band strikes up in the grand ballroom to celebrate the nuptials of raymond and nancy, one thing is certain – this will be a christmas to remember.
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Nemesis
Oslo police detective harry hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary tom waaler and waaler’s vigilante police force.
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Divine Might
Get ready to meet the goddesses. in divine might, natalie haynes, the bestselling author of stone blind and pandora’s jar, introduces us to the stories of the greek goddesses. as fearsome, powerful and beloved as their male counterparts, it’s time to look beyond the columns of a ruined temple to the awesome power within . . . we meet hera, who, whilst most often known for enacting vicious, creative revenge on the women – mortal or otherwise – who catch the wandering eye of her husband zeus, turns out not to be such a villain after all. we meet demeter, a mother who will go to any lengths, no matter the cost, to retrieve her daughter persephone from hades’ clutches. we’ll be introduced to the furies, three women who will literally go to the ends of the earth to enact bloody vengeance but who, surprisingly, are the goddesses who can teach us the most about the way we live now. examining the role of these goddesses and more, divine might will change everything you thought you knew about our most ancient stories. full of fire, fury and devotion, natalie haynes brings the divine women of olympia kicking and screaming into the modern age.
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The Birdcage Library
Addicting, haunting and devious, the birdcage library invites the reader to uncover a heart-pounding story of entrapment and obsession, from the author of the dictator’s wife, as seen on bbc2 between the covers.[bokinfo].
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A Country Village Christmas
Olivia doesn’t have time for christmas or for romance – she’s got a demanding career and has been burned before when it comes to love. this year, she’s spending the festive season in her dad’s old house, packing it up now that he’s moved out. her dad failed to mention she wouldn’t be spending her time there alone… the last thing olivia expects is for her surprise guest to be the very man who literally ran from her after an evening of mutual flirtation. but tom has nowhere else to go and olivia is determined to forget the disappointment she felt at his abandonment and instead help him find his way again. as heavy snow keeps them inside the cottage, will their enforced confinement spark romance once again – or will it push them further apart?
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The Essex Serpent
Now an apple tv series starring claire danes and tom hiddlestonthe sunday times number one bestselleroverall book of the year and fiction book of the year at the british book awards 2017 (nibbies)longlisted for the 2017 women’s prize for fictionthe waterstones book of the year 2016shortlisted for the 2016 costa novel awardlondon, 1893. when cora seaborne’s controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. along with her son francis – a curious, obsessive boy – she leaves town for essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge. on arrival, they hear rumours that the mythical essex serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of aldwinter. cora, a keen amateur naturalist, is enthralled, convinced that what the locals think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species. as she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to william ransome, aldwinter’s vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, but thinks they are a distraction from true faith. as he tries to calm his parishioners, will and cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart, affecting each other in ways that surprise them both.
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. summoning up more than twenty years of japan’s most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degra
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The Vanishing Half
The sunday times top bestseller #1 new york times bestseller shortlisted for the women’s prize longlisted for the orwell prize ‘an utterly mesmerising novel.. i absolutely loved this book’ bernardine evaristo, winner of the booker prize 2019 ‘epic’ kiley reid, o, the oprah magazine ‘favourite book [of the] year’ issa rae perfect for fans of toni morrison, zora neale hurston and nella larson. the vignes twin sisters will always be identical. but after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. the other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. what will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ story lines intersect? weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the deep south to california, from the 1950s to the 1990s, brit bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the american history of passing. looking well beyond issues of race, the vanishing half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
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The Finkler Question
‘he should have seen it coming. his life had been one mishap after another. so he should have been prepared for this one…’ julian treslove, a professionally unspectacular former bbc radio producer, and sam finkler, a popular jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they’ve never quite lost touch with each other – or with their former teacher, libor sevcik, a czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. now, both libor and finkler are recently widowed, and with treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at libor’s grand, central london apartment. it’s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends’ losses. and it’s that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. and after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. the finkler question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.
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An Equal Music
A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller a suitable boy
