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The Split
The chilling and gripping richard and judy book club pick she’ll never stop running. but he’ll never stop looking. a year ago felicity lloyd fled england to south georgia, one of the most remote islands in the world, escaping her past and the man she once loved. can she keep running her whole life? freddie lloyd has served time for murder – and now he wants her back. wherever she is, he won’t stop until he finds her. will he be able to track her to the ends of the earth? together they’ll find themselves trapped on the ice and in danger. who will survive? * * * * * ‘a deadly game of cat-and-mouse at the edge of the world.’ erin kelly ‘powerfully atmospheric, unguessably twisty.’ elly griffiths ‘i’m a huge sharon bolton fan, and this is her best yet.’ lee child ‘the split grips like permafrost.’ jp delaney
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Haven Of Obedience
Natalie bowen is a successful young businesswoman, envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. men can’t cope with her dominating attitude and she doesn’t know how to change. luckily, there is the haven – a weekend retreat that specializes in teaching sexual submission and obedience.
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I Let You Go
At the scene of a tragic accident, life changes immediately for everyone involved. finding it impossible to stay in bristol, jenna gray moves to a remote cottage on the welsh coast. she is desperate to escape the past, but is haunted by the accident, by the loss of her son, and by her own fears. di ray stevens is determined to get to the bottom of this case. the investigation takes him away from his family and he finds himself growing closer to kate evans, a young and forthright detective on his team. but jenna’s past is about to catch up with her, with devastating consequences
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Best Loved Poems Little Brown
Over 200 best-loved poems arranged in nine thematic sections.
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Room
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. he’s looking forward to telling his friends it’s his birthday, too. but although jack is a normal child in many ways – loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions – his upbringing is far from ordinary: jack’s entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he’s concerned, room is the entire world. he shares this world with his mother, with plant, and tiny mouse (though ma isn’t a fan and throws a book at mouse when she sees him). there’s tv too, of course – and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends – but jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. old nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night – like a bat – when jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in wardrobe. and only old nick has the code to door, which is otherwise locked… told in jack’s voice, room is the story of a mother’s love for her son, and of a young boy’s innocence. celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.
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I Thee Wed
It isn’t easy making a living as a lady’s companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. that’s why emma greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. then an extraordinary encounter with the legendary edison stokes leads to a secret position as his assistant. stokes is on a peculiar mission, searching for an anonymous thief who has stolen an ancient book of arcane potions. he suspects his quarry is among the party’s guests – and that the villain is looking for an intuitive woman on whom to test a certain elixir. a woman just like emma… for emma, the new post brings unexpected passion and chilling danger. but when murder strikes, she realises the awful truth. unless she and edison devise a scheme to outwit a merciless killer, she could forever lose the man of her dreams – and maybe her very life….
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The Book Club
Everyone is hiding a secret. one of them is murder. ‘i raced through it – edgy, tense’ harriet tyce, author of blood orange ‘i for one am terrified of the woman next door!’ louise candlish, author of the other passenger ‘tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping’ sophie hannah, author of haven’t they grown ‘dark, twisty, claustrophobic’ jo spain, author of the confession _______________ the book club was her idea, of course. it was her way into our group. a chance to get close. i knew from the day she arrived that she couldn’t be trusted. and i was right. alice didn’t come to the village for peace and quiet. she came for revenge. _______________ a deliciously addictive psychological thriller about a book club that unravels dark and scandalous secrets between one circle of neighbours. the perfect page-turner for fans of big little lies and the rumour. what readers are saying about the book club: ‘wow. what a page turner’ ‘couldn’t put it down!!!’ ‘truly a five-star debut’ ‘absolutely addictive’ ‘seriously page-turning, totally gripping’ ‘a thrilling read, found it hard to put down once i’d started. loved the ending’ ‘brilliant, a proper page turner’ ‘dark and creepy’ ‘loved it!’ ‘gripping to the last page’ ‘fast paced and will make your blood run cold!’ ‘had me on the edge of my seat’
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The Girl Under The Olive Tree
Back in 1941 the greek island of crete is captured by the germans and the lives of two very different women are changed forever… sixty years after the invasion of crete, lois west and her young son, alex, invite feisty great aunt pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on the island, knowing she has not been back there since the war. penelope george—formerly giorgidiou—is reluctant to go but it is time for her to return and make the journey she never thought she’d make. on the outward voyage from athens, she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse tending the wounded and dying, one of the few foreign nurses left on the battlefield. when word spreads of her visit, and old cretan friends and family come to greet her, lois and alex are caught up in penelope’s epic pilgrimage and the journey that leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever—and the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past.
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The Lemon Grove
Each summer, jenn and her husband greg return to deia, on mallorca’s dramatic west coast. this year the arrival of emma, jenn’s stepdaughter, and her new boyfriend nathan threatens to upset their equilibrium. beautiful and reckless, nathan stirs something unexpected in jenn. as she is increasingly seduced by nathan’s youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. what follows is a highly-charged liaison that puts lives and relationships in jeopardy. for jenn, after this summer, nothing can ever be the same.
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Restless
It is 1939. eva delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old russian émigrée living in paris. as war breaks out she is recruited for the british secret service by lucas romer, a mysterious englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. since the war, eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically english wife and mother. but once a spy, always a spy. now she must complete one final assignment, and this time eva can’t do it alone: she needs her daughter’s help.
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After Iris
Being a combination of conventional diary entries and transcripts of videos shot by the author on the camera she was given for her 13th birthday, and beginning at the end of summer. bluebell gadsby is 13 but that’s the least of her problems. both her parents seem more interested in their careers than the family, leaving blue and her three siblings in the care of zoran the au pair, as well as their three pet rats (who may or may not be pregnant). the enigmatic joss moves in next door and blue thinks she might be falling in love, until he takes out her older sister flora instead (who, incidentally, is trying to make a statement by dying her hair bright pink but no one takes the blindest bit of notice). blue thinks and feels very deeply about life but can’t really talk to anyone about it, because no one in the gadsby family wants to address the real problem – that blue’s twin sister, iris, died a year ago, and they are all just trying to hide their grief in busyness… so blue turns to her diary and her unique way of seeing the world through her camcorder to express herself. a tender, funny, smart and ultimately heartwarming story.
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The Echo Man
It is fall in philadelphia and the mutilated body of a man is found in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the city. the victim has been viciously tortured to death. it’s the work of a sadistic mind in free fall. when homicide detectives kevin byrne and jessica balzano investigate, they soon realise that their crime scene is linked to the past. eight years ago, another body was found in the same place, in the same position, killed in the same manner. that case was never closed. apart from their killer’s unusual calling cards, the crime scene photos – past and present – are identical. as another brutalised body appears, then another, it becomes horrifyingly clear that someone is recreating unsolved murders from philadelphia’s past in the most sinister of ways. and the killer is closer than they think…
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Moonlight Over Mayfair
With a new king on the throne tensions are rising in london and across europe. not yet recovered from the great depression, there’s talk of another war coming. demonstrator dancer raymond de guise must hide his own views and put on a show for the rich and powerful guests of the buckingham. but a lot can happen on the dancefloor – whispered conversations, secret relationships, clandestine messages passed – and raymond soon finds himself in a position of both power and danger. raymond knows that keeping his budding relationship with chambermaid nancy secret is now more important than ever. nancy is finally feeling settled and at home in the buckingham but has dreams of achieving so much more. what is she willing to risk to realise her dreams?
