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The Family Upstairs
‘really good, gripping. i couldn’t bear for it to finish… i don’t want to move onto the next book too soon as it feels like a betrayal.’ olivia colman ‘i swear i didn’t breathe the whole time i was reading it. gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty.’ clare mackintosh ‘a twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption.’ ian rankin ____________________ from the #1 bestselling author of invisible girl in a large house in london’s fashionable chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. in the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. close to them is a hastily scrawled note. they’ve been dead for several days. who has been looking after the baby? and where did they go? two entangled families. a house with the darkest of secrets. a compulsive thriller from lisa jewell. ____________________ ‘rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.’ ruth ware ‘you don’t read a lisa jewell book, you fall into it. it takes huge talent to establish a whole world in the turn of two pages.’ erin kelly ‘creepy, intricate and utterly immersive- an excellent holiday read.’ guardian ‘i had an unrelentingly pleasurable and thrilling for-god’s-sake-tell-me-what-happened sensation in my stomach for the entire read … stupendous!’ ruth jones ‘absolutely brilliant. great characterisation, a fascinating and dark set up and a great conclusion. she’s always great but this is next level stuff.’ sarah pinborough ‘few writers of psychological suspense devise such swift, slippery plots; fewer still people their stories with characters so human and complex. lisa’s jewell’s the family upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.’ aj finn ‘whenever i pick up a lisa jewell novel i know i’m in for a compelling, immersive and unputdownable read and the family upstairs is one of her very best’ cl taylor ‘i had hoped to save the family upstairs for my holiday, but failed miserably … i was hooked from the first page. i think it’s her best yet and hands down my favourite book so far this year.’ alice feeney ‘utterly compelling. deliciously dark and twisty with characters who live on in your head. lisa jewell just keeps getting better and better.’ jane corry ‘it’s absolutely bloody brilliant and i can’t tell you much i wish i’d written it.’ tammy cohen ‘it’s so good!’ india knight ‘i loved the family upstairs!’ sarah jessica parker ____________________ readers are obsessed with the family upstairs- ‘i read so many books in the crime/mystery genre that it becomes harder to find a book that stands out. this one succeeded!! hooked from page one’ ‘i totally adored this book. all of lisa jewell’s books are fabulous, but something about this one is extra special.’ ‘absolutely absorbing … thoroughly enjoyed it’ ‘kept me captivated from the very beginning … definitely worth reading – as long you like reading into the night!’ ‘what a book. clever would be an understatement. and those last pages left me with chills. the concept had me intrigued and the execution had me captivated. i could not put this book down!’ #1 bestseller in the uk, sunday times, august 2019
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The Prison Doctor
Sunday times top ten bestseller as seen on bbc breakfast horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.
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To Tell The Truth
A three-year-old girl is snatched from a beach in spain. nobody heard a sound. nobody saw a thing. rosie gilmour’s much-needed holiday is cut short when the abduction story breaks and she’s sent to cover it. her instincts tell her something’s wrong: such a crime must surely have its witnesses, and the girl’s mother’s story doesn’t add up. with a child’s life at stake, rosie must dig deeper into the seedy depths of the area, making dangerous enemies. as she closes in on the truth, she realises the penalty for missing this particular deadline could be her own death. ‘perfectly paced and neatly plotted’ daily mail
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The Facts Of Life
Spanning three generations, an exploration of family ties and the nature of survival, rich in evocative historical and contemporary detail.
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The Artist’s Secret: The New Gripping Historical Novel With A Shocking Secret From The Bestselling Author Of The Paris Model And The Royal Corr
The sweeping new saga of strong heroines and family secrets from the bestselling author of the paris model. while searching for her lost sister, art historian wren summers takes on the glittering world of new york’s auction houses. a missing girl, a hidden masterpiece, and the search for the truth 1965: after escaping from anti-war turmoil and the suffocating weight of family expectations, a beautiful young couple embrace a life free of materialism and tradition by a sapphire lake in italy. but the past does not always let go so easily … 1987: when talented art historian wren summers lands her dream job at the sydney art museum, it seems she can finally leave her wildly unconventional background behind – until a treacherous act threatens everything she has strived for. the revelation of a monstrous family secret sees wren head to new york, compelled to find the missing girl who holds the key to this shocking mystery – and to make a fresh start in the glittering realm of international art auctions. as she struggles to fulfil her quest, can she navigate this new, high-stakes world of swirling temptation, romance and deceit, danger and betrayal, while staying true to what she knows is right? praise for alexandra joel: ‘a mesmerising storyteller’ the australian ‘exceptional research and great storytelling … she has that rare flair for drawing the reader into sumptuous worlds from glamorous bygone eras’ better reading
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Four Blondes
Four blondes charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful b-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can’t get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist’s floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband’s career fails to live up to her expectations; a ‘cinderella’ records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybody’s life except her own; an artist and aging ‘it girl’ – who fears that her time for finding a man has run out – travels to london in search of the kind of love and devotion she can’t find in manhattan… studded with her trademark wit and stiletto-heel-sharp insight, four blondes is dark, true, and compulsively readable.
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Don’t You Want Me?
Sex. there’s a lot of it about. and stella is definitely not getting her fair share. she’s got a few handicaps: she’s the wrong side of thirty, she’s a single mum (to the adorable honey), and her french hot-bloodedness is liable to turn grown men pale. mind you, the men she meets are either perma-tanned, tight-trousered smoothies with strangely white teeth or – easy, tiger – balding, poorly socialized podgers. one lot have black satin sheets; the other lot have, well, wives. what’s a girl to do? dividing her time between london’s most pc playgroup (most popular children’s names: ichabod and perdita) and lessons on the art of pulling from housemate frank, stella is seriously starting to wonder if she’ll ever have sex again.
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Dowsing The Dead: The Shapeshifter 4
The fantastic shapeshifter series continues with dax and his friends settling into their new secret hideaway in the lake district. the whole place has been fortified so that the children of limitless ability won’t ever be under threat again. after dodging death once too often for his liking, dax is looking forward to a quieter time – building a treehouse in the grounds and shifting to a fox or a falcon and exploring the countryside. but all is not well in the spirit world – strange messages are coming through and dax, gideon, lisa and mia must once again join forces. could the messages be coming from luke and catherine, gideon’s dead brother and sister? perhaps they’re even still alive? in which case, they have to rescue luke from catherine’s evil clutches – but is dax really a match for her?
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A Scandalous Man
His near death made all the news channels despite the fact that the prime minister had called an election on that very day. the prime minister regarded him as the hard man, and depended on him because he brought solutions, not problems. but the political deals he had to do had their price and someone, sometime was going to have to pay it.
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Fingers In The Sparkle Jar
Voted the uk’s favourite nature book the memoir that inspired chris packham’s bbc documentary, asperger’s and me every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn’t do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a kestrel, a real live kestrel, my own real live kestrel on my wrist! i felt like i’d climbed through a hole in heaven’s fence. an introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, chris packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. but when he stole a young kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. in his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds’ eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. but pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you’ve ever read.
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Dockside At Willow Lake
From the award-winning author of “summer at willow lake” comes an unforgettable story of a womans emotional journey from the heartache of the past to hope for the future. the perfect summer read.–debbie macomber. original.
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One Enchanted Evening
Prepare to be swept off your feet by the romantic and irresistible debut novel from anton du beke. london, 1936. inside the spectacular grand ballroom of the exclusive buckingham hotel, the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with raymond de guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. accustomed to waltzing with the highest of society, raymond knows a secret from his past could threaten all he holds dear. nancy nettleton, new chambermaid at the buckingham, finds hotel life a struggle after leaving her small hometown. she dreams of joining the dancers on the ballroom floor as she watches, unseen, from behind plush curtains and hidden doorways. she soon discovers everyone at the buckingham–guests and staff alike–has something to hide… the storm clouds of war are gathering, and beneath the glitz and glamour of the ballroom lurks an irresistible world of scandal and secrets. let’s dance…
