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The Whole Truth
She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. but one of them is lying, all the same. when an oxford student accuses one of the university’s professors of sexual assault, di adam fawley’s team think they’ve heard it all before. but they couldn’t be more wrong. because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player. soon di fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth. what they don’t realise is that someone is watching. and they have a plan to put fawley out of action for good…
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Everyone Worth Knowing
Dripping with new york glamour, this bestseller will capture the hearts of all those who loved the devil wears prada bette gets paid to party … and she can hardly believe her luck. gaining vip access to manhattan’s hottest spots and meeting ‘everyone worth knowing’ is a million miles away from her old job. overnight, new york has become her sexy late-night playground. but quicker than you can say chanel, bette turns up in the gossip columns as girlfriend to a notorious british playboy. it’s news that delights her new boss – but her friends want to know what’s happened to the girl they love, who always had time for nights filled with 80s music, junk food, trashy rom-coms and her mates. can bette say goodbye to the parties and the prada and step back into the real world – and find a prince who’s got a heart to match his charm?
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Half Bad
‘half bad’ by sally green is a debut novel about one boy’s struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. you can’t read, can’t write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. you get sick if you stay indoors after dark. you hate white witches but love annalise, who is one. you’ve been kept in a cage since you were 14. all you’ve got to do is escape and find mercury, the black witch who eats boys. and do that before your 17th birthday. easy
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The Island
The gripping new thriller from the sunday times bestseller! praise for catherine cooper ‘a brilliant new storyteller has arrived’ erin kelly ‘intense and claustrophobic’ heat ‘agatha christie with glamour’ sunday times the perfect escape, or the perfect trap? when a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip. but when the island is cut off during a storm and people start dying, it looks like someone has murder in mind. are the guests really who they seem to be, or does each one of them have a secret to hide? something they would kill for? lose yourself in the latest twisty page-turner from the queen of glamorous crime, catherine cooper.
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Enid Blyton’s Goodnight Stories For Children
Classic fiction. this bedtime collection contains three delightful tales: the toys’ new palace, teddy and the elves and the wishing carpet, from the pen of enid blyton, one of the world’s best loved storytellers. turn the pages to find a happy band of toys,pixies, goblins and a host of other fairy tale characters, as they come to life for a whole new generation of children. ages 7+
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The Morning Gift
Following a song for summer and the secret countess comes one of eva ibbotson’s most exquisite romances, in a stunning young picador editionruth lives in the beautiful city of vienna and is wildly in love with heini radik, a brilliant young pianist. but her world is about to change forever. when hitler’s forces invade ruth’s family flees to london, but she is unable to get a passport. quin, a young professor and friend of the family, visits ruth and in an effort to bring her back to london, he offers a marriage of convenience. as ruth throws herself into her london life, quin begins to fall desperately in love with her. things are further complicated by the arrival of heini . . .
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Silver Bay
The stunning, rna shortlisted novel by jojo moyes, internationally bestselling author of me before you, after you and the new bestseller still me. ‘compelling tale’ – heat liza mccullen will never escape her past. but the unspoilt beaches and tight-knit community of silver bay offer the freedom and safety she craves – if not for herself, then for her young daughter, hannah. until mike dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt’s hotel, and the peace of silver bay is shattered. the mild-mannered englishman with his too-smart clothes and disturbing eyes could destroy everything liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbours her beloved whales, but also her conviction that she will never love – never deserve to love – again.
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The Circle
When mae is hired to work for the circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. run out of a sprawling california campus, the circle links users’ personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. mae can’t believe her great fortune to work for them – even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the circle becomes increasingly public …
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The Umbrella Mouse
1940, and london is under attack. young mouse pip hanway’s safe and quiet world is turned upside down when her home, umbrella shop james smith & sons, is destroyed by a bomb. orphaned and alone, she must begin a perilous quest to find a new home. but the only way to get there is by joining noah’s ark, a secret gang of animals fighting the resistance in france, operating beneath the feet of the human soldiers. danger is everywhere and as the enemy closes in, pip must risk everything to save her new friends. the umbrella mouse is a heart-stopping adventure that draws on the true stories of animals caught in the conflict of wwii. beautifully illustrated by sam usher, anna fargher’s debut novel is a timeless tale of courage, resistance and friendship.
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Enid Blyton’s School Stories
Containing extracts, short stories and an out-of-print novel from across the range of blyton’s school stories, this treasury features the naughtiest girl, malory towers and st clare’s, among others.
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The Birth Of Venus
Alessandra cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous merchant, brings a young painter back from northern europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s florentine palazzo.
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Rudyard Kipling The Complete Verse
Spanning forty years, two women’s stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by jojo moyes, internationally bestselling author of me before you, after you and the new bestseller the giver of stars. **soon to be a major film** **** ‘beautifully written . . . an exquisite tale of love lost, love found and the power of letter writing.’ – sunday express when journalist ellie looks through her newspaper’s archives for a story, she doesn’t think she’ll find anything of interest. instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband – and ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man . . . in 1960, jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. she can’t remember anything – her husband, her friends, who she used to be. and then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for. ellie and jennifer’s stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel – interspersed with real ‘last letters’. **** ‘fabulous, emotional and evocative’ – sophie kinsella ‘totally un-put-downable’ – stylist ‘top-class’ – woman & home ‘incredibly moving’ – marie claire ‘epic, romantic and utterly brilliant’ – lisa jewell ‘jojo moyes is a brilliant writer’ – india knight ‘just perfect’ – jenny colgan
