Tag: August-2024
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Night Side of the River
by Jeanette Winterson A ghost has no substance, but it has power – and presence – and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us. Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia…
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Scripted
by Ferne Cotton Jade Shaw has lost control. Stuck in the middle of her chaotic family and taken for granted by her self-obsessed boyfriend, Adam, she’s forgotten how to speak for herself. The last place she expects to find answers is on the floor outside her flat. But there it is: a mysterious, untitled script,…
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Operation Biting
by Max Hastings Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key…
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How to Eat 30 Plants a Week
by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall With an introduction by Tim Spector, bestselling author and founder of ZOE 30 plants may sound a lot, but in Hugh’s expert hands it has never been simpler to achieve your health goals and approach everyday cooking with delicious, nutritious meals full of easy wins to increase your plant intake, whatever your dietary requirements.…
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RoadTrip to Nowhere
by Barbara De Smedt Michelle Deckers, a kindergarten teacher haunted by her past, embarks on a solo road trip along the Portuguese coast, hoping to escape her demons and rebuild her shattered life. But when she crosses paths with the enigmatic Isa and her young daughter Frey, Michelle finds herself drawn into a web of…
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Catherine, The Princess of Wales
by Robert Jobson Kate Middleton’s life’s story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexceptional beginnings meets and falls in love with a wealthy prince destined to be King when they are both university undergraduates. Now, with the British monarchy in transition, Catherine is Princess of Wales and is set…
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Breaking the Dark
by Lisa Jewell Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox,…
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In A Place Of Darkness
by Stuart Macbride Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the ‘Fortnight Killer’. Every two weeks another couple is targeted. One victim is left at the scene, their corpse used as a twisted message board. The…
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Down Cemetery Road
by Mick Herron It’s an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching for the…
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This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer? Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a secluded mountain getaway, it’s the height of escapist luxury living. Except that everyone here is lying. Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves. Then one night, Mercy McAlpine…