Tag: #booklover
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Who Can You Trust
by Susan Lewis A terrible crime. A shocking confession. Do you believe her? Twenty years ago, Nicole’s twins disappeared without a trace. No bodies. No witnesses. Despite her pleas of innocence, Nicole was convicted. Now she’s out. And she’s finally confessed. But for true crime podcast host Cristy Ward, the story doesn’t add up. Having…
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Tess Of The D’Urbevilles
by Thomas Hardy Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy’s Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It…
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The Sicilian Affair
by Susan Lewis What happened to her was unforgivable. But what she did was worse… A fresh start where no-one knows her name is exactly what jazz musician Catie Mac is looking for from her sunny Sicilian escape. When she meets the enigmatic Giancarlo, she has stumbled across a love that could last forever ……
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The Secret Librarian
by Soraya M. Lane New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal. But her new life in Lisbon, known as the Capital of Espionage, challenges everything she thought she knew about herself. Local bookshop…
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Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz How do you investigate your own murder…? The good news is that The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being turned into a major feature film. The bad news is that the director is pretentious, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money.…
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane’s natural independence and spirit – which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. However, when she…
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A French Inheritance
by Jennifer Bohnet Every moment is a new beginning on the French Riviera 🇫🇷🌼 Five years ago, Adam and Lucy Belgrave took the plunge and bought a sprawling rundown farm in the South of France to bring back to life, much against the advice of Adam’s brother, Elliot. Today, that dream is becoming a reality…
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The Count Of Monte Christo
by Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a timeless tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption that has captivated readers for generations. Set in the early 19th century, this epic adventure follows Edmond Dantès, a young and wrongfully imprisoned man who embarks on an extraordinary journey to seek vengeance on those who…
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Witch Trial
by Harriet Tyce When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels – and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder. As their trial begins and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of…
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Life And Limb
by Sally Smith CHRISTMAS EVE, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London’s most famous music hall star and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until the mummified hand arrives in the post… While the hand’s recipient,…