Books Crime Books A tomb of ice, a dying detective, an agonizing reckoning... A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated & ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat. Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past & to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529428520 •†Author:   Peter May  •†Publisher:   Rirverrun •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 368 •†Dimensions:†12.9 x 1.4 x 19.81 cm ...

All they want for Christmas is a new home.

Number five Kitchener Avenue heralds the start of a new life for the Hope family.

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Books Modern Romance Books A sumptuously cosy seasonal love story set in sparkling New York, from the queen of the 'what if?' romance Josie Silver. Where better to start again than New York? Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, & leaving her recent heartache behind. Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she meets Gio: a perfect leading man with an irresistible smile
- & a crisis of his own. As fate would have it, Iris is the one person with the answer to his problem. She just can't tell him that... So, can Iris finally let go of the past
- & let herself fall in love?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780241995938 •†Author: Josie Silver  •†Publisher:   Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 384 •†Dimensions:† 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

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When, years ago, Helen fell for the charming Hamish, she was also enchanted by Ballintyre House, which sits elegantly

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The second inspiring novel in the heartwarming & hopeful Bletchley Park Girls series from the queen of saga, Molly Green… When Rosie Frost was jilted on her wedding day, she didn’t think life could get any worse. But six years later in the throes of the Second World War, she is unceremoniously dismissed from her dream job after they discover her illegitimate child. Thankfully, top secret war office Bletchley Park recognises Rosie’s talent & recruits her to decipher their Italian naval signals. Happy to be doing her bit for the war effort, Rosie settles into her new life. But when she spots a familiar face at the Park, Rosie’s world threatens to come crashing down once more. Can she put her heartbreak behind her? & will wedding bells ring out across Bletchley Park before the year is out? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008479909 • Author: Molly Green • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.8cm ...

Between April 20th & June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom & deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations & meditations in this stark & vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food & the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror & inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation & in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva & was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim
- & more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s & is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing & deeply affecting account. This book has 320 pages & is 12.7 x 2.1 x 19.6 cm
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` An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition war, death & passion: In 1905, a arte, kitchen maid, leaves Fairley Hall. She is sixteen, sin e & pregnant. By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of an international business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of America & the rugged vastness of Australia. But what is the price she has paid? A magnificent dynastic saga, as impossible to put down as it is to forget, A Woman of Substance is a classic no of our times. `A mighty saga. Little has been so riveting since Gone with the Wind: ` Tailor-made for fans of Mc Cullough's Thornbirds: ` The storyteller of substance ...

Only she can save herself...

Maggie is sixteen years old & barely keeping her family alive in the throes of the Irish

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The Woman Unknown: Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taking care of her sick mother & calls on the expertise of Kate Shackleton, amateur sleuth extraordinaire to investigate. The Gentleman: Everett Runcie is a banker facing ruin & disgrace. His American heiress wife will no longer pay for his mistakes, or tolerate his infidelity, & is seeking a divorce. The Murder: When a chambermaid enters Runcie's hotel room, she is shocked to find that he is alone
- & dead! Suddenly Kate is thrown into the depths of an altogether more sinister investigation. Can she uncover the truth of her most complex, & personal, case to date?
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In the midst of World War II, the members of one village fight harder than ever to help the war effort... but behind closed doors,

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