Alice Jacobs has finally found the family she always wanted? With her shy smile & kind nature, Alice wins the hearts of the Arnold family. Decent & well respected, Tom & Nancy Arnold have raised two very different sons, Frank & Joe. Frank is a devious, brutal man. Seeing Alice as the key to his fortune, he is determined to have her for himself. However, his younger brother Joe has fallen in love with Alice, so when she & Frank become engaged to marry, Joe leaves home, determined to put a distance between himself & temptation. He reluctantly returns when Frank summons him to be his best man. Alice finds herself inexplicably drawn to Joe, but feeling it to be her duty, she goes ahead & marries Frank, not wishing to hurt him. On their wedding night Frank shows his true colours & when he forces Alice to reveal a devastating secret, his evil nature reaps a shocking revenge. In his blind hatred, intent on punishing those who have crossed him, Frank plans the final, ultimate retribution. An act that could tear apart not only the Arnold family, but shatter the lives of those around them forever. Unless someone can stop him ? ...

This Student Edition of Willy Russell's successful folk opera, the story of two Liverpudlian brothers who grow up on opposite sides of the social tracks,

Includes:: biographical notes & an introduction to the play with guidance on its interpretation.

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Twin brothers are seperated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons & they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. ...

When you’re running the streets, loyalty is everything…

Gangs rule the streets of the rough Gallowburn Estate in

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Thirteen years ago, surgeon Edward Hammond performed a life-saving operation on Serbian gangster Dragan Gazi. Now Gazi is standing trial for war crimes at the international court in The Hague. After Hammond saved his life, Gazi's men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars. Now, in exchange for keeping Hammond's dirty little secret, Gazi's family want a small favour: to find the man who knows what happened to Gazi's money. But Italian financier Marco Piravani doesn't want to be found. & no sooner has Hammond tracked him down than he disappears again. Hammond has no choice but to set off across Europe in pursuit. In Blood Count, every action has a consequence & every question must have an answer. Only then might Hammond be able to lay the past to rest. ...

Red has survived the barbarity & abuse of the orphanage. His twin brother Sean has not been so lucky.

With a sworn oath

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On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death
- fake handbags of every designer label
- but they have seen nothing that might be of much help to the police. When Commissario Brunetti arrives on the scene, he finds it hard to understand why anyone would murder an illegal immigrant. They have few social connections & little money; in-fighting is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins investigating this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake in the immigrant community...

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When a body of a successful criminal barrister is found outside a chic Kensington hotel it looks at first like suicide. For colleagues & friends, her death comes as a huge shock ï ½ the wealthy & stylish Marianne Shearer was at the pinnacle of her career ï ½ but for the police the case is open & shut. Thereï ½s something strange about the circumstances, though, something that prompts fellow lawyers Thomas Nobel & Peter Friel to dig deeper. Little by little, they discover that all is not as it seems. Oddley enough, Marianne herself appears to have left a series of small, almost imperceptible clues ï ½ clues that point to a far more sinister truth. Retracing Marianneï ½s steps. Nobel & Friel uncover a carefully concealed darker side of her perfect life that leads them back to her last, gruesome case ï ½ when she knowingly sacrificed an innocent witness to let a criminal walk free. ...

The latest novel in the gripping Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus series
- published in the USA as GUN GAMES
- from New York Times

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The latest novel in the gripping Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus series
- published in the USA as GUN GAMES
- from New York Times

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