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January 1961, & the beaten, stabbed & strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie Mc Crink soon suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs, & that the accused, the enigmatic Robert Mc Gladdery, may struggle to get a fair hearing. Presiding over the case is Lord Justice Curran, a man who nine years previously had found his own family in the news, following the murder of his nineteen year old daughter, Patricia. In a spectacular return to the territory of his acclaimed, Booker longlisted " The Blue Tango, Eoin Mc Namee's new novel explores & dissects this notorious murder case which led to the final hanging on Northern Irish soil. ...

The story of orchid thief & obsessive, John Laroche, & the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders & showmen, their rivalries, vendettas & crimes, smuggling, thefts & worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector. ...

From the author of ' Britons', the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh -- an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, & new ideas. Linda Colley's new book breaks the boundaries between biography, family stories & global history. ...

The third instalment of Jack Whyte's templar trilogy. The Order
- a secret society of men from ancient, noble families, drawn
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An ingenious thriller in which young Detective Constable Trave uncovers a sophisticated plot at the heart of MI6 to assassinate Churchill & bring the Second World War & the whole Allied effort to an untimely end. It's 1940, & Bill Trave is a Detective Constable in his early thirties working in West London. France has fallen & the capital is being bombed both day & night
- it seems against all odds that Britain can survive the onslaught. Almost single-handedly Winston Churchill maintains the country's morale, with the German enemy convinced that his removal would win them the War. Albert Morrison, a rich widower forced into early retirement by failing eyesight, is stabbed to death in his Chelsea flat. His only daughter, Ava, tells Trave that she would read the newspapers to him every evening, & the night before his death he had become suddenly excited when she read him an obscure obituary notice. At Morrison's funeral, Ava learns from an old colleague that her father worked for MI6 before the War. The obituary notice was a coded message preparing for an assassination, although it does not specify the target. Trave realizes that there is a Nazi double agent within MI6, with a plan to assassinate Churchill & to set up another agent to take the blame. He is in a race against time to save Churchill, for if he fails, Britain's entire war effort could be at stake...
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My name is Sayre Bellavia, & for seventeen years my mother's loved her addiction more than she's loved me. More than she's even liked me, actually, because I'm the one who ruined her life. Her words, not mine. So I learned a long time ago how to lay low & act like I want nothing, expect nothing & hope for nothing so I don't become more trouble than I'm worth, because I guess I'm pretty easy to abandon. & neglect, & betray. My mother says I should take what I get & be satisfied, but what I get is nothing, & what I want is everything: To be safe & loved, to have a real home & a father & a last name that's connected to someone, somewhere. I want to know if my mother ever thinks about Beale & Ellie & that terrible, beautiful year we were happy. I want to know if she ever loved me, even for just one second, & if after all the pain & tragedy her addiction has cost us, if I even still love her, & so I will fight my way back to her, crossing all our boundaries & resurrecting the forbidden until I find out because if I don't the wail inside me will never end, & then history is bound to repeat itself. & God, I don't want to be her. I want a future. ...

Many people find that being a Carer gives them a somewhat confined existence as well it might. The author found that writing & reading books & attending evening classes that interested him made a huge difference to the quality of his life & would re ...

Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning...

Melissa has a new baby & doesn't want to let it change her.

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How would you survive without your identity? Adam Kindred, visiting London for a job interview, comes across a little Italian bistro as he walks along the Embankment, admiring the views. With horrifying speed, Adam's encounter leads to a series of acciden ...