As a female cop walking the mean streets of Manchester, life can be tough for PC Lucy Clayburn.

But when one of the North

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Something's lying patiently in wait, until the time is right... Thirteen years have passed since Yul fought for his life at the quarry, & Stonewylde has flourished in a new, golden age. But now the shadows are gathering. Wild & disobedient, Leveret is the bad girl who disappears at night time & would rather roam the woods than sit in school. Only Clip recognises the girl's magical sensitivity & believes she may be the one to lead Stonewylde out of the approaching darkness. The shadows thicken as Yul & Sylvie find that something-- or someone-- is tearing their beautiful relationship apart. As Stonewylde starts to disintegrate, a sinister alliance is forming but they have no idea what evil they're really up against... ...

Details: When Thea Osbourne agrees to house sit for Oliver Meadows as a favor to her mother, she expects a few days peace
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Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish isl&, recovering from an exhausting murder investigation, when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town, another girl has vanished. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? ...

When television producer Colin Ludlow was admitted to hospital for an operation, he expected to be home in ten days. In the event, he ended up staying for five months, & contracted MRSA. Here, he tells his story, & takes a philosophical journey through chronic illness as he explores its wider significance. ...

Ireland in 1928 was a place of conflicted loyalty, changing politics & intense subterfuge. When Civic Guard Sean Harling shot dead Timothy Coughlan, a known IRA member, in mysterious circumstances his former friends in the Republican movement cried foul. Cleared of wrong doing by the investigation & subsequent inquest, he was still forced to give up his job & to flee the country. During the war of independence Sean had worked closely with the government of the first Dail including Eamon De Valera. It was only during the Civil War, with few financial options to h&, that Sean joined the Free State police force as an intelligence officer. There are suggestions however, that Harling's role was as a double agent, one so secret even his former friends thought of him as a turncoat. Though he eventually returned to Irel&, his family suffered from years of rumour & suspicion. In the 1930s with Fianna Fail in power following the 1932 election, Harling waged a campaign to have his War of Independence efforts acknowledged & his work rewarded by a pension as with many of his former colleagues, but the legacy of the Coughlan killing frustrated his efforts. ...

When George Millar, the City of Glasgow's orchestra leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room before a performance, his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on, and when DCI Lorimer & psychologist Solly Brightman are called in they uncover a series of irrevocably tangled relationships between the orchestra members. Millar had been involved in a string of homosexual relationships & was well known for playing his lovers off against one another ...

Liverpool, 1928. Fifteen-year-old Annie Anderson was adopted by Sylvia & Hugh after the death of their own daughter.



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Presents twelve tales. The Witch Hunter has a young girl accused of sorcery, but the man sent to condemn her is not as he seems. Baby Blues presents a dark future where family planning is controlled by the state & it is illegal to make love. In The Glass Guitar, Meg thinks a haunted guitar would be just the gift for her musician boyfriend. ...

When Jennifer Worth became a midwife in the 1950s, she joined an East End where many lives were touched by the shadow of the workhouse. For, although, the institutions were officially abolished in 1930, in reality many did not close until several decades later. In the follow-up to her bestselling Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth tell the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy & Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died
- until Frank's strength & determination enabled him to make a home for his sister. Jan was a bright, lively child, whose spirit was broken by cruelty, until she found kindness & love later in life. Then there is the matchmaking nun, Sister Julienne & Sister Monica Joan, who ends up in high court...
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