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. ...

Get ready to compete against your friends & family to solve a mind-puzzling mystery case in Shadows of Amsterdam!

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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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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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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East

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Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother s & her own musical careers. Although

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A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers. It is the Second World War, & tragedy strikes many families in Irel&. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child & Polly, spending months at her grandparents' house by the sea, barely notices the adults grief & their efforts to escape the tyranny of religion & family expectation. However, in time Polly too will have a secret. No one else knows the location of her beloved uncle, Sam, barely older than Polly herself, who is meant to be in Cambridge but is dreaming of Communist Cuba, while his decimated family fears losing another son. &, as Polly shyly approaches womanhood, her love for Sam turns into something more explosive. ...

Shaggy Dog has a terrible itch. He scratches & scratches, but the itch just won't go away. He asks Mimi, the poodle to help. " Urgh! Scratch your back, no thank you!" Luckily, Farmer Gertie & Merv from the cafe help him
- but still the Itch stays put. In desperation, Shaggy Dog runs into the Poodle Parlour for a good shampoo. Will Shaggy Dog ever get rid of his terrible itch? & if so, where will it go?
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