Ernest, Isabel & Grace Munday were blessed with childhoods full of fun & laughter, but the coming of the First World War will change their lives forever
- Tom Munday, a skilled carpenter, is more than content with his lot in life: he's been blessed with a fine wife & three wonderful children. But when war breaks out, his firstborn, Ernest, is called upon to join the army. Tom's eighteen-year-old daughter Isabel finds the path of true love does not run smoothly in London's poor East End. & the youngest, fifteen-year-old Grace, wilful & headstrong, finds herself drawn down a path she never wished to embark on, & the consequences are far worse than she could ever have imagined.
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Meet Carrie Bradshaw before sex & the City!? The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation. Before Sex & the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie & her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture, & a friend's betrayal makes her question everything. With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself, & evolves into a sharp, insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background, how she found her writing voice, & the indelible impression her early friendships & relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious & poignant, we'll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City, where her new life begins. ...

When her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren Cookson
- but why is she scared of Gaby in particular? Lauren won't explain. Instead, she blurts out something about an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didn't commit, & Gaby soon suspects that Lauren's presence on her flight can't be a coincidence. Because the murder victim is Francine Breary, the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved. Tim Breary has confessed, & even provided the police with evidence. The only thing he hasn't given them is a motive. He claims to have no idea why he murdered his wife...
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Professor Brian Big Brain Hawkins has vanished in a portaloo explosion, leaving only his smoking shoes behind!

Now, his

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Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime. This audiobook contains 3 CDs & is 240 minutes long. ...

Murder & scandal in the heat of 1950s Las Vegas: can Lily Jones stop a murder that happened before she was born? Lily Jones can’t forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood & the friends she made there
- especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection. Back in 2020, life isn’t going so well for her & Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis’ ex-girlfriend, is brutally murdered in 1953. She is compelled to go back to the 1950s & try to save Evelyn’s life, but this time it isn’t just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but The Mob as she finds herself in the seedy glamour of Vegas & learns that Evelyn’s future depends upon her first solving the murder of a Vegas showgirl. Thankfully she has Louis & his sister, Tilda, to help her, but her own life is in danger as she tries to find the killer & change Evelyn’s fate. What will she r...
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If ever I saw a murderer's mouth it was there
- a cruel hard gash in the face, compressed, inexorable, & terrible. In 1901,
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Details: Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes &
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Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual & the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation & the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic, involving a bloodsucking vampire, crypts at midnight & strange bones in a furnace. The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases, including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with ' The Red Circle' & the insidious murders in ' The Devil's Foot'. The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government foil a German plot on the eve of the First World War. These two fascinating sets of stories make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all & his erstwhile companion, Dr Watson. ...

Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth.

In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the

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