In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover. But a night of pre-pubescent celebrations turns into horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Fox O' Dell & his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of inexplicable evil events every seven years. With the clock winding down to the next horrific deadline, someone else has taken an interest in the town ...

Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming

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Merlin's gift of the Sight enables him to predict the coming of age of a great king, one who can rid Britain of her enemies. Arthur is born on Christmas Eve & immediately spirited away by the magician to a place of safety. But all Merlin's wiles cannot prevent the strife & violence of his turbulent times; even as Arthur accedes to the throne, the seeds of his destruction are already sewn. ...

Can you identify a classic Christmas song from a line sung backwards or fill in the blanks of iconic Christmas film lines?

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Now entering his sixty-seventh year, Chris Mc Cool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive & exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend & has been told he bears more than a passing resemblance to Roger Moore. As he looks back on the glory days of his youth, he recalls the swinging sixties of rural Ireland: a decade in which the cool cats sang along to Lulu & drove around in Ford Cortinas, when swinging meant wearing velvet trousers & shirts with frills, & where Dolores Mc Causland
- Dolly Mixtures to those who knew her best
- danced on the tops of tables & set the pulses of every man in small-town Cullymore racing. Chris Mc Cool had it all back then. He had the moves, he had the car, & he had Dolly, a woman who purred suggestive songs & tugged gently at her skin-tight dresses, a Protestant femme fatale who was glamorous, transgressive & who called him her very own ' Mr Wonderful'. She was, in short, the answer to this bastard son of a Catholic farmer's prayers. Except that there was another Mr Wonderful in town, a certain Marcus Otoyo
- a young Nigerian with glossy curls & a dazzling devoutness that was all but irresistible. Although Chris, of course, was interested in Marcus only because of their shared religious fervour & mutual appreciation of the finer things. That was all. Besides, Mr Mc Cool was always a hopeless romantic
- some even described him as excessively so
- but is there anything wrong with that? Spiked with macabre humour & disquieting revelations, The Holy City is a brilliant, disturbing & compelling novel from one of Ireland's most original contemporary writers.




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Part of the major forthcoming Netflix series, Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin are back again to bring both function & beauty to

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When soccer star Jake Adams cancels his appearance at Animal Magic's Open House, Eva is determined to find out why.



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Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams.

Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes.

Psychologist & ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to resolve her fears, until he finds himself falling for her, & struggling with a recently uncovered family secret of which Maddy is blissfully unaware.

Then Maddys mother, Helen, arrives & Patrick himself must confront a few uncomfortable truths about his history & the pub’s future.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780749022228
• Author: Rosie Howard
• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 414
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm













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A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Caf?. It's 1956 & Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his relentless pleas for them to live more charitable lives. Out of options & out of pocket, Samuel & his family are forced to move in with their Arkansas in-laws, the rambunctious Moses clan. At first they thrive in the unruly sea of relatives ? Willa, Samuel's wife, runs the bar for Grandma Calla, while the boys, Noble & Bienville, run riot through the surrounding countryside. But when Swan, their formidable but loveable 11-year-old tomboy, crosses the path of neighbour Raz Ballenger, things take a turn for the worse. Raz Ballenger, horse trainer, is a man who rules both his family & his animals through terror. Used to instant obedience, he is insulted when Swan leaps to his sons defence, an act that sets a whole chain of unexpected & terrible events into motion? ...

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe. It's 1956 & Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his relentless pleas for them to live more charitable lives. Out of options & out of pocket, Samuel & his family are forced to move in with their Arkansas in-laws, the rambunctious Moses clan. At first they thrive in the unruly sea of relatives
- Willa, Samuel's wife, runs the bar for Grandma Calla, while the boys, Noble & Bienville, run riot through the surrounding countryside. But when Swan, their formidable but loveable 11-year-old tomboy, crosses the path of neighbour Raz Ballenger, things take a turn for the worse. Raz Ballenger, horse trainer, is a man who rules both his family & his animals through terror. Used to instant obedience, he is insulted when Swan leaps to his son's defence, an act that sets a whole chain of unexpected & terrible events into motion...
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