A gritty tale of family & a love that holds no bounds from the best-selling author of Nobodys Girl & A Fathers Revenge. Celia Frost has always thought herself a cut above the other residents of Lark Rise in Battersea. When her beloved son Thomas starts seeing Amy Miller a girl from the bottom of the Rise Celia disapproves thinking her common. When Celias husband leaves her & Thomas announces he is to marry Amy she is more determined than ever to split them up. Celia needs an ally so she writes to her elder son Jeremy asking him to come home. Jeremys arrival unleashes a tide of jealously & hate. He wants everything that belongs to Thomas
- especially Amy. As Jeremys dangerous obsession for his brothers wife grows Amy must fight for her marriage & her baby. The heartbreaking new novel from the bestselling author of A Fathers Revenge & Nobodys Girl.
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She was too grown-up for childish games but too young to become a woman. Living with her parents & brother in her Grandmother Emmas enormous mansion Jordan March tries to be a good girl & follow her grandmothers strict rules. But one day without warning Jordans body begins to change & everyone notices her in a way that seems dark dangerous & threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed & Jordan is ashamed & afraid that her soft curves are somehow unwelcome. Now Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her familys past mistakes sending her world spinning wildly out of control. ...

We hadnt always lived on an island.. .why would anyone dream of such a thing if they had a house with its own path & a gate at the end of it?" When Suresh & Sandeep run away from home to escape their abusive & bullying father they do so with the hope that they are going to find something better. However soon Sandeep & Suresh find themselves working to collect rubbish (broken glass) in the big city
- & their new home is a traffic island in the middle of a busy road. Is this their future forever or can the brothers change their fates to something much more hopeful?"
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If you dont care about her who will? Hope Randall leads a quiet life but that peace is about to be shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had hes going to change her world for ever. Connies in deep trouble & the mysterious Flint needs Hopes help in finding her. Returning to London Hope is forced to confront old demons
- & new ones. To find her sister shell have to toughen up & fast. But when she enters the dark underworld of the East End its not only the notoriously savage Street family shell have to worry about: theres also a psychopath on the loose attacking working girls. If Connies going to be saved Hope may have to get close to the enemy.. .
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Chrissie Reid a young battered wife living on a small Orkney island in 1906 finally turns on her husband Jack. After a particularly brutal attack she is driven to offering him poison. With no memory of that night she believes she has killed him especially when she finds evidence of a body buried in the byre. In spite of her guilt at having taken another life Chrissie eventually finds love again. Her strength determination & love for her fellow islanders carry her through fourteen years of hardship intercepted & exacerbated by the Great War. But the past wont stay hidden & fourteen years after that fateful night Chrissie is forced to confront the nightmare which has overshadowed her life. With the arrival of a letter she discovers that nothing is as it seems. A series of events over which she has no control are set in motion. Lies & secrets are uncovered leading to a dramatic & tragic climax. ...

In the city of Shadow beneath the World Tree alleyways shimmer with magic & godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth a blind artist takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. However this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone somehow is murdering godlings leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it his presence putting her in mortal danger
- but is it him the killers want or Oree? & is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?
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Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...A desperate tragedy a life-long friend & the long & lonely journey to find a family. Edward Carter is a bully of a man who inspires fear in the hearts of all who meet him. Adam Carter is twelve years old an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father's reign of terror over his family has Adam's mother Peggy too cowed to protect her son so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis the school bus driver. Then one afternoon when Adam is his last drop of the day Phil makes a life-changing decision
- to accompany Adam along the darkening woodland lane to his house. But in the house at the end of the track a terrible tragedy is unfolding & it is one that will bind them together forever.
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Broken by his last case homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city & returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal & the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. Its a peaceful existence
- ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashins not so sure & as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption & prejudice he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his The Broken Shore delivers powerful lean writing pumping more muscle & feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.
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Early one morning in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay the lifeless body of a young girl Sophie Washington is found brutally murdered
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