Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard
- falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome
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THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL. Patrick Melrose cleaned-up & world-weary is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies he finds his search for redemption & capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit & a newly fashioned openness can Patrick who has been to the furthest limits of experience & back again find release from the savageries of his childhood? This title was originally published along with Never Mind & Bad News as part of a 3-book package also called Some Hope. ...

DEVIL BY NAME... Rupert Stirling Duke of Stratton has long since acquired the nickname Devil. & with outrageous exploits both in & out of ladies' bedchambers my has he earned it! Risque behaviour is beyond Pandora Maybury widowed Duchess of Wyndwood
- although with her dark secret she's far too well acquainted with being the subject of ribald gossip for her liking. If only the Ton knew just how innocent she really was...including Rupert who after rescuing her from a compromising situation seems intent on wickedly compromising her himself! Daring Duchesses They'll scandalise the Ton
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'SURELY A LADY AS...DARING AS YOU CANNOT BE FEELING NERVOUS AT THE IDEA OF TRAVELLING ALONE WITH ME GENEVIEVE...?' Genevieve Forster widowed Duchess of Woollerton knows only too well the need for bravado. After a miserable marriage she's wary but deep down yearns to pursue temptation... With his air of danger & elusiveness it's little wonder that Lord Benedict Lucas is known to his close friends & enemies alike simply as Lucifer. Shocking the strait-laced Ton holds no fear for him. & the pleasure will be all his as he skilfully uncovers Genevieve's outrageous side! ...

On 17 April 1986 John Mc Carthy was kidnapped in Beirut. For the next five years he was cut off from everything & everybody he knew & loved from family friends & perhaps above all from Jill Morrell the girl he was going to marry. For five years John Mc Carthy had to endure the deprivation
- both physical & psychological
- of captivity; the filth & squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation & repeated self-examination; & the pain of ignorance of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive. For Jill Morrell the five years of Johns captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock & disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken & that her life had changed irrevocably that all their plans had been shattered. But Jill refused to give up hope. For five years she & a group of friends worked ceaselessly on behalf of John & all British hostages in the Middle East until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John Mc Carthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. A day when they could begin again. This is their story a remarkable account of courage endurance hope & love.

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Forbidden love & family secrets In World War Two Liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart. Rosie has grown up in the heart of Liverpools Italian community treated as one of their own. With a father away at sea & a mother more interested in other men than her only daughter the bighearted Grenellis are the closest thing Rosie has to a proper family. But when war breaks out & Italy becomes the Allies adversary everything changes. The community is torn in two: friends become enemies neighbours become traitors & Rosie is left uncertain of just who she can trust. As war intensifies & Liverpool is subjected to relentless bombings things become more perilous. When a devastating attack leaves her mother dead Rosie is sent to live with her aunt in Edge Hill. Her father is feared missing at sea & her aunt lets slip a family secret which has unimaginable consequences... Fleeing her cruel aunt Rosie becomes a Land Girl & falls in love
- with someone utterly forbidden. As bombs drop & families are ripped apart by conflict at home & abroad can they find happiness or will war stand in their way?
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Dave Aston is a dead man walking. He was a member of the elite British SAS. He'd ridden an adrenalin wave invincible. Black Ops in Iraq & Afghanistan. Until that final mission into bandit country. Unauthorised with no back up. That was when his luck ran out.. . Now he's returned home to an alien civilian life of bad dreams & bad people. Everything is lost: his marriage his home & his self-respect. Down & out with a broken body & a damaged soul on the cold mean streets of his homel&. There he discovers that the astonishing circle of deceit is complete. But is he just too far down to fight back against a new evil force at work in his own back yard? Can he possibly find the strength & courage to avenge his friends & save himself? ...

From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child & Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teachers determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family. They were all just somebody elses kids" -- four problem children placed in Torey Haydens class because nobody knew what else to do with them. They were a motley group of kids in great pain: a small boy who echoed other peoples words & repeated weather forecast; a beautiful seven-year-old girl brain damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry ten-year-old who had watched his stepmother murder his father; a shy twelve-year-old who had been cast out of Catholic school when she became pregnant. But they shared one thing in common: a remarkable teacher who would never stop caring -- & who would share with them the love & understanding they had never known to help them become a family." ...

Angeline is brilliant! She knows way more than a child of her age ought to. When she is moved up a class at school she finds that her intelligence doesn't equip her entirely for dealing with the pressures of being with the older group. Soon she is finding refuge with a teacher & her tropical fish & another unlikely student. With Louis Sachar's hallmark twist-&-turns of plot & lovely humour this delightful novel is thought-provoking & brilliant. ...

How can you face your future when your past it a lie? When Rosie Kennings mother Trudie dies from Huntingdons disease her whole world falls apart. Not only does Rosie desperately miss her mum but now she has to face the fact that she could have inherited the fatal illness herself. Until she discovers that Trudie wasnt her biological mother at all.. . Rosie is stunned. Can this be true? Is she grieving for a mother who wasnt even hers to lose? & if Trudie wasnt her mother who is? But as Rosie delves into her past to discover who she really is she is faced with a heart-breaking dilemma
- to continue living a lie or to reveal a truth that will shatter the lives of everyone around her...
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