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The Double Tenth
Malaya 1952 - The War of the Running Dogs.They shot the Chinese courier and took the documents he was carrying. Then they cut off his hands and rolled him into a shallow grave.Another act of barbary in a savage jungle war another dead Communist and another successful mission for the police and the SAS.Thirty-five years later - Members of the ambush party start dying. Unpleasantly. One of them has had his hands cut off. The past is catching up with the men who stood in that jungle clearing - the past in the form of a man with artificial hands and an insane urge to reclaim what was taken from him - at any cost.
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The Bequest
1864. After three years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland Captain Frederik Ziege of the Royal Danish Navy is enjoying a season on the Riviera with his mother sister and two marriageable nieces. There he meets Emmeline Leslie the young Australian widow of a bush pioneer. The differences between their complex histories enrich the ensuing romance but frustrate their search for a home. The Bequest is a novel about identity and belonging about the place of history and memory in uprooted lives and at its heart it is the story of a passionate love affair.
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The Control Freak Chronicles
At forty-four Helena Treadwell thought she had everything sorted. After divorcing her control freak ex Leonard Wallis she and her nine-year-old son Freddie relocated to her home town of Castleford. She's made a happy home for them and has a successful career as a radio presenter. Finally she feels she's clawing back the control and confidence she lost to Leonard. But life is never simple for long ... Helena unexpectedly loses her job and Leonard announces that not only does he want Freddie to attend a private boarding school he's also decided to move to Castleford to set up home with 'the other woman'. Suddenly Helena's losing control again as her past comes back to unravel her future.
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The Society Of Sin
An erotic Gothic thriller set in rural Dorset in the late 19th Century a period when educated women were beginning to question their sexuality.The Society of Sin was conceived on a hot and sticky summer's evening inside a mansion house on a large country estate when after an opium-fuelled night of passion Lady P and her close friend Samantha Powerstock succumbed to desires they had both repressed for years. Now a year later they have invite a select few to join their exclusive association. But only genuine hedonists need apply.Prospective members are interrogated over a sumptuous dinner then given an assignment which they must fulfil. Failure to do so results in instant expulsion and the prospect of being 'named and shamed' in the exclusive circles they currently frequent. However successful completion of the task opens for them a Pandora's box of pain and pleasure.
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Stop the Clock
Meet Lucy Tina and Natalie twenty-something friends who are all negotiating the risky business of being grown-up. Lucy knows exactly what she wants: her marriage to be a success her children to be perfect and to be the ultimate home-maker. Tina knows what she wants too: her journalism career to take off and to see her name as a byline in a national newspaper... and the illicit affair she's started leaves her free enough to follow her dreams. Natalie just wants to be happy - happy with the boyfriend she's dated since college happy with the job she's drifted into happy with a life she thinks is enough but is it really?Ten years later all three women have the lives they thought they wanted. But somehow reality isn't quite as neat and clean-cut as their dreams...
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A Shooting Star
Sabrina Castro an attractive woman with a strong New England heritage is married to a wealthy older California physician who no longer fulfils her dreams. An almost accidental misstep leads her down the slow descent of moral disintegration until there is no place for her to go but up and out. How Sabrina comes to term with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama played out against the background of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants her memories of Boston and her treasured family archives. A Shooting star displays all the greatness of Wallace Stegner's storytelling powers.Wallace Stegner was the author of among other works of fiction Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967 Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); Angle of Repose (1971 Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird (1976 National Book Award); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.
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In The Pink
When two city girls embark on an afternoon of idle window-shopping in Worcestershire and end up buying a horse their lives swerve gloriously off course. Within weeks they have abandoned their careers in London in favour of life in the wilds of Ledbury. But their dreams of a sunny rural idyll preferably funded by a landed local bachelor are quick to shatter. Thrown into a hair-raising world where the horses have cocaine habits and the locals have developed their own alternative to Viagra Molly Watson and her sister Annabel make their way through the maelstrom that is country life to hilarious effect.
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A Moment Like This
Be careful what you wish for...Antonia has always put everyone else before herself. Shy and quiet her life in a small village in Wicklow has been devoted to her invalid mother and singing in the local church choir. Somehow it's easier that way. But when she is left alone her friends encourage her to audition for a television talent show. Blessed with a glorious singing voice she is suddenly thrust into the limelight and enters the world of celebrity and glamour. She's the Girl from Nowhere but can she cope with this startling new life? Antonia discovers that this business is tougher than she ever thought possible but also that she's stronger than she thought she was. And she finds that help can come from the most unexpected places...
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Strange Allure
Carla Craig is passionately in love with Richard Mere - he has a hold over her she can't resist. Even when her world is blown apart Carla still can't put the affair behind her. And Avril Hayden Carla's flamboyant and sensual friend finds herself increasingly intrigued by this mysterious connection - a connection that won't go away. But as hidden truths are finally revealed intrigue turns to fear and risk to terrible danger...
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The Gift of Shame
The ultimate story of sensual transformation from the meek to the wantonSad sultry Helen flies between London Paris and the Caribbean chasing whatever physical pleasures she can get to tear her mind from a deep deep loss. Her glamorous life-style and charged sensual escapades belie a widow's grief. When she meets handsome rich Jeffrey she is shocked and yet intrigued by his masterful domineering behaviour. Soon Helen is forced to confront the forbidden desires hiding within herself - and forced to undergo a startling metamorphosis from a meek and modest lady into a bristling voracious wanton.
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Odalisque
Beautiful but scheming successful designer Auralie plots to bring about the downfall of her virtuous cousin Jeanine. Recently widowed but still young and glamorous Jeanine finds her passions being rekindled by Auralie's husband. But she is playing into Auralie's trap - and a world of erotic depravity? Set against a backdrop of sophisticated elegance a tale of family intrigue forbidden passions and depraved secrets unfolds.
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Darkest Longings
Susan Lewis is the bestselling author of thirty-eight novels. She is also the author of Just One More Day and One Day at a Time, the moving memoirs of her childhood in Bristol. She lives in Gloucestershire. To find out more about Susan Lewis, visit her website www.susanlewis.com, or join in on www.facebook.com/SusanLewisBooks. Susan is a supporter of the breast cancer charity Breast Cancer Care: www.breastcancercare.org.uk and of the childhood bereavement charity Winston's Wish: www.winstonswish.org.uk
€ 26,00