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The Girl with the Golden Spurs

Ann Major

The Girl with the Golden Spurs

From the cradle, Lizzy Kemble had the powerful sense that she didn’t belong in her family’s notorious Texas empire.Her desire for land-grabbing Cole Knight, embittered son of the neighbouring rancher, proved her right. Her daddy had done everything possible to turn her into a proper Kemble – all the way to leaving his vast Golden Spurs Ranch in her hands after he fell victim to a stroke.But when her father’s death turns out to be murder, Lizzy knows someone is willing to kill to claim the Kemble...

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Ann Major

Home In Time For Christmas

Heather Graham

Home In Time For Christmas

Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man—clad in Revolutionary War–era costume—appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car.Shaken, she takes the injured stranger in, listening with concern to Jake Mallory's fantastic claim that he's a Patriot soldier executed by British authorities. Bringing Jake to her parents' house, Melody concocts a story to explain the handsome holiday guest with the courtly manners and strange clothes.Mark, her close friend who wishes he were more,...

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Heather Graham

The Rise and Fall of the Queen of S...

Sarah May

The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Soap Opera

Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia.Welcome to Littlehaven, where serving pineapple with cottage cheese at a dinner party is the very height of glamorous sophistication; where sulky teenagers join CND and obsess as much about the threat of nuclear war as they do about their latest acne outbreak; and...

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Sarah May

Bone China

Roma Tearne

Bone China

An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London.Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage. Her eldest son, Jacob, wants desperately to go to England. Thornton, the most beautiful of all the children and his mother’s favourite, dreams of becoming a poet. Alicia wants to be a concert pianist. Only Frieda has no ambition, other than to remain close to her...

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Roma Tearne

A Girl Made of Dust

Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

A Girl Made of Dust

A rich and beautiful novel set during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s, and based on the author's personal experiences of the conflict.Ten-year-old Ruba lives in a village outside Beirut. From her family home, she can see the buildings shimmering on the horizon and the sea stretched out beside them. She can also hear the rumble of the shelling – this is Lebanon in the 1980s and civil war is tearing the country apart.Ruba however has her own worries. Her father hardly ever...

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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

An Unsafe Haven

Nada Jarrar Awar

An Unsafe Haven

'Captivating …There's a breadth of humanity in An Unsafe Haven which is very moving. I loved the sense of Lebanon and of what is unique and precious about the Arab world' Helen DunmoreSet in contemporary Beirut, a rich, illuminating and deeply moving novel about a group of friends whose lives are shaped and affected daily by the war in Syria.Imagine trying to live a normal life in a world which changes daily and where nothing is certain …Hannah has deep roots in Beirut, the city of her birth and...

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Nada Jarrar Awar

The Kindness of Women

J. G. Ballard

The Kindness of Women

‘This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism’ ObserverThe Kindness of Women continues the story of Jim, the young boy whose experiences in Japanese-occupied Shanghai were described in Empire of the Sun. It follows his return to post-war England, setting his childhood in the context of a lifetime.Jim tries, and fails, to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge, then as a trainee RAF...

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J. G. Ballard

Netherland

Joseph O’Neill

Netherland

In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans – his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in their marriage, and he spent two strange years...

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Joseph O’Neill

Twelve Rooms with a View

Theresa Rebeck

Twelve Rooms with a View

When a rich man you never knew dies and his opulent apartment is left to you, you’d think it was the answer to your dreams. But perhaps it is the start of a living nightmare…a sharp, intelligent and dark tale from the creator of hit series SMASH.Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Or is it?Tina Finn was standing at the edge of her mother's newly-dug grave when she first heard about her inheritance. Until this moment she'd been scraping by, living from one pay cheque to the next. But all that...

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Theresa Rebeck

Brixton Beach

Roma Tearne

Brixton Beach

Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss.London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs bring the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because...

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Roma Tearne

Heading Inland

Nicola Barker

Heading Inland

Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet enigmatic man attempts to rescue eels from an East End pie shop; a young woman discusses her fascination in other women’s breasts; a boy with his inside organs back to front desperately seeks attention;...

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Nicola Barker

Sole Survivor

Derek Hansen

Sole Survivor

Passion, adventure, struggle for survival and love for life – on a remote island.You’re fed up with your office job, your flatmate, your bank manager and yourself. Fate throws you a lifeline. You’re now the sole inheritor of a cottage on a remote island off New Zealand. Do you take it? Of course you do.So, off sets Rosie Trethewey, not knowing what she’s in for but pretty certain it can’t be worse than what she’s got. She’s not counted on her reclusive neighbours: a traumatised refugee of the...

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Derek Hansen

The Perfect 10

Louise Kean

The Perfect 10

A controversial, throught-provoking and witty novel about the pursuit of perfection – the perfect appearance, relationship and life, from a young, hot talent.Sunny Weston is bright, breezy and fun. She is also fat.Well, less fat that she was. In her pursuit of the perfect figure – and the life to match – Sunny has lost seven stone, with two to go. Yet as her thighs shrink her problems grow. When gorgeous Adrian at work decides that the new streamlined Sunny is the girl for him, she should be...

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Louise Kean

The Complete Legacy Trilogy: Star C...

Ian Douglas

The Complete Legacy Trilogy: Star Corps, Battlespace, Star Marines

In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, humanity is in chains…This bundle includes the complete Legacy Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An – a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying – and fatal – discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of...

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Ian Douglas

Her Hidden Life: A captivating stor...

V.S. Alexander

Her Hidden Life: A captivating story of history, danger and risking it all for love

It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be.But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all…Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the Reich by becoming the Führer’s ‘Taster’ – a woman who checks his food for poison. Magda can see no way out of this hellish existence until she meets Karl, an SS officer who has formed an underground resistance group within Hitler’s inner circle.As their forbidden love grows, Magda and Karl see an opportunity to stop...

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V.S. Alexander

Where You Belong

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Where You Belong

A contemporary novel from the author of A Woman of Substance about a young woman finding herself and her place in life, in love and in the world.Valentine Denning is a courageous photojournalist on the frontline in Kosovo. Her colleagues – Tony Hampton and American Jake Newberg – are her comrades-in-arms, men whom she loves and trusts. One is her best friend; one her lover. In a nightmarish ambush, all three are shot, Tony fatally, and for Val an even worse nightmare begins.For there are...

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

Scenes from Early Life

Philip Hensher

Scenes from Early Life

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of ‘King of the Badgers’ and the Man Booker-shortlisted ‘The Northern Clemency’.“I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.”One family’s life, and a nation –...

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Philip Hensher

The Complete Inheritance Trilogy: S...

Ian Douglas

The Complete Inheritance Trilogy: Star Strike, Galactic Corps, Semper Human

Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul…This bundle includes the complete Inheritance Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home...

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Ian Douglas

Kai dingo balandžiai

Sofi Oksanen

Kai dingo balandžiai

„Kai dingo balandžiai“ – tai estų kilmės Suomijos rašytojos Sofi Oksanen trečiasis romanas iš tetralogijos apie netolimą Estijos praeitį ir politinį Europos suskaldymą. Ankstesnės dalys – „Stalino karvės“ ir „Valymas“. Romane vaizduojami neramumų ir tariamos taikos dešimtmečiai: Estijos Respublikos pirmojo laikotarpio pabaiga, Antrasis pasaulinis karas ir „atšilimas“ bei stagnacijos pradžia Sovietų Sąjungoje. Tai pasakojimas apie žmogaus santykius su valdžia, apie gebėjimą ir nenorą...

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Sofi Oksanen

Keturiasdešimt Musa Dago dienų

Franz Werfel

Keturiasdešimt Musa Dago dienų

Gabrielis Bagratianas su žmona Žiuljete ir sūnumi Stefanu 1915-ųjų pavasarį grįžta į gimtąjį kaimą Musa Dago papėdėje. Gabrielis – turkų kariuomenės atsargos karininkas – Antiochijoje aplanko keletą pažįstamų, nueina į krašto valdytojo biurą; vyras visur jaučia priešiškas nuotaikas armėnų tautai. Turkas, senas šeimos draugas, aga Rifaatas Bereketas pataria jam nekišti nosies į valdiškas institucijas ir pažada nuvykti į Stambulą ir armėnus užtarti. Blogos nuojautos jau sklando ore, prasideda...

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Franz Werfel

Legionista

Ксюша Ангел

Legionista

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Ксюша Ангел

Legenda blitzkriegu

Karl-Heinz Frieser

Legenda blitzkriegu

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Karl-Heinz Frieser

Timothy Lea's Complete Confessions

Timothy Lea

Timothy Lea's Complete Confessions

The complete Timothy Lea confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.Save over £16 on the individual purchase RRPContains:CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANERCONFESSIONS OF A DRIVING INSTRUCTORCONFESSIONS FROM A HOLIDAY CAMPCONFESSIONS FROM A HOTELCONFESSIONS OF A TRAVELLING SALESMANCONFESSIONS OF A FILM EXTRACONFESSIONS FROM THE CLINKCONFESSIONS FROM A HEALTH FARMCONFESSIONS OF A PRIVATE SOLDIERCONFESSIONS OF A POP...

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Timothy Lea

Карабахская война 1991-1994

Мамед Велимамедов

Карабахская война 1991-1994

Осенью 2020 года весь мир с волнением наблюдал за вооружённым конфликтом между Арменией и Азербайджаном. Почему вновь вспыхнула война в Нагорном Карабахе? Исчерпывающий ответ даёт новая книга М. Велимамедова «Карабахская война 1991 – 1994». Исторический экскурс в недавнее прошлое показывает истоки конфликта, зародившегося ещё в эпоху распада СССР. В книге детально описан ход первой Карабахской войны – от локальных стычек 1991 года до последних боёв на Агдамском и Тертерском направлении в 1994...

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Мамед Велимамедов

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