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When Felix Brewer meets 19-year-old Bernadette ‘Bambi’ Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance, he charms her with wild promises. Thanks to his lucrative if not always legal businesses, she and their 3 girls live in luxury. But on the 4th of July, 1976, Bambi’s world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband, or his money, might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie herself disappears 10 years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she’s left to join her lover: until her remains are found in a park. Now, 26 years after Julie went missing, Roberto ‘Sandy’ Sanchez is investigating her murder.
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Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, 8-year-old Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift. While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is – and who she might become.
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A worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga. But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all. Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers, new mums – or any mum who’s ever wanted to go on strike.
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Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched – but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it? Back in Boston, Ted’s wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future?
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23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting, but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother puts her foot down – and soon discovers that her new workplace contains many secrets. One of the residents at the home, 82-year-old Rose, is convinced that something sinister is going on in Room 7 and that her own life is under threat. But Rose has dementia – so what does she actually know, and who would believe her anyway? As Catherine starts investigating Rose’s allegations, terrible revelations surface about everyone involved. Can Catherine find out what’s really going on before it’s too late?
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In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. This manuscript – printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous – is full of shocking revelations and disturbing truths, things which could compromise national security. Is this what she’s been waiting for her entire career: a book that will help her move on from a painful past, a book that could save her beloved industry – a book that will change the world?
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Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men, and marriage. She is about to publish a book called ‘You Should Have Known’, based on her pet theory: women don’t value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on. But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations.
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Ian Bostridge focuses on the context, resonance and personal significance of Schubert’s ‘Winter Journey’, which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. Using each of the 24 songs as a starting point, the book brings the work and its world alive for connoisseurs and new listeners alike.
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We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars – but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers – how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war, but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people.
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Based on the long-running and extremely popular BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Poetry Please’, this collection features the most requested and most-listened to poems.
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What if the girl of your dreams, your college sweetheart, faked her suicide in order to disappear? Twenty years later you notice a girl sitting at a bar. You don’t even know her real name, but it’s her, and she’s back to tell you that you are the only person who can help.
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A private museum near Hampstead Heath has been inherited by three siblings, all of whom are required by a trust to sign any new lease. Without the lease the museum will have to close. One brother, Neville Dupayne, is adamant he won’t sign. Then his body is discovered in his still blazing car.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World 
The Goldfinch 
These Mortal Bodies 
