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The Shakespeare Secret

The Shakespeare Secret by J. L. Carrell

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A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling...
 
Labyrinth

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

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In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling...
 
The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

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A man. A woman. The heat of an Iowa summer. And the brief encounter whose passion will last a lifetime.
 
Silas Marner

Silas Marner by George Eliot

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This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at GCSE level. Silas Marner is a linen weaver, working alone in his cottage. He loves only his gold, until he meets the abandoned golden-haired child of an opium addict. Each book in the series provides guidance and support to enable...
 
Why the Whales Came

Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo

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Gracie and Daniel have been warned to keep away from the Birdman, but they discover that he isn't mad. He does warn them to stay away from Samson Island! When the children land on the island in fog, they return to hear of a tragic death. Can they find out what the Birdman knows before it's too late.
 
Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

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This book contains two wonderful stories about members of the Glass family by the author of "The Catcher in the Rye". The first story takes place in downtown New Haven during the weekend of 'the Yale game' and follows Franny Glass on a date with her collegiate boyfriend. The second focuses on Zooey Glass, a...
 
Pandora

Pandora by Jilly Cooper

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Jilly Cooper's ritzy, riotous new novel takes the lid off the international art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars, where artful and crafty dealers indulge in every kind of gallery-pokery, and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. No picture ever came...
 
Pip

Pip by Freya North

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Pip McCabe, 30, likes to say she doesn't need a man and she doesn't need money. However, her friends and her sisters Cat and Fen (the heroines of North's previous two bestsellers) think she would probably benefit from a little more of each. This might prove difficult. Stripy tights, starched pigtails, a bright red...
 
Shopaholic & Sister

Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella

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""Becky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic, is back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply "having" to own an Angel handbag!). What's a round-the-world honeymoon if you can't buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk...
 
The Almost Moon

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this searing portrait of a to-the-death struggle between a mother and a daughter. Clair Knightly and her daughter Helen are locked in a relationship so unrelenting that it has sucked the air out of both of their lives. And as this electrifying novel opens, Helen...
 
The Stars' Tennis Balls

The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry

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For Ned, 1978 seems a blissful year. Handsome, popular, responsible, and a fine cricketer, life if progressing smoothly, if not effortlessly. When he meets Partia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. What if her left-wing parent despise his Tory MP father? Doesn't that just make them star-crossed lovers?...
 
Girl from the South

Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope

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When Gillon comes back to her native Charleston, she has a young Englishman in tow. He has accompanied her on a lark, planning to take pictures. But he soon falls in love with the sights of South Carolina, with Gillon's family-and perhaps, with Gillon herself...From the acclaimed author of Marrying the Mistress,...
 
The Never War

The Never War by D. J. Machale

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Bobby Pendragon has been busy leaping from territory to territory, following his mysterious uncle Press on his mission to save the world - all worlds - from the ultimate evil: Saint Dane. Now Bobby has returned to Earth - but something isn't quite right. The year is 1937 and our 21st century hero finds himself a...
 
What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

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A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad kinfeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably he...
 
Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

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Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the...
 
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye

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Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (aka "Lev") lives an empty life in small town Oklahoma...until he learns about a secret gateway bridging the real world and the world of Foo. Foo was created at the beginning of time, in the folds of the mind, and makes it possible for mankind to dream and hope, aspire and imagine....
 
Peter Pan in Scarlet

Peter Pan in Scarlet by David Wyatt, Geraldine Mccaughrean

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Neverland is calling again...Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out-strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of warpaint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal-Peter Pan needs their help, and so it is time to do the unthinkable and fly to Neverland again. But back...
 
Witches Abroad

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

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One of the "Discworld" novels. The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick travel to the distant city of Genua to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince. But all they've got is Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed cat and a secondhand magic wand that can only do pumpkins.
 
Charlie All Night

Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie

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Dumped by her boyfriend and demoted from a prime-time spot, producer Allie McGuffey has nowhere to go but up. She plans to make her comeback by turning temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a star. Charlie is interested in Allie and figures that a little chemistry between friends is harmless, so he goes along with the...
 
The School for Husbands

The School for Husbands by Wendy Holden

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Sophie's marriage was perfect, but now it's all gone wrong. Mark works late; she's left with the baby, domestic drudgery, her own career to keep on the go and the growing feeling that Mark is having an affair. When he fails to come home one night it's the last straw. Sophie wants a divorce. But Mark doesn't. He...
 
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