Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

When seventeen-year-old Mary O'Connor collapses one Sunday in church she is taken to live with Dr Roberts and his wife in a beautiful Yorkshire village for her health.

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING No Child of Mine TRILOGY*Books two and three - Don't Let Me Go and You Said Forever - are available to buy in paperback and ebook NOW*What if you knew a child was in danger - and no one believed you?

They Kill Without Mercy.

With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation agency quite like Private.

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Detective Inspector January David has always put his professional before his private life, but the two worlds are about to clash horrifically as he visits his latest crime scene.

It's the start of the Hollywood on Hudson film festival, and New York City is swept up in the glamour.

Take one aspiring cook, one judge, and a spoonful of romance.

Two lives.

Nothing will ever be the same again.

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Life's been hard for Marcie Brooks, but when she marries Michael Jones things start to look up.

Growing up in a small seaside town, Marcie Brooks dreams of owning a Mary Quant mini-skirt, the Beatles, and escape.

Even a small town girl can have big dreams.

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious.

Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

Andrea Heller has been married for seven years, but still likes to pretend she's single.

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NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city -hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.

How well can you ever really know someone?

A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite - and never steps out again.

Showgirls.

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The final part of the thrilling duology in the bestselling Alex Cross series, preceded by CROSS MY HEART'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.

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Alex Cross's whole world is crashing down around him.

Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City - and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career.

___________________Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is hunting them.

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From Snuff: 'Vimes looked at the cover.

THE MURDER HAS BEEN SOLVED.

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Fans of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Amanda Prowse will devour this gripping novel by multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope which lays bare the snags and frustrations of family life and the dangerous pressure points in relationships.

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Inspector Anders Knutas is back in the sixth instalment of Mari Jungstedt's dark and compelling series of crime novels, set on the island of Gotland.

When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she had died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by.

I turned to Luke and reached for him.

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university.

The crying persisted.

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday.

Vish Puri is as fond of butter chicken as the next Punjabi.

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world.

A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom.

A daughter's deathA teenage girl is found, brutally murdered in her squalid flat.

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences.

Anthony Lark has a list of names:Terry DawtreySutton BellHenry KormoranHe is hunting them down, and he won't stop until every one of them is dead.

Eva is walking by the river one afternoon when a body floats to the surface of the icy water.

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Tracing his ancestory through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte.