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Before Ellen, things were easier and less complicated.

Convicted of a series of horrific crimes against young women in the up-market California town of Santa Barbara, wealthy playboy Charlie Mendez has fled across the US border into Mexico.

Lucy Gabbitas has just left school and is excited about joining her sisters at the local umbrella factory.

From the pen of bestselling author and historian James Holland comes this action-packed page-turner of a wartime thriller.

Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this all-action, blood-pumping wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland.

When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britain's animals into sneezing, bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims, three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation.

Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this gripping, edge-of-your-seat wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland.

It's 1980: recession and unemployment have hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wondering Who Shot JR?

It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire.

It's 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire.

It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school.

Viola hasn't had much luck with men.

Fleur is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits.

At eighteen, Milly was up for anything.

Chloe needs a holiday.

Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage.

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

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'It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world.

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Some people help the less fortunate.

August 1939: Thirteen-year-old Poppy Brown is evacuated to a village in Dorset.

Told with warmth and humour, The Ever Open Door is the story of a hard working, down-to-earth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War and its aftermath.

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.

When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry.

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.

On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital.

Despite living by the side of the Thames, with its noise, disease and dirt, eighteen-year-old Rosina May has wanted for little in life.

Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn.

Since the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law Jacob.

When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be.

When Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage.

A history lesson they'll never forget .

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

Fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James will love this high-octane and utterly compelling thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben.

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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.

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever .

Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you for ever.

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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.

Seduced by a billionaire.