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Tells the story of a financial scam needing mathematical genius and pure daring to pull off.

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Lyn Macdonald's account of the First World War during 1915.

Geoff Hurst reveals the golden era in which he played football, revealing behind-the-scenes stories of events with England and his club sides that have never previously emerged, and offers his views on the modern game.

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A selection of regimes with tips on how to improve your eating habits and pep up your body with a little exercise and keep the weight off permanently.

To escape her drunken step-father, Kate Fawcett is sent away from Tyneside and finds work at Ravensworth Castle. She soon attracts the attention of charming, headstrong Alexander Pringle Davis, a distant cousin of the Earl, who risks incurring the wrath of his family by courting lowly Kate.

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A Channel 4 TV tie-in, this title examines the development of children between the ages of 2 and 12. Focusing on behaviour and the mind, it charts the achievement that mark the journey to becoming a fully fledged independent person.

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This Channel 4 TV tie-in examines the development of children between the ages of two and 12. Focusing on behaviour and the mind, it charts the achievements that mark the journey to becoming a fully-fledged person such as how children gain a sense of self and how they navigate the social world.

Runcorn, Monk's ex-boss and a bachelor, travels to Anglesey hoping to stave off the loneliness of the Christmas season and the memories of Melisande, the woman he fell desperately in love with in "Dark Assassin". His efforts are in vain as he meets Melisande's brother, John Barclay, and learns of Melisand's presence in Anglesey.

From the cosy danger of the country house fireside to the baking streets of down-town Florida, each of these 13 short stories features a seasonal crime - and an unseasonal lack of goodwill to all men.

When Emily finds that photos of herself posing in a saucy Santa suit have been posted on the Internet, her life goes into sharp decline: she loses her job, home and self-esteem. Then she moves in with her friend who believes the healing powers of angels will solve her problems.

A powerful saga of the Northeast that sweeps through Edwardian England and into the turbulent days of the First World War. In times of poverty, times of struggle and times of war, the people of Tyneside are portrayed at their most courageous.

Austin Broderick and Kelly Halligan left Brisbane to start a sheep station. Austin, 30 years later, is the successful owner of Springfield. Kelly was killed by Aborigines. Since then the Broderick family have struggled towards peace with them, which is shattered. Then there's the Selection Act.

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Novel from author of 'Playing with Fire'. Topical subject matter, husbands, mistresses and wives.

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The compelling new saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Talks about a personal journey through a typically eccentric English summer.

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A woman in her mid-twenties is offered a job as Head of English at her Belfast school. Conflicting desires and loyalties hold her back: can she accept the post and support her ambitious husband Over the course of a weekend, when she revisits her roots in the countryside, the decision must be made.

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Ronnie Scott - a legendary jazzman and creator of the eponymous Soho nightclub - died in his Chelsea flat at Christmas 1996. His had been a colourful, extraordinary and often troubled life, marked by a life-long battle with depression which ultimately killed him. This is his biography.

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Daisy Corkill has never discovered who her parents were - or why they left her to be brought up by the couple she calls Uncle Ern and Aunt Gladys. This novel tells of how two best friends experience very different fortunes in Liverpool in 1919.

(, New edition)

There's been an outbreak of grave desecration in Gainshurst village. Then, when Deacon Theodora Braithwaite visits the wife of the Provost of the nearby cathedral, she finds Cathedral Close in turmoil. A workman has been killed in a fall from the tower. A terrible accident - or was it foul play

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There's been an outbreak of grave desecration in Gainshurst village. Then, when Deacon Theodora Braithwaite visits the wife of the Provost of the nearby cathedral, she finds Cathedral Close in turmoil. A workman has been killed in a fall from the tower. A terrible accident - or was it foul play

Malcolm, an ageing hairdresser, is too oppressed by his domestic life to notice the world outside. Alison, his colleague, is an innocent who believes hairdressing brings only happiness. A colleague's murder leads them to the Austchwitz Museum, where they face up to the suffering of others.

A young photographer returns to her family house after a shocking incident: her flat and its contents have been destroyed in a fire. However, the peace and distraction she had hoped for prove hard to find.

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Janet Travers is overjoyed on winning a place in the local grammar school. Painfully aware of the sacrifices her family makes, and determined to do well, she soon befriends a Jewish girl. At 17 she falls in love and plans to marry her friend's brother, but a Catholic wife is out of the question.

The last thing James is expecting on the day he joins Samson Brothers is a funeral procession - thirty cars behind a black limo adorned with a guitar-shaped wreath - but then nothing could have prepared him for the extraordinary cast of characters who are now his colleagues, as well as the events in the life of a Manchester factory.