Poems about domestic life.

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When, in September 1591, Dr Simon Foreman and his servants, John and Anna Bradedge, attend an afternoon performance at London's Rose Theatre, they are keen to see a brilliant new device - the stage trap door. What they don't expect to see is one of the players falling to his death.

A mystery of Roman Britain, featuring Libertus. Once again, Libertus is enmeshed in the murky politicking and scheming of wealthy Romans and the impact of their presence on the local and slave communities, and his own life becomes endangered in a quest for justice.

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Sixteen murder mysteries set in holiday locations all over the world.

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Best selling American and British crime writers contribute stories to this anthology on the mystery genre. There are a range of sleuths, settings and crimes that span the centuries.

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Offers an on and off the field story of one of England's 1966 World Cup heroes.

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Geoff Hamilton was beloved of the huge television audience who relied on him for straightforward, down to earth advice. His twin brother, Tony, himself a keen gardener, enjoyed the closeness of their relationship which has put him in a unique position to write Geoff's story.

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Assaf, cheat, adulterer, loveable father, gives his ten-year-old son a Sony Walkman. Yossam simply uses it to record all the conversations had by his mad, maddening family. This novel provides an amusing portrayal of Jewish family life, the nature of memory and the legacy of the Holocaust.

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An account of Catherine Cookson's harsh upbringing in the industrial North East, and the effect that its poverty, exploitation and bigotry had on her life and her writing. The book is a tribute by Cookson to the land of her birth, which provided the inspiration for all her novels.

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Frederica Hatch has an idyllic if spoilt childhood in the grounds of the small Dewing college. She discovers that her father has a secret. Worse still, his secret has a name: the glamorous and untrustworthy Laura Lee French, his estranged wife. And worst of all, Laura Lee's new job at Dewing is going to shatter the Hatches' little world.

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This is a sensual and unnerving story of passion, attachment and the strange, indissoluble connection we have with our partner's former lovers. It is the second novel by the author of 'After You'd Gone'.

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The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls and All My Lies Are True

The Ryan family had barely grown accustomed to the security their small coal business provided when it is detroyed in a fire. Forced to turn to their father Jack's brother Conor for help, daughter Ellen struggles to keep the family together under Conor's drunken tyranny.

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Angus Fraser has played many tests for England, and throughout his career he has kept a diary. This extract is based around 12 significant tests. Also describing the key matches, he discusses the camaraderie, the characters, sights, difficulties and joys in the long months away from home.

Britt, Sonia, Ingrid, Sven, Carl, Nils and Rolf - seven fair companions explore all possible combinations of sexual excitment. Brown-haired Karin, more innocent, bursting with sensual curiosity, provides the catalyst for an explosion of adventures that even the sensual seven have never experienced.

Anna Bloomfield has reached the end of the line with her hypochondriac husband, Dan, who is too frightened to have sex in case it kills him. A features editor asks Anna to interview three women who have had affairs to pep up their marriages, but she decides to have the affairs herself instead.

Seventeen years ago, three young women were murdered; their bodies dumped in the wasteland of the Los Angeles River. The serial killer was never found. Now, Lieutenant Alex Delillo, is forced to re-open the case after the brother she never knew existed, a private investigator, is found murdered.

Set to attract the same kind of cult following as Jasper Fforde, Malcolm Price and Mark Gatiss.

Quinn tells the story not just of his 20 years playing at the top level, but also of his upbringing in Ireland, and his reasons for donating all the proceeds from his testimonial to charity. He also offers his account of the row between Roy Keane and the Ireland manager ahead of the 2002 World Cup.

In 1938, Ulrike Walter, a beautiful young German musician in Berlin, is engaged to be married to Erich Hinkel, a member of the Hitler Youth and stiff-armed in his loyalty to the Fuhrer. But when she meets Inspector Cameron Ross, a Scotland Yard policeman, whose father is a colonel in British Intelligence, her life will be changed for ever.

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James is a stand-up comedian with a reputation for being totally right-on. When he inadvertently offends the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, he sets in motion a highly improbable chain of events which leaves London in chaos and a gaggle of self-cooking irradiated ostriches severely miffed.

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Blackpool for some, like Detective Inspector Henry Christie, is a city of nightmares. One weekend generates a crime wave, including the murder of a prostitute, the wounding of a policewoman, a crazy car chase and the shooting of a gorilla. What he doesn't realize is that these incidents are linked.