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France eagerly awaits the day the young King, Louis XV, comes of age and breaks free from the rule of his ministers. From the gentle persuasions of Madame de Mailley to her overtly ambitious sister, Madame Vintimille, France stands by and watches a King ruled by his women...

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Was she always to be fated in love...

When Gaynor's God-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. And when her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor runs away to Cardiff.

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Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends - a man she instinctively dislikes.

Kept under lock and key, her life soon becomes a living hell.

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Ellie travels to Rose Harbor to meet a man she's been writing to, but he reveals a secret that makes her question their relationship. Maggie and her husband have grown apart. Can a love letter from long ago help them to find the spark they have lost

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Here, leading clinical psychologist, Dr Frank Tallis, explores our age-old preoccupation with love and in particular romantic love.

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Erin and Darcy, answering personal ads as research for a TV show, discover a whole New York sub-culture - adulterers, con men, the shy and frankly weird, all looking for love. And one man looking for something darker...

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Amid glorious celebrations their father becomes Pope, and shortly after Lucrezia is married - but as Borgias the lives of the Pope's children are destined to be marred by scandal and tragedy, and it's a fate that Lucrezia cannot hope to escape ...

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Setting Farran's remarkable story in the context of the first modern campaign of international terrorism, it draws on recently declassified files of the Security Services to reveal the full extent and ambition of Jewish terrorist attacks on Britain in the late 1940s.

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A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979. Alan Groombridge is married to a woman he doesn't like, is a bank manager of a tiny branch, and is doomed to a life of boredom and tedious routine. All that saves him is a fantasy of stealing enough of the bank's money for just one year of freedom.

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But when she lands the job of her dreams, it costs her her best friend.

However, apart from her creepy ex-boyfriend, Storm loves the job.

Suddenly jobless, friendless and heartbroken, Storm knows that no matter how hard she wishes, Nico will never forgive her

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NOW THEY INHERIT THE LEGACY

The O'Donnell family ran their manor in the East End with a fist of iron, keeping control of their gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. But gang warfare brought horror and sorrow with it, losing Catherine O'Donnell her life and finally bringing murder and violence into the heart of the family.

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Now the same is happening to manufacturing - the world of things.

Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long Tail, explains how this is happening: how such technologies as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result.

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'A lot of people know me,' wrote Alan Hillgarth in a letter, 'but I'm very much an enigma to most of them and regarded with suspicion because I don't fit into any category .

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Draws on the author's experience and expertise to pinpoint the ten vital attributes that make successful managers and underlie great organisations, explaining: why initial failure often leads to ultimate success; why profits stem from a company's values, not its day-to-day business; and why competition should always be welcomed.

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The author knew little about his mother's father - only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. This is the story of five brothers who, mapping the world, lived up to the Royal Engineers' motto of Everywhere. It is the story of Ireland, and of the Empire from which it broke away.

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Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters the work of Martin Sloane while visiting a Toronto gallery. She strikes up a correspondence with the older artist and eventually they become lovers. Then, without a word of warning, he vanishes, and Jolene loses everything to her grief.

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The expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy. Then a second woman went missing on the moor, and a sense of dread gripped the fifty local men who searched for her.

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Maya Lowe is one of the world's most beautiful film stars

She still thinks she can lead a normal life, despite the fame that has made her a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. But amid the twists and turns of Maya's public and private lives, the gulf between what Steve thinks and what is actually true gets ever wider.

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This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRBs pages.

Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the Second World War, Jenny Diski imagines her own burial, and Hilary Mantel tackles a strongman on her hospital bed.

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A POWERFUL SAGA SET IN LIVERPOOL.

She fell in love - he broke her heart

Young Megan Williams has come to Liverpool in search of work and a fresh start.

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In the depths of the Depression, out of the crowded tenements of New York and Cleveland, the comic book superhero leapt into being. This book portrays how the immigrant experience and an outsider mentality shaped the vision of the make-believe hero. It demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes established their place in modern imagination.

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Mergers & Acquisitions is the story of Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown graduate who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J. A former investment banker at JPMorgan, Vachon offers an insider's point of view on the financial scene, and he knows the moneyed turf of Manhattan inside out.

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Praise for Debbie Macomber

An ideal holiday book
Good Housekeeping

If there's a star in the romance and women's fiction firmament, chances are high its Debbie Macomber
Publishers Weekly

'A thrilling yet tender tale'
My Weekly

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School like youd never seen it before.

BROOKSIDE

Lesbian kisses. Suburban life like youd never seen it before.

HOLLYOAKS

Bad boys on bikes. Students like youd never seen them before.

PHIL REDMOND

Three classic TV programmes.