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Six Motives for Murder

Six Motives for Murder

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'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' DAILY MAILA charming historical mystery set in 1960s Yorkshire, starring prisoner governor and amateur sleuth Nell Lewis. This...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero

My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend

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Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood

My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood

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'A small masterpiece' The SpectatorMy Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of...
Six Motives for Murder

Six Motives for Murder

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'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' DAILY MAILA charming historical mystery set in 1960s Yorkshire, starring prisoner governor and amateur sleuth Nell Lewis. This...
The Final Beat of the Drum

The Final Beat of the Drum

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DCI Monika Paniatowski is forced to think the unthinkable: could a good friend and long-standing colleague be guilty of murder?On the day of her official retirement from the Force, DCI...
Harold Shipman

Harold Shipman

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Harold Shipman - The Doctor of Death
Decoy

Decoy

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The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
The German Messenger

The German Messenger

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Liverpool, 1940. "Where's George?" Ruth didn't realise that she had grabbed hold of the other woman's arms. "Where's my son?" Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the...
Inshallah United: A story of faith and football

Inshallah United: A story of faith and football

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Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 'There was always hope. There was always next season. Inshallah.'Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year'Shocking and moving' Guardian'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose' The Times At eight...
The House of Fever

The House of Fever

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'Shimmering with menace, this is a deliciously Gothic treat' Heat'What a book! So intriguing, with a terrific plot and strong characters' Prima'Simmering with secrets, this beguiling mystery is a dark...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph'On nearly every page a random...
What's Tha Up To Nah?

What's Tha Up To Nah?

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'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.'PC...
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero

My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend

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Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. One of the original 'Busby Babes'; he has devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years and...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

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'One of the best books about prison I've ever read' Kimberley ChambersA chilling look into the brutality of life behind bars and what it's like to be locked away with...
A Posy of Wild Flowers: A Gypsy Girl at Heart

A Posy of Wild Flowers: A Gypsy Girl at Heart

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Rosemary Penfold's A FIELD FULL OF BUTTERFLIES was a beautiful and evocative memoir of her life growing up in the fields of the English countryside. A moving testament to a...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new thriller from the bestselling author

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: The unputdownable new [...]

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She's loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .1990 When beautiful and vivacious Charlotte Salter fails to turn up to her husband Alec's 50th...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...
Japanned Papier Mache and Tinware c.1740-1940

Japanned Papier Mache and Tinware c.1740-1940

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As one of the few decorative arts about which little has been written, japanning is today fraught with misunderstandings. And yet, in its heyday, the japanning industry attracted important commissions...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

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Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

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Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

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Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

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No life exists outside the times.This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in...
A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

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THE NINETEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANCliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home.Peggy...