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The 19th Wife
The gripping Richard and Judy bookclub page turner
2008
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Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were dr...
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Pasadena
A Novel
2010
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From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda’s father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda’s adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her Germa...
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The Danish Girl
The Sunday Times bestseller and Oscar-winning movie starring Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne
2015
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Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander**'**An enthralling read' THE TIMES**'**Heartbreaking and unforgettable, it is a complete triumph' BOSTON GLOBE**'**Beautifully written. It is absolutely engrossing' SUNDAY EXPRESSLoosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?
2015
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From the author of THE DANISH GIRL comes David Ebershoff's first collection of short fiction, THE ROSE CITY, seven finely crafted stories about young men finding a place in the world.Set in contemporary California and Boston, the stories each recount a moment in their protagonist's life when the world begins to shift beneath him: the boy who breaks into a gay man's house to see how he lives; the shy teenager who tries to starve himself away; the tennis tutor who learns too much abo...
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The Danish Girl
The Sunday Times bestseller and Oscar-winning movie starring Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne
- Narrated by
- Joe Jameson
Unabridged
11 hours 15 min
2015
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Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Li...
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- Patience Tomlinson
- Translated by
- Rod Bradbury
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- Little Old Lady
Unabridged
12 hours 16 min
2014
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79-year-old Martha Anderson, with the aid of her Zimmer frame, is robbing a bank. She’s not past it yet and intends to fund her way to a much more exciting life-style. Except all the cashier can see is a little old lady. So Martha is bundled into a cab and sent back to her atrocious care home.But Martha and her four old friends – otherwise known as the League of Pensioners – are tired of all the rules imposed upon them and decide to rebel. They cause uproar at the home with their a...
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- Andrew WincottMelanie McHugh
Unabridged
13 hours 53 min
2014
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Lost meets The Passage in this incredible new thriller, for all fans of The Shining Girls and Stephen King.They're here ... The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there's so many ... They're coming for me now. We're all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len warn them that the boy he's not to--The last words of Pamela May Donald (1961 - 2012)Black Thursday. The day that will never be forgotten. Th...
Not a Happy Family
The gripping Richard and Judy Book club psychological thriller, from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
2021
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The chilling Sunday Times bestseller perfect for fans of Knives Out. A Richard & Judy Book Club pick.'In this fast-paced, twisted family saga, Shari Lapena keeps you guessing until the very last page...' PAULA HAWKINSThe new unputdownable thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR.In this family, everyone is keeping secrets - even the dead.In th...
Strange Sally Diamond
The Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year
2023
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**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023******WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023****SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award****SHORTLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024****Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.Now Sally is the centre of atte...
2021
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Now streaming on Netflix, starring Emma Appleton and Colin Morgan The incredible break-out thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Shortlisted for the Irish Crime Book AwardsIngrid will never forget what John did.The people he hurt. The way he lied about it so easily. The way she defended him.Now he’s back.He says a murderer is after her. He says only he can protect her.Would ...
2015
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Now a major motion picture starring Kate WinsletTilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris fashion houses, returns home to make amends with her mentally unstable mother. Mid-century Dungatar is a small town, and small towns have long memories. At first she wins over the suspicious locals with her extraordinary dressmaking skills. But when the eccentric townsfolk ...
Life at the Dakota
New York's Most Unusual Address
2015
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A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of "Our Crowd".When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed "the Dakota" for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation's western frontier. Despite its remo...
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