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Burgundy, 1861. Christine 'Kiki' Vellay, the daughter of vineyard workers, is forced to marry an older man in exchange for a piece of land. He abuses her. Seduced by a young naval cadet she plots to run away. When her husband is killed during the attempt, she finds herself wrongly accused of his murder. Kiki is on the run.

When her father dies, lawyer Sarah Curtis returns to her hometown of Bolton to wind up his law practice. She plans to leave as soon as she can but when Gerry, a family friend, goes missing and his family receive death threats, she agrees to help his wife move to a safe location and find out what's behind Gerry's disappearance.

Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal telepathic powers 'the gift'. In the sixth book of the series, he welcomes the new millennium with his family and followers.

June 1908: Cross-dressing Dolly Butler is starting a new career as a detective with her very own Soho agency.

When Gwen meets a charming man online, she thinks her lonely days are over. But is he really all he seems?

Abandoned as a baby, Lydia is raised a Spartan princess, training alongside boys, in the Spartan tradition, she grows strong and is an expert rider and archer and talented inventor. Joining the army as a mounted archer, she competes in the Olympic Games, and forms an all-female squadron called the Myrmidons.

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Veteran environmental tutor and retired countryside ranger Keith Taylor seeks out spiritual and visual riches as he undertakes a year travelling to locations that have always intrigued him or may offer a fresh relationship with the outdoors, both through his own seasonally aware eyes and those of equally restless colleagues.

Public services are in crisis. NHS backlogs, police forces in disarray and a housing crisis growing ever worse. Whole areas of our national infrastructure are in a mess including energy, water and rail.

In the small southern Italian town of Castelmauro, a girl dies in the wild flames of a valley fire. But these flames are not so wild and uncontrolled. They have been plotted, with a plan to kill. To seek revenge.

Think global, act local! Trades councils are the place workers and unemployed trade unionists, in local and national forums, can come together to pass resolutions and plan actions.

When Zeta's father is killed, she and her brother, Finn, together with Zeta's pet wolf, Kuba, are forced to flee across the country to seek sanctuary with their mother's birth tribe. On this perilous journey they have to learn to outwit their pursuers and put into practice all their hunting skills and knowledge of the land.

Thirteen doors, thirteen hauntings. News reporter Joe Baxter has a plan. His idea is simple - to use his newsroom contacts across England to find thirteen haunted places to stay, and then record his experiences in a book.

When Lydia Twomey, a bright, young MI5 officer is sent down to H11, a secretive MI5 archive, to investigate the suspicious death of one of the staff, she finds a claustrophobic world ruled over by the charismatic but controlling Gerard Bell.

When an acclaimed Scottish author, on a book tour to the US to promote his latest romantic novel, The Forever Moment, meets a young woman who looks strikingly similar to a long-lost love from a high-school exchange to Kentucky, he wonders if he left behind more than memories twenty-two years ago.

After thirty years abroad, Jonathan Cox, a Cornishman and former journalist, returns to Cornwall to study at Falmouth University, accompanied by his Swiss wife, Marlis.

Between 1959 and 2005, David Wood ('the national children's dramatist') corresponded with his mentor, Frank Whitbourn, teacher, writer and theatre practitioner. Frank Exchanges opens with a letter from Whitbourn, praising a young Wood following a performance in one of his plays, and documents an almost fifty-year correspondence.

Berthold Lubetkin and Ernoe Goldfinger were two leading architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War, a type of building that now holds a poor reputation.

This unusual collection of short stories captures the essence of life in the theatre. Behind the superficial glamour lies a world marked by ambition, jealousy and heartache.

It is the late nineteenth century and Queen Victoria is on the throne. Upper-class girls are expected to get married and be content with entertaining, embroidery and elementary music-making. But, from an early age, Ethel has other ideas.