Emilia Fox
1) Melmoth
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Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in...
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25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy. In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future...
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'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist'. In the end we got more information out of a book called 'Ducks and Duck Breeding'. 'Ducks can only copulate', said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in running water. Good luck to them'. Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and...
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Mr. Bennet's five eligible daughters will never inherit their father's money. Neither will their scatterbrained mother. The family fortunes are destined, in the absence of a male heir, to pass to a cousin, William Collins, a pompous parson. Should one of the daughters marry him? Or is there a chance for the rich empty-headed bachelor Charles Bingley? And what about the aristocratic and supercilious Fitzwilliam Darcy? Yet both these men seem less exciting...
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Bolinda audio
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Within its four walls lay a secret that would last a lifetime. Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories,...
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In Jeffrey Archer's epic novel, family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. Join the great storyteller on a journey where there are no stop signs, no cul-de-sacs and no dead ends.
8) Maestra
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2016
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A shockingly original thriller - the launch title of Zaffre, the new fiction imprint of Bonnier Publishing Fiction.
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Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked out the rules of murder. That was thirty years ago and now he's living a life of seclusion on a quiet Mediterranean island - until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor, knocks on his door. His early work is being republished and together the two of them must revisit those old stories: an author, hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand...
10) Zelda's cut
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For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don?t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born. What began with the best of intentions...
11) Domina
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2017
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Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she's finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith's done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting - unfortunately, one that she's convinced doesn't even exist. And she's not the only one seeking it. This time, Judith isn't in control. Outflanked and out-thought, outrun and outgunned, she faces an enemy more ruthless and...
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The Clifton Chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer?s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton?s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father. The first in the series, Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memorable...
13) The girl before
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Desperate to find a new place to live, Emma stumbles across One Folgate Street. It is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings. But the enigmatic architect who designed the house insists that she abide by a long list of exacting rules. The space is intended to transform its occupant - and it does... Since a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start, and One Folgate Street seems like the rental...
14) The lie tree
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2016
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Sixteen-year-old Faith uses the powers of a mysterious tree that thrives on lies to uncover the suspicious circumstances of her archaeologist father's death.
15) Grasshopper
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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2017
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'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon' When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of 19, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon - a gargantuan electrified grasshopper - Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family and...
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2023
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Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children having flown the nest, it's time to get it back! She has a lot to do in just thirty days but whatever happens, Juliet knows that Paris is always a good idea.
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Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021
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Performed by Richard Armitage, Anthony Boyle, Emila Fox and Hugh Quarshie. HOUSEHOLD GIZMOS WITH A MIND OF THEIR OWN. THE WRONG KIND OF COLD CALLS. AND THE CREEPING SUSPICION THAT NONE OF THIS IS REAL. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be listened to as the evenings draw in, and the days are haunted by uncanny technologies and the absurd horrors of modern life. "Masterly.remarkable." GUARDIAN...
18) Mum's list
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Studio Soho
Pub. Date
2017
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Drama adaptation of the bestselling book by St John Greene about the terminal illness of his wife and the things she left behind to help her husband and sons make the best of life without her. Starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox, the story is one of loss but also of family, devotion and love. Kate (Fox) is a loving wife to Singe (Spall) and a caring mother to their two sons. But their happy family life is damaged by the revelation that Kate has incurable...