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2021
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Known for its luxury and discrete service, the Hotel Louis XVI in Paris has attracted an international clientele of the rich and famous for many decades. Now, after extensive renovation and under new management, an esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a group of new faces who have managed to secure coveted reservations. Anxiously awaiting the guests is the new manager, Olivier Bateau, and his assistant,...
2) The butler
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Joachim von Hartmann is born into a wealthy Argentine banking family and spends his early years in Buenos Aires. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, he has inherited the looks of his German ancestors, while his twin brother Javier could not be more different. Following the death of their father, and when details emerge about Joachim's maternal grandfather's wartime activity, both boys and their mother, Liese, are cast out from the family. After the years...
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HQ
Pub. Date
2023
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Is the truest family the one we're born into, or the one we make for ourselves? Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has - her marriage, a stable job as a career counsellor, and home of her own. She's overcome the difficult circumstances of her childhood to build this life, and yet, she can't help but wonder - is this all there is? Just nineteen years old, Daisy Dunlap has already faced her share of hardships, but she has big dreams...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait,...
5) The maid
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I AM YOUR MAID. I KNOW ABOUT YOUR SECRETS. YOUR DIRTY LAUNDRY. BUT WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ME? Molly the maid is all alone in the world. A nobody. She's used to being invisible in her job at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows and wiping away the grime, dust and secrets of the guests passing through. She's just a maid - why should anyone take notice? But she is suddenly thrown into the spotlight when she discovers an infamous guest, Mr Black,...
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HQ
Pub. Date
2023
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Minnie and Bert are over the moon to have their three grown-up children home for the first time in a decade. But having Lizzie, Jess, Owen and the grandchildren under one roof isn't without its dramas. Lizzie is off the alcohol (although mulled wine doesn't count), Jess is juggling a toddler and a newborn, but it's Owen who has the power to throw a grenade into everything. It all goes back to something that happened when Owen was a teenager and it...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2023
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Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine. Sure, there are the things you'd expect. The undersea volcano lairs. The minions. The plots to take over the world. The international networks of rivals who want you dead. Much harder to get used to are the sentient, language-using, computer-savvy cats. And the fact that in the overall organization, they're management.
8) Cat lady
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It's safer for Mia to play the part that people expect. She's a good wife to her husband Tristan, a doting stepmother, she slips on her suit for work each morning like a new skin.But beneath the surface, there's another woman just clawing to get out. When a shocking event shatters the conventional life she's been so careful to build, Mia is faced with a choice. Does she live for a society that's all too quick to judge, or does she live for herself?...
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
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Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyonce but suddenly she's 36 - with three kids, a loving husband, a very boring job - and instead of headlining Coachella, she's in her pyjamas on a Friday night, watching Gogglebox. It's time for a mammy makeover! She's going to show her teenage daughter she's still cool. She's going to show her husband she's still an absolute ride. She's going to show her colleagues she's still a Boss Bish....
10) One of the girls
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Pub. Date
2022
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One of us is a liar. One of us is a stranger. One of us is a cheater. But who could be a killer? The six of us arrived on the beautiful, sunbaked island of Aegos to leave it all behind, our suitcases packed with flip flops and beach towels, our heads full of dreams for the perfect weekend away with friends. On the first night, we laughed and danced under the stars. On the second night we went skinny dipping in the warm, summer sea. On the third night...
11) Both of you
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Pub. Date
2021
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Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply went to work and just never came home. Their family is shattered. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman, Daan, vanishes the same week. Kai left their luxurious penthouse and glamorous world without a backward glance. She seemingly evaporated into thin air. Daan is distraught. DC Clements...
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021
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Behind every ordinary day, behind every ordinary story, there's an extraordinary one just waiting to happen. Simon Sparks is the man you know from behind the counter at the local Prince Burger ('hold the gherkin!'), fry shovelling, shelf stacking, hiding away from the world. And Jodie Brook is the single mum you see crossing the street with her son Zak - always chasing a dream she can't reach. What if life could be so much more? When Simon and Jodie's...
13) Mad about you
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2022
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Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. Getting married. Her boyfriend's family. Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate, Cal has secrets of his own. And he's no stranger to running away himself. Can these two take a crazy risk, face the past and finally find a reason to stay?
14) Grey: elegies
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Picador
Pub. Date
2023
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One of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on death, drawing on work written over four decades, and adds to her selection one wholly new poem. It makes for a sequence that is warm, vibrant, alive.
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Avon
Pub. Date
2022
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Once a week, three retired school teachers have their 'coffee o'clock' sessions at the Thirsk Garden Centre cafe. But one fateful Thursday morning, they bump into their ex-colleague, Topsy, during their weekly coffee and catch-up. By the next Thursday, Topsy's dead. The last thing Liz, Thelma and Pat imagined was that they would become embroiled in a murder. But they know there's more to Topsy's death than meets the eye - and it's down to them to...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the best. She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling. Every single day. But it's the dark thoughts. The sadness. The rage. These are the things she can't get out of her head. The things that overwhelm her. Where will the journey to find herself begin?
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HQ
Pub. Date
2022
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This Christmas the Miller siblings have one goal - to avoid their family's well-meaning questions. Ross, Alice and Clemmie have secrets that they don't intend to share, and they are relying on each other to deflect attention. Lucy Clarke is facing a Christmas alone, and the prospect of losing her job - unless she can win a major piece of business from Ross Miller. She'll deliver her proposal to his family home in the Scottish Highlands and then leave....
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Avon
Pub. Date
2023
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To grow her craft business, Nancy is in desperate need of two things: help and money. So when a potential investor she's looking to impress recommends an assistant, she jumps at the chance to secure both. Freddy Astley-Davenport is a notorious playboy with zero work experience. He's poised to inherit his family's estate in sunny Seashell Bay - but only if he can hold down a job for six months first. His plan is to take the assistant role in name only,...
19) The lost child
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HQ
Pub. Date
2024
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1911. As the steamship Carpathia takes the survivors of the Titanic to New York, a woman desperately searches the decks for her baby, thrust into the arms of another passenger as a lifeboat left, and now nowhere to be found. 2022. When archivist Jackie finds a notebook containing the stories of women saved by the Carpathia amongst an auction lot, she uncovers the story of a missing baby, a mysterious silver bracelet, and a journalist determined to...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Jo Sorsby knows she is hiding from her past when she agrees to look after her uncle's stationery shop. Spending her days glimpsing the lives of her customers as they experiment with what's on offer is a welcome distraction from the life she has left behind. Yet far from home, Jo feels adrift. But when she meets Ruth, a vicar running from a secret, and Malcolm, a septuagenarian struggling to write his first book, she realises that she isn't alone....