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Bridgertons volume 8
Description
Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton is a firm believer in true love - he is just biding his time until the right woman comes along. But when she appears in the rather lovely form of Lucinda Abernathy, Gregory is dismayed to discover that she is set to marry another man.
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
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London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born showman whose dream is to run his own theatre company. Devil's right-hand man is the improbably-named Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered...
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Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, has chosen a wife. The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield - the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate's the woman haunting his erotic dreams.
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Lady Betty has no interest in the Duke of Collingham. She doesn't care that he's fabulously wealthy or devastatingly handsome or impeccably well dressed. All she sees is an arrogant nobleman with an abrasive personality and an annoyingly persistent streak. And the Duke of Collingham is persistent. He can have any woman in the whole of society - but the one who won't have him is the only one he wants. And he'll stop at nothing to persuade her.
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Bridgerton volume 5
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Sir Phillip knew from his correspondence with his dead wife's distant cousin that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster. Assuming her to be a homely figure, he could not quite believe that she was the beautiful woman on his doorstep - but are they really right for each other?
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Victorian England, 1846: A gripping and powerful story about one woman's incredible courage in the face of heartbreak, and a secret that - if revealed - could destroy everything. Six years ago, Bella Farrow lost everything. Desperate and starving, she made a terrible mistake that forced her to abandon her home, her livelihood and her family. And when the only person she trusted - her beloved, steadfast husband - was killed in a tragic accident, Bella...
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Bridgerton volume 4
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Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as an empty-headed charmer. But when he returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! But when he discovers that she has secrets of her own, he must decide whether she is a threat or a happy ending.
10) Sanditon
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Trapeze
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A novelisation of the ITV drama series, 'Sanditon' is based on Jane Austen's final, and unfinished, novel. Written only months before Austen's death in 1817, this is the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte Heywood and her spiky relationship with the humorous, charming Sidney Parker. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to the would-be coastal resort of the eponymous title, it...
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Headline
Pub. Date
2017
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Although Barney would always love her, his restless soul would not allow him to stay, but Kelly could never have envisaged how his leaving would alter her life. Alone once more, Kelly finds herself remembering the past, particularly the autumn of 1877.
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Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Holderness, 1846. For reliable, 13-year-old Bella, life isn't turning out quite as she'd hoped. She lives at the Woodman Inn an ancient hostelry run by her family in the Yorkshire countryside surrounded by two older brothers who never pull their weight and a flighty younger sister.
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In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous bachelor, that moment came the first time he laid eyes of Francesca Bridgeton.
14) The little angel
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1896, Nuneaton. Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home, young Kitty captures the heart of her guardian, Sunday Branning, who has never been blessed with a child of her own. Kitty brings sunshine and joy wherever she goes. But then she is summoned to live in London with her birth mother. At first London offers excitement and adventure. With her delicate beauty and the voice of an angel, Kitty could have a promising singing career, plus a...
15) High Street
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Hodder
Pub. Date
2015.
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In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of being able to open an elegant dressmaking salon in the High Street of Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come true. She is going to take her father and his second family with her, away from the poverty. But Annie has not left trouble behind.
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Headline
Pub. Date
2002
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Josie's no stranger to cold and hunger. But she has a beautiful voice and earns money by singing. When her father makes her little sister work the streets, Josie takes her and flees to Newcastle, where she starts a new life in the music halls.
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Pub. Date
2003
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Daisy Appleby is born in a storm, and 15 years later another storm alters her fate. Her father and brothers are lost at sea, and the same night Daisy saves William, a wealthy local heir, and falls in love. Separated by their families, many years of turmoil pass before she finds happiness.
19) Holding on
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Headline
Pub. Date
2000
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Over the years, the Keep has provided a bolt hole for the Chadwick family. The five cousins who grew up there have left home and their grandmother wonders if she will see the arrival of the next generation. The Keep must remain in the family.