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1) Coffin Road
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A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his identity is a map tracing a track called the Coffin Road. A detective crosses rough Atlantic seas to a remote rock 20 miles west of the Outer Hebrides. With a sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared more than a century before - a mystery that remains unsolved....
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riverrun
Pub. Date
2018
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Husband and wife Ruairidh and Niamh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed: a Hebridean company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth, which has become a sought-after brand in the world of high fashion. But when Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair with Russian designer Irina Vetrov, then witnesses the pair killed by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins. Along with her husband's remains, she returns home to the Isle of Lewis, bereft....
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Cicerone
Pub. Date
2010
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Harris and Lewis offer one of the last remaining refuges for walkers looking for spectacular scenery, ancient monuments and a break from the maddening crowd. This book includes photographs, detailed mapping and frequent notes on places and points of interest on the islands.
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A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially believed by its finders to be over 2000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. The body, it transpires, is not evidence of an ancient ritual killing, but of a murder committed during the latter half of the 20th century.
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riverrun
Pub. Date
2024
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The body of an 18-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned. Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder,...
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Michael O'Mara Books
Pub. Date
2015
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In this fully revised and updated autobiography, Bob tells his story of over 40 years of broadcasting with the BBC, from the young, passionate music fan who moved to London determined to make music his life, to being presented with an OBE for his services to music broadcasting.
9) Impulse
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Headline
Pub. Date
2013
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Special Agent Jess Harris is too good at what she does. She's the only person to have come close to The Player, a terrifying serial killer. And now, as she tries to rebuild her life in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama - with the offer of Deputy Chief of a new division and the prospect of love - he has other ideas.
10) Power
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Headline
Pub. Date
2013
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When a celebrated ballet instructor is found dead, the court rules that it was a tragic accident. But new Deputy Police Chief, Jess Harris, isn't convinced, and she can't rest easy until she's discovered the truth. Jess has not long been appointed to her new role and she was hoping to leave the troubles of her haunted past behind. But with the possibility of a killer on the loose, she has no choice but to risk everything.
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2014
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'Dead Ever After' marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels - a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show 'True Blood'. It also stoked a hunger that will never die - a hunger to know what happened next. With characters arranged alphabetically - from the Ancient Pythoness to Bethany Zanelli - bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes fans into the future of their favourite residents of Bon Temps and environs....
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HarperTrue
Pub. Date
2012
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An inspiring and searingly honest memoir of how one woman had the strength and courage to change her life. Sylvia Harris was homeless, her children had been taken from her, and she was using crack cocaine. She is also a manic depressive. Now she's a prize-winning jockey with the world at her feet.
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Granta
Pub. Date
2012
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In 2008, one of Sarah Manguso's oldest friends eloped from a psychiatric hospital and threw himself in front of a train; the last ten hours of his life are unaccounted for. In this new memoir, Manguso continues her attention to illness, suffering and time's relentless forward momentum, which prevents total recovery from grief.
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Ebury Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023
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Chris Harris has driven more cars than most people could ever dream of. His vast knowledge is legendary. He calls it 'unhinged geekery'. But we call it infectious enthusiasm, adrenaline-fueled escapism and peerless journalistic rigour and integrity. And then there are his famous skills at the wheel, from city cars to rally cars, F1 to vintage, not forgetting the Guinness World Record 3.4km sideways in an electric car. And now for the first time, Harris...
16) The green years
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ISIS
Pub. Date
2005
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Mollie Harris was brought up in the Oxfordshire village of Ducklington. In 'The Green Years' she tells of the joys and trials of life in her poor, hard-working family and the pleasures of a country childhood.
17) The rising down
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2024
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When Alexandra Harris returned to her childhood home of West Sussex, she realised that she barely knew the place at all. As she probed beneath the surface, excavating layers of archival records and everyday objects, bringing a lifetime's reading to bear on the place where she started, hundreds of unexpected stories and hypnotic voices emerged from the area's past. Who has stood here, she asks; what did they see? From the painter John Constable and...
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Spellmount
Pub. Date
2004
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'Operation Millennium' was an extraordinary feat of organization involving 1048 bombers, over 6000 aircrew and 53 British airfields. Eric Taylor has interviewed Britons and Germans, aggressors and victims and their eye-witness accounts testify to the horror and heroism on both sides of this unprecedented raid.
19) War
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars-Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.
20) The chessmen
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Quercus
Pub. Date
2013
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The concluding part of the Lewis Trilogy. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island.