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From Paris to Washington, Hollywood to the Greek Islands, against the glittering world of theatre, films, high finance and beautiful people, four star-crossed lives play out a deadly game of passio

Eva Kershaw is happy living with her dear friend Alice, who has been like a mother to her. But Alice is dying and Eva is distressed by the unexpected arrival of Gus Blake, Alice's nephew.

Catherine Cookson's own story; of her mother and her harsh childhood growing up in a poor English family.

Wormold, a middle-aged Englishman whose wife has left him, is recruited by the Secret Service before he fully realises what it's all about.

Little Billy is the light of Polly's life - it's for her son's sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and an isolated farm.

A taut novel of a young doctor, Marissa Blumenthal, who uncovers a terrifying plot to deliberately spread disease for profit.

Drawn from Beadell's best selling books, these stories recount episodes from his career as a surveyor and road builder in the Australian outback.

Is this science fiction or something more? A brilliant tale of a Cambridge linguist taken to Mars against his will.

In un ipotetico futuro, le ultime truppe americane si stanno ritirando dalle Filippine.

It's not as if Nel hasn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in Paradise Fields and keeping track of her teenage daughter.

Rhiannon, proud and spirited, is alone in the world after Bill Beynon, her one time lover, marries someone else.

Danilo Silva, now living in Brazil, was once Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent law firm - a man now dead and buried.

Julia's delicate beauty makes an immediate appeal to Lawrence Paton, but he is not aware until after the marriage that she is in the first stages of a mental illness.

After a broken engagement, a girl takes a job as "girl Friday" to a literary celebrity only to find misunderstanding and heart-break.

An interesting biography of two of Hollywood's most famous stars, giving an insight into some of the ups and downs of their successful thirty year marriage.