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2020
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Set in different cities around the world, Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves.
In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian writer joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with an intriguing issue featuring 9 original tales of crime and mystery, plus a classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here's the lineup:
CANYON FODDER, by John H. Dromey THE SAN FRANCISCO ADVENTURE, by Hal Charles NO PLACE LIKE HOME, by Veronica Leigh THE THREE LITTLE BIGGS, by John M. Floyd THE CASE OF THE BELGRAVIA BEAST, by Gary Blackwood THE CELL PHONE, by Ellen Wight THE QUIGLEY METHOD, by Marlin Bressi...
43) The Double
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A London police detective stumbles upon a bizarre burglary during a storm in a thriller by "one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century" (Mystery Scene).
Cambridge-educated Richard Staines, newly promoted to DI by Scotland Yard, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in his career, but he is about to face his most profoundly puzzling case yet. As a policeman, he wouldn't typically break into a house-but when he finds himself trapped...
44) Outback Sunset
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A sweeping love story and family saga from the bestselling author of Heart of the Outback and this time Forever. When English actress, Vanessa Forsythe, falls in love with Ben Selby, her life changes forever. Leaving behind her beautiful Belgravia apartment, she becomes mistress of Amaroo Downs, a remote cattle station in the Northern territory. Not only does Vanessa have to adjust to the outback lifestyle, but she has to make her place in the Selby...
45) Ice Blue
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Anthony Hetheridge, ninth Baron of Wellegrave, Chief Superintendent for New Scotland Yard, never married, no children, no pets, no hobbies, and not even an interesting vice, will turn sixty in three weeks. With the exception of his chosen career, too sordid for his blue-blooded family to condone, his life has been safe and predictable. But then he meets Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield - beautiful, willful, and nearly half his age. When Hetheridge...
46) Letting Go
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Beth Montague is a talented, beautiful, young woman who is following in her father's footsteps by becoming a vascular surgeon. Alluring, yet vulnerable, men are drawn to her; however, her life is not as charmed as it may appear. Unable to commit, her decisions lead to unsuitable liaisons that ultimately bring heartache and conflict. Brothers Adam and James clash as they vie for her love, while married consultant Robert Barnaby tries unsuccessfully...
47) Glamorous Living
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A room-by-room journey through some of the most luxurious and glamorous homes in America
Dallas-based interior designer Jan Showers returns to the concept first introduced in her bestselling book, Glamorous Rooms. Jan takes the reader through luxurious private residences across the United States room by room. This book invites readers into 20 never-before-photographed homes, in some of America's most idyllic locales, including a glamorous New York...
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On November 7, 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following morning.
The case, solved in the eyes of the law, has retained its fascination ever since. Laura Thompson, acclaimed biographer of Agatha Christie,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, arguably the most popular of Hardy's 14 Wessex novels.
As a novel first published in the magazine Belgravia, popular for its sensationalism, Hardy classified The Return of the Native as a "Novel of Character and Environment." Moreover, themes from Hardy's novels draw interesting conversations around the power of imagination....
50) 79 Uxbridge Road
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Tom, who was previously an Accountant in the shipping office of Cunard, has arrived home from the second world war to his wife Martha and their two children, Brian who is five and Janey eleven.Because of the terrible conditions in the concentration camp in which he was imprisoned by the Germans, Tom contracts TB and is subsequently admitted to a sanitarium leaving Martha to care for the family.Tom's mother who lives in style in Belgravia does not...
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A thirty-something, would-be master of the universe tries to reinvent himself in London in this hip and hilarious novel about ambition, family, missed connections, and Anglo-American relations It is the late nineties. The Iraqis are in Kuwait and the former decade's financial bubble has burst. From his high-backed swivel chair in an eight-foot cubicle on the sixth floor of a London management-consulting firm, Scott Marshall prays he can survive the...
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This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure series. Join chaotic 1920s reporter and accidental sleuth Freddy Pilkington-Soames on his adventures in this series of light-hearted mysteries! A CASE OF BLACKMAIL IN BELGRAVIA (Book 1) It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone-or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous...
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From one of the most famous former members of the British royal family, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, co-written with the acclaimed historical novelist, Marguerite Kaye-a mesmerizing novel of a young noblewoman's coming-of-age that richly details both high society and low in Victorian England.
The second daughter of the Queens' close friend, the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott is expected to make an advantageous marriage....
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"Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun is a captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement-the war, those treacherous winter seas, her family, her fiance... but she can't help herself....
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Flora Maguire's life is perfect – a beautiful home in Belgravia teeming with servants, a loving husband, and new baby Arthur to enjoy. But when she is invited to tour St. Philomena's Children's Hospital in a deprived area near London's newly-built Tower Bridge, she is shocked.
Because there she uncovers a scandal with a dark heart – poor children are going missing from the hospital. The police seem either unable or unwilling to investigate, so...
56) Fall Out
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The Da Vinci Code meets Get Shorty in this thrilling debut. "A very clever and intricately woven story of greed and the lust for power." -Promoting Crime Fiction
An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, Fall Out, a thriller destined to be a blockbuster. But is there more to the script than meets the eye?
Echoing past events, the screenplay is sent to a very specific group of people whose lives will be changed...
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Murder's a spectacle!
When Ginger Reed ~ aka Lady Gold ~ and Basil Reed's son Scout runs away to join the circus, it's not all fun and games. As a disgruntled teen unhappy at boarding school, Scout intends to work with his cousin Marvin, newly (and dishonourably) discharged from the navy. An animal lover at heart, Scout is tickled to assist the animal trainer and develops a particular bond with the matriarchal elephant, Tulip.
The big top event pleases...
58) The Assistant
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I know many things about Larissa.
I know what she eats, which must-have brands she applies to her face, and the price of each carefully selected 'piece' in her multi-million-pound home in Belgravia.
Because Ris, as she is known to her many followers, likes to share.
And now I'm here, in her home, watching her every move.
Entrusted with her secrets and running her diary from the bijou basement flat, I'm on hand to fulfil Ris' every need. Her right-hand...
59) The Assistant
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I know many things about Larissa.
I know what she eats, which must-have brands she applies to her face, and the price of each carefully selected 'piece' in her multi-million-pound home in Belgravia.
Because Ris, as she is known to her many followers, likes to share.
And now I'm here, in her home, watching her every move.
Entrusted with her secrets and running her diary from the bijou basement flat, I'm on hand to fulfil Ris' every need. Her right-hand...
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In Nostalgic Delights, award-winning chocolatier William Curley aims to recreate childhood memories and times gone, taking classic recipes and modernising them with his own, unique creations. Creating top-quality confectionary, cakes and patisserie is often seen as something only a trained professional can do, however with patisserie equipment now easily accessible to all, William hopes to produce a book where the reader can create at home and evoke...