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This fictionalised account of a true story describes the nightmare of an innocent couple who have their young children taken from them and put up for 'enforced adoption'. Two very different women - the mother, and a journalist who is determined to help her - battle together for justice. Can they prevail when authority seems set against them? What will the struggle do to their relationships with other people - particularly the men in their lives?
In the Durham mining village of Belgate, the legacy of World War I affects rich and poor, socialist and aristocrat, Jew and gentile alike. Howard Brenton, heir to the colliery, back from the trenches with a social conscience but lacking the confidence to implement it... Diana, his beautiful, aristocratic wife, afraid of her dour new world and fatally drawn to the jazzy gaiety of twenties' London... Miner Frank Maguire and his bitter wife Anne, fired by union fervour as they struggle to survive the slump... Esther Gulliver, to whom kindly Emmanuel Lansky offers prosperity beyond the pit... Linked by place, chance and time, the people of Belgate grapple with the personal and general costs of war, coal and childbirth. And in the 1930s, they face together a terrifying new crisis in Europe.
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'Agony?' is the long-awaited autobiography of the nation's favourite agony aunt, Denise Robertson. The book tells her fascinating, emotional and inspiring life story.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed place where there are few people, fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such as Glen Conach - may actually be harder to piece together. The hazier everything becomes, the more whatever facts there are become entangled with myth and legend. . .' Deep in the mountains of north-east Scotland lies Glen Conach, a place of secrets and memories, fable and history. In particular, it holds the stories of three different eras, separated by centuries yet linked by location, by an ancient manuscript an...
When a husband tells his wife, or she suspects, that he no longer ioves her she may feel as though her world is ending but in this positive and powerful book, marital therapist Andrew G. Marshall has a message of hope. It is possible to turn a relationship around and emerge with a stronger bond. In Part One, he explains: How to get to the bottom of why he's fallen out of love. What's really going through his mind. Why your husband has turned into a stranger. The signs that show if he's depressed and what to do about it. How to build better communication and start improving your relationship. In Part Two, he discusses how to tell if there's another woman and gauge whether she really is a threat, including: The six types of other woman, from 'a spark' to 'the love of his life'. Tailored strategies for dealing with each type. Five worst and best reactions after uncovering what's really going on. How to keep calm even when provoked. How to combat the poison that she's slipping into your relationship. When to keep fighting and when to make a tactical withdrawal
THE TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 COSTA NOVEL AWARD 'This is crime writing of the highest order' The Times When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found. Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone... *NOMINATED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD* *A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, SELECTED BY LEE CHILD* CONFIDENCE, THE NEW...
Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like ‘The Weight’, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ and ‘Up on Cripple Creek’, he and his partners in the Band fashioned a music that has endured for decades, influencing countless musicians. In this captivating memoir, written over five years of reflection, Robbie employs his unique storyteller's voice to weave together the journey that led him to some of the most pivotal events in music history. He recounts the adventures of his half-Jewish, half-Mohawk upbringing on the Six Nations Indian Reserve and on the gritty streets of T...
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