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Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of a young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at a party many years ago. This is a story of generations, & of the relationships within a family.
Jake Donaghue, a clever young man who makes his living from translation work and hitting up his friends for money, has a chance encounter with an old flame that involves him in a series of bizarre adventures
Eric Moore is forced to defend his teenage son when the eight-year-old girl he was babysitting disappears, despite not being sure of his innocence.
When a film crew arrive at Heather's attractive riverside house she is shocked to find her ex-husband amongst them. Twenty-five years previously as a young girl she had secretly married the aristocratic lain, but the marriage had not lasted and the whole affair had been hushed up. But now the secrets of the past have come back to haunt her and the peaceful Oxfordshire village is abuzz with speculation and scandal.
The Palmer sisters are close. They all agree that loyalty to one another always outweighs loyalty to boyfriends and lovers and husbands. And there are never any secrets. Not until now. Stella tells Bridie a rumour she's heard about Liddy's new boyfriend. Should Liddy be told? Bridie is certain and persuades her sisters to join in her decision. But Liddy reacts badly and Bridie becomes the outcast. With surgical precision and a wry intelligence Anne Fine exposes the claustrophobic and potentially duplicitious nature of close family relationships.
In this collection of short stories, Helen Dunmore takes us into a harsh, sensuous world of endless winters and midnight sun. Tense, provocative and beautifully written, Love of fat men explores love, sexuality, danger and loss.
A hair-raising thriller about an Englishman's attempt to assassinate a Foreign dictator.
Relationships.
On a bridge in New England, schoolchildren are being held hostage, and drawn into the intrigue are the sixteen-year-old terrorist Miro, the young bus driver named Kate, and fifteen-year-old Ben whose father, the General, heads a secret government agency.