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English
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What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for. Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: 'workmen' who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over...
2) The party
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Language
English
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Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about...
Author
Publisher
Ivy
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This title explores the sources of a truthful and loving bond - empathy, compassionate, respect and honesty - for a deeper understanding of each other and conscious harmony. Through practical and spiritual techniques, the reader will learn how to express themselves as an individual and as a couple to achieve togetherness.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
What is the point of working so hard? What can replace the shortage of soulmates? What else can one do in a hotel? Through these questions, and many others, Theodore Zeldin demonstrates that both the greatest problem and the greatest opportunity of the 21st century lie in our relationships with others.
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that?s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now. A young couple on the brink of marriage-the charming Veblen and her fianc� Paul, a brilliant neurologist-find...
Author
Series
Raven Cycle volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First.
Language
English
Description
The final instalment in the story of Blue, Gansey and Ronan in which Blue comes closer to the prophecy in which she is destined to kill her true love.
11) Bad behaviour
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
New pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Darcey and Nieve were the closest and best of friends, through school, as neighbours, travelling around Europe: this was a friendship for life. Until Nieve, returning from Europe a little later than her friend, stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with in her absence.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
North London in the 21st century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of It's Always the Husband comes a novel about a love triangle that begins on a fateful night. There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline...
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English
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Hypnotherapist Ellen has fallen in love with Patrick, and the fact that he has a stalker doesn't faze her in the slightest. If anything it intrigues her, and the more she hears about Saskia, the more she wants to meet this woman. But what Ellen doesn't know is that they've already met.
16) Eden summer
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Bks
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl retraces the events of the summer holidays as she tries to discover why her best friend has gone missing.
Author
Series
Shopaholic volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician...
18) Love, etc
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
In Talking It Over, Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole her away. In Love, etc, Julian Barnes revisits Stuart, Gillian, and Oliver, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the listener, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/BBC audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
This is the second series of one-off comedies written by the genius behind the smash-hit radio sitcom Cabin Pressure - John Finnemore. The first series won the coveted Writers Guild of Great Britain award for Best Comedy. Each show is a comedy perfumed by just two actors - including (across the series) famous household names such as Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Julia McKenzie (Fresh Fields) and the inimitable voice of Carolyn in Cabin Pressure, Stephanie...
20) White lies
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When you have everything, you have everything to lose ... Alexandra Inglis is a respected family doctor, trusted by her patients to keep their most intimate secrets. And if sometimes the boundaries between duty and desire blur ... well, she's only human. But when Alex oversteps a line with Jonathan, one of her patients, she knows she's gone too far. Jonathan is obsessive, and to get what he wants he will tear Alex's world apart - threatening not only...
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