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  • Contented Dementia
    Author: JAMES, Oliver
    Summary:

    Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia - by clinical psychologist and bestselling author Oliver James -...
  • Godiva
    Author: JONES, Nerys Anne
    Summary:

    Britain, 1045: The Normans are circling, waiting their turn to pounce on the English throne and wrest it away from the Anglo-Saxon barons. Godiva is the powerful wife of Earl Lovric of Mercia. Intrigue and powerplay undermine her trust...
  • An unquiet mind
    Author: JAMISON, Kay Redfield
    Summary:

    From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own...
  • Flesh and blood : a novel
    Author: Jonathan Kellerman
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    Psychologist Alex Delaware is unable to help a troubled teenage girl ; many years later, her dead body is found ; Alex pursues her killer by entering a demi-monde of psychological experimentation.
  • The Garden of Eden, and other criminal delights
    Author: KELLERMAN, Faye
    Summary:

    Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly.... Among the first-rate short mysteries in this collection, the brand-...
  • Once in a Lifetime
    Author: KELLY, Cathy
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    Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade and unique cherry-picked goods, is the jewel in the Irish town of Ardagh's crown. Star Bluestone sells her beautifully crafted tapestries at Kenny's. Made with...
  • Begging to be Black
    Author: Krog, Antjie
    Summary:

    "In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog’s stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case....
  • The Wedding Diaries
    Author: Linda Francis Lee
    Summary:

    He may turn out to be the best gift she has ever received. . . SHE WAS READY TO TIE THE KNOT. NOW SHE'S FIT TO BE TIED. Texas heiress Vivienne Stansfield's dream of being a bride was about to come true. But in a startling...
  • A child called Freedom
    Author: LEE, Carol
    Summary:

    Carol Lee returns to Africa, the country of her childhood - and to Soweto, the place where hundreds of protesting schoolchildren were killed in 1976. She meets one hungry boy called Freedom. As the links emerge between Freedom's story...
  • The Constant Gardener
    Author: John le Carř
    Summary:

    "Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre?'s ... novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. He putative...
  • Two Caravans
    Author: Lewycka, Marina
    Summary:

    A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries...
  • On the Contrary : Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa
    Author: Tony Leon
    Summary:

    Controversial, principled, plain-spoken - Tony Leon, leader of the opposition for thirteen years, is all that and more. Destined from early life as the son of a High Court Judge to make a major impact as an ironclad liberal, he has...
  • The photograph
    Author: Penelope Lively
    Summary:

    A compelling story of suspense, deceit and discovery from the Booker Prize Winning author Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, TV history man Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen. Taken in high summer,...
  • Natalie Wood
    Author: Gavin Lambert
    Summary:

    "Now the acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, tells her...
  • A Season of Leaves
    Author: Catherine Law
    Summary:

    Rose Pepper's story begins in Cornwall during the war, where she has been evacuated to work as a landgirl. Here, against the most impossibly romantic landscape, she falls in love with a young Czech soldier. In the chaotic aftermath...
  • Choral Society
    Author: LEITH, Prue
    Summary:

    Three women in their fifties - one widowed, one divorced and one never married - meet when they join a choir. Lucy, a food journalist, is obeying her bossy daughter who prescribes singing to assuage her grief. Joanna, the successful...
  • The lighted rooms
    Author: Richard Mason
    Summary:

    "At forty-eight, Eloise McAllister loves living alone. Successful, assertive and resolutely private, her days pass in a blur of adrenaline, especially when she gambles the company fortunes on a tip from an old lover. Her mother...
  • Saturday
    Author: Ian McEwan
    Summary:

    A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash game, an encounter that has savage...
  • The Swallow and the Hummingbird
    Author: Santa Montefiore
    Summary:

    When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a reassuring continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come...
  • Thursdays At Eight
    Author: Debbie Macomber
    Summary:

    Claire, Elizabeth, Karen, and Julia meet every Thursday for breakfast to share the events that are happening in their lives, from a painful divorce to an unexpected pregnancy, and to offer each other undying support, love, and...

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