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All the Colours of Darkness

Written by Peter Robinson

Book Synopsis:

 A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he...

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Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

Written by Gyles Brandreth

Book Synopsis:

'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday...

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bog child

Written by Siobhan Dowd

Book Synopsis:

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over...

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The Palace of Strange Girls

Written by Sallie Day

Book Synopsis:

I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea. Blackpool, 1959.The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth, just out of hospital,...

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The Palace of Strange Girls

Written by Sallie Day

Book Synopsis:

I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea. Blackpool, 1959.The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth, just out of hospital,...

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Gallows Lane

Written by Brian McGilloway

Book Synopsis:

Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led, "Gallows Lane" follows Inspector Benedict Devlin as he investigates a series of gruesome murders in and around the Irish borderlands. When a young woman is found beaten to death...

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The Final Days

Written by Alex Chance

Book Synopsis:

It started with a child's letter. Karen Wiley, recently qualified San Francisco psychologist, thought she understood moral dilemma. A tormented past, an ugly divorce, and a troubled eleven-year-old daughter have given her more life experience than she ever wanted.Now, somewhere out...

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The God of Small Things

Written by Arundhati Roy

Book Synopsis:

 Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their...

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Oliver Twist

Written by Charles Dickens

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'O, full of scorpions is my mind...'  ( Macbeth) If each man kills the thing he loves, then Macbeth's murder of King Duncan propels him into terminal nightmare. The haunting of the Macbeth is one of the best things in literature and Dickens knew the value of a good nightmare...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Written by Robert Louis Stevenson

Book Synopsis:

'You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I can't name.' (Dr Jekyll) Stevenson's remarkable novel explores the 'other' face of Victorian respectability, the underbelly of a society 'profoundly committed to the duplicity of...

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