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The charming, funny successor to the hugely popular 'Notes to my Mother-in-Law', from the inimitable Phyllida Law. When her Uncle Arthur dies, actress Phyllida Law returns to the tiny Scottish village of Ardentinny to look after her ma, Mego. Mego's always been deliciously dotty. She once put a new packet of tights in the fridge (and the bacon in her sock drawer). But Mego's older now and becoming ever more muddled. So Phyllida devotes herself to...
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'My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.'
It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) 'Mutt and Jeff'. So Phyllida began to write out the day's gossip at the kitchen table, putting her notes by Annie's bed before going to hers. One night as her husband wandered off to bed he muttering darkly that she spent so much time each evening writing to Annie she could have...
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The charming, funny successor to the hugely popular 'Notes to my Mother-in-Law', from the inimitable Phyllida Law.
Following Phyllida Law's wonderful and acclaimed 'Notes to my Mother-in-Law' - which comically and tenderly documented the author's relationship with her husband's mother who lived with the family for 17 years - we now have a chronicle of Phyllida's relationship with her own mother who suffered from dementia. Recently widowed, bringing...
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Death in the slow lane: Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and his new partner Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate the death of a classic car show judge.
Dark secrets: Barnaby and Jones investigate the suspicious death of a social services employee.
Echoes of the dead: The detectives look into a series of copycat murders.
The Oblong murders: Jones goes undercover to investigate a local new-age cult.
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Suddenly widowed, Annabelle Wilson makes a sudden decision to sell her home and travel the world. On her first stop, she meets Lord Howard Awd, the weathered inn-owner of the castle she's residing in for the week. As time progresses, Annabelle and Howard find themselves drawn to one another, becoming closer as they share secrets they've never told anyone else. There's only one issue in what seems to be a match made in heaven: Howard is getting married...
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Chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Framed by the present day narrative of a teacher who has the inside track on the number of lives profoundly altered by the elusive painting. The teacher's tale interconnects individual stories of tragedy, romance, success, failure and even the Holocaust.
9) Day of wrath
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During the tumultuous Spanish Inquisition, greed, torture, and death have taken over a village. Fighting deceit and betrayal, Ruy de Mendoza wields his sword to reveal a secret conspiracy.
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