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  Ruth Galloway: Book 2

  The Janus Stone

  by Elly Griffiths

  The second novel in the highly praised new mystery series featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, a woman who is very intimate with old bones and big trouble. The Janus Stone , the second Ruth Galloway mystery, sees Ruth literally up to her neck in trouble. She's standing in a trench cut into the ground floor of an old Victorian mansion in Norwich once run by the Catholic church as a home for children.... (more)
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  Ruth Galloway: Book 1

  The Crossing Places

  by Elly Griffiths

  When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote, wild place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea under Norfolk's vast skies. For company she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked... (more)
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  Ruth Galloway: Book 3

  The House at Sea's End

  by Elly Griffiths

  Elly Griffiths's Ruth Galloway novels have been praised as "highly atmospheric" ( New York Times Book Review )  "remarkable" ( Richmond Times-Dispatch ) and "satisyfyingly meaty."( Guardian , UK)  Now the beloved forensic archeologist returns, called to investigate when human bones surface on a remote Norfolk beach.   Just back from maternity leave, Ruth is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work. The... (more)
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  I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

  by Alan Partridge

  Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder -- Alan Partridge -- a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan's never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom, south-built house with three acres of land and access to a private stream. But who is this mysterious enigma? Alan Gordon Partridge is the best -- and best-loved -- radio... (more)
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  HOUSE OF SILENCE

  by Linda Gillard

  A country house mystery... A family drama... A Gothic romantic comedy... REBECCA meets COLD COMFORT FARM in Linda Gillard's complex new novel, HOUSE OF SILENCE. SYNOPSIS "My friends describe me as frighteningly sensible, not at all the sort of woman who would fall for an actor. And his home. And his family." Orphaned by drink, drugs and rock n’ roll, Gwen Rowland is invited to spend Christmas at her boyfriend... (more)
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  Life

  An Exploded Diagram

  by Mal Peet

  Carnegie Medalist Mal Peet ignites an epic tale of young love against the dramatic backdrop of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Can love survive a lifetime? When working-class Clem Ackroyd falls for Frankie Mortimer, the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy local landowner, he has no hope that it can. After all, the world teeters on the brink of war, and bombs could rain down any minute over the bleak... (more)
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  The House at Sea's End: A Case for Investigator Ruth Galloway, Forensic Archaeologist

  by Elly Griffiths

  Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of the cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but Ruth finds this more hindrance than help - Nelson is the father of her daughter, Kate. Still, she remains... (more)
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  Detective Inspector Peter Shaw and Detective Sergeant George Valentine: Book 1

  Death Wore White

  by Jim Kelly

  Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.
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  Hugh Corbett Mysteries: Book 8

  The Song of a Dark Angel

  by P. C. Doherty

  November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast to confront an evil rarely seen before. A man's headless corpse, its head impaled on a pole, has been found on a beach and the pretty young wife of a local baker is discovered hanging from a gallows. The scene is set for more... (more)
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  At Home

  A Short History of Private Life

  by Bill Bryson

  It struck Bill Bryson one day that we devote a lot more time to the Wars of the Roses or the Normandy Landings than considering what most of history really consists of: centuries upon centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping, having sex, endeavouring to be amused. So he started a journey around his house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from room to room considering how... (more)
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  House of the Lost

  by Sarah Rayne

  When novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote Norfolk house in which his cousin Charmery was murdered, he believes it will bring him closer to the truth about her death. It will also be the ideal place to finish his new book. But the bleak Fenn House is a lonely and sometimes uncomfortable place to spend the winter. And the strangest thing is that Theo's new novel seems to be writing itself - and heading in an... (more)
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  The Handbag and Wellies Yoga Club

  by Lucy Edge

  Humourous and heart-warming memoir of a former ad executive who trades her hectic London lifestyle for a big rambling country house in East Anglia (Norfolk). Through yoga she finds the friendships and hopefully the grace and wisdom to handle all of life's hardships, disappointments and joys.
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  A Place of Secrets

  by Rachel Hore

  The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again ...Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark forest, crying for her mother. Now her six-year-old niece, Summer, is having the same dream, and Jude is frightened for her. A successful auctioneer, Jude is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. When she's asked to... (more)
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  Never Let Me Go

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy... (more)
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  Lord Peter Wimsey: Book 9

  The Nine Tailors

  by Dorothy L. Sayers

  Nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia.
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  Ursula Blanchard Series: Book 8

  The Siren Queen (Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court (Paperback))

  by Fiona Buckley

  In the worlds of passion and politics, Ursula Blanchard knows to follow her heart -- if she is to keep her head.... Happily married and enjoying the life domestic, Ursula has her mind on family matters, not court treachery, as she begins to plan a betrothal for her young daughter Meg. When the powerful Duke of Norfolk extends an invitation for Ursula and her family to travel to London to meet Edmund Dean, a... (more)
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  The Best of Plimpton

  by George Plimpton

  Featuring such classic pieces as "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" and "The Plimpton Small-Ball Theory of Sports Writing"--the smaller the ball the better the writing--this is a rich mix of profiles, essays, and articles from a most talented and unique American literary personality. Photographs.
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  Agatha Raisin: Book 10

  Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam

  by M. C. Beaton

  DANCING LIGHTS, DISAPPEARING VALUABLES...AND MURDER- A FANCIFUL MYSTERY FOR THE INDOMITALTE AGATHAFeeling jilted, cross and desperate to reclaim the love of her life, James, Agatha Raisin follows a fortune teller's advice and rents a cottage in the picturesque village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune and true love will come chasing after her.Adding a bit of spice to her adventure, she's pronounced to the... (more)
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  The Music Room

  by Dennis McFarland

  In a novel of devastating beauty, Martin Lambert must come to terms with the aftermath of his brother's suicide.Replaying sad melodies of his affluent youth, Martin embarks on a poignant journey through his family's haunted past--an unforgettable voyage of self-discovery that leads him from a childhood tainted by shocking parental abuse to a present clouded by alcoholic despair and desperate love-- and,... (more)
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  Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed

  by Richard D. Camp

  Within the Marine Corps the “Old Breed” has a special meaning, referring to the soldiers of the 1st Marine Division and their heroic defense of Guadalcanal in the early days of World War II, as well as to those who have gone before.  This book gives today’s readers a rare chance to hear these old soldiers tell their own stories and to learn firsthand what it was like to be there for some of the twentieth century’s... (more)