Macmillan Bello - Böcker

Police superintendent Percy Trethowan found Londons Soho as colourful and full of life as everyexcept for the four corpses in a seedy photography studio. Shot doing a layout for Bodies, a soft-porn health and fitness magazine, the photographer, hi...

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The Ketterick Festival revolves around the Saracens Head, a Jacobean inn with its inn-yard and balconies miraculously preserved intact, due to the sloth of successive landlords. Here in festival time are performed the lesser-known masterpieces of ...

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With A City of Strangers, award-winning novelist Robert Barnard, acclaimed for his quick wit and astute insight into the vagaries of class distinction and human foible, achieves a new level of mastery. He also creates one of his most memorable cha...

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There were two Mrs Machins, relicts of the talented working-class writer Walter Machin, who was just about to be immortalised by the literary establishment. Viola was large, overbearing and, even in her seventies, still voluptuous. Hilda, the firs...

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The Stars Look Down was A.J. Cronin's fourth novel, published in 1935, and this tale of a North country mining family was a great favourite with his readers. Robert Fenwick is a miner, and so are his three sons. His wife is proud that all her...

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A. J. Cronins famous story is a soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution. When her father forced her to leave school, and cut off all her contact with the past and future, Mary Brodies whole life became the narrow compa...

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Foreign correspondent George Gerney, travelling to Moscow by train to report for his newspaper on post-war changes there, finds himself in the company of a pro-Soviet delegation from England. His aloof attitude towards his fellow passengers receiv...

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On Tara Hill, near Dublin, is the site where The House of a Thousand Soldiers once stood. An archaeologist becomes involved in a project to rebuild The House of Soldiers and to repeople it for a day with living images of the soldiers who had once ...

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The Closter Drug company is going to double in value as soon as it perfects its cure for migraine: most of the directors are set to make sizeable fortunes as they float the company on the Stock Exchange. When a group pledged to stopping experiment...

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Marton Manor, in rural Herefordshire, makes a romantic setting even for a hastily organised wedding. And it is a quickly-arranged ceremony indeed that Fleur Jarvas is demanding even though marrying before her twenty-first birthday means forfeiting...

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Llanegwen on the coast of North Wales used to be an attractive, healthy place for respectable people. But now its a mixed bag of allsorts theres a masked rapist stalking the streets, a petty thief with an eye to the main chance and anonymous busin...

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It doesnt take Clare Hunter many years of married life to discover that her husband, Arnold, is ruthless and unscrupulous. But it is not until she attempts to break up their unsatisfactory marriage that she herself becomes victim of his power-comp...

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Of the six convicts Robert Ashe tries to help on his weekly visit to the prison, Terry Booth is the most promising. It seems that Terry, only twenty-four years old, has gained something positive from Ashes confidence and friendship: that on his re...

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A tense, cleverly devised game of bluff and double-bluff . . . Most successful men make enemies but Robert Quarry, a rich and ruthless industrialist, had more than his share. Feeling was running high at Quarrys strike-bound factory in the Midlands...

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When Anthony Bliss roguish ladies man and con-artist extraordinaire meets gorgeous Corinne Lake, whose wit, charm and eye for the finer things in life make her utterly irresistible, sparks fly. Their combination of passion and intellect make them ...

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When British correspondent for Russia Lord Tim Quainton falls in love with Marya Razcinski whilst on leave in London, little does he know what a web of intrigue he is entering. Quainton's suspicions are first awakened when he discovers a secr...

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Alan Hunt is ambitious and unpleasant a caravan salesman with good looks, youth and charm. He is engaged to be married to Susan, a plain girl with a beautiful fortune. Just two weeks before the wedding, Gwenda Nicholls turns up, a pretty redhead h...

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An instinctive decision. A dangerous gang. A life at risk. When Debbie Sheldon witnesses a jewel theft one that leaves an innocent man dead she acts on impulse, taking a photograph of the getaway car. And now the criminals want the evidence back a...

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When the Foreign Editor of Londons Morning Call newspaper resigns, his assistant Edgar Jessop seems, at least to himself, the obvious choice to replace him. Particularly as he has been passed over for promotion on so many occasions in the past. Je...

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When events dont go to plan, who knows where you will end up? Four teenagers, all eager to impress each other, embark on a seemingly straight forward robbery. But when events dont go to plan the four youths find themselves on the run from the poli...

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Its high summer in Oxford. The university vacation has just begun. The eight governors of the Moneybuckle Endowment (an architectural library) are assembling at All Saints College for the annual dinner before their meeting under chairman Mark Trea...

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Hardly anyone attends St Martins Church, Kengrave Square, in West London, and its very nearly falling down. But when news gets out that its to be closed, and possibly sold, theres a significant flurry of interest. The site is worth millions. Aziz ...

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Mike Conway, an ocean-going yachtsman down on his luck in a tropical port, welcomes the chance to repair his fortunes when he is approached to undertake a dangerous and illegal, but highly lucrative mission. For Victor Metaxas, who planned the ent...

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Toby is a very plausible young scoundrel: good at winning confidences and also at staving off troublesome emotions. On the point of leaving Cambridge, he meets Maisie, who is beautiful, tense and vulnerable. She falls in love. He does not. He take...

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Litchester Cathedral, usually an oasis of cloistered calm, suddenly finds itself at the centre of an acrimonious dispute over the proposed sale of its 1225 copy of the Magna Carta. Merchant banker Mark Treasure is invited down to sort out the squa...

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Sir Ray Bims is about to be charged as the principal in a Caribbean bank thats laundering international drug money. Lord Grenwood, octogenarian chairman of Grenwood, Phipps, the London merchant bankers, is appalled. Three years ago he sold the Eel...

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Mark Treasure has no idea that accompanying his actress wife on location to a picturesque West Country town could possibly lead to murder . . . The merchant banker is asked by Chiversleys area bishop to become involved in the financial affairs of ...

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I think there must be some mistake. James Lester is a rising star in the political world and all signs point to his becoming the next Prime Minister, but the appearance of a mystery girl, claiming to have a history with the MP, threatens a scandal...

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Young Dr. Martin West has just arrived to take up an important medical post on a British island colony in the Tropics which is on the verge of being granted self-government, and where corruption is rife. His chief, Dr. Garland, shows him over an i...

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Have you ever wondered what undiscovered gems lie waiting to be found in your garden? Lawrence Quilter, a man in a position of power, finds some interesting records amongst his great grandfathers papers. This leads him to uncover a labyrinth of se...

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