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Funny, sexy and wise...different couples, very different relationships... Coco Barrington, born into a legendary Hollywood family, is the family black sheep. With her mother embarking on a secret romance with a much-younger man, and her sister Jane with a long-term partner, Liz, they are not your typical family... Coco has fled life in the spotlight for a California beach town - until she reluctantly agrees to house-sit her sister's luxurious San Francisco home. Jane's house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest... Leslie Baxter, a dashing but down-to-earth British superstar who's fleeing his ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldn't be more different - the attraction couldn't be more immediate...

Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry has struck again. Bryant and May are about to uncover a mystery as bizarre as anything they have ever encountered...

A story of wonderful humour, emotional candour and hardy tales of tough times - The Road Back Home is set amid the pit villages of the North East. Sid paints a picture of a colourful, tight knit community full of good times and hard work, God-fearing women and hard drinking men. Amongst the unforgettable cast of his extended family and friends, we follow the Waddells' attempts to stay afloat and provide a better future and possible escape for youngsters like Sid.

In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror...

Introducing a lively new detective duo. Detective Inspector Percy Peach, aggressive and bouncy, is unimpressed to find his new detective sergeant is a woman, especially as Lucy Blake proves to be more than a match for her formidable boss. The first assignment for the unlikely duo is the case of a nineteen-year-old girl who had disappeared without warning from her home. Her body has now been found at the bottom of a deep pond. While investigating those who were close to the girl, Peach and Lucy begin to work out their own relationship, but find the truth behind the mystery is as unexpected as it is chilling...