Anna Chancellor
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Based on the character of Dr. Martin Bamford from the film Saving Grace, this Doc Martin has a different name, different medical specialty, and different personality from the later TV series, but he's still selfish, short-tempered and dislikes dogs. The doctor flees to the coastal village of Port Isaac (later called Portwenn in the TV series) to reassess his marriage and his career.
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Paul Slippery is an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
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A series of sinister terror strikes, combined with severe fuel shortages, has plunged Britain into crisis. As a chronically weakened prime minister fights to hold onto power, the public mood turns increasingly anarchic. MI-5 supremo Harry Pearce and team leader Adam Carter begin to face the horrifying possibility that the country is under attack from sinister forces right at the heart of the establishment.
8) Come away
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When their eldest brother dies, Peter and Alice seek to save their parents from despair until they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
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Kids are disappearing, policemen are being poisoned and Sherlock Holmes is under house arrest, falsely accused of crimes he didn't commit. Enter the Baker Street Irregulars. This savvy, street-smart team of teens become the great detective's eyes, ears and legs. But can these kids really help Holmes stop a mastermind from stealing England's gold, the good name of her greatest sleuth, and the lives of two of their own?
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"The Hotel Portofino has only been open a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its co-proprieter and moving spriit, Bella Ainsworth: she's short of staff and ready money; her guests, including the imperious Lady Latchmere, are demanding and hard-to-please; and she's beign targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, Signor Danioni, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot political cauldron of Mussolini's Italy. The Hotel...
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A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Star of the Sea.
Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London...
Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London...
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A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the unlikely of friendship between a reclusive young woman with dreams of being a children's book author and a cantankerous widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London. Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay) is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children's book. When she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden...
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New Blood volume 7
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Stefan is still chasing the mysterious criminal, Daniel Lorca, while Rash investigates Our Child. Their paths bring them together in an explosive finale.
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New Blood volume 4
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Rash and Stefan are looking for a flat, but a dead construction worker and a secret connected to an iconic new skyscraper means they must work together once again.
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New Blood volume 5
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Once again, Rash and Stefan find their jobs are on the line. Can they discover the reason Adam was killed before time runs out for them?
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New Blood volume 3
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With two assassins on their trail and a war between big pharma companies raging, Rash and Stefan are forced to join together to find the truth.
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New Blood volume 2
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Stefan and Rash still have no idea that they are investigating the same case, but as the murders continue, they find themselves drawn into a lethal conspiracy.