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Audiobooks Narrated by Aoife Mcmahon
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How do you teach a mother to love her child, when she's still a child herself?
The first in a brand-new series by the foster 'super-gran', Wicked Girl is the shocking true story of the very first case Jeanie Doyle dealt with: a baby girl who was found abandoned on the steps of a church just before Christmas. While the 14-year-old mother was tracked down, Jeanie took her little daughter into her own care. But while she tried to help the two of them heal and bond, the terrible truth about the baby's father was revealed. Wicked Girl offers Jeanie's rare perspective of fostering young women alongside their babies. Will mother and daughter be reunited for good, or will the vulnerable young mother make the heartbreaking decision that they are both better off apart?
Compelling, heart-breaking, and emotionally vivid, When You're Gone will break your heart and fix it anew. A gripping and emotional novel about family, love and sacrifice.
1958: In a small town like Athenry, people talk. Everyone's noticed that the injury which stopped Annie Fagan's father from working doesn't prevent him from hitting his wife. But a man's home is his castle, and no one is going to intervene. Until Annie runs into Arthur 'Sketch' Talbot. Sketch is determined to help Annie, and the two soon fall in love. But Annie's father won't give his daughter up lightly, and Sketch's attempts to save her will have devastating consequences...
Now: Holly's world is falling apart. Her unborn baby is seriously ill, her relationship is fracturing before her eyes, and her Nana is dying. But Nana has one final wish before she leaves: to read, one last time, the handwritten story of her first - and last - love, Arthur 'Sketch' Talbot. As Holly reads to Nana, could it help her find the strength to face her own future? Could fulfilling her grandmother's final wish really be a gift for Holly?
This book is about true love and deep soul-connection, about caring for a spouse with terminal cancer, about when love means to let go and about what the author has learned from her bereavement following her husband's death.
When a major railway accident turns into a bizarre case of a missing body, will this PI’s hunt for the truth take her way off track?
London. Private investigator Chrissy Livingstone’s dirty work has taken her down a different path to her family. But when her upper-class sister begs her to locate a friend missing after a horrific train crash, she feels duty-bound to assist. Though when the two dig deeper, all the evidence seems to lead to one mysterious conclusion: the woman doesn’t want to be found.
Still with no idea why the woman was on the train, and an unidentified body uncannily resembling the missing person lying unclaimed in the mortuary, the sisters follow a trail of cryptic clues through France. The mystery only deepens when they learn someone else is searching, and their motive could be murder…
Can Chrissy find the woman before she meets a terrible fate?
Walk Like You is the second book in the gripping Chrissy Livingstone series. If you like hard-nosed heroines, quirky characters, and pages packed with suspense, you’ll love this twisted tale.
Perfect for fans of Dervla McTiernan, Jo Spain, Sam Blake, Carmel Harrington, Sinead Crowley and Graham Masterton.
Romantic and escapist debut fiction from the nation’s best loved TV presenter, contains exclusive spoken-word content from the author, Carol Kirkwood.
‘Loved it! ! It sizzles with secrets and passion. A real page turner!’ Jo Thomas
She can escape Hollywood, but can she escape her past?
A-list actress Shauna Jackson has the perfect life. Fame, fortune, marriage. Or so it seems.
Running from a scandal, Shauna must return to the place that changed her life twenty years ago, the idyllic Greek island of Ithos.
Captivated once more by her island escape, bittersweet memories resurface of one summer, one unforgettable man, and a long-hidden secret.
Can Shauna take the chance to confront her past?
‘An absolute cracking read – it’s brilliant!’ Steph McGovern presenter of Packed Lunch
‘Sun-soaked, glamorous escapism.’ Cressida McLaughlin
‘A sizzling summer read. I couldn’t put it down.’ Alex Brown, bestselling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage
‘An exquisite tale of love lost and found that’s full of intriguing characters and romantic locations. A Perfect summer read.’ Judy Murray
Five Star reviews from NetGalley:
Excellent debut novel *****
You had me hooked from the very first page, right through to the very last word! I was riveted. I’m in awe. *****
100% recommend sitting and relaxing with your favourite cocktail and getting lost in this truly wonderful romance. I loved it. *****
A great summer read! *****
Full of wonderful descriptions of sun-drenched Greek islands, Hollywood and its screen icons; I didn't want to put it down. *****
This book makes for a perfect summer read and one I definitely recommend reading. *****
Absolutely adored this book. I'm pretty sure I didn't move the whole time I was reading it! *****
Mysterious photos. Missing diaries. Family secrets with fatal consequences.
Chrissy Livingstone grieves over her dad's sudden death. While she cleans out his old things, she discovers something she can't explain: seven photos of schoolboys with the year 1987 stamped on the back. Unable to turn off her desire for the truth, she hunts down the boys in the photos only to find out that three of the seven have committed suicide…
Tracing the clues from Surrey to Santa Monica, Chrissy unearths disturbing ties between her father's work as a financier and the victims. As each new connection raises more sinister questions about her family, she fears she should've left the secrets buried with the dead.
Will Chrissy put the past to rest, or will the sins of the father destroy her?
Tin Men is the suspenseful first book in the Chrissy Livingstone suspense series. If you like courageous heroines, dark family secrets, and complex investigations, you’ll love Linda Coles’s engrossing story.
The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, The Words of Kings and Prophets is the powerful historical fantasy audiobook by Shauna Lawless.
Ireland, 1000 AD. Gormflaith is unhappily married to Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, and although a queen she struggles with her limited position. As an immortal Fomorian with the secret gift of magic, Gormflaith has a burning desire: to find and destroy the hidden fortress of her sworn enemies, the Descendants, who seek to kill her kind at all costs. She begins to use her magical powers, and discovers she is more skilled than she ever realised... but can she control what she will become?
Meanwhile Fódla, the Descendants' healer, mourns her banished sister but clings to life as the guardian of her young nephew. She seeks a place of safety for them both, but he has secrets of his own that could threaten everything - and Fódla must do all in her power to keep him hidden away from those who would use him for evil.
When a mysterious man comes to King Brian's court, his presence could spell disaster or deliverance for both Gormflaith and Fódla - and for Ireland herself. For he is Tomas, an ambitious immortal with few scruples - and he will do anything to see his plans become reality.
Soon, mortals and immortals alike are drawn towards a bitter conflict that could decide the future of Ireland and all her people.
Praise for the author: 'Gripping and beautiful. A Celtic Last Kingdom with wild magic and fierce heroines' ANNA SMITH SPARK
'Highlander meets The Last Kingdom... I was hooked from page one' ANTHONY RYAN
'A beguiling blend of fantasy, history, and politics... Every turn of the page ratchets up the tension. To read this novel is to fall into a richly imagined web of lives' D.K. FIELDS
The new novel from bestselling author Claudia Carroll, perfect for fans of Emma Hannigan and Marianne Keyes.
When Frank Woods at number seventy-nine Primrose Square comes home to a surprise birthday party thrown by his wife and adoring children, it is his guests who get the real surprise.
Finding himself alone, he befriends the cantankerous Miss Hardcastle, who hasn't left her home for decades, and Emily Dunne - fresh out of rehab and desperate to make amends.
As gossip spreads through Primrose Square, every relationship is tested, and nothing in this close-knit community will ever be the same again . . .
Praise for Claudia Carroll:
'Modern, warm, insightful and filled with characters that felt like friends at the end' Emma Hannigan
'Original, poignant and funny . . . [full of] wit and humour' Sheila O'Flanagan
'Full of warmth, humour and emotion . . . I guarantee you'll love it' Melissa Hill
An intensely gripping story of two extraordinary families from bestseller Teresa Crane. Perfect for fans of Emily Gunnis, Fiona Valpy and Santa Montefiore, The Wild Card is an unforgettable read.
Siobhan Clough and her children are enjoying a holiday on the English coast. With them is Mary McCarthy and her volatile son, Liam. All is well until the arrival of Siobhan's husband George. A man of strong views and temper, he browbeats his wife, belittles his daughter Christine and treats Liam like a servant. A year later, Liam unexpectedly comes face to face with the father he has never known. Liam wants nothing to do with him, but when George Clough throws him out, he has little choice but to enter his father's dangerous world of Irish politics. As the Clough children grow up, they each react to their domineering father in different ways, and Christine finds herself attracted to the man her father would disapprove of above all others, the wild card Liam McCarthy.
An abandoned child. A missing couple. A village full of secrets.
When a couple holidaying in the small Irish village of Doolan disappear one night, leaving their child behind, Chrissy Livingstone has no choice but to involve herself in the mystery surrounding their disappearance.
As the toddler is taken into care, it soon becomes apparent that in the close-knit village the couple are not the only ones with secrets to keep.
With the help of her sister, Julie, Chrissy races to uncover what is really happening. Could discovering the truth put more lives at risk?
A suspenseful story that will keep you guessing until the end.
