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  • #LoveSongsforSceptics

    My brother’s getting married in a few weeks and asked for help picking a song for his first dance. I suggested Kiss’s ‘Love’s a Slap in the Face’. It didn’t go down well. When she was a teenager, Zoë Frixos fell in love with Simon Baxter, her best friend and the boy next door. But…

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  • #TheHighMoments

    New Year’s Day is the ultimate cliché for Scarlett: hangover, check feeling weepy, check broken sense of self, check check check Jobless and stuck living at home with an academic mother who has no time for pep-talks, the one saving grace for Scarlett is that her friend, Billie, still works at the pub down the…

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  • #LongHand

    #LongHand

    Malcolm George Galbraith is a large, somewhat clumsy, Scotsman. He’s being forced to leave the woman he loves behind and needs to explain why. So he leaves her a handwritten note on the kitchen table (well, more a 300-page letter than a note). In it, Malcolm decides to start from the beginning and tell the…

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  • #TheLostLoveSong

    Arie and Diana were destined to be together. Arie falls for Diana in a heartbeat. Their love creates a life for them, a marriage and a home. Pianist Diana wants to capture this in a song for Arie. But that’s not where the story ends… After Diana debuts their song to a room full of…

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  • #TheBeautyOfYourFace

    #TheBeautyOfYourFace

    Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter―radicalized by the online alt-right―attacks the school. As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories: the bigotry she faced as a child, her mother’s…

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  • #DearEmmieBlue

    #DearEmmieBlue

    Emmie Blue has a secret… A long time ago, Emmie Blue released a red balloon with a secret message hidden inside – and against all odds, across hundreds of miles of ocean, it was found on a beach in France by a boy called Lucas. Fourteen years later, on the eve of her thirtieth birthday,…

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  • #TheWitchHouse

    #TheWitchHouse

    Who can you trust, if you can’t trust yourself? Alice Hunter, grieving and troubled after a breakdown, stumbles on the body of her friend and trustee, Harry Rook. The police determine he has been ritually murdered and suspicion falls on the vulnerable Alice, who inherited the place known locally as The Witch House from her…

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  • #ShedNoTears

    Four victims.Killer caught.Case closed . . . Or is it? Christopher Masters, known as ‘The Roommate Killer’, strangled three women over a two-week period in a London house in November 2012. Holly Kemp, his fourth victim, was never found. Until now. Her remains have been unearthed in a field in Cambridgeshire and DC Cat Kinsella…

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  • #Neon

    A detective desperate for revenge. A hitwoman with one last job. A killer with both on his list. Detective Matt Jackson has reached the end. His beloved wife, Polly, is the latest victim of ‘NEON’ – a serial killer who displays his victims in snaking neon lights – and he can’t go on without her.…

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  • #SetMyHeartToFive

    Hi!My name is Jared.I am sincerely pleased to meet you.Also, I am a bot!Unless you have been living under a rock in North Korea or New Zealand – Ha! – you of course know what a bot is.Nonetheless I am programmed to relay the following dialogue to each new human I encounter:Please do not be…

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