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Author THOMPSON KATE
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Going Down
Kate Thompson
1st UK edtion/1st printing. Book is used, read condiiton. Some creasing to spine, some wear to edges of cover. Nice book.
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Great House
Thompson, Kate
Book is the 6th impression, 1968. Book is in good condition. Book has maroon cover with gold lettering. Has a name and date, 1968 on inside cover and opposite page has another name neatly written (mine actually) The book has been
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Perfect Life, A
Kate Thompson
Golden girl Calypso O';Kelly is used to getting what she wants. As a powerful casting director, she calls the shots.Closet romantic Dannie Moore is mistress of her own destiny. Having had her fingers burned once by her war correspondent partner, she';s determined never to fall in love again.Devoted single mother Rosa Elliot dreams of a brand new life of freedom from tyrannical, exist bosses. But she finds that throwing caution to the wind isn';t necessarily the best way of making her dream come true...Three strong women, working hard to make life as perfect as possible. Until Calypso relinquishes control to a demon lover, Dannie discovers that destiny lies in the stars, and Rosa';s dreams of freedom end up in the trash. Can they ever reassamble the shards of the lives they';ve so recklessly shattered?
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Going Down
Kate Thompson
Ella Nesbit is young, good-looking and has a wicked way with the violin. She also has a great job working in a Dublin recording studio. So why isn';t life more fun? Could Julian, the trainee from hell, have something to do with it?Or is it really due to Ella';s unreciprocated passion for her boss?When Ella';s granny wins a holiday for two in Jamaica, thing start to look up. Intrepid Ella dons a wetsuit, discovers scuba, and learns something about life from Rastafarian Raphael. But closer to home, a dark horse is coming up on the outside...In this btilliant, bubbly and sexy tale from the bestselling author of Striking Poses, Ella';s granny wins a holiday for two in Jamaica, things start to look up. Interpid Ella dons a wetsuit, discovers scuba, and learns something about life from Rastafarian Raphael. But closer to home, a dark horse is coming up on the outside...In this brilliant, bubbly and sexy tale from the bestselling author of ";Strinking Poses";, Ella eventually discovers what she really, really wants - and finds a sensational way to get it.
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More Mischief
Kate Thompson
Life is weet for rising stage and TV soap star Deirdre O';Dare. But jealous fears, spawned by arch-rival Sophie, that roguish boyfriend Rory is having a Hollywood fling threaten to ruin her happiness.Retreating from Dublin to the hauntigly beautiful West of Ireland to work on a screenplay and lick her wounds, she meets gorgeous Gabriel - straight out of the Diet Coke ad and squire of the local manor. How could a girl possibly refuse?In this moving and wickledy funny tale by the bestselling author of ";It Means Mischief";, Deirdre O';Dare learns some painful, enlightening and hilarious lessons about the art of life and love as she comes face to face with the most didducult decision she';s ever had to make.
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Fourth Horseman
Kate Thompson
The first time Laurie and her dad see the white rider, watching them from the deep, cool shadows of the trees, he is alone. Laurie is convinced that his appearance has a meaning that somehow he is trying to tell them something - something her dad needs to pay attention to. Is the rider somehow linked to the genetic research into squirrels that Laurie is helping her dad with in the lab? When a second rider with a bloody sword appears alongside the first, and then a third and a fourth, Laurie knows she must try to understand who they are and what they represent.With the help of her brother and his best friend, she discovers what the riders mean, but will it be too late to stop the inevitable chain of events that has been set in motion?
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New Policeman
Kate Thompson
Everyone in Kinvara is conscious that time is flying past, faster and faster - to such an extent that when JJ asks his mother what she would like as a birthday present she ask for more time. JJ dismisses this as mere wishful thinking, an impossibility, for who know where the time goes? The Liddys have been musicians for generations and JJ is no exception but what he discovers is that a shadow from the past hangs over their family -did his great-grandfather murder the village priest? When he sets out to buy his mother time, he discovers the fate of a flute which will provide the key to both problems - it is the vital clue. He makes the transition to Tir na n';Og, the land of eternal youth, where the fairy people are also having a problem with time and it falls to his lot to locate the leak between the two parallel worlds.JJ finds where time goes! Music proves to be the touchstone for communication between the fairy and the human domains and the book is saturated with the lure of Irish music for JJ';s whole existence is built round the ceili and each chapter relates to a tune, printed out as a heading so that the reader can also become a performer. As for the New Policeman, Larry O';Dwyer, he is an enigmatic figure who has a significant bearing on the plot but whose identity is kept a superbly guarded secret to the very last surprising moment.
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