Lesley Sharp
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From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...
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Police crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single. Her partner, Detective Constable Janet Scott, is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. They both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's prestigious Murder Investigation Team and, despite the obvious differences between them, the fact that they...
4) Nature Boy
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A powerful drama of a young man's search for acceptance and love in contemporary Britain. David, a troubled teenager, flees his foster family and native town, and embarks on a journey to find his real father. In so doing, he leaves behind a stunning nature reserve, the only place where he can feel at peace. His epic quest brings him into contact, in turn, with three extraordinary young women: the doomed young teenager, Anne Marie; Jenny, a spirited...
5) Naked
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A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
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Battle-scarred from their conflict, Rachel and Janet decide to move forward with focus and honesty. But when they both pass the promotion board with flying colours, it falls to Gill to choose who stays on as Sergeant at Syndicate 9, and their newfound harmony is threatened. Rachel's self-doubt sees her struggle with balancing her ambition with a new relationship, which may just be the best she's ever had. Meanwhile, Janet's home life throws up some...
7) Help
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From Jack Thorne, the critically acclaimed and BAFTA-winning writer behind Adolescence. When Sarah starts a job in a nursing home, she’s a natural with the residents. The home is chronically underfunded and when the Covid pandemic hits, seemingly forgotten by the system built to protect it, a feeling of helplessness engulfs Sarah as one by one the residents fall fatally ill.
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Scott & Bailey is a thrilling investigative drama series exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Janet Scott and Rachael Bailey are two detectives from the Major Incident Team of the Manchester Metropolitan Police Department. Despite their differences, impulsive, funny and single Rachel and reflective, married mother-of-two Janet, have a great partnership. Thrown together in the toughest of murder cases, they have become...
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Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott are back for another season. Upon stepping into the position of acting DI, Rachel senses the growing divide amongst her team. With Janet preoccupied by the arrest of her daughter and unable to advise on the situation, the two are left struggling to refocus on the horrific case at hand, the sinister world of Darknet.
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All eight episodes from the second series of the ITV detective drama. Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp star as two homicide detectives working for the Greater Manchester Major Incident Team. As Janet Scott (Sharp) and Rachel Bailey (Jones) investigate a string of macabre crimes across the city, they must also face up to some harsh truths in their own personal lives.
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"Widow Mimi lives on idyllic Mackinac Island where cars are not allowed and a Gibson with three onions at the witching hour is compulsory. Her granddaughter, Addie, is getting over the heartbreak of her fiancé, Brian, dumping her and cutting her out of the deal for the brilliantly successful video game, Murderscape, they invented together (with Addie doing most of the heavy lifting). When Mimi gets an invitation from local socialite Jane Ireland--a...
13) Bad tourists
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Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate escape for a post-divorce retreat in the Maldives, the perfect place to relax, reset, and embrace a fresh start in life. Darcy is learning how to be a free woman at forty-two. Camilla has found the perfect calling as a fitness and wellness influencer with a devoted following. And Kate is finally working on the book she was meant to write after years of telling other people's stories. Their dream getaway? The exclusive...
14) The full monty
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"Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their ow -- with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked! In this hilarious, heartfelt comedy, these six friends discover the inner strength to bare it all in front of the world."--Back of container
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The discovery of slaves on the Pritchard farm has turned a murder inquiry into a huge, multi-agency investigation. Under investigation for the crash, a devastated Janet finds solace in Chris's calm reasoning. When an incandescent Evie Pritchard smells alcohol on DCI Gill Murray's breath, she has all the ammunition she needs to discredit both the investigation and Gill.
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Janet is unnerved to discover that DSI Dodson cannot ignore her concerns about Gill's drinking. Just as Rachel feels as if she is getting to grips with the job, she makes a fatal error that puts Janet and Chris in danger. When a man's body is found wedged between rocks on the moors with nothing to identify him, a road block is set up and an appeal put out.
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A sparkling collection of comic monologues by Jenny Eclair, about women facing pivotal moments in their lives
'Exquisitely crafted' Radio Times
In these funny, poignant short stories, voiced by some of Britain's finest actresses, we are introduced to 29 very different women as they open their hearts and share their secrets.
Here are tales of love, grief, revenge and adventure, told by a wealth of fascinating
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When Janet gets called in to Gill's office to explain a cheeky email that she's sent to Rob, she's adamant that it wasn't from her, and mortified that Rob will think it is. Meanwhile, Catherine, daughter of care home resident Gerald French, raises concerns about the level of care her father had been receiving, so Scott and Bailey are sent in to investigate.




