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Penny Vincenzi Biography & Facts
Penelope Vincenzi (née Hannaford; 10 April 1939 – 25 February 2018) was a British novelist, who wrote 17 novels and 2 collections of stories. Her sales by 2014 amounted to over 7 million copies. Early life She was born Penelope Hannaford, on 10 April 1939 in Bournemouth, the daughter of Stanley George Hannaford (died 1985) and Mary Blanche Hannaford née Hawkey (died 1987) of New Milton, Hampshire. She was an only child, with "the most ordinary background you could possibly imagine". As a child, the family moved to Devon. She was educated at Notting Hill and Ealing High School. Career In 1962, she started to work for the Daily Mirror as a secretary, and after a year was working for the women's editor Marjorie Proops, who knowing of her journalistic ambitions, let her help with research and small tasks. Vincenzi was also a fashion journalist who worked for various publications, including the Daily Mirror and Vogue. Personal life She met her future husband Paul Robert Vincenzi, an advertising executive, the son of Dr Julius Vincenzi of Earls Colne, Essex, when she was 19. They married on 27 May 1960, and had four daughters. He died from a brain tumour in 2009. Vincenzi died on 25 February 2018, aged 78. Publications (novels) The Compleat Liar (non-fiction, 1977) Old Sins (1989) Wicked Pleasures (1992) An Outrageous Affair (1993) Another Woman (1994) Forbidden Places (1995) The Dilemma (1996) Windfall (1997) Almost a Crime (1999) No Angel (2000) Something Dangerous (2001) Into Temptation (2002) Sheer Abandon (2005) An Absolute Scandal (2007) The Best of Times (2009) The Decision (2011) A Perfect Heritage (2014) A Question of Trust (2017) References . Discover the Penny Vincenzi popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Penny Vincenzi books.
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The Inheritance
Nina BellThere's nothing like a death in the family to stir up old loves, rivalries and hatreds . . .In a world of winners and losers; friends and lovers; horses and dogs, Bramble, Felicity...
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Vets in Love
Cathy WoodmanThe sixth book in Cathy Woodman's hugely popular Talyton St George seriesEach book in the Talyton St George series can be read as a standalone novel, but when Cathy first had the i...
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A Lancashire Lass
Libby AshworthTHE SECOND NOVEL IN THE INSPIRATIONAL MILL TOWN LASSES SERIES. Perfect for fans of Val Wood and Catherine Cookson.Lancashire, 1832Maids Hannah and Mary find themselves with no jobs...
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Winnie Of The Waterfront
Rosie HarrisCrippled by polio, young Winnie Molloy has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace. When war comes Trev...
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The Fall Girl
Denise SewellThe day Frances Fall steals a baby from outside a shop, is the day her past catches up with her. At the age of thirtysix, Frances is forced to relive a life dominated on one side b...
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Class
Jilly Cooper OBECLASS IS DEAD!Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper!Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriv...
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The Girl in the Letter
Emily Gunnis'A great book, truly hard to put down. Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times all hallmarks of a bestseller' Lesley Pearse on The Girl in the Letter 'I was g...
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Caleb Williams
William Godwin & Maurice HindleWhen honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper ...
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A Class Apart
Susan LewisJenneen, Kate, Ellamarie and Ashley are enviable women. They are desirable and powerful, with glamorous jobs in the media and the theatre and, most importantly, the closest of frie...
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Londoners
Maureen DuffyMany of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts some are criminals in society’s eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit the bedsit; the...
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Selected Stories
Rudyard KiplingThis collection opens with The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in india, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, The Gardene...
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Sons And Daughters
Mary Jane StaplesBy the year 1949, life in Walworth has almost returned to normal. Sammy and Boots, now in a highly successful partnership, are rebuilding the old family firm. But an old enemy res...
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Up Close and Personal
Leonie FoxJuliet, Nicole and Yasmin. Best Friends Forever. Stunning, sexy and anything but sensible.Yasmin is a straighttalking game player who's got nostrings sex down to a T. So why is ...
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Die Perlenvilla
Rachel RhysUnter der strahlenden Mittelmeersonne lauern die dunkelsten Geheimnisse …1948: Eve Forrester führt ein tristes Dasein als unglückliche Ehefrau in einem kleinen Vorort Londons. Doch...
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A Private Affair
Lesley LokkoNo matter who you are, love comes at a price...'Perfect for a lengthy spot of tanning ... immerse yourself in the lives of four women looking for love' GRAZIA'Bestselling author Le...
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The Mill House
Susan LewisHow far would you go to hide the truth?Julia Thayne is a valued and loving wife, a successful mother and a beautiful woman. She is everything most other women strive to be. But ben...
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Stolen Beginnings
Susan LewisMarian Deacon has always been overshadowed by her cousin Madeleine, a glamorous, selfish model who will stop at nothing to reach the top. But their ordinary lives suddenly change w...
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The Morning Tide
Audrey HowardLiverpool, 1921. It was the year lively Kate Fowler rebelled against working in her hated father's chip shop and, with her gentle sister Jenny, left his brutal house forever. For t...
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A Summer Reunion
Fanny Blake'A lovely holiday read about female friendships past and present. Warm and engaging' Catherine AlliottOne perfect villa, four old friends, and a holiday that will change everythin...
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Survivors
William PeskettSurvivors is William Peskett's second book in the Secker & Warburg Poets series. At one level, it marks his move 'From Belfast to Suffolk' (the title of one of the poems), but ...
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The Common Years
Jilly Cooper OBEDuring the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the ef...
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Captains Courageous
Rudyard KiplingHarvey Cheyne is the overindulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins ...
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Forgotten Dreams
Katie FlynnLottie Lacey and her mother, Louella, share a house in Victoria Court with Mr Magic and his son Baz. Lottie is a child star, dancing and singing at the Gaiety Theatre to an enraptu...
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The Cotton Spinner
Libby AshworthThe rise of the mills is about to change everything . . .If you love Catherine Cookson and Val Wood, you will love this brand new series set in the mill town of Blackburn, Lancashi...
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Clash of Empires
Ben KaneHAS ROME FINALLY MET ITS MATCH?'A triumph!' Harry Sidebottom 'Exceptional' Anthony Riches'Fans of battleheavy historical fiction will, justly, adore Clash of Empires' The TimesTHE ...
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Turn Right At The Spotted Dog
Jilly Cooper OBEAfter going to live in the country Jilly Cooper wrote regularly for the Mail on Sunday for several years and this is a selection of her best pieces written at that time. The topics...
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The Land Lubbers Lying Down Below
Helen Dunmore'Tonight it is the concert. Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady's ballroom. As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to stare and list...
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The Falling Sword
Ben KaneCAN GREECE RESIST THE MIGHT OF ROME?Get ready for the climax of the Roman invasion of Greece in Sunday Times bestseller Ben Kane's latest historical adventure.ONE FINAL CLASHReelin...
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The Long Walk Home
Val WoodAt only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he’s shown no mercy by the wealthy lawyer who sends him to prison. He returns h...
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Forgotten
Susan LewisWhen Lisa Martin and David Kirby were forced to part, they never dreamed they might one day have a second chance. Many years later, they meet again and it is clear that, despite ev...
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How To Stay Married
Jilly Cooper OBEWhen Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to Leo Cooper for a mere seven years. Now they are celebrating ...
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Another Heartbeat in the House
Kate BeaufoyTwo women living a hundred years apart. One home that binds them together. When Edie Chadwick travels to Ireland to close up her uncle’s lakeside lodge, it’s as much to escape the ...
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Granite Island
Dorothy Carrington'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But ens...
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The Empty Nesters
Nina BellClover Jones and Laura Dangerfield have been best friends since their children were born. Along with Clover's stylish, powerful friend, Alice, they share holidays, sleepovers, scho...
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Dance While You Can
Susan LewisIt all started with a silly prank, a play and a dance a love so enduring, so indestructible that it would survive against all odds.Elizabeth Sorrill is the junior matron at Foxton...
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The Saga of Grettir the Strong
Örnólfur ThorssonComposed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an elev...
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The Girls Left Behind
Emily GunnisNO ONE WANTED TO END UP AT MORGATE HOUSE. BUT THE GIRLS HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO . . . 'The thrilling, heartbreaking, and shocking story of dark secrets, twisted lives, lies, and man...
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Greyfriars House
Emma FraserSecrets will be uncovered . . .'I was absolutely gripped . . . the atmospheric setting of Greyfriars intertwined with the grim reality of the war camps of Singapore was inspiration...
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Lovers And Liars
Nina BellA passionate love affair. A happy young family. And a successful 30year marriage.But which one will be destroyed by the truth?Sophie and her sister, Jess, grow up knowing that a fe...
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Sisters
Prue LeithGrowing up in the outback of South Africa, sensible Poppy realized she would always have to look out for her younger sister, the beautiful, wild, and unreliable Carrie. Years later...
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Under the Mistletoe
Katie FlynnCurl up with this festive, uplifting and heartwarming romantic saga . . . 'A real page turner, the novel is packed full of romance, drama and a desire to find her family' Under the...
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Three Women
Marita Conlon-McKennaKate Cassidy is about to celebrate twenty five years of marriage to Paddy. But the secret she has kept all this time is about to be discovered.Erin Harris has always known that she...
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A French Affair
Susan LewisSome secrets are too devastating to be told...When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France her mother the very poised and elegant Jessica knows instinctively there ...
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Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland
Viðar HreinssonComic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding fam...
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Velvet
Jane FeatherClad in black velvet and posing as a widowed French comtesse, Gabrielle de Beaucaire had returned to England for one purpose only to ruin the man responsible for her young lover's...
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An Absolute Scandal
Penny VincenziAn inside view of the greed and social power plays behind the closed doors of uppercrust society, An Absolute Scandal looks at a world where money isn't everything . . . sometimes,...
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Snow
Ellen Mattson & Sarah Death'The sky was now a block of darkness, punctured only by driving snow. The stars had gone out, the king was dead. And the wound on his arm refused to heal.' So begins Snow, the firs...