Daisy Waugh

Tode Hall

1 - In the Crypt with a Candlestick (Oct-2020)
2 - Phone for the Fish Knives (Jun-2021)
3 - Old School Ties (Sep-2023)

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  What Is the Matter with Mary Jane?
  

  • Mar-1988
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  'It is odd that the galvanised industry of women's literature should have passed by that most telling of female malaises, Anorexia Nervosa... Daisy Waugh breaks the silence with a resounding clatter of imaginative energy. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MARY...

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  The New You Survival Kit
  

  • Jan-2002
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  Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch-eat-bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is ...

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  Bed of Roses
  

  • May-2005
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  A fun, feelgood romp of country life from bestselling author Daisy Waugh When the restless, rootless Fanny Flynn lands the job as Head Teacher of Fiddleford Village Primary School it feels more like a last resort than another of her new beginnings. S...

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  The Desperate Diary of a Country Housewife
  

  • Jun-2008
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  Bordeaux Housewives
  

  • Jun-2010
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  A new start. With old secrets . . .Who hasn't dreamed of running away from it all? The Haunt family have gone and clone it. On an impulse, Maude, her husband Horatio and their two small children have left their tiny London terrace for the sunflower ...

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  Last Dance with Valentino
  

  • Mar-2011
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  If you like The Artist you'll love Daisy Waugh's Last Dance with Valentino. As Rudolph Valentino fights for his life, barricades keep the swarming fans at bay. Adored by millions of women, but loved by only one!Will she be able to reach him in time? ...

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  Ten Steps to Happiness
  

  • Aug-2011
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  She's left the rat race behind—but taken her contacts book with her You can take the girl out of the city—but can you take the city out of the girl? Jo Smiley abandons her glamorous London lifestyle to decamp to a draughty manor house...

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  Melting the Snow on Hester Street
  

  • Apr-2013
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  RICH. BEAUTIFUL. DAMNED.OCTOBER 1929: AS AMERICA HELTERSKELTERS THROUGH THE LAST DAYS BEFORE THE GREAT CRASH, THE CREAM OF HOLLYWOOD PARTIES HEEDLESSLY ON. Society couple, Max and Eleanor, let the prohibition champagne flow as the glittering facade o...

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  Honeyville
  

  • Mar-2020
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  THIS TOWN WAS BUILT ON SIN The town of Trinidad, Colorado, was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one, if you had the cash. Honeyville, they used to call it. A murder throws Inez and Dora togetherȁ...

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  In the Crypt with a Candlestick
  

  • Oct-2020
  • / Mystery
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  Tode Hall - 1
  

  A wonderfully comedic mystery full of sharp drama, sly wit -- and a smidgeon of murder -- in the vein P. G. Wodehouse, Julian Fellowes, and Agatha Christie.Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age -- much to the despair of his yo...

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  Phone for the Fish Knives
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Mystery
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  Tode Hall - 2
  

  'Daisy Waugh's featherlight satires are as refreshing and uplifting as a glass of chilled vintage champagne. . . Imagine Agatha Christie on laughing gas' TimesThe Todes are back, and they're taking on Hollywood . . .When Hollywood wants to do a remak...

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  Old School Ties
  

  • Sep-2023
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Tode Hall - 3
  

  'A hilariously funny and bonkers book which I thoroughly enjoyed' ANNE GLENCONNER'A witty, waspy, parody that hits its targets - hilarious' HELEN LEDERERThe next in Daisy Waugh's hilarious Tode Hall series: a gloriously witty tale of toffs, terror an...

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