Martina Cole





Martina Cole

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Aveley, Essex , The United Kingdom
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Martina Cole was born and brought up in Essex. She is the bestselling author of fourteen novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent three paperbacks have gone straight to No. 1 in the Sunday Times on first publication. Total sales of Martina's novels stand at over eight million copies.




Average rating: 4.05 · 17,709 ratings · 841 reviews · 24 distinct works · Similar authors
The Ladykiller
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 1,448 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions
The Take
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 1,433 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions
Dangerous Lady (Maura Ryan,...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 1,304 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
The Runaway
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,302 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions
Two Women
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
Maura's Game (Maura Ryan, #2)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 1,148 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions
Faceless
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions
The Know
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,128 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
Broken
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
The Graft
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,012 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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“People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed”
Martina Cole, Close

“He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.”
Martina Cole, Close

“I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.”
Martina Cole, The Jump

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