Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life?

No challenge was too great, or so she thought........





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Lauren is on top of the world, literally, travelling in the Himalayas to 'find herself'. But when she runs into her first ever boyfriend, Callum, everything turns rocky. Lauren still loves Callum. Callum still loves Lauren. The problem is he is on honeymoon with someone else
- someone Lauren & her new pal Stella think is highly unsuitable for the hunky Callum. Lauren runs off to a monastery in an attempt to get rid of her earthly desires, but with some surprisingly sexy monks around, Lauren's desires only multiply. Then, while trekking, Callum gets altitude sickness. Lauren could take care of him, but what will happen if his new wife finds out?
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Coming Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads & the domination of the motor-car, to an idealised golden Engl&, largely rural & unmechanised when, in the nostalgia of childhood, it was 'summer... always summer'. It looks forward to the destruction wrought by air-raids (though written in 1938-1939, war is expected in 1941) leading to ' The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world.. the rubber truncheons.. the posters with enormous faces' that will be Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yet, despite its sense of loss & its grim foreboding, Coming Up for Air is a very funny book, with a rich sense of the incongruity of life & people, & it is illuminated by Orwell's wry, sardonic wit in which there is not a little self-parody. ...

Rosie Cooper, an impoverished, self-employed landscape gardner, is booted off her job by an over-fussy client. ALthough it's unprofessional, she decides to visit the woman a few days later, to contest her dismissal. She arrives to find a rugged, male replacement behaving even more unprofessionally by having sex with the client in the back garden! It seems she's got competition
- a rival firm of fit, good-looking blokes are targetting single well-off women in West London. When the competition's this unfair, Rosie will need all her sexual skills to level the playing field.
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In March 1784, at a time when most of the fleet was laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weighed anchor at Spithead to ...

Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines & he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of a gun, Chris will be holding a camera & filming the whole ordeal for a major TV series.

The Royal Marines Commando training base in Lympstone Devon, has a famous motto: '99.9% need not apply'. Of those who start training, after a very tough selection process, nearly 50% fail to make it through the most gruelling physical tests of any armed forces in the world in an eight month training regime. The elite who do eventually pass out are generally eighteen years old & at the peak of physical condition. But Chris Terrill is the exception: this book will tell of his heroic struggle to become the oldest man to win the coveted Royal Marines Commando Green Beret & enter the record books.

And after six months of hell, what next? Chris will follow the raw recruits on a tour to Southern Afghanistan. He will tell the story in book & film of the fears & hopes of the youngsters as they are plunged into one of the planet's most dangerous wars in the outlaw mountain terrain of Helmand Province. He will tell of ferocious battles against the Taliban, of firefights, of jaw-dropping heroism, British sang froid & humour & tragedy as causalities are suffered -- all from the unique perspective of a civilian who has achieved the ultimate accolade: to be accepted as an honorary Royal Marines Commando. Commando is a brilliant account of modern war on the front line.



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Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines & he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of a gun, Chris will be holding a camera & filming the whole ordeal for a major TV series.

The Royal Marines Commando training base in Lympstone Devon, has a famous motto: '99.9% need not apply'. Of those who start training, after a very tough selection process, nearly 50% fail to make it through the most gruelling physical tests of any armed forces in the world in an eight month training regime. The elite who do eventually pass out are generally eighteen years old & at the peak of physical condition. But Chris Terrill is the exception: this book will tell of his heroic struggle to become the oldest man to win the coveted Royal Marines Commando Green Beret & enter the record books.

And after six months of hell, what next? Chris will follow the raw recruits on a tour to Southern Afghanistan. He will tell the story in book & film of the fears & hopes of the youngsters as they are plunged into one of the planet's most dangerous wars in the outlaw mountain terrain of Helmand Province. He will tell of ferocious battles against the Taliban, of firefights, of jaw-dropping heroism, British sang froid & humour & tragedy as causalities are suffered -- all from the unique perspective of a civilian who has achieved the ultimate accolade: to be accepted as an honorary Royal Marines Commando. Commando is a brilliant account of modern war on the front line.



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WASTED YOUTH is a biographical 'slice of life' fiction spanning fifteen years in the times of John Hay & his growing up in & around a southern English council estate in the late 1960s to early 1980s. As John Hay charts the choppy waters from boyhood to manhood he encounters bullying, child abuse, poverty, racism, violence, sex, drugs, bereavement & even murder. But the spirit, humour & inventiveness of the community he vividly describes provides a human & hopeful pulse. But as he approaches forty years of age, Hay recalls these formative times & the characters, good & bad, that he grew up with. He reflects on the various paths their lives have taken & mourns for a time when he never felt more alive. This process spurs him into doing something not even he can underst&. ...

Deborah Meaden is known to millions for her straight-talking, no-nonsense approach on BBC2's Dragons' Den, & in Common ...