Michael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs & their recipes. He wants to know how to cook, not just to follow recipes. ...

Take a drop of existential angst, mix with a group of old friends, stir in the sweet agony of midlife nostalgia, & you have the recipe for he Thanksgiving dinner from hell
- especially when it's narrated in part by a mischievous God who pulls their strings & show us the workings. A group of cosmopolitan friends in midlife gather in New England for a Thanksgiving dinner
- & are trapped there when it snows. Sean, the Irish hard-drinking poet is their host, but hasn't told them he's dying of cancer. In fact none of them would be there if they didn't have the kind of dysfunctional lives & problems which prevent them being with their own families. With the exception of the enigmatic outsider, a new young trophy wife, they all know too much about each other, their weak points & failures. Relationships & histories criss-cross; they have little in common except a mutual past & a search for meaning in the present. & meanwhile they're all at the mercy of fate
- both inevitable & surprising, funny & tragic.


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Jim lives in a fishing village
- but no-one goes fishing any more as all the fish have gone. One day, Jim spots a dolphin beached
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Paul Dombey is an ambitious, calculating London merchant. He pins all his hopes for the future of his shipping firm on his fragile son whilst his daughter, Florence, goes unnoticed & neglected. It is only when the firm faces ruin, & Dombey is staring at a life of desolate solitude that Florence may finally be valued. Can this heartless businessman be redeemed? Dombey & Son is a delicious & lively satire about pride & its downfall. ...

One of Dicken's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama & realism mingle with halluncinatory power, DOMBEY & SON weaves together a number of stories which centre upon the family of the self-important merchant, Paul Dombey, & his children Paul & Florence. Supplied with the usual extraordinary cast of Dickensian grotesques, both comic & sinister, the novel also boasts a wonderful villain, in the person of Mr Carker, who tries to seduce Florence & meets his death under a train
- the first such death in literary history.
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THE PRESS CALLED IT 'THE HEIST OF THE MILLENNIUM' & 'A PLOT WORTHY OF JAMES BOND'. In 2000, a gang of villains from the South East of England hatched an audacious plan to steal the world's largest perfect diamond from the Millenium Dome in broad daylight & make their getaway by speedboat. The gang had figured out an ingenious way to breach the diamond vault but the execution was reliant on timing, brute force & a JCB digger. Had they succeeded, it would have made the spoils of the Great Train Robbery & Brinks Mat look like loose change. They came within a whisker of unimaginable wealth, but it was snatched from under them by one of the most daring police operations ever.
Here is the thrilling & dramatic full story of the robbery
- as told by the detective who foiled their plans. Experience the electrifying attacks, the jaw-dropping guile of the villains, the nerves needed for the stakeout & the final, nail-biting confrontation inside the Dome.

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Female desire, Cole decided, could never be underestimated. Whether a girl was naive, like Nurse Margaret, or a cynical sophisticate, like Melinda, if a man discovered their dark side & indulged it to satisfaction, they belonged to him thereafter. But Cole's oath
- to never feel for any woman
- is threatened the moment he is asked to mentor Lana. A girl who wields the ultimate feminine weapon
- abosolute undemanding surrender.


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Female desire, Cole decided, could never be underestimated. Whether a girl was naive, like Nurse Margaret, or a cynical sophisticate, like Melinda, if a man discovered their dark side & indulged it to satisfaction, they belonged to him thereafter. But Cole's oath
- to never feel for any woman
- is threatened the moment he is asked to mentor Lana. A girl who wields the ultimate feminine weapon
- abosolute undemanding surrender.


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Latex masks transform women into beaufiful vamps & ruthless femmes fatales. A timid socialite & her shy maid suddenly become ...

Dominic is an ordinary boy with an appetite for magic & a rather extraordinary sidekick- his magical top hat, the Topper. The two of them live happily, but when Great Aunt Rowena comes to stay things begin to go awry. Rowena has plans of her own for the Topper, & she's not going to give in without a fight.
This begins a new strand of publishing for Dominic Wood, master magician & TV star. Dominic is an endearing character & his adventures with the Topper are bound to delight young readers. & there's even a magic trick to learn at the end of the book
- to keep those young magicians happy.

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