Sadie's life is calm & complete. She is a mother, a good friend, & the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants, or deserves.

But now her father is dying: the vital, elusive man who spent his life creating perfumes for other women is slipping away from her. When she realises that she can never make her peace with him, Sadie begins to look back over her childhood. In pursuing his separate life, Sadie's father ignored her, subjecting her to succession of 'aunties', leaving her loveless & alone.

As Sadie confronts the truth about her father, her relationship with her son Jack appears to be breaking down & she is intent on saving it. Then the arrival of one of those fleeting women from her father's past starts a train of events that even Sadie cannot control...



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Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story & a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story & the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book
- IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino
- are constantly & comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day

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Bestselling author Cherie Carter-Scott gives vital, real-world advice to help you create the level of personal success that you wish for.

The 10 rules
* Each person has their own definition of success
* Your actions effect your outcomes
* Wanting success is the first step towards attaining it
* Opportunities will be presented
* Honouring your truth leads you to your path
* Succeeding is a process that never ends
* Goals are the stepping stones on your path
* Each setback provides a valuable lesson
* Managing your resources maximises your efforts
* Every level of success brings new challenges
If Success is a Game, These Are the Rules features breakthrough advice & is illustrated by heart-warming true stories destined to encourage & inspire women & men around the world.












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Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland & the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia & Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively & in plain language he renders both the horror & the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing
- work love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human
- he leaves the reader drained, elated, apprehensive.

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