Adie Hamilton is young, ambitious & wants to make a name for herself in Egyptology. When the enigmatic & sexy Killian Carmichael invites her to join his research team at the deser necropolis of Saqqara it's not all dusty tombs & broken pots. Whilst Adie is drawn into the search for a vital missing fragment of an erotic mural, Dareth Sadler, a charismatic leader of a cult hooked on sex magic, arrives to threaten the future of the project. Sadler is Killian's bitter rival, so it's up to Adie to keep one step ahead of Sadler & his scheming coterie of Ankh-wearing New Age groupies. The desert landscape & the hidden chambers of its monument are suffused with sybaritic secrets. They have a beguiling effect on the archaeological team & everyone who is drawn to learn more about the mysterious erotic rites of the ancient Egyptians. ...

After completing his first, highly succesful quilt book, Kaffe's interest in patchwork continued & he expanded his enthusiastic involvement in the craft by beginning to design his own patchwork fabrics. With this collection Kaffe has seized the opportunity to delve more deeply into the intricate arrangement of geometric patches & interesting prints
- occasionally incorporating his own stunning fabric designs. The twenty new designs include full-size quilts, tablecloths, cushion covers & baby quilts, all in exciting saturated colour schemes so characteristic of Kaffe's renowned work. Chapters explore the use of the building blocks of circles, squares diamonds & triangles & an elegant mixture of colours & prints give each of the designs in this new collection a unique & subtle energy. As ever, Kaffe's creations illustrate how awe-inspiring & breathtaking the decorative crafts can be. There are detailed instructions & simple, coloured piecing diagrams for each patchwork. Templates for tracing are included at the back of the book. & for those new to patchwork, the necessary basic start-to-finish directions are given in a special chapter.
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In this masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety & compassion humanity at its most mundane & mysterious. From modern apartments in Miami to nineteenth-century Polish villages, from bravery in wartime Warsaw to a different kind of courage in Lisbon, these tales span the world & the range of human life. ...

1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career, removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves, & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly & coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness.

Seventy years later, historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime: to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford. But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare. Radford

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1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career, removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves, & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly & coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness.

Seventy years later, historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime: to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford. But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare. Radford

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With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for girlfriends from his past. Meanwhile, back in the present, Newson is secretly in love with Natasha, his lovely but very attached sergeant, & completely failing to solve a series of baffling & gruesome murders. When a school reunion is planned, history begins to repeat itself & the past crashes headlong into the present. In Past Mortem, Ben Elton delivers both a heart-stopping thriller & a killer comic romance. ...