When successful interior designer Elise St John is offered a commission at a remote castle, she jumps at the chance to distance herself from a web of sexual & emotional entanglements. Yet, as she sets work creating rooms in which guests will be able to realise their most erotic fantasies she finds herself indulging in fantasies of her own about two very different men.
Blair Devlin
- overtly sexy & self-confident
- is a local riding instructor. Max Lannsen
- the Master of Shilden
- is darkly attractive but more remote. All they seem to have in common is their hatred for one another. Then, when Elise's sensual daydreams become reality, she discovers that each man's future depends on a decision she will soon be forced to make. To which of them does she really owe her loyalty?




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When successful interior designer Elise St John is offered a commission at a remote castle, she jumps at the chance to distance herself from a web of sexual & emotional entanglements. Yet, as she sets work creating rooms in which guests will be able to realise their most erotic fantasies she finds herself indulging in fantasies of her own about two very different men.
Blair Devlin
- overtly sexy & self-confident
- is a local riding instructor. Max Lannsen
- the Master of Shilden
- is darkly attractive but more remote. All they seem to have in common is their hatred for one another. Then, when Elise's sensual daydreams become reality, she discovers that each man's future depends on a decision she will soon be forced to make. To which of them does she really owe her loyalty?




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Since the turn of the century, we have seen hopes of a new era of peace shattered by the 9/11 attack on the US. We have witnessed the US become embroiled in a divisive & seemingly unwinnable war in Iraq.. We have looked on as new nuclear rivalries have sprung up with Iran & North Korea. We have also seen Europe struggle to define its place in the New World Order. & we have observed the balance of world focus shift towards China & India as they have continued their unprecedented economic rise.

What is the significance of all of this? Are these random events or is there an underlying pattern? What is required of leaders & individuals to propel the world in a more positive direction? The Master Strategist provides the means to decipher these changes, offering unique insights into the issues & patterns that are defining the future, & pointing the way to strategies for a freer & more peaceful & prosperous world.

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In the same way that Machiavelli, & Sun Tzu before him, exploded all existing ideas about strategy, The Master Strategist ...

A perpetual breeze blows through Amour-sur-Belle, a village so ugly that even the English refuse to live there.

Guillaume

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A perpetual breeze blows through Amour-sur-Belle, a village so ugly that even the English refuse to live there.

Guillaume

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Many aspects of the human mind remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection can explain the evolution of most life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that seem most uniquely & profoundly human
- art, morality, consciousness, creativity & language. Yet these aspects of human nature need not remain evolutionary mysteries. Until fairly recently most biologists have ignored or rejected Darwin's claims for the other great force of evolution
- sexual selection through mate choice, which favours traits simply because they prove attractive to the opposite sex. But over recent years biologists have taken up Darwin's insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest. Witty, powerfully-argued & continually thought-provoking, Miller's cascade of ideas bears comparison with such critical books as Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene & Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. It is a landmark in our understanding of our own species.

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A Jeeves & Wooster novel

At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill,

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A Jeeves & Wooster novel

At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill,

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