'I just know this plane is going to run into turbulence & crash!'
' My mind will go blank when I give my presentation at work &
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Penny's friend Natasha Linnett is a minx, & when she's bad she's very, very good. When a dominant, wealthy American wine buyer takes an interest in Natasha, she realises she can pretend to secure for him some bottles of real Napoleon-era brandy. She doesn't realise, however, just how many are the bizarre & lewd sex acts in which she must collude to maintain the deception. Will Natasha manage to line her pockets as she wishes, or will she be caught out ignominiously like the bad girl she really is? ...

Penny's friend Natasha Linnett is a minx, & when she's bad she's very, very good. When a dominant, wealthy American wine buyer takes an interest in Natasha, she realises she can pretend to secure for him some bottles of real Napoleon-era brandy. She doesn't realise, however, just how many are the bizarre & lewd sex acts in which she must collude to maintain the deception. Will Natasha manage to line her pockets as she wishes, or will she be caught out ignominiously like the bad girl she really is? ...

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded & ferociously moralistic young woman.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy & her hapless, childlike husb&, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning & discontent that is at once pitiless & compassionate.
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In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded & ferociously moralistic young woman.
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy & her hapless, childlike husb&, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning & discontent that is at once pitiless & compassionate.
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When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter ...

When the Comics Went to War is an expansive, authoritative history of the British war comic book genre, from the first publications ...

One summer day Clara Marshall vanished without trace. A few days later, her children, six-year-old Lorraine & five-year-old Janine, also disappeared & were never seen again. Richard Marshall, Clara's heartbroken husb&, claimed he had discovered his wife was having an affair with an Australian backpacker & that she had run away with him, taking the children with her, destroying the family for ever.

That was twenty-seven years ago. John Kelly, veteran journalist, covered the case when he was a trainee reporter & he suspected something far more sinister. Police enquiries discovered no Australian backpacker & the biggest missing persons operation ever mounted in the south of England revealed nothing. Detective Superintendent Karen Meadows has been familiar with case since childhood & she is only too aware that many suspect Marshall of murdering his wife & children. But where are the bodies? & what is the motive? Then extraordinary events reawaken the case & Kelly & Karen become determined to discover what happened to Clara & her children so long ago, & to seek justice for them...

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' Has anyone seen Andreas?'

Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But its not

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' Has anyone seen Andreas?'

Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But its not

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