& Tackles a difficult subject with a light touch to keep you turning the pages& VERONICA HENRYA perfect husband To their friends Lily & Freddy have a great marriage He taught her to love again after the death of her first husband But when Freddy becomes tense & distracted a life-changing truth is revealed A terrible shock Freddy has built up massive gambling debts that threaten to destroy not only his life but Lily&s as well Should she go forward
- or back? Her friends & family urge her to forget him & move on
- easier said than done Is her willingness to give him a second chance just down to loyalty? Or is the truth something altogether darker?& Boyd is terrific at cutting to the quick of modern relationships& WOMAN & HOME

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In her second novel A Perfect Match Sinead Moriarty tells the story of Emma Hamilton who embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she & her husband can't conceive It manages to be both hilarious & incredibly moving is comparable to the writing of Marian Keyes in its ability to balancing of light & shade After two years of being deafened by the TICKTOCK of her biological clock & tormented by Mother Nature's refusal to grant her a baby Emma Hamilton decides to go for the instant solution finding a Russian baby in need of a home But Emma hasn't reckoned on the route to adoption being so complicated Between proving that she's fit to be a mother (by inventing an unblemished past & discovering an unsuspected talent for housekeeping) driving her long-suffering husband insane with madcap schemes to make them the perfect would-be parents (a few Russian verbs a night & they'll be fluent in no time) & tripping over red tape every step of the way (who knew social workers could be so terrifying?) Emma finds out that adoption is far from the easy option
- & that perfection has very little to do with finding the perfect match
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Pascal Chaumeil directs this French romantic comedy starring Diane Kruger & Dany Boon Isabelle (Kruger) has found the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with Pierre (Robert Plagnol) but is reluctant to tie the knot since her family has a history of failed first marriages Instead she decides to find a gullible stranger to marry & then divorce before settling down with Pierre With this in mind she sets her sights on travel writer Jean-Yves (Boon) & attempts to seduce him However her supposedly &perfect& plan goes awry ...

Love honour
- & obey? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair
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A Perfect Spy traces the rise & fall of Magnus Pym & his career through intelligence From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia Washington & finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage Where no-one is safe from betrayal not even his father ...

A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness the philosophy of emotions why some people are lonelier than others & the psychological & social characteristics that dispose people to loneliness 184 pages Svendsen Lars ...

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth--Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking a bestseller in France leading thinker Frederic Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B -- the pilgrimage the promenade the protest march the nature ramble -- & reveals what they say about us Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice On his travels he ponders Thoreau's eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write In contrast Kant marched through his hometown every day exactly at the same hour to escape the compulsion of thought Brilliant & erudite "A Philosophy of Walking" is an entertaining & insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other ...

The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake & it begins when aged eleven she is orphaned & placed in the &care& of sadistic foster parents But there comes a point in her preteen years
- maybe it&s the night she first tries to run away & is exposed to drugs alcohol & sex all at once
- when Cupcake&s story shifts from a tear-jerking tragedy to a dark deeply disturbing journey through hell Cupcake learned to survive by turning tricks downing hard liquor & ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up & down the California coast At just 16 she stumbled into the terrifying world of the gangsta dealing drugs hustling & only just surviving a drive-by shooting Ironically it was Cupcake&s rapid descent into the nightmare of crack cocaine addiction that finally saved her After one four-day crack binge she woke up behind a dumpster Half-dressed & half-dead she finally realized she had to change her life or die on the streets
- another trash-can addict another sad statistic Astonishingly Cupcake turned her life around & this is her brutally frank startlingly funny story Unlike any memoir you will ever read A Piece of Cake is a redemptive gripping tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life & survived it It is also the most genuinely affecting rollercoaster ride through hell & back that you will ever take


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A stunning new edition of a modern classic in the bestselling Large Family series " If you are not familiar with these ...

From the popular anime series &180; One Piece&180; comes this officially licensed statue from Banpresto&180;s &180;magazine&180;- series made from PVC 16 cm tall & comes with a display base ...