In her apron & rubber gloves a smile lipsticked permanently across her face the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off A homely compliant creature she knows little or nothing of sex & stands no chance at all of having a career She must marry or die But what if there was another side to the story? In this book Rachel Cooke tells the story of ten extraordinary women whose pioneering professional lives
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- paved the way for future generations Muriel Box film director Betty Box film producer Margery Fish plantswoman Patience Gray cook Alison Smithson architect Sheila van Damm rally car driver & theatre owner Nancy Spain journalist & radio personality Joan Werner Laurie editor Jacquetta Hawkes archaeologist Rose Heilbron QCPlucky & ambitious they left the house discovered the bliss of work & ushered in the era of the working woman

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DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF DEAD SIX Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari co-author of Dead Six & Swords of Exodus offers up a science fiction adventure When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet It&s been years since Catherine Blackwood left the stodgy repressive colony world of Avalon Now the captain of the privateer vessel Andromeda she is the master of her own destiny But Catherine soon finds herself back on Avalon after receiving a plea for help from a most unlikely source her estranged father esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood It seems Catherine&s brother the heir to the Blackwood aristocracy has gone off in search of treasure on the failed chaotic world of Zanzibar But Cecil Blackwood&s plans have gone very very wrong & he has been taken hostage & held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord Augustus knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely swallows his pride & hires Catherine to bring her brother home Catherine takes the job—but it won&t be easy Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous & once she arrives things only get worse If she is to save her brother Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn & uncover a mystery four million years in the making ...

DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF DEAD SIX Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari co-author of Dead Six Swords of Exodus & Alliance of Shadows offers up science fiction action & adventure on a grand scale When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet It&s been years since Catherine Blackwood left the stodgy repressive colony world of Avalon Now the captain of the privateer vessel Andromeda she is the master of her own destiny But Catherine soon finds herself back on Avalon after receiving a plea for help from a most unlikely source her estranged father esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood It seems Catherine&s brother the heir to the Blackwood fortune has gone off in search of treasure on the failed chaotic world of Zanzibar But Cecil Blackwood&s plans have gone very very wrong & he has been taken hostage & held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord Augustus knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely swallows his pride & hires Catherine to bring her brother home Catherine takes the job—but it won&t be easy Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous & once she arrives things only get worse If she is to save her brother Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn & uncover a mystery four million years in the making ...

A family built on lies A dark & twisty psychological thriller in which a young girl is abducted & her family is confronted with a horror from deep in their past Perfect for fans of BA Paris & Sue Fortin A young girl has been taken Abducted never to be seen again Joe & Hannah her traumatized parents are consumed by grief But all is not as it seems behind the curtains of their suburban home Loretta the Family Liaison Officer is sure Hannah is hiding something
- a dark & twisted secret from deep in her past This terrible memory could be the key to the murder of another girl fifteen years ago & as links between the two victims emerge Joe & Hannah learn that in a family built on lies the truth can destroy everything
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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 Spike Jonze directs this award-winning drama following Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) a lonely writer who falls in love with a sentient operating system Newly separated from his wife Catherine (Rooney Mara) Theodore works for a company that composes love letters for those who lack the creativity to pen their own Growing more & more isolated from the outside world his curiosity is piqued by a campaign advertising the latest artificially intelligent operating system When he is first introduced to his new technological assistant Samantha (voice of Scarlett Johansson) he is surprised by her ever-growing emotionality & fresh way of looking at the world As time passes Theodore finds himself connecting with Samantha in ways he could never have imagined The film was nominated for five Academy Awards & won for Best Original Screenplay (Jonze) for which it also received the Golden Globe ...

A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris She has never met her father a prisoner of war in Germany But then he returns & her mother switches her devotion to her husband The girl realizes that she must win over her father to recover her position in the family She confides a secret that will change their lives ----- Why Peirene chose to publish this book ' This is a poetic story about a girl's love for her father Told from the girl's perspective but with the clarity of an adult's mind we experience her desire to be noticed by the first man in her life A rare examination of the bonds & boundaries between father & daughter' Meike Ziervogel Publisher ...

Caitlyn there's something I have to tell you About Sara Caitlyn thinks her marriage to Patrick is a success For one thing he is one of the few people not to fall head over heels for her beautiful friend Sara Life is lived on his terms but they are happy Aren't they? When a devastating accident turns her existence upside down Caitlyn is forced to reassess everything she thought about her marriage what she truly knows about Patrick & his real feelings for her best friend In the refuge of an old manor house she begins to discover the truth In 1947 the worst winter in decades hits England cutting off entirely the inhabitants of Kings Harcourt Manor For Tommy Carter widowed at the start of war it is particularly hard the burden of the family falls on her She has the solace of her children & the interesting presence of her brother's friend Fred But there is also Barbara a mysterious figure from her past who appears to want a piece of Tommy's future as well Her Frozen Heart is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor top ten bestselling author of The Snow Rose ...

A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine remarkable days & on the tenth get a taste of hell; the last ragged survivors of an expedition to a savage backwater world hunt down an infamous war criminal; a divorcing couple confront their myriad troubles to gain resolution reason respect
- but not without sacrifice Introducing these stories (and more) from Adam-Troy Castro whose short fiction has been nominated for two Hugos three Stokers & eight Nebulas
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Her Las Vegas Wedding From a convenient fiance To an inconvenient attraction! After Audrey Girard's wedding of convenience is called off she's left to contend with her ex-fiance's brother
- wild brooding chef Shane Murphy! There's certainly nothing safe about Audrey's attraction to Shane
- could a Las Vegas wedding be on the cards after all? A Proposal for the Officer She was used to flying solo Combat pilot Molly Markham didn't come to Sugar Falls to get serious about a man she barely knows! But when billionaire Kaleb Chatterson becomes her unexpected hero she agrees to date him to keep their secret All's well until Kaleb starts to turn into the man of her dreams

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A girl has gone missing You've never met her but you're to blame FROM THE 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY SISTER'S SECRET & NO TURNING BACK Food writer Estelle Forster has the perfect life & with her first book on the way it's about to get even better When Estelle hears about Poppy O' Farrell's disappearance she assumes the girl has simply run away But Estelle's world crumbles when she's sent a photo of Poppy along with a terrifying note I'm watching you I know everything about you Estelle has no idea who's threatening her or how she's connected to the missing teen but she thinks the answers lie in the coastal town she once called home & the past she hoped was long behind her Estelle knows she must do everything to find Poppy But how far will she go to hide the truth
- that herperfect life was the perfect lie? Her Last Breath is an addictive page-turning read that fans of Liane Moriarty & Claire Douglas will love
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