The companion book to the bestselling Concise 48 Laws of Power which has now sold over 125000 copies in the UK Amoral ruthless clever & cunning this is the essential guide to the art of seduction ...

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer & The Gods of Guilt When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot & killed Norman Church
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Ten powerful stories set on several continents & at different periods in history A well-meaning Abolitionist learns the sordid & violent truth about slavery from her African servants in Boston USA The sundering of India & Pakistan in the 1947 Partition is revealed when a Muslim boy is adopted by a Hindu family during the chaos of mass migration A young university student finds her engagement broken off because her fiance's family disapproves of her Western attire The horrors of the Holocaust are writ large in one pregnant woman's experiences With each unique story Shahraz captures & enriches us with her wisdom & storytelling magic ...

This volume is part of a new series of novels plays & stories at GCSEKey Stage 4 level designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus Each text

Includes:: an introduction pre-reading activities notes & coursework activities Also provided is a section on the process of writing often compiled by the author This is the story of two brothers Calum & Neil who work in the forest of a large Scottish estate But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror the gamekeeper

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In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe brothers Calum & Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare he comes face to face with Duror the gamekeeper In retaliation in the depths of the wood Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood Powerful & unforgettable Robin Jenkins' masterpiece is a haunting story of love & violence & an investigation of class-conflict war & envy ...

SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS NOT ALL IT SEEMSSOMETIMES A CONFESSION IS THE BEGINNING NOT THE END NOW A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ' Brilliant' BA Paris author of Behind Closed Doors & The Breakdown' Chilling' Sunday Times' Enthralling'JP Delaney author of The Girl Before' Compulsive' Sunday Mirror' Addictive' Michelle Frances author of The Girlfriend Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry Mc Namara & his wife Julie The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches frozen by fear It looks like Harry's many sins
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- have finally caught up with him An hour later the intruder JP Carney hands himself in confessing to the assault The police have a victim a suspect in custody & an eye-witness account but Julie remains troubled Has Carney's surrender really been driven by a guilty conscience or is this confession the first calculated move in a deadly game? THE MOST GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF 2018 PERFECT FOR FANS OF FRIEND REQUEST & THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW' Brutal' Fiona Cummins author of Rattle' Gripping' Best' Jaw-dropping' Chris Whitaker author of Tall Oaks' Vivid' Irish Times' Fabulous' Amanda Jennings author of In Her Wake'A contender for the most arresting opening paragraph of the year' Sunday Express

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YOU FIND OUT WHO DID IT ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE ON THE LAST PAGE YOU'LL FIND OUT WHY'I can't praise The Confession enough Brilliant writing great story a really cracking read' BA Paris author of Behind Closed Doors & The Breakdown' Enthralling
- Spain dissects her characters' secrets with razor-sharp precision' JP Delaney author of The Girl Before Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry Mc Namara & his wife Julie The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches frozen by fear Just an hour later the attacker JP Carney has handed himself in to the police He confesses to beating Harry to death but JP claims that the assault was not premeditated & that he didn't know the identity of his victim With a man as notorious as Harry Mc Namara the detectives cannot help wondering was this really a random act of violence or is it linked to one of Harry's many sins corruption greed betrayal? This gripping psychological thriller will have you questioning who
- of Harry Julie & JP
- is really the guilty one? & is Carney's surrender driven by a guilty conscience or is his confession a calculated move in a deadly game?THE MOST GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER OF 2018 PERFECT FOR FANS OF HE SAID SHE SAID & THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR


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The pages of The Confession Album contain 100 questions Your part is collecting the answers
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New York Times Bestseller Following the success of Lean In & Why Women Should Rule the World the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative & practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence-and learning how to achieve it-for women of all ages & at all stages of their career Working women today are better educated & more well qualified than ever before Yet men still predominate in the corporate world In The Confidence Code Claire Shipman & Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence Combining cutting-edge research in genetics gender behavior & cognition-with examples from their own lives & those of other successful women in politics media & business-Kay & Shipman go beyond admonishing women to lean in Instead they offer the inspiration & practical advice women need to close the gap & achieve the careers they want & deserve ...

The con artist from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong How do they get away with it? & what keeps us falling for them over & over again? In The Confidence Game Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle from the put-up all the way to the fix & how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems ...