Perfect reading for fans of Joanna Trollope & Elizabeth Buchan this is a novel of lost loves deceits & second chances Nattie is now happily married to Hugo & they have two beautiful children but no one knows that her heart has never truly been hers to give The love of her life was lost to her years ago or so she thought Now Ahmed is back & although he knows Nattie is married he just can't stop himself from making contact Torn between Ahmed & her family Nattie ends up meeting him in secret But will her lies cause more trouble than the truth? Praise for A Matter of Loyalty the brilliant prequel Topical & intriguing Brave & far-reaching the novel never loses pace Thrilling' Daily Telegraph ' Sandra Howard's thriller could not be more topical An entertaining yarn that explores the conflict of the interest between love politics & religion' Tatler ' Engaging & genuinely gripping' Daily Mail ...

Bedded banished pregnant! Talented photographer Coral Dahl can't afford any distractions on her first major photoshoot But the beauty of her location-the private Greek island of Hydros-is nothing compared to the lethal charisma of its owner tycoon Raffaele Rossini! A charisma that wary innocent Coral is powerless to resist Coral is astonished to discover her family is scandalously entwined with Rafa's & that she has a claim on his inheritance Branded a gold-digger she's dismissed from his bed & his life But the biggest surprise of all is that their one night of rapture has had unexpected permanent consequences! ...

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2012 Fourteen-year-old Mariel returns to England for her grandmother's funeral It is the first time she has been back since she emigrated with her mother as a baby & it is the beginning of the uncovering of some really extraordinary truths about the Considine family Why did Mariel's mum argue with Grandma all those years ago? Why does Amelia wear so much perfume? Why is there a very large cat flap in Louvre House? Why does Gerald seem scared of his brother's appetite? Did Grandma Considine really break her neck falling down the stairs? & most importantly what is the dark secret that lies at the heart of the family? ...

Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust Though a convinced Christian in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas Jean de Meun & Dante were inspired by it In England it was rendered in to Old English by Alfred the Great into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer & later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation The circumstances of composition the heroic demeanour of the author & the ' Menippean' texture of part prose part verse have combined to exercise a fascination over students of philosophy & literature ever since ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

The Consolations of Philosophy is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life Alain de Botton bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life Here then are Socrates Epicurus Seneca Montaigne Schopenhauer & Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all lack of money the pain of love inadequacy anxiety; the fear of failure & the pressure to conform' Singlehandedly de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest & most important purpose helping us live our lives' Independent' No doubt about it philosophy is the new rock & roll & Alain de Botton is its Colonel Tom Parker A pleasure to read & good writing like good philosophy is always a consolation' John Banville Irish Times' Few discussions on the great philosophers can have been so entertaining an ingenious imaginative book' Humphrey Carpenter Sunday Times' Witty thoughtful entertaining a stylish book which manages to make philosophy both enjoyable & relevant' Anthony Clare Literary Review' Gentle helpful & humane De Botton's instinct is surely right if we are to bring philosophy to life we should look again at those thinkers who have sought to be not clever or paradoxical but simply wise' Roger Scruton Mail on Sunday ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on a true story The Conspirator tells the powerful story of a woman who would do anything to protect her family & the man who risked everything to save her In the wake of Abraham Lincoln&s assassination seven men & one woman are arrested & charged with conspiring to kill the President Vice President & Secretary of State The lone woman charged Mary Surratt (Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) & others met & planned the simultaneous attacks Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington newly-minted lawyer Frederick Aiken (Mc Avoy) a 28-year-old Union war-hero reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal Aiken realizes his client may be innocent & that she is being used as bait & hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt her own son John (Johnny Simmons) As the nation turns against her Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth & save her life ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Comedy written & directed by Sidney Gilliat Rex Harrison stars as a man who wakes up on the Welsh coast with no recollection of who he is or how he got there With the help of a Cardiff psychiatrist (Cecil Parker) he traces his life back to a large London home & beautiful wife But further detective work reveals a string of further lovely wives & capacious homes & a pattern of repeated bad behaviour by his former self that shocks him to the core Can he now break the pattern & stop himself from repeating the mistakes of his past? ...

A splendid & sumptuous historical novel from the internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon I was born a princess destined to be queen & I know my duty 1491 Henry VII's eldest son Arthur Tudor Prince of Wales has been betrothed since childhood to the Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon Their marriage will cement the alliance Henry Tudor craves to secure his country But when Arthur's sudden death leaves an 11-year-old boy heir to the kingdom Henry Tudor must choose whether to send Katherine back to Spain or to marry her himself Katherine has no son from her brief marriage to secure her future; her substantial dowry & his powerful contract are at stake Henry has reckoned without the determination of a young woman set on fulfilling her own destiny to be a queen
- & the ambition of Prince Harry the future Henry VIII
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' Haunting passionate William Ryan's The Constant Soldier is a subtle WW2 thriller of horror & love with an utterly gripping countdown to Gotterdamerung One of my favourites of the year' Simon Sebag Montefiore-- Shortlisted for the HWA Endeavour Ink Gold Crown 2017 --1944 Paul Brandt a soldier in the German army returns wounded & ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home much changed & existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut
- a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps run with the help of a small group of female prisoners who
- against all odds
- have so far survived the war When by chance Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners he realizes that he must find a way to access the hut For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before & now he must do all he can to protect her But as the Russian offensive moves ever closer the days of this rest hut & its SS inhabitants are numbered & while hope
- for Brandt & the female prisoners
- grows tantalizingly close the danger too is now greater than ever & in a forest to the east a young female Soviet tank driver awaits her orders to advance




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Enshrining the fundamental rights & freedoms of its citizens in law & curbing the power of those who rule them the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy New to Penguin's Little Black Classics series ...