August 30 1975 The day of the disappearance The day Somerset New Hampshire lost its innocence That summer struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan Thirty-three years later her body is dug up from his yard along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name Quebert is the only suspect Marcus Goldman
- Quebert's most gifted protege
- throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name Solving the case & penning a new bestseller soon merge into one As his book begins to take on a life of its own the nation is gripped by the mystery of ' The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America' But with Nola in death as in life nothing is ever as it seems

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Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for Until one day telling her nothing her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro Determined to find out why Ella takes her chance & searches through their things And realises her life has been a lie Her mother & father aren't hers at all Unable to comprehend the truth Ella runs away to the one place they'll never think to look
- the favelas But there she learns a terrible secret
- the truth about her real parents & their past & the truth about a mother desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago

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A breathtakingly honest memoir by the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West this beautifully written recollection of the friends lovers & family who have played a vital role in Vanessa's life is a stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed ' Have You Been Good?' As a teenager Vanessa plays a game with her father they take turns to ask a question & the other must answer truthfully One day Vanessa asks ' Apart from with Mummy have you ever been so in love that you would have liked to marry someone else?' Her father is visibly shaken & as the truth emerges it becomes clear why Told as a series of fourteen lucid vignettes The Truth Game is both a haunting exploration of love loss & grief & a portrait of the discontent at the heart of one of Britain's most eminent families Nicolson distils the concept of truth down to the extraordinary experiences of real-life individuals with shocking & moving consequences ...

Tell the whole truth & nothing but the truth as you take a sip from this chilling skeleton goblet Holding the cup over his brittle bones this skeleton is wrapped in Latin text which cascades from top to bottom SPECIFICATIONSDesigner Anne Stokes Category Skeletons Function Goblets Weight 03417 kg Primary Colour White ...

When Jenny Simpson returns to the seaside town of Borteen her childhood home it's for an unhappy reason A new job leads to her working for Carver Rodgers & they soon realise they have something in common & it all links back to a meeting at a police station many years before Gray Morton S ...

A Granta Best Young American Novelist 1930s Leningrad a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images & artworks One day he receives an antique painting The mystery behind this painting threads together each of the stories that follow where we meet a Siberian beauty queen a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechnya the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag & many others ...

The first of a trilogy based on the exploits of John Hughes who founded a city in Russia in the 1800s In 1869 Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age He began by inviting Welsh businessman John Hughes to build an ironworks A charismatic visionary Hughes persuaded influential people to invest in his venture while concealing his greatest secret
- he couldn't even write his own name Hughes recruited adventurers prepared to sacrifice everything to ensure the success of Hughesovka (Donetsk Ukraine) Young Welsh men & women fleeing violence in their home country Jews who have accepted Russian anti-Semitism as their fate & Russian aristocrats all see a future in the Welshman's plans In a place where murderers whores & illicit love affairs flourish The Tsar's Dragons is the story of a new beginning in Hughesovka a town of opportunity
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Tracklist Hoy Boy White Punks On Dope Wonderbread Bodies Mondo Bondage More Telstar Mutated TVCrazy ' Bout Your Daisy Dinosaur Blues The Whittler Let's Do It Boogie For The People ...

The thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride Perfect for fans of The White Queen Even the greatest of queens have rules
- to break them would cost her dearly King Henry V's new French Queen Catherine dazzles the crowds in England but life at court is full of intrigue & her loyal companion Mette suspects that the beautiful Eleanor Cobham protegee of the Duke of Gloucester is spying for him Catherine believes herself invincible as she gives birth to an heir then tragically King Henry is struck down by fever Unable to outwit those who seek to remove the new king from her care Catherine retires from court comforted by the King's Harper Owen Tudor At the secluded manor of Hadham a smouldering ember bursts into flame & Catherine & Owen Tudor become lovers But their love cannot remain a secret forever & when a grab for power is made by Gloucester Catherine
- & those dearest to her
- face mortal danger


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Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate & drank? What was Elizabeth I's first meal after the defeat of the Spanish Armada? Which pies did Henry VIII gorge on to go from a 32 to a 54-inch waist? The Tudor Kitchen provides a new history of the Tudor kitchen & over 500 sumptuous
- & more everyday
- recipes enjoyed by rich & poor all taken from authentic contemporary sources The kitchens of the Tudor palaces were equipped to feed a small army of courtiers visiting dignitaries & various hangers-on of the aristocracy Tudor court food purchases in just one year were no fewer than 8200 sheep 2330 deer & 53 wild boar plus countless birds such as swan (and cygnet) peacock heron capon teal gull & shoveler Tudor feasting was legendary; Henry VIII even managed to impress the French at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 with a twelve-foot marble & gold leaf fountain dispensing claret & white wine into silver cups free for all!

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