Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her sophomore year. They are to be married & her life will be blissful; but Dorothy is pregnant & her fianc?'s plans are ruined, for Dorothy would be disinherited if her father discovered the truth. So the young man provides his bride to be with some pills that will solve the problem. Soon there will be no baby
- & perhaps no Dorothy either... A Kiss before Dying, Levin's first novel, earned him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel & is regarded as a modern classic.
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Hushabye, lullaby, sing you to sleep, Drift on the music that plays soft & deep.

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A giraffe kiss is gentle & tall... like this! * Mwaaaah!*

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Details: This special edition of the original A Ladybird Book about Knitting will make learning to knit a pleasure. A
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From matches played on a village green to the high church splendour of Lord's, in A Last English Summer, multi-award-winning author Duncan Hamilton preserves the 2009 cricket season, a seminal, convulsive time in the sport's history. In prose by turns reflective & glorious, he remembers all we have lost whilst displaying an overwhelming love for the game that stands out on every page. ...

Refreshes the parts other history books can't reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance? In the dark about the Enlightenment? Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world & want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth
- from 15 billion years BC to the present day? Good. A Less Boring History of the World tells you everything you need to know from the Big Bang to Barack Obama, taking in the Byzantines, the Black Death, the Boston Tea Party, Bonaparte, & Bin Laden along the way. Each historical episode is boiled down to edible, bite size chunks so that you can finally piece together all the different bits of history
- & see how on earth we ended up in the mess we are today. Whipping through the chaotic journey of man, past ancient civilisations, the rise of empires, & the fall of bankers, A Less Boring History refreshes your memory & broadens your mind. &, if that's not enough, it will also make you laugh. A lot.

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She defied her parents & married for love...

Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London where they rent a seedy

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A visit to her old university takes an unexpected turn for solicitor Finn Fitzpatrick when she receives an exclusive invitation.  She is far from high profile on the legal scene, so why is she on the guestlist for a select gathering in the College president's private dining room? Three days later, a body is discovered on College grounds. &, as the police launch their hunt for the killer, everyone who was at dinner that night falls under suspicion. Including Finn. Soon, she's investigating the murder, unearthing the bitter rivalries & hidden agendas lurking beneath the success of her fellow dinner guests. As the mysteries & revelations pile up, Finn finds herself keeping secrets from those around her
- but at what cost? Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9781529381443 •†Author: Catherine Kirwan •†Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:†464 •†Dimensions:†12.6 x 4 x 19.6cm
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Books Historical Fiction Books Nuneaton, 1850 Growing up on a canal boat has meant life for young Saffie Doyle has been hard.   Her mother, Olivia, was cast out by her well-to-do family when she fell in love with Saffie's father, a lowly boatman named Reuben. But as the years have passed, Reuben has become a bitter & cruel drunk, forced to work for the local crook, Seth Black, to keep their family afloat. Saffie always dreamed of becoming a teacher, despite her father's insistence that she had no need to read & write.  Keen to nurture her ambitions, Olivia hoped to introduce Saffie to a childhood friend
- the kindly & wealthy Marcus
- who runs a free school for the local children, but when Olivia falls ill, she's unable to. One night, Saffie's 17-year-old brother & her father go out on a job with Seth Black & never return home. Saffie is forced to place her dreams on hold as she steps up to look after her family. With her younger siblings relying on her, will Saffie ever be able to live the life she hopes for?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781838773632 •†Author:   Rosie Goodwin •†Publisher:   Bonnier Publishing •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 432 •†Dimensions:† 12.8 x 19.8 x 2.9 cm

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At the height of World War I, she has given up the safety of her Sydney home for the bloody battlefields of Europe, following her journalist husband to the frontline as a war correspondent in Italy.

Reporting the horrors of the Italian campaign, Rebecca finds herself thrown together with American-born Italian photographer Alessandro Panucci, & soon discovers another battleground every bit as dangerous & unpredictable: the human heart.

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• ISBN: 9780349417127
• Author: Pamela Hart
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions: 19 x 12cm









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