A Load Of Bull is the true story of an Englishman finding his way in one of the most perplexing, anarchic & exuberant cities on earth: Madrid. In the late 80's, Tim Parfitt blagged his way into a job at Conde Nast in London &, from there, into a six week stint in Madrid to help launch Spanish " Vogue". Six weeks turned into nine years, & helping out turned into running the company. Tim Parfitt never saw a Costa & he certainly never bought an olive grove. Instead, he discovered a booming city in hedonistic reaction to years of facism, where sleep was something you only did at work. Tim Parfitt's rise from unwanted guest to paparazzi pursued mover in Spain's glamorous social scene is a hilarious comedy of errors. " Hugely entertaining memoir.. .frequently laugh-out-loud funny"
- " Daily Express". "A love letter to Madrid.. .brilliantly captures a truly eccentric & hedonistic place"
- " Daily Mirror". " Parfitt's light touch & neat line in self-deprecating humour perfectly suits this entertaining urban spin on the old tale of Brits having fun under the Spanish sun"
- " Sunday Times" " Vivid yet affectionate.. .fascinating, escapist stuff"
- "OK! Magazine". " Will do for Madrid what ' Driving over Lemons' has done for Andalucia."
- " Spain Magazine".




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Books Modern Romance Books Ophelia thought wedding planning would be fun. But with her nightmare of a mother-in-law, she's struggling to adjust to life with a ring on her finger. Thankfully her best friend of over ten years, Breaker, agrees to be her faithful 'man in waiting'. While nervous to play the part, Breaker takes his title very seriously. That is until he starts to realise that it's not nerves he feels at all. But a weird, butterfly sensation directed at his soon-to-be-married best friend... Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781405965033 •†Author: Meghan Quinn •†Publisher:†  Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 464 •†Dimensions:†13 x 3.4 x 19.6 cm ...

This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred & ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew & loved, & dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation & near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; & of how I made a choice to survive by any & all means that I could muster. In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt & her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for thirty-three years, they had first met in Zambia: Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort forty kilometres south of Somalia. & there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck them. Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged over sea & land to a village in the arid heart of lawless Somalia, & there held hostage in a squalid room, a ransom on her head. There, too, she learned the terrible truth that the responsibility of securing her release now rested with her son Ollie. But though she was isolated, intimidated & near-starved, Judith resolved to survive
- walking endless circuits of her nine-foot prison, trying to make her captors see her as a human being, keeping her faith at all times in Ollie. Powerful, moving & at times quite devastating, this is Judith Tebbutt's story in her own words. It is a memoir of the life she shared with her beloved husb&, an unflinching account of the ordeal that overturned her world, & a testament to the inner resilience & familial love that sustained her through captivity. There is nothing so bad in life as to have no hope
- to believe you have been defeated, to give in to that. Now that I found myself in confinement, four thousand miles from home under a hostile sky, I would not accept that fate for myself.

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Introducing the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs, private investigator in 1920s London. Her first case combines a gripping investigation with a moving portrait of love & war. It makes the beginning of a wonderful new detective series. London, 1929. Having set herself up as a private investigator. Maisie Dobbs is relieved when her first client arrives. Christopher Davenham suspects that his wife is conducting an affair. But Maisie's investigations confound her expectations at every turn. & she is forced by her findings to revisit her own turbulent experience of the Great War. for Maisie, the boundary between her private & professional life is suddenly blurred. This is a world still reeling in the aftermath of war, a world in which many secrets lie buried. But Maisie is determined to hunt down the truth. however painful it maybe. ...

London 1931, When a controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope is found dead, the police believe it is an open & shut case & his death from a fall is recorded as 'accidental'. But his sister is not convinced, so she turns to Maisie Dobbs for help, drawn by the investigator's growing reputation for her unique methods of solving crimes. Moving from the desolate beaches of the English coast to the dark underbelly of post-war London, & full of intriguing characters, Masie's new investigation entertains & enthrals at every turn. ...

The prequel to the million-copy bestseller, A Woman of Substance, where, high on the Yorkshire moors, the story of Blackie

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The peace of a small West Country village is rudely shattered when a bomb explodes in the local supermarket. Karen Slocombe, a member of the Food Chain Group & staunch supporter of local produce, would not normally care for the loss of a supermarket, but she does take offence to such violence & the fact that she & her daughter were very nearly caught up in the explosion. When, a few days later, Karen witnesses the horrifying murder of an adjacent stallholder at the local farmer's market, she begins to wonder just who is committing these seemingly motiveless crimes & why does she keep finding herself in the middle of the crime scene? ...

Astha has everything an educated, middle-class woman could ask for: comfortable surroundings, children & a dutiful loving husb&. So why should she be consumed by a sense of unease & dissatisfaction? & when she begins a relationship with another woman, is she liberating herself from her marriage, past & culture
- or foolishly jeopardising everything she has?
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