When Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night, she intends to have fun, to behave like the Georgie she

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Merryn Burton is excited to travel down to Cornwall to start her first big job for the London art dealers she works for. 

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Mole discovers that friendship is worth sharing in this fifth title in the best-selling Mole series.

One hot summer's

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Flamboyant & fun-loving, Kit Kilmaster rebels against the constraints of Victorian society & pursues her dreams. But as Kit is to learn, there is a high price to pay for happiness? While her brothers & sisters shoulder the burdens of poverty & resign themselves to a life of drudgery, the voluptuous Katherine Kilmaster yearns for better things. Though her kin try to curb her buoyant nature & instil in her a sense of duty, Kits craving for the good things in life is too strong. Dismissed from one job after another, she promises to reform but never does. & when her generous heart tempts her into dangerous situations with young men above her station, the family are scandalized by Kits brazen attitude ? although that doesn?t prevent them accepting a share in the material rewards. For a time Kit revels in the life of a courtesan, launching herself upon London Society, until an unexpected consequence of her free-&-easy lifestyle stops her in her tracks. Thrust back into claustrophobic village life, Kit falls prey to malicious gossip, & then to tragedy. Overwhelmed by events, she finally heeds the advice of her well-meaning family, & is almost destroyed in the process. But then a chance encounter promises to deliver the husband & children she has always wanted ? provided her shameful secret is not revealed ...

Black comedy from the Coen brothers. Set in 1967, the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics professor whose settled & secure life begins to spiral after his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) reveals she is leaving him for his arrog ...

Polish war exile Julia Smollen has escaped the horrors of a Nazi labour camp to forge a new life in California with her daughter, Tasha. Sent to the best school her mother can afford, growing up through the Cold War & the Space Race & coming into contact with the aspiring young Democrat, Jack Kennedy, Tasha is precocious, wilful & politically engaged. As intensely close as Tasha & her mother are, however, she remains unaware of the true identity of her father, the courageous German officer Martin Hamer, who was fatally wounded helping the then-pregnant Julia flee her occupied homel&. But Julia cannot keep the truth hidden from her daughter forever. A sinister figure from the past is about to emerge, with his own dark, vengeful agenda. ...

A Shakespearean Theatre is an invaluable guide to an important period in English history.

With the use of superb

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With proven ways to maintain your mind & memories, A Sharp Brain for Life will help you banish forgetfulness, discover powerful brain boosters, enjoy brain-nourishing recipes & challenge your brain with puzzles & exercises to use every day. With breakthrough research showing that not only can you grow new brain cells at any age but you can also 'rewire' your brain to increase capacity, there has never been a better time to sharpen your mind. This informative book explains how your brain works & offers practical exercises to ensure you brain stays fit & active for life. Due to unforseen circumstances this title will not be available for sale in the near future. ...

For many men, middle age arrives too fast & without due warning. One day you are young, free & single; the next you are bald, fat & washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity & respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying a motorbike. Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, the author of the cricket classics Rain Men & Zimmer Men is now determined to find some light in the all-consuming darkness. Musing over birth, death & all the messy stuff in between, he concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid despatch from the frontline is not for the faint-hearted, which is to say anyone under thirty-five. ...

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive
- just like murder... This book has 246 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.6cm x 1.6cm
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