Evil stalks an idyllic retreat... A tranquil Spanish village by the sea is the perfect place for Primavera Blackstone to raise her ten-year-old Tom, son of the late lamented Oz, especially when they are joined by his nephew, tyro pro golfer Jonny Sinclair. But when her best friend Shirley introduces her new man, Patterson Cowling, he seems to be a trouble magnet. A casual thief tries to pick his pocket & is found a few days later with his face blown off. A bloody coincidence, or does Patterson Cowling have a past to protect? As the body count rises, & Primavera becomes den mother to an extended golfing family, it seems that homicide is par for the course, & that hazards lie in wait for everyone. Can she save the day, or is the game just too rough? ...

Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the WWII. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, he staged a daring escape, enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia. This book evokes Forell's desperation in the prison camp, & his struggle for survival. ...

Cassie wants an adventure before she has a child. A year away might convince her husb&, Graham, to settle down, curb his roving eye. Graham seeks inspiration for his painting. He wants Cassie but he wants freedom too
- a balancing act as difficult as the ladder trick he tries to perfect.
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Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended. Soon she’ll be leaving for Cambridge University but then another case finds her... & this time it’s all about Pip.  Pip is used to online death threats, but there’s one that catches her eye, someone who keeps asking: who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? & it’s not just online. Pip has a stalker who knows where she lives. The police refuse to act & then Pip finds connections between her stalker & a local serial killer. The killer has been in prison for six years, but Pip suspects that the wrong man is behind bars. As the deadly game plays out, Pip realises that everything in Little Kilton is finally coming full circle. If Pip doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405298605 • Author: Holly Jackson • Publisher: Electric Monkey • Format: Paperback • Pages: 576 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.6cm ...

Oscar. winners Jack Nicholson & Helen Hunt star alongside Greg Kinnear & Cuba Gooding Jr in the smash-hit comedy, ' As Good As It Gets'. Nicholson gives a show-stopping performance as Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive novelist who takes pride in hi ...

The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass & caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring & playing the violin. ...

Presents a vision of what politics can be in America & poses a crucial question: What if our political leaders started talking to us as if we were grown-ups? The author models a realistic new candour that could break through the downward spiral that has us expecting less of our political leaders while they're thinking less & less of us. ...

Written by an expert team of authors & covering all aspects of the current examinable 2008 AS OCR PE syllabus. This student revision text consists of substantial student notes, full colour illustrations, photographs, practice exam questions & full answers. ...

Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities & Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend & rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha
- & the rest of the village
- realise that things aren't as they seem... Very quickly it transpires that the spit pig is in fact Gary Beech, a policeman not much loved in Winter Parva. & although Agatha has every intention of leaving the affair to the police, she rapidly changes her mind when she finds out Gary's ex-wife has hired Toni to investigate. Cantankerous & competitive as Agatha is, she has to now join the fray & try & solve the case herself!

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Forced by the post-war boom to leave their shabby tenement for a new bungalow & the outskirts of the city, Madge Gilbride is comforted by the fact that at least she has her family near her. & when her grandsons, Will & Hamish, fall in love with local girls she is delighted. But life is not plain sailing ...