Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase & for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly & wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother & sisters, & their politics (while not being at all political herself), finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country & her deep attachment to it & those who live & work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire, Debo played an active role in restoring & overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses & gardens, & in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children, as well as her husband's battle with alcohol addiction. ...

Shirley Downs has always known shes not just an ordinary girl
- after all, how else could she have tempted Freddy Clements away
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Details: Love isn?t meant to be perfect? Except when it is Some things are worth waiting for? This is the book you?ve
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In 1939, with the war having been declared, evacuees arrive in the small Welsh seaside town of St David’s Wells.

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It is World War II & Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis, close to his mountain village in Spain. Now, German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives. ...

Brenda O' Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlins, the rag-&-bone man, says she can come & live with him & he will give her child a name in return for her running his home & looking after his children. Despite the gossip a desperate Brenda has little choice but to accept. ...

A gorgeously written, English Patient-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa & Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war & photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, & nonconformist. They had everything in life, & they put everything at risk. They created their own legend & remained faithful to it until the very end? A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle & a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, & photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, & so they become Gerda Taro & Robert Capa. With these new identities, they travel to Spain & begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them ? but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. Based on the true story of these legendary figures & set to be the next film by award-winning director Michael Mann waiting for Robert Capa is a moving tribute to all journalists & photographers who lose their lives to show us the world's daily transformations. ...

It's Christmas Eve in the forest. " Will Santa bring us presents?" squeaks Mouse. " Of course not!" Huffs Badger. " Santa doesn't even know we're here." But clever Bear has a plan.

" We just have to believe!" he tells them.

Will Santa really come?

This paperback book has 32 pages & measures: 28 x 24.4 x 0.3cm





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Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, a man attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so m ...

Everything changes for high-school senior Jeffry Dietz when he is ripped from the familiar camaraderie of suburbia & transplanted to a tiny, tourist-trap town in the upper Midwest. Jeffry's quiet desperation in this sluggish, pre-cable modem world doesn't stop him from making new discoveries, new friendships, & new enemies. ...