Details: The comprehensive, handy guide to choosing & caring for your cat. Discover the cat throughout history & culture,
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Details: A comprehensive & accessible guide to choosing & caring for your dog. Discover the dog throughout history & culture,
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Details: A comprehensive & accessible guide to choosing & caring for your horse. Discover the horse throughout history
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Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy, recently widowed, is a cook & food journalist; Joanna, a successful business woman, never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads & they quickly form a bond. The trio decide to combine their talents to restore a crumbling pile in Cornwall & turn it into a cookery school & spa. The project brings its own conflicts, both professional & personal. The novel's themes touch on the sustaining power of female friendship & how a woman copes with mid life & onwards. Prue's narrative voice is warm, witty, wise, very accessible. Her characters are sympathetic & engaging: very different women but each with demons to face as she gets older & confronts a future without
- perhaps
- a man in it. Her knowledge of food & business adds detail & zest, enriching an already compelling tale.

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Chords are one of the most important ways that children can learn about music. They provide a fast route into playing with others & encourage a feeling for structure & composition. This title covers the basic chords in each key, including majors, minors, triads, fourths, sixths, sevenths & ninths. ...

When Susan Richards agrees to give a home to one of the abused horses just taken in by the local Animal Rescue Centre, a new chapter opens in her turbulent life. She lost her mother at the age of five & was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily & divorced, she had also become an alcoholic. Now, at 43, she finds herself living with just horses for company: the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopeless romantic, Hotshot. As Susan is vainly attempting to capture the rescued horse assigned to her, a skeletal mare called Lay Me Down walks into the horse trailer of her own volition. Susan takes her home, & so begins a relationship that will change her view of the world. ...

Sir Chris Bonington's memoir Ascent will chart not only his many triumphs in the climbing world
- such as the Eiger, & the Himalaya
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The second book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series. Former SAS hero John Bald is a man at war with himself & fighting a losing battle with the bottle. But then he is reluctantly thrust back into battle... In the race to develop ever more powerful weapons, technology has become the new frontline in global terrorism. & when one of America's most cutting-edge defence contractors suspects a sleeper cell operating in its midst, the Firm reaches out to its most cold-blooded son. Bald's mission: kill the sleeper before they can smuggle top-secret weaponry into the hands of the West's deadliest enemies. But the mission goes sideways, & Bald is the fall guy. Now he must pursue the sleeper from the ghettos of Florida to the war-torn streets of Tripoli, in a relentless hunt for the technology & the truth. Shadowed every step of the way by a ruthless CIA hitman, Bald soon finds that the lines between friend & enemy are blurred, & he'll have to call on all his warrior instincts to stay alive... The Chris Ryan Extreme books take you even further into the heart of the mission with even more extreme action, more extreme language & more extreme pace. Like Call of Duty or Medal of Honor, you'll feel part of the team. ...

Ben Tracey is in Africa with his scientist father when they discover a danger they cannot even see: a deadly virus, spawned in an underground lake & newly released by the opening of a mine. Can Ben & his new friend Halima get the news out so that the virus can be stopped? If they fail, millions of people could die in a worldwide pandemic. ...

The second book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series. Former SAS hero John Bald is a man at war with himself & fighting a losing battle with the bottle. But then he is reluctantly thrust back into battle... In the race to develop ever more powerful weapons, technology has become the new frontline in global terrorism. & when one of America's most cutting-edge defence contractors suspects a sleeper cell operating in its midst, the Firm reaches out to its most cold-blooded son. Bald's mission: kill the sleeper before they can smuggle top-secret weaponry into the hands of the West's deadliest enemies. But the mission goes sideways, & Bald is the fall guy. Now he must pursue the sleeper from the ghettos of Florida to the war-torn streets of Tripoli, in a relentless hunt for the technology & the truth. Shadowed every step of the way by a ruthless CIA hitman, Bald soon finds that the lines between friend & enemy are blurred, & he'll have to call on all his warrior instincts to stay alive. The Chris Ryan Extreme books take you even further into the heart of the mission with even more extreme action, more extreme language & more extreme pace. Like Call of Duty or Medal of Honor, you'll feel part of the team. ...