Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction... This book tells the story of Lady Catherine, a beautiful American girl who became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award-winning drama Downton Abbey. Charming & charismatic, Catherine caught the eye of Lord Porchester (or ' Porchey', as he was known) when she was just 20 years old, & wearing a pale yellow dress at a ball. She had already turned down 14 proposals before she eventually married Porchey in 1922. But less than a year later Porcheys father died suddenly, & he became the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, inheriting a title & a Castle that changed both their lives forever. Catherine found herself suddenly in charge of a small army of household staff, & hosting lavish banquets & weekend house parties. Although the couple were very much in love, considerable challenges lay ahead for Catherine. They were immediately faced with the task of saving Highclere when debts threatened to destroy the estate. As the 1920s moved to a close, Catherines adored brother died & Catherine began to lose her husband to the distractions London had to offer. When the Second World War broke out, life at the Castle would never be the same again. Drawing on rich material from the private archives at Highclere, including beautiful period photographs, the current Countess of Carnarvon transports us back to the thrilling & alluring world of the ?real Downton Abbey? & its inhabitants. ...

Elizabeth Bennet & Mr Darcy have finally found matrimonial bliss, & now our attention turns to Rosings Park, the estate of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh. When an unfortunate carriage accident means that siblings Ralph & Priscilla Delaval m ...

With its four-letter words & its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D. H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a worldwide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition to the general public. The famous `trial of Lady Chatterley' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades & signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist & the conservatism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde & from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, & of the tender love which then develops between her & her husband's gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society, & to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love & sex. ...

Lady Chatterleys Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie
- whose husb&, Clifford, is paralysed
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At last, Lady Angelica Cottington returns, in this mysterious & hilarious sequel to Brian Froud's huge international hit Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this quirky & seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album belonging to her long-dead sister, Euphemia. The revelations within tell of fairy enchantments, wanton romance, & bawdy trysts -- & they cast young Lady C's ancestry into shocking doubt. Angelica responds to the album in true character, & her fits of fairy pressings & squashings instigate terrible (if weirdly entertaining) consequences. Along with its mysterious tale of Cottington family deviance, this extraordinary artefact offers near-indisputable evidence of the existence of fairies in the form of letters & never-before-published Victorian photographs of actual fairies, authenticated by Brian Froud, the Cottington Archive, & the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies. Fairies defiant, fairies au natural, &, of course, fairies squashed: they're all here. Without doubt, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album will radically alter the study of the fairies' hereto-fore-secret world. ...

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Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House. The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nix's best selling fantasy series, The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligon's adventures in the House get ever more perilous as the week unfolds. On the fifth day, there was fear! Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated & their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue & Fred Initial Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper, & his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House & blocking the Front Door. Arthur can't even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is that Leaf isn't on earth any more. She's missing & so are hundreds of other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private institution run by a ' Doctor Friday'. From there they have been taken somewhere else in the Secondary Realms, for Lady Friday's own horrible purposes. Amid all this trouble, Arthur's mother is also missing, & he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize -- before Superior Saturday or the Piper beats him to it. ...

John Wayne double-bill. In ' Lady From Louisiana' (1941), John Reynolds (Wayne) meets a beautiful southern belle, Julie Mirbeau (Ona Munson), on a Mississippi river boat
- a woman he is soon completely in love with. Unfortunately, it seems that Julie is th
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Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke...

One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice
- the superior is Goebbels himself.

But Dresners father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernies stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home & abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.




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Stefani Joanna Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga, was always destined to be a star. Showing talent from the tender age of four, she followed a uniquely creative musical path to success & was destined to be on the stage, no matter what. Sometimes shocking, always fresh & creative, Gaga deserves the headlines she grabs. Just Dance reveals what a truly exceptional artist she is & how she has conquered the pop world, pushing the boundaries of music, fashion & culture. ...