This is the intriguing & moving autobiography of Jacqueline Smith; the story of an extraordinary life. From the beginning in a family run like an army regiment, fate made sure that Jacqueline, despite her quite normal hopes & dreams, would undergo dramas & events to horrify & traumatise the strongest of characters. ...

` Brilliant' Guardian Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? ...

What is it with this man? How has he got you all falling at his feet? What's his secret?' Ginny & Adam Trustlove arrive on holiday in Italy torn apart by personal tragedy. Two weeks in a boathouse on the edge of peaceful Lake Orta is exactly what they need to restore their faith in life
- & each other. Twenty-four hours later, the silence is broken. The Sale family have arrived at the main villa: wealthy, high-flying Marty, his beautiful wife Bea, & their privileged, confident offspring. It doesn't take long for Ginny & Adam to be drawn in, especially when the teenage Pippi introduces a new friend into the circle. For there is something about Zach that has everyone instantly beguiled, something that loosens old secrets
- & creates shocking new ones. &, yet, not one of them suspects that his arrival in their lives might be anything other than accidental...

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Sara's mother told her that she shouldn't marry Conrad
- that the twenty-five-year age gap between them would tell in the end.
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What happens when a suicide crosses over? Where do they go? This title offers information from the spirit known as George who ended his life early while on the Earth & seeks to impart a greater knowledge to others who are contemplating the same fate. ...

Josey Miller's life is shaken when her parents drop a bombshell--she has a sister. Pressured to give up the baby they conceived in high school, her parents are overjoyed to reunite with Audrey. Josey struggles to accept her infuriatingly friendly, witty, & talented older sister. ...

Everybody thinks they know the tale of King Henry VIII's wives: divorced, beheaded died; divorced, beheaded, survived. But behind this familiar story, lies a far more complex truth. This book brings together the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. It examines the tales of the women who Henry loved but never married. ...

Tracy is a kleptomaniac & a compulsive liar. A lost soul, she drifts fecklessly about, sponging off her friends with a high turnover of menial jobs as she searches for Anita. Tracy's thinks that if Anita's disappeared out of her life, then she must have disappeared out of this world, & that means detective work. ...

The author of The Pocket Wife explores the dark side of love, marriage, & infidelity in this sizzling novel of psychological suspense.



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When troubled, quiet Ben begins at the ruthlessly competitive Cottesmore House, school to the richest, most privileged boys, he is befriended by Hobie: the wealthy class bully, product of monstrous indulgence & intense parental ambition. Hobie is drawn to Ben because he can see the Otherlife: a violent, mythic place where gods & monsters roam. ...