Read by Nigel Anthony. It's March, AD 81. Emperor Titus wants Flavia & her friends to find a precious gem called ' Nero's Eye'. According to a prophecy, whoever possesses the stone will rule Rome: so Titus needs it to maintain his power, especially since it's rumoured that Nero is not dead, but still alive. Their mission takes the four detectives on a caravan across North Africa, where they encounter wild animals & beast-hunters, sandstorms & mirages, pantomime actors, & a mysterious beggar who claims to have witnessed Nero's death. A gripping tale set in the most exotic & intriguing location yet in all the Roman Mysteries. ...

Get your crochet off to a flying start with 8 simple projects & multiple techniques.  In this complete course, crochet expert Claire Montgomerie covers everything you need to get started: essential tools & materials, how to hold your hook, make your first stitches, fasten off & read a pattern. Clear step-by-step photographs & a handy fold-out flap with crochet abbreviations make it accessible for all, whether you are hooking your first stitch or revisiting the basics. Take small steps & familiarize yourself with the terminology & techniques to master the essentials of crochet in no time at all. Claire combines helpful, friendly guidance with 8 colourful modern projects, each one teaching & consolidating a new technique – from increasing & decreasing to changing colour & joining seams.  Embark on your crochet journey & have fun creating your own crocheted wearable accessories & home décor items with all things bright & woolly. Product Information:  •� ISBN: 97... ...

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Acrylic paint dries quickly, forms a tough, flexible film that's insoluble, & won't rot, discolor, or crack. Get tips from the experts, & techniques for rapidly building up layers of color. Try impasto & masking, paint with a knife, & antique. Full-color illustrations on each page, & a painters' gallery, help you do it all! The size of this book is 26.5cm in height & 19.5cm wide with 96 pages. ...

The transition to a keto diet can be difficult, but this “induction” phase doesn’t have to be!

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Books Historical Fiction Books A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships & the sustaining power of love & community... Bellbird River, 1998: Teacher & single mum Alex has arrived in the small town of Belllbird River after escaping the city in search of a change of pace & the chance to reconnect with her young daughter. Across town, well-known matriarch Victoria & her globe-trotting, opera-singing cousin Gabrielle find themselves at a crossroads in their personal & professional lives, while local baker Janine & newcomer to the area Debbie are each secretly dealing with the consequences of painful pasts. With its dusty streets, lone pub & iron-lace verandahs, Bellbird River could just be a pit stop on the road to somewhere else. But their town holds some secrets & surprises
- & it has a heart: the Bellbird River choir. Amid the melodies & camaraderie of the choir, each of the women will find the courage to leave the past behind. A...
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Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, & loathing her mother Rubys latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home & is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old class mate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom & happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant & homeless? She is taken in by her mothers old friends, Edie & Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people & is desperately missing her son David & his family who have settled in Israel. But the love & security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls & their children & changes life forever? Continuing the saga begun in Chocolate Girls, & set in 1960s Birmingham, this is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging & loss? & of a young womans search for transforming love. ...

Continuing the saga begun in Chocolate Girls, this is a story of families who lives are entwined, of loving & loss... & of a young girl's search for transforming love. It is 1962 & pretty seventeen-year-old Greta finds life at home hard. She has no father, & loathes her mother's latest boyfriend. She's happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory, where she is popular with the boys. When her missing vixen of a sister, Marlene, turns up during the worst winter for decades, Greta decides that she has to get away, & the only escape route is marriage. However, she soon finds out that life with her old classmate, Trevor, is not as she'd hoped & freedom & happiness still elude her. She finds herself on the streets
- pregnant & homeless
- until her mother's friends Edie & Anatoli take her in, & provide the safe, secure haven she has never known. Until, that is tragedy strikes & shatters not only Greta's world, but also the lives of those around her. Life for all of them will never be the same again...

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In 1930, Bridget O? Brien, a young widow with two children, fled her brutal & bigoted father & headed for Liverpool & an arranged marriage with a man she had never met. Her destination, the famous Scotland Road, was noisome & terrifying & a far cry from the clean air & flowing rivers of the only country she had known, Irel&. When she met her middle-aged bridegroom, Sam Bell, whose twin sons were older than she was, her sense of isolation only increased. Anthony, one of her so-called stepsons, also held out the strong hand of friendship, but Liam, the favourite of his father, had the power to terrify her. Liam was cold, compelling, mysterious & antagonistic. He was also a priest. ...

Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised & made a new life for himself amid the colleges & spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with the home's most ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets & falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a beautiful & enigmatic medical student at King's College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship & privilege, & soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Eden's self-belief knows no bounds, & as he draws his sister & closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right, Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all... ...