Torn between her dreams & the truth, she was faced with an impossible choice... Tess, an aspiring seamstress, is stunned at her luck when the famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon hires her to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. When disaster strikes, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat
- her employer also survives. On dry l&, savage rumours begin to circulate: did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Tess's dream of becoming a skilled dressmaker is within her grasp but now she is faced with a terrible choice. Suddenly she finds herself torn between loyalty to the fiery woman who could help her realise her ambitions & the devastating truth that her mentor may not be all she seems. authentic & honest, The Dressmaker is a compelling & vivid story that will have you holding your breath until the last page.
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I need to tell you a story, ma chère. My story.

Rosa Kusstatscher has built a global fashion empire upon her ability

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Books History Books The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
- mainly Jewish women & girls
- were selected to design, cut, & sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop
- called the Upper Tailoring Studio
- was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant's wife, & patronized by the wives of SS guards & officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, & for ladies from Nazi Berlin's upper crust. Drawing on diverse sources
- including interviews with the last surviving seamstress
- The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family & friendship not only helped them endure persecution but also played their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers' remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder & exploitation, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, & hypocrisy of the Third Reich & offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II & the Holocaust. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529311983 •†Author:†  Lucy Adlington  •†Publisher:†  Hodder & Stoughton •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 379 •†Dimensions:†12.8 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm





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Read by Len Cariou. Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP
- Deferred Retirement Option Plan
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Details: Christian Thydells dream has come true: his debut novel, The Mermaid, is published to rave reviews. So why
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They said she was armed. They said she was dangerous. They were right.

Petty Moshen spent eighteen years of her life as

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She's my daughter, but in some weird way I feel like she isn't really my child. Young single mum Grace is drowning. Her little girl Sylvie is distant, troubled & prone to violent tantrums which the child psychiatrists blame on Grace. But Grace knows there's something more to what's happening to Sylvie. There has to be. Travelling from the London suburbs to the west coast or Irel&, Grace & Sylvie embark on a journey of shocking discovery, forcing Grace to question everything she believes in & changing both their lives forever. ...

Read by Stephen Tompkinson. ' Eighty-five steps & then darkness... She's gone. Vanished. Not from my memory but within these walls where water sings in metal pipes & soot-stained bricks crumble at the edges. How can a child disappear in a building with only five floors & eleven flats?' Everyone knows that Mickey Carlyle is dead & a man is in prison for her murder. Everyone, that is, except DI Vincent Ruiz who cannot stop searching & hoping. He is discovered one night clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with a bullet in his leg & a bigger hole in his memory. Under investigation by his colleagues & accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz's only hope of unravelling the puzzle is to retrace his steps & relive that night. But there are further dangers lying in wait & other ways for a man to drown... ...

Everyone knows that Mickey Carlyle is dead & a man is in prison for her murder. Everyone, that is, except DI Vincent Ruiz, who cannot stop searching & hoping. He is discovered one night clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, with a bullet in his leg & a bigger hole in his memory. Under investigation by his colleagues & accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz's only hope of unravelling the puzzle is to retrace his steps & relive that night. But there are further dangers lying in wait & other ways for a man to drown... ...

An urban fairy tale from the acclaimed author of 99 Reasons Why. Arthur Braxton runs away from school. He hides out in an abandoned building, an old Edwardian bathhouse. He discovers a naked woman swimming in the pool. From this point on, nothing will ever be the same. The Drowning of Arthur Braxton is an unflinching account of the pain & trauma of adolescence & of how first love can transform the most unhappy of lives into something miraculous. It is a dark & brooding modern fairy tale from one of our most gifted writers. ...