Details: Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor
- even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool
- but they have


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Lydia Middleton faces a bright future, secure in the knowledge that her childhood sweetheart, David Drayton, will one day be her husb&. Their parents heartily approve of a match between Whitby's foremost ship-owning families. But then Mr Middleton loses his fortune & later his life, & the Draytons reconsider. Lydia's uncle repossesses the family home & she is forced to leave Whitby. Her brother Luke finds a job in the new town of Middlesbrough & Lydia decides to accompany him & make her own way in life. But she vows that when her fortunes have changed she will return to her beloved home & exact a fitting revenge on her uncle. Driven by this desire, Lydia prospers but risks losing the most precious thing of all: the love of David, who has stayed faithful to her throughout their enforced separation. Vengeance or the path of true love
- which will Lydia choose?
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Clara Morrows husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation, as promised, Clara asks the only person she trusts to try & find him: former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache.

As Gamache journeys further into the case, he is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Peter Morrow, a man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist that he would sell his soul. As Gamache gets closer to the truth, he uncovers a deadly trail of jealousy & deceit.

Can Gamache bring Peter, & himself, home safely? Or in searching for answers, has he placed himself, & those closest to him, in terrible danger?

From number one New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny, comes an evocative, immersive novel brimming with atmosphere & heart-stopping suspense
- her most ingenious novel to date.

This paperback book has 440 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.6 x 3cm.








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Sometimes going home is the only way to go forward... As the only child of a wealthy investment manager, Ellie Chapman has never known anything besides a life of perfect privilege. But her years of good fortune come to an abrupt end when her father is exposed for swindling billions of dollars from innocent investors. Just like that, Ellie loses everything: money, job, home-even her fianc?, who's jailed as her father's partner in crime. With her family name in tatters, Ellie has only one place to go... Sleepy St. Dennis, Maryl&, is hardly where Ellie intends to stay, however. Keeping her identity a secret, she plans to sell the house her late mother left her in the small town & use the proceeds to move on with her life. Unfortunately, her ticket to a new beginning is in dire need of pricey improvements, most of which she'll have to do herself. Until the house on Bay View Road is fit to be sold, the sole place Ellie will be traveling is the hardware store. But as the many charms of St. Dennis-not to mention Cameron O' Connor, the handsome local contractor who has secrets of his own-begin to work their magic, what begins as a lesson in do-it-yourself renovations might just end up as Ellie's very own rejuvenation. ...

For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod, are personal treasure, revealing our loves, errors of jugdement & lapses in taste. Self-confessed music obsessive, Travis Elborough, explores the way in which particular albums are deeply embedded in cultural history, revered as works of art or so ubiqitous as to be almost invisible. But in the age of the iPod, when we can download an infinite number of single tracks & need never listen to a whole album ever again, does the concept of an album still mean anything? THE LONG-PLAYER GOODBYE is a brilliant piece of popular history & a celebration of the joy of records. If you've ever had a favourite album, you'll love Travis Elborough's warm & witty take on how vinyl changed our world. ...

Lasting for 242 days, the siege of Tobruk
- the longest of the British Empire
- is a mesmerising tale of human endurance &

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In his debut bestseller Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the true story of what came first. Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s & 70s. Despite his loving parents ...

A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, & Hitler launches his last & most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies.

Standing between the German forces & the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden in fox holes.

In a fierce day-long battle, this small band of soldiers repulsed the German attack three times, inflicting severe casualties & defending a strategically vital hill despite being vastly outnumbered. They surrendered only when they ran out of ammunition. But then the real battle for survival began...

Alex Kershaws brilliant account draws on the words of the decorated men who fought this heroic action, bringing vividly to life their struggle on the battlefield & later off it
- as POWs.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781405939607
• Author: Alex Kershaw
• Publisher: Penguin
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 354
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm














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Scott's Northern Party played an integral role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure & endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy which befell Scott. Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished & the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded & desperate, the six men of the Northern Party faced disaster. Searching out a snow drift they burrowed inside. Lieutenant Victor Campbell drew a line across the floor in the gloom to establish naval order: three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. A birthday was celebrated with a carefully hoarded biscuit & they sang hymns every Sunday, so what kept these men going? Circumstances forced them closer together, their roles blurred & a shared sense of reality emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible & somehow they made it through the longest winter. To the south, the men waiting at headquarters knew that the Polar Party must be dead & hoped that another six men would not be added to the death toll. Working from expedition diaries, journals & letters written by expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story of Scott's other expedition. ...

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged & deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap & is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan & the conscience of a virgin'. When word reaches The Department
- an ailing section of British military intelligence
- that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to show Control & Smiley, their rivals over at the Circus, that The Department still has value. Former spy Fred Leiser is lured back from retirement to investigate, & manages to cross the border into East Germany in a dangerous night-time operation. But the world has changed since The Department's glory days during the Second World War. The harsh realities of the Cold War now prevail, & there is no place for heroes... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, & with a distinguished cast including Ian Mc Diarmid & Phillip Jackson, this tense thrilling dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carre's masterful debut novel 2 CDs, running time: 1 hour 30 mins

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