In Kenya's ' Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn & indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941. Some said the good-looking womaniser had it coming. He was a philanderer who could have had any number of enemies who wanted revenge. Ageing Jock Delves Broughton stood trial for Erroll's murder but was acquitted & the mystery remained unsolved
- until now. American heiress Alice de Janze had been conducting a clandestine affair with Joss for years. Married into French aristocracy, her stunning beauty was to prove a fatal lure to men of adventure. Previously tried by a French court for shooting one of her lovers, scandal followed her wherever she went. She arrived in Kenya as a newly married Countess in the 1920s, but by 1941 she had turned forty & the years of partying had taken their toll. Pushed aside by Erroll for younger lovers, Alice was thrown into desperation, resulting in Errol's murder & her own tragic demise. The Temptress not only solves the mystery of Josslyn Hay's murder with the utmost conviction
- it eloquently paints a portrait of a volatile, captivating woman.

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A glamorous American multi-millionairess, Alice de Janz? scandalized 1920s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover?whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide in the Gare du Nord. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as Kenyas Happy Valley, she became the lover of the handsome womanizer, Joss Hay, Lord Erroll. In 1941, Erroll was shot in his car on an isolated road. A cuckolded husband was brought to trial & acquitted, & the crime remained tantalizingly unsolved. Paul Spicer, whose mother was a confidante of Alices, used personal letters & his own extensive research to piece together what really happened that fateful evening. He brings to life an era of unimaginable wealth & indulgence, where people changed bed partners as easily as they would order a cocktail, & where jealousy & hidden passions brewed. At the heart of The Temptress is Alice, whose seductive charms no man could resist, & whose unfulfilled quest for love ended in her own suicide at age forty-two. ...

The most famous document in all history, the Ten Commandments are the words of God carved into stone. But what do they mean & how do they still apply to society today? Who was Moses, the man chosen by God to translate his message to the World & what happened on Mount Sinai, the place where Moses is said to have come face-to-face with God himself? Join a distinguished group of scholars as they explore these questions & examine what issues have been raised over the years, as well as analysing the punishments that have been handed out if any of the commandments were broken. We also look at why this set of rules became central to the whole of Western civilisation, why Moses ordered the killing of three thousand fellow Hebrews at Sinai & whether the original document, said to be preserved in the sacred Ark of Covenant, could actually still exist. This fascinating collection contains four programmes that explore the most famous document in history: The Ten Commandments. ...

The moment she starts her doctorate in Oxford, Sarah is beset with mysteries. An old portrait in her rented house bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Her new lover insists he's a ghost. Her attractive, sinister supervisor refuses to let her see manuscripts on witchcraft. An ordinary hill on the meadow fills her with fear
- & not just her, but also the man with whom she falls in love. Every time she has sex, she hallucinates strange places & other times. Through sex, magic & orgasmic visions, she must fight betrayal to learn the truth behind the secrets. The size of this book is 17.8cm in height & 10.9cm wide with 255 pages
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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Dove River, as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement, a man has been murdered & a woman's 17 year old son has disappeared. The murder has sparked tension in the settlement as old wounds are re-opened & inflamed deep-running tensions with the town divided as some want to exploit the murder while others are trying to solve it. In order to clear her son's name, she has to follow the track's leaving the dad man's cabin & towards the forest & the desolate landscape that lies beyond it. ...

In 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David & their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports & rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl & her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother & daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon. This moving story of escape & survival is told by Liesl’s gr&-daughter, Dorli’s daughter. Some of the story, the author heard first-hand from her grandmother; the rest, she has meticulously researched over many years in four countries.   It is as much a search for the author’s own identity as for her own children & grandchildren to ensure that their remarkable family history is never lost again.  Illustrated throughout with family photographs & original documents, this is a story of survival against terrible odds, an inspiring tale... ...

In an exclusive London restaurant, Julia Lovat is given a gift that will change her life. 

The antique book of Jacobean

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Nestled in the heart of Dublin city, St Endas Terrace is like any other close-knit community: warm, colourful, looks after its own. But behind closed doors lie secrets... In Number Eight he wants a baby, she doesnt. The guy a few doors down just wants to find love. Across the street a single mum struggles to cope. While the people next door might appear to have it all, their mortgage holder knows different. When the street syndicate wins the National Lottery, it seems that things are looking up. Enter a New York production company on a mission to document a quintessential Dublin community
- just as it becomes clear that the winning ticket is nowhere to be found. Facades begin to crumble in the scramble to uncover the missing ticket &, as the gloves come off for the once unremarkable residents of St Endas, its game on with everything to play for.
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The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious t?te-?-t?te with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, & some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years & still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbanos passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the islands past & into a familys dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. Andrea Camilleris Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian small-town life & his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. ? The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out the sense of place, the sense of humour, & the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious, tortured island? Donna Leon ? Both farcical & endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo & Chandlers Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret? Guardian ...