Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic walked to the South Pole run the Sahara & ice-skated across Sweden. He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea caused a Boeing 747 to dump GBP100k of fuel before making an emergency landing in Sao Paolo & frequently been mistaken for Prince William along the way. So how did a cripplingly shy geeky perennially homesick boy end up doing all this? Ben's still not entirely sure himself but this wonderful book tells his story & will strike a chord with anyone puzzling about life & how to live it differently. This is a book about defying expectations conquering fears battling laziness & just occasionally winning. ...

In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate… What would you do if out of the blue a billionaire industrialist decided to make you the CEO of his company? No prior business experience necessary. There is only one catch: you need to pass seven tests from the 'textbook of life'. This is the offer made to Sapna Sinha an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics boutique in downtown Delhi by Vinay Mohan Acharya one of India's richest men. Thus begins the most challenging journey of Sapna's life one that will test her character her courage & her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars & the future she has always dreamt of. But are the seven tests for real or is Acharya playing a deeper game one driven by a perverse fantasy? From the acclaimed author of Slumdog Millionaire one of the biggest films of the decade comes this compelling suspenseful tale of the power of dreams the lure of money & the universal need to know who we are. ...

Eduardo Saverin & Mark Zuckerberg
- an awkward maths prodigy & a painfully shy computer genius
- were never going to fit in

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It's the ultimate fantasy: When Lizzie meets an attractive older man in the bar of a luxury hotel he mistakes her for a high ...

The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful.. .[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption Guardian Simon Nyes witty translation updates & relocates the play.. .suitably close to contemporary Engl&. Fo is that rare thing a far-left playwright with a popular comic touch. & his stinging attack upon the black arts of government cover-up manipulation & mendacity could not be more timely Evening Standard In its first two years of production Dario Fos controversial farce Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world & is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama. A sharp & hilarious satire on political corruption it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who in 1969 fell to his death from a police headquarters window. This version of the play was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse London in February 2003. Commentary & notes by Joseph Farrell. ...

Six months ago city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. All to be with the man she thinks she loves & his two daughters who she knows she loves. But adjusting to life as a semi-permanent mother in the countryside isn't quite as easy as Sophie imagined it would be. Designer shoes aren't nearly so readily available
- not that she ever has any occasion to wear them
- & her best pair of vintage Manolo's have already found their way into the girls' dressing-up box. Sometimes Sophie doesn't recognise herself; which most of the time makes her happy but every now & then scares her to death. The hardest thing of all is making that final commitment to actually move in with Louis & the girls
- she's been the longest paying guest of the Avalon B&B St Ives in the history of the establishment. & as she tries to adapt to country life her newly adopted family & discovering more about Louis' past she begins to wonder if she's got what it takes to make it all work...


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Jane Green's The Accidental Husband" is a powerful story about two women connected by an earth-shattering secret. Maggie & Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women have beautiful children on the verge of flying the nest the home they worked hard to build & always longed for & a handsome & devoted husband they can't believe belongs to them. Both women think their lives are seamlessly secure but they couldn't be more wrong... For each is about to discover a secret that will shake their world to the very core throwing into doubt everything they ever thought they knew & bringing Maggie & Sylvie together in the most unexpected way. Praise for Jane Green: "A heartbreaking tale of love & family truly compelling". (" Closer"). " Compulsively readable. I raced through it". (" Daily Mail"). " Green is women's fiction royalty.. .a compelling family drama". (" Glamour"). Jane Green's internationally best-selling novels including " The Other Woman" " Jemima J." " Babyville" " Girl Friday" (published as Dune Road in the USA) " Life Swap" (" Swapping Lives") " Spellbound" (" To Have & to Hold") " The Beach House" " Second Chance" " Straight Talking" " Mr. Maybe" " Bookends" " The Love Verb" & " The Patchwork Marriage" (" Another Piece of My Heart") are incredibly moving & extremely relatable. " The Accidental Husband" is Jane's fourteenth novel. She lives in Connecticut with her husband & their blended family of six children." ...

To escape an arranged marriage spirited Lily Bainbridge has staged her own death & disguised as a boy fled to London & a life of freedom. Yet her plans to masquerade as an independent widow are thwarted by an encounter with Ethan Andarton a powerful & dangerously attractive marquis who wants to make her his mistress. But Lily is afraid that if she gives the Marquis of Vessey her innocence he'll steal her heart. Part two of Tracy Anne Warren's Mistress trilogy. Other titles in this series are: My Fair Mistress & His Favourite Mistress. Rouge Romance
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Sophie Mills has worked her Manolo Blahniks off to reach the near-top of her profession. & she's very happy with her priorities in life
- her job her neurotic cat Artemis & her passion for shoes. After all relationships only get in the way. & as for children? She hasn't even begun to think about them yet. Until one day an unexpected visitor brings news of a strange inheritance & Sophie is suddenly out of the blue in sole charge of two children under the age of six. But motherhood can't be all that hard can it? Within twenty-four hours her make-up is smeared all over the bathroom Artemis has taken up residence on top of her wardrobe & Sophie is in despair. & all her unconventional mother can suggest is Dr Roberts' Complete Dog Training & Care Manual. Determined to rise to the challenge Sophie soon realises that she'll need more than a business plan to cope with all this.. .
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For as long as he can remember Ben Fogle has been surrounded by creatures great & small. As a young boy his best friends were Liberty & Lexington the family dogs. Then there was Milly the puma-sized cat Jaws the goldfish & three very charismatic parrots not to mention a whole host of weird & wonderful animals that came through the doors of his fathers veterinary practice. Then came Inca Bens adorable black Labrador who changed his life. Since first melting the nations heart on Castaway the duo have been inseparable. With Incas help Ben was soon charming worms & tickling trout on Countryfile minding the big cats on Animal Park & fronting the BBCs coverage of Crufts. Bens passion for wildlife has taken him all over the world from the plains of Africa to the sea ice of Antarctica. He has played with penguins been chased by bull elephant seals & tapirs & helped operate on a cheetah. He has given mud packs to rhinos bathed with elephants & risked life & limb diving with Nile crocodiles all the while campaigning tirelessly for conservation the environment & animal welfare. Hair-raising heart-breaking & wildly entertaining The Accidental Naturalist" tells the extraordinary true stories of Bens amazing encounters with animals & how they changed his life." ...