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." ...

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 father's veterinary practice. Then came Inca Ben's adorable black Labrador who changed his life. Since first melting the nation's heart on Castaway the duo have been inseparable. With Inca's help Ben was soon charming worms & tickling trout on Countryfile minding the big cats on Animal Park & fronting the BBC's coverage of Crufts. Ben's 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 Ben's amazing encounters with animals & how they changed his life." ...

HIS RUNAWAY PRINCESS Princess Serena of Badenstein intends to flee
- from her violent father & from the man to whom shes been pledged
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Ed Middleton is ecstatic: hes just got engaged to his girlfriend Sam & he couldnt be happier. At least he thinks hes engaged. The thing is it was Sam who did the proposing & the more he thinks about it the less hes sure that she was actually asking him to marry her. She could have just been asking the question you know...hypothetically. As the wedding day draws nearer Ed becomes more & more uneasy. Sam keeps disappearing off for furtive meetings & private phone calls & when he spies her going into a pub with a man hes never seen before all his old jealousies & insecurities threaten to re-surface. Its the perfect time for Eds unhinged ex-girlfriend Jane to show up on his doorstep. Meanwhile Dan
- Eds best-friend & soon-to-be-best-man
- is determined to throw him a stag night to remember. & when a severely hung-over Ed wakes up the morning after the night before to see a second dent in the pillow it seems as if Dan has got his wish. Will Ed manage to find out the truth about his stag night as well as the identity of Sams secret man? Or will an accidental proposal lead them both down the aisle to a wedding neither of them ever imagined?

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FATE GAVE HER FANGS.. . Ever since an accident turned her into a knockout vamp Elvi Black's been catching her z's in a coffin staying out of the sun & giving up garlic. She knows there's more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula but she can't very well ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette. But when her neighbors placed a personal ad for her in the local paper she never imagined she'd meet Victor Argeneau a vampire who could have his pick of women
- dead or alive. HE'LL SHOW HER HOW TO USE THEM.. . Rich powerful & drop-dead gorgeous Victor's the perfect man for a novice neck-biter like Elvi. He's willing to teach her everything he knows but he'll have to do it fast. Someone's out to put a stake through her new vamp life & only Victor can keep her safe
- & satisfied
- for all eternity.


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When Simon Rimmer bought a small vegetarian restaurant he had no idea how to cook. Armed with two cookbooks & heaps of enthusiasm he & a friend created the best vegetarian restaurant in Manchester famous for its unusual food & lovely atmosphere. A confirmed meat eater Simon had to rethink his cooking & has created vegetarian recipes to please even the most dedicated carnivore. This book is a collection of some of his recipes that are quick to prepare but totally delicious. From good old favourites like macaroni cheese to Simons more exotic fusion creations such as spicy beetroot & coconut soup The Accidental Vegetarian" will kill the lentil & sandal image of vegetarianism forever!" ...

How do you know if your life has taken a wrong turn? Alison James thinks she might be living the wrong life. She loves her husband Marc & their three children but somehow in the process of building a perfect life for her family she seems to have lost herself. & sometimes she worries that she's being punished for how it all started
- for the day she ran away with her best friend's boyfriend. Catherine Ashley knows she's living the wrong life. She adores her two daughters but she'd always thought that at thirty-one she'd be more than a near-divorcee with a dead-end job. In those dark middle-of-the-night moments that come all too often these days her mind still flicks back to the love of her life: Marc James. & she still wonders whether Alison stole her life as well as her boyfriend. Alison & Catherine have been living separate lives a hundred miles apart for fifteen years
- since Alison & Marc ran away together. But now Alison's moving back to Farmington the town in which they both grew up. & they're about to find out just how different both their lives could still be...

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The Accidental Woman" is a wickedly funny novel from bestseller Jonathan Coe. For Maria nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Untouched by friendship unimpressed by devoted Ronny & his endless marriage proposals she lives in a world of her own but not of her own making. Even as she stumbled on through university work marriage & motherhood Maria finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will our heroine ever be able to control the direction of her life or will it end as it began by accident? What does chance next have in store for her? From the author of the award-winning " The Rotters Club" & " What a Carve Up!" " The Accidental Woman" will be enjoyed by readers of Nick Hornby & William Boyd & centres on a quirky & highly individual woman who is still struggling to find her place in life. "" The Accidental Woman" has a cocky individual voice of its own.. .heres precocious rebellious talent". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Slyly parodies the cliches of most first novels". (" Guardian"). "A convincing stuffy of the random impetuses by which human lives tend to be governed. It is also very funny". (" Spectator"). Jonathan Coes novels are filled with biting social commentary moving & astute observations of life & hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles " What a Carve Up!" (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) "A Touch of Love" " The Rotters Club" (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize) " The Closed Circle" " The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" " The House of Sleep" (winner of the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger) & " The Rain Before it Falls" are all available in Penguin paperback." ...

Isnt Daisy good? Shes tipping some sprinkles onto Mums ice cream. But wait! Now the cheeky monkeys popping her peas behind the sofa! This fantastically funny split page book will have children in stitches! Watch them decide whether Daisy will accidentally on purpose plonk knickers in Mums tea or a worm on her ice-cream! With innumerable
- naughty & nice
- scenarios & bold illustrations this book will provide hours of fun! The innovative spiral binding means that it can be used again & again.

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