A year?on from?the end of ALL TEACHERS GREAT & SMALL Barbara & Andy Seed are settled into their Yorkshire Dales village but at school trouble arrives for Andy in the form of nine-year-old Sheena. After two years in the job Andy Seed returns to Cragthwaite brimming with complete confidence & looking forward to a year that is bound to bring?its own rewards as well as?its share of mishaps & misadventures. But even he didn't anticipate exploding piggy banks bottle-rocket missiles & actually deafening Dracula. At home Andy & Barbara are enjoying life with little Tom and?are expecting again. Meanwhile a new friendship is formed with hill farmer Adam. Adam proves both an inspiration & a confidante for Andy & through him he begins to see the light with troubled Sheena. The second in Andy's trilogy about life as a Yorkshire Dales teacher this is as warm witty & refreshing as the first full of colourful anecdotes from village & school life. ...

Isabel doesnt want to marry a tycoon. She wants to be one. Isabel Suarez-Octavio is ravishing intelligent & ambitious. But unlike some of her friends shes not planning to use her looks to seduce a billionaire & become someones trophy wife. Shes just arrived at Oxford University & she is determined to make her mark on the world. The city of dreaming spires is everything she hoped for. The parties are riotous the societies thrilling & the people are the power brokers of tomorrow. Before long Isabel is prowling the corridors of Westminster by day partying in Miami by night: a rising star pursuing good times & a glittering career. Until a yacht trip along Italys glamorous Amalfi Coast goes horribly wrong. Suddenly Isabel is in the frame for murder standing utterly alone against some of the worlds most powerful men. After years of thinking only of the future she must finally confront the secrets of her past
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While the primary focus of All That Glitters" is Goldwork the authors passion for both Goldwork & Stumpwork is evident through the diverse range of projects featured." All That Glitters" features sections on: Basic Supplies & Requirements; Stitches & Techniques; & Projects ranging from dimensional framed pieces to functional items all with clear easy to read instructions illustrations & colour photographs." ...

Anna Funder winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize & author of Stasiland" offers a thrilling tale & powerful love story that tells the heroic & tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in " All That I Am". When Hitler comes to power in 1933 a tight-knit group of friends & lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness & tyranny of Nazism they must flee the country. Dora passionate & fearless her lover the great playwright Ernst Toller her younger cousin Ruth & Ruths husband Hans find refuge in London. Here they take breath-taking risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe-haven they think it to be & a single chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart..." The strengths of Funders writing are emotional & imaginative. In what she has to say about love loss & betrayal there is profound truth". (" The Times"). " An often pacy & exciting read... Funder captures perfectly the sense of her characters deprived & dangerous lives". (" Daily Mail"). "A superb novel that transcends its setting. This book is a wonder. Do please read it". (" Spectator"). Anna Funder is the author of the international bestseller " Stasiland" which won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize & was published in 20 countries & translated into 16 languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards & a former DAAD & Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. Anna Funder grew up in Melbourne & Paris & lives in Sydney with her husband & family." ...

A major new novel his first work of fiction in seven years from the universally acclaimed master & PEN/ Faulkner winner: a sweeping seductive love story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa Philip Bowman returns to America & finds a position as a book editor. In a world of dinners deals & literary careers Bowman finds that he fits in perfectly. But despite his success what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad another fails to happen & finally he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he could never imagine for himself. Romantic & haunting All That Is explores a life unfolding in an unforgettable world on the brink of change -- a dazzling sometimes devastating labyrinth of love & ambition a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks & grand pleasures of being alive. ...

A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives.. .and leaving just one tantalising clue.. . When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined. But when the latest girl goes missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America Kay finds herself prey to political pressure & press harassment. As she starts to investigate she finds that vital evidence is being withheld from her
- or even faked. & all the time a cunning sadistic killer is still at large.. . For more about Patricia Cornwell & her books visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com
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If wishes were horses beggars would ride. (Trad.) When Lara was twelve & her younger brother Alfie eight their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon & Irishman he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic where he met their mother years before & they only once went on a family holiday together to Spain where their mother cried & their father lost his temper & left early. Because home for their father wasnt Earls Court: it was Belfast where he led his other life... Narrated by Lara nearing forty & nursing her dying mother All the Beggars Riding" is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past." ...

A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales & a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle the well-liked & successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatre's current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide & Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annie's investigation leads to another shattering discovery & DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems where secrets & deceit are the norm & where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends & family. Nobody is safe. ...

Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far off a massive jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more Iranians do. Or what about the time we arrived with elephants to invade Ethiopia? Every summer hordes of British tourists now occupy Corfu & the other Ionian islands. Find out how we first invaded them armed with cannon instead of camera & set up the United States of the Ionian Islands. Think the Philippines have always been outside our zone of influence? Think again. Read the surprising story of our eighteenth-century occupation of Manila & how we demanded a ransom of millions of dollars for the city. This book takes a look at some of the truly awe-inspiring ways our country has been a force for good & for bad right across the world. A lot of people are vaguely aware that a quarter of the globe was once pink but that's not even half the story. We're a stroppy dynamic irrepressible nation & this is how we changed the world often when it didn't ask to be changed! ...

It is 1946: the war is over & three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures.. . Katie ONeills childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother & by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent yet hungry for love she is easily taken in by male charm & is left outcast & alone with her young son. Emma Brown has spent the war at home in Birmingham longing for her husband Norm to return & meet the son he has never seen. But she soon finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of problems. & Molly Fox after a sad & brutal childhood found a place to belong during the war in the womens army the ATS. Now the women are no longer wanted & Molly finds peacetime a bleak difficult challenge. Finding work in guesthouses & holiday camps she keeps running from herself in search of a place she can call home. All the Days of Our Lives" is the story of three girls who first met in a Birmingham classroom in the 1930s each facing life with all its joys sorrows & surprises." ...