Number 1 on the Bestseller list (Australia) with over 20 000 copies sold in the UK alone & over 250 000 world-wide! Almost French has been a huge success & now with the new-look mass market B Format it is ready to go stellar! Publication timed for major trade promotions including summer reading & airport holiday exodus. In the bestselling tradition of Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun Chris Stewarts A Parrot in the Pepper Tree or Peter Mayle
- but without the pile of stones! Funny perceptive & poignant Almost French is an often hilarious mixture of a young womans personal memoir & armchair travel. A spectacular example of culture clash
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When she was young Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days Steffie is the proud owner of One Scoop or Two a wildly popular ice cream parlor. But the cool guy left town right after high school before they could scratch the surface of their mutual attraction to see what if anything lay beneath. Steffie's made a great life for herself in St. Dennis but true love has never come knocking. Wade Mac Gregor left for college in Texas & remained there to start a successful business with his best friend Robin Kennedy but he's always felt something was missing. Then life throws him a curveball: A third partner has robbed the company blind & Robin has died-but not before entrusting Wade with a precious secret. Now back in St. Dennis Wade's determined to do whatever it takes to protect his friend's legacy-and to figure out once & for all if the sparks that fly whenever he's with Steffie are just temporary fireworks or the lights in the window leading him home. ...

In his new book Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium Charles Darwins The Origin of Species. Before The Origin biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science linked by the theory of evolution the grammar of the living world. It reveals ties between cancer & the genetics of fish between brewing & inherited disease between the sex lives of crocodiles & the politics of Brazil. Darwin used the biology of the nineteenth century to prove his case. Now that science has been revolutionized & his case can be reargued using the twentieth centurys astonishing advances. From AIDS to dinosaurs from conservation to cloned sheep bursting with anecdotes jokes & irresistible facts Almost Like a Whale is a popular account of the science that makes biology make sense. It will catch the millennial mood & tell all those for whom Darwin is merely a familiar name what he really meant. It exposes the Darwinian delusions which try (and fail) to explain human behaviour in evolutionary terms & while giving an up-to-date account of our own past shows how humans are the first species to step beyond the constraints of biology. ...

Ruthless killers are hunting Ty so the police move him & his mum to a quiet seaside town. But a horrific attack & a bullet meant for Ty prove that hes not safe. On the road again Tys in hiding with complete strangers.. .who seem to know a lot about him. Meanwhile hes desperate to see his girlfriend Claire & terrified that she may betray him. Ty cant trust his own judgement & hes making dangerous decisions that could deliver him straight to the gangsters. A thrilling sequel to When I Was Joe shot through with drama & suspense. ...

Ruthless killers are hunting Ty so the police move him & his mum to a quiet seaside town. But a horrific attack & a bullet meant for Ty prove that hes not safe. On the road again Tys in hiding with complete strangers.. .who seem to know a lot about him. Meanwhile hes desperate to see his girlfriend Claire & terrified that she may betray him. Ty cant trust his own judgement & hes making dangerous decisions that could deliver him straight to the gangsters. A thrilling sequel to When I Was Joe shot through with drama & suspense. ...

Alms for Oblivion" is a series of ten novels all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys & businessmen writers & soldiers prostitutes & patient wives actresses & models. In the first four novels Ravens wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; from blackmail to murder; from marriage to adultery & back again. Volume 1
Includes:: " The Rich Pay Late" " Friends in Low Places" " The Sabre Squadron" & " Fielding Gray"."
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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The first book in the Detective D.D. Warren series from The Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. YOU HAVE A SPLIT SECOND TO MAKE YOUR DECISION. As he watches a potentially fatal hostage situation unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge knows that he may be all that stands between life & death. But from the moment Bobby pulls the trigger killing an armed man holding his own wife & child hostage it may be Bobbys own life that is lost. Detective D. D. Warrens investigation into the shooting leads her to the impossibly beautiful young widow Catherine Rose Gagnon & the darkness in her past. Even as the truth behind the facade of this wealthy Boston familys life is revealed the body count rises. & with a sadistic vengeful killer newly released from prison everyone must be on their guard. For he strikes the solitary wanderer
- & no one can stay protected forever...IF YOU DONT SHOOT WILL HE?
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