Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns organised beggar societies insane homunculi & magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies & consequently misses his return trip to 1983 the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man escape artist & swordsman in order to survive in the dark & treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets black magic murderous beggars freezing waters imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons poisoning & even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself & poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters & a werewolf that inhabits others bodies when his latest becomes too hairy. ...

Dr. Robert L. Leahys techniques to treat negativity & improve mental health have been proven easy effective & popular by many people worldwide while his books have been translated into eleven languages & are a valuable source used throughout the world in training other behavioural therapists. His latest book Anxiety Free" presents his simple & powerful techniques for coping with anxiety & worry in a straightforward & engaging manner & can help you overcome your fear & doubt
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' Tis the season to be jolly except single Dubliner Jenny Breslin is feeling something a little closer to gloomy. Everything about her life
- her boring job at the bank the complete lack of romance
- has been untouched by holiday magic & she dreads the thought of spending yet another festive season with her larger-than-life mother & her new boyfriend. Thank God for Twitter a place where there are always people ready & waiting to have a chat. She's even managed to make a couple of genuine friends there even though she's never met them IRL (that's ' In Real Life' by the way). ' So who's on for a few days in Dublin? Would love to meet you all in person. I have a spare room in my house'
- this drunken tweet to her Twitter pals changes Jenny's life forever. Before she knows it she's counting down to a Christmas visit from London-native Zahra Burns make-up artist to the stars; Fiona Lee a stay-at-home mum from Galway & nurse Kerry (the Twitter buddy Jenny feels closest to). Suddenly Jenny becomes aware of how her life will appear to these strangers. In a word: Boring. It's easy enough to pretend that you're an exciting & sophisticated person when nobody can see you but now Jenny's worried about being caught out in the occasional lies that she's told. All the more incentive to change her life for the better! But once her pals arrive Jenny finds herself pining for the past & wondering if people are ever who they claim to be.


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It's not that you can't do it; you just don't want to do it! We all try & wriggle out of boring chores like washing up or taking the rubbish out but what about the bigger things like going to work & being a proper responsible grown-up? Indulge the big kid in you & arm yourself with this indispensible guide to shirking! ...

Any Human Heart" is William's Boyd's classic bestselling novel
- now a major Channel 4 drama. Every life is both ordinary & extraordinary
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Sheila Malory has her reservations when she is asked to research the history of the village of Mere Barton as it brings her into close contact with miserly Annie Roberts a controlling woman whos much resented by her fellow villagers. Not even the local rector has a good word to say about her. When Annie suffers a fatal bout of self-inflicted food poisoning there is more relief than grief around the village. However as Sheila continues to work on the local history she begins to wonder if Annies death was as accidental as it first seemed? An intriguing mystery containing a tangled web of guilt & deceit Any Mans Death" will enthrall armchair detectives everywhere." ...

On paper Sadies got it all -- the partner the children the house. But in real life that doesnt feel quite enough. Sadie cant help harking back to the time when she was a career woman by day & a party animal by night. & what happened to feeling like a sex kitten anyway? The only sleepless nights shes getting now are due to the baby. Maybe a little reinvention is the answer... Sadie cant resist creating a fictitious online identity for herself as a hot TV producer. Its only a bit of harmless fun...until truth & fantasy become dangerously tangled. It isnt long before shes wondering if the exciting alter ego she has dreamed up really is the kind of person she wants to be after all... Wry funny & with a wonderful twist in the tale Any Way You Want Me is an enchanting novel of infidelity motherhood & friends reunited that heralds the debut of a lovely new voice in fiction. ...

Rachel & Kirsty are thrilled to be spending the week at Golden Palace
- where real kings & queens once lived! Whilst they are settling
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Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the Forever" part... Of all the things Anya expected to find atthe bottom of an old well a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family self-conscious about her body & she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend--even a ghost--is just what she needs. Or so she thinks. Spooky sardonic & secretly sincere " Anya's Ghost "is a wonderfully entertaining debut from author/artist Vera Brosgol. " Anya's Ghost" is a 2011 " Kirkus" Best Teen Books of the Year title. One of " School Library Journal"'s Best Fiction Books of 2011. One of " Horn Book"'s Best Fiction Books of 2011." ...

I had to go back to New York & try to find him. There was a chance he mightnt be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasnt here. Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Shes covered in bandages & shes lying in her parents Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin & getting back to New York. To her friends. To The Most Fabulous Job in the World. & most of all back to her husband Aiden. But her family have other ideas (not to mention the usual problems that beset the Walsh sisters). & Aiden for some reason seems unwilling to get in touch. What happened to Anna to send her so far from all that she loves? & what happened to her marriage that her husband wont talk to her? ...