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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Hey pretty lady havent we met? Yes beautiful thirty-something Autumn Haven has definitely met hockey-superstar Sam Le Claire before. Several years ago she had a passionate Vegas-inspired fling with him involving getting hitched in an Elvis-themed wedding chapel & ending with her waking up in a hotel room: alone heartbroken...and pregnant. So these days reminding her ex-husband that she even exists isnt high on Autumns to-do list. But they have a child Conner & suddenly Sam claims to have grown up wanting to be more involved with his son. & handsome drop-dead sexy Sam always gets what he wants. Being a good dad to Conner is one thing but to her horror Autumn realises she still finds it practically impossible to be around Sam without falling for his charms once again. & thats the last thing she wants...isnt it? Sexy funny unputdownable
- theres no one quite like Rachel Gibson.
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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. ...

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? ...

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? ...

At 30 Duncan Bannatyne had no money & was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire & decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it & now he is worth GBP168 million. In this remarkable book Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did
- if they really want to. Hugely articulate & with numerous fascinating & revealing stories to tell this is an autobiography & a business book unlike any other
- but then Bannatyne isn't like any other businessman either.

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Anyone Can Do It chronicles the start & evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Coffee Republic is now worth around 50m with 90 outlets around the UK. This is a start-up business book for real people. Sahar & Bobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of starting & growing a business from asking 'why?' & writing the plan to hiring staff & letting go. The book is illustrated throughout with inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is a very personal story of dreaming acting & succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs & blowing apart the myth that only 'special' people start successful businesses. ...