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? ...

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. ...

Even a small town girl can have big dreams... Marcie Brooks has returned to her home town with a baby & a ring on her finger. But for all her grandmother's insistence that she's a young widow the truth is the only boy Marcie has ever loved tragically died before he could make good his promise to wed her. Sometimes she still feels his presence near her which is both a comfort & an unnerving sign that she's inherited her grandmother's psychic gifts... However defending herself from unwanted attention has devastating consequences
- Marcie has to leave Sheppey in a hurry. The offer of a job in a smart boutique on the Kings Road in London arranged via her father's dodgy connections seems to offer an ideal escape. But it doesn't take Marcie long to discover that her new Sicilian bosses have other business interests besides fashion...
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The autobiography of one of the most significant & beloved of songwriters writer of fifty-two UK Top 40 hits from ' Walk On By' to ' Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head'. Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated & legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre Marlene Dietrich to Elvis Costello. Anyone Who Had a Heart is the story of one of the greatest song writers of all time. It traces for the first time in his own words the life & times of the man who created the music that has become the sound track for the lives of his millions of devoted fans all over the world. Bacharach's songs include: ' Magic Moments'
- Perry Como ' Baby It's You'
- The Shirelles / The Beatles ' Please Stay'
- The Drifters / Marc Almond ' Wishin' & Hopin
- Dionne Warwick / Dusty Springfield / Ani Di Franco ' Walk On By'
- Dionne Warwick / The Stranglers 'I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself'
- Dusty Springfield / The White Stripes ' (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me'
- Sandie Shaw 'A Message to Martha'
- Adam Faith ' What's New Pussycat?'
- Tom Jones ' Trains & Boats & Planes'
- Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas ' Alfie'
- Cilla Black / Cher / Rumer 'I Say a Little Prayer'
- Dionne Warwick / Aretha Franklin ' Do You Know the Way to San Jose?'
- Dionne Warwick ' Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'
- B.J. Thomas / Sacha Distel / Johnny Mathis 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again'
- Bobby Gentry ' Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)'
- Burt Bacharach / Barry Manilow / Shirley Bassey."















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Anything Goes" traces the life & career of John Barrowman from his Glaswegian childhood & American adolescence to his first big break starring alongside Elaine Paige in " Anything Goes". Since then John has made a name for himself with outstanding West End achievements including an Olivier Award nomination & success in the movies the " Producers" & " De-Lovely". His triumphant transition into television was confirmed when " Torchwood" won a Best Drama BAFTA. John also lays bare his personal life: his emigration as a child coming out to his family & his 2006 civil partnership with long-term boyfriend Scott Gill. " Anything Goes" is revelatory & insightful told with real heart & characteristic Barrowman charm. This is a wonderful tale of how one boy achieved his dreams." ...