One fateful summer evening businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later the newspapers are full of the rape & murder of Lady Louise Paxton
- & to his horror Timariot realises that this was the woman he met just hours before her death. A man is swiftly charged & convicted of the crime but a series of bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems. Against his better judgement he is soon sucked into the tortuous complexity of the dead woman's life. But the closer Timariot gets to the truth the more hideous & uncertain it seems to be. & far too late he realizes that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to live...
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Called an uneasy peace the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil
- Britain saw a general strike & the worst economic
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Lucy Hull a young childrens librarian in Hannibal Missouri finds herself both kidnapper & kidnapped when her favourite patron ten-year-old Ian Drake runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading but needs Lucys help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. When Lucy finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a backpack of provisions & an escape plan she allows herself to be hijacked by him & the pair embark on a spontaneous road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? & should Lucy really be trying to save a boy from his own parents? ...

This title features a new heroine from the creator of the internationally bestselling Amelia Peabody" series. A missing masterwork in wood the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of sixteenth century Germany may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss drawing her & an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel & its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here where the blood of the long forgotten stains ancient stones Vicky must face two perilous possibilities: either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits the place...or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find." ...

The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece inside the harpsichord under the kitchen clock. They own nothing borrow everything & think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arriettys father Pod was an expert Borrower. He could scale curtains using a hatpin & bring back a dolls teacup without breaking it. Girls werent supposed to go borrowing but as Arrietty was an only child her father broke the rule & then something happened which changed their lives. She made friends with the human boy living in the house... Starring Robert Sheehan Aisling Loftus Christopher Ecclestone Stephen Fry & Victoria Wood a br&-new film for the BBC of The Borrowers" will be a must-watch Christmas Day special. This is the film directed by Tom Harper & screenplay written by Ben Vanstone." ...

Deep beneath the floorboards lives the tiny Borrower family
- Pod Homily & Arrietty Clock. Everything they have is borrowed from
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Two decades after the conflict that ravaged the region Bosnia & Herzegovina has emerged as a unique dynamic tourism destination. Whether you go in search of bears in the primeval Sutjeska National Park wander the winding streets of Sarajevo's Turkish quarter or put your feet up in Mostar with a glass of chilled ilavka you are guaranteed to be charmed by the country's rich natural & cultural heritage. Still the only standalone guidebook to the country in English Bradt's Bosnia & Herzegovina is packed with practical information & insider tips on how to make the most of your trip to the land where East meets West. You can explore Sarajevo on foot with our extensive walking tours. You can go skiing on the world-class slopes of Jahorina & Bjelasnica. You can visit the mysterious pilgrimage site of Medugorje. You can learn your kupus from your kolac with our language guide. You can discover the imposing hilltop towns of Pocitelj & Travnik. ...

Felicity is a girl with two different sides to her character each leading two very separate lives. Theres Fizz
- wild child drummer
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Bernado Provenzano head of the Sicilian mafia is Italys most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe for 43 years he eluded the police until on 11 April 2006 a crack police team broke into a tiny shepherds hut in the mountains above Corleone. At last they were able to capture Provenzano just a few miles from his home. A master of reinvention he has been known variously as the Tractor the Accountant Uncle Bernie & even the Axe Man. He took over Cosa Nostra when it was on its knees after the carnage of an all-out war with the state & restored its power by going underground & infiltrating business law & politics at the highest levels. In prison his human side emerged when his sole request was to marry his devoted companion Saveria who stood by him through years on the run. Provenzanos story is one of passion & betrayal told by the investigators who tracked him down the spies who worked for him the officers who arrested him & his consigliere at the heart of Cosa Nostra. ...

Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman but she met that woman once & acted weird around her. Before 30 Rock Mean Girls & Sarah Palin Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last Tina Feys story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon
- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all & proves what weve all suspected: youre no one until someone calls you bossy.
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