Berlin 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine an attractive young Anglo-German actress arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives among them Magda Goebbels Anneliese von Ribbentrop & Goering's girlfriend Emmy Sonnemann. As part of his plan to create a new pure German race Hitler wants to make sweeping changes to the lives of women starting with the formation of a Reich Fashion Bureau instructing women on what to wear & how to behave. Clara is invited to model the dowdy unflattering clothes. Then she meets Leo Quinn who is working for British intelligence & who sees in Clara the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends using her acting skills to win their confidence. But when Magda Goebbels reveals to Clara a dramatic secret & entrusts her with an extraordinary mission Clara feels threatened compromised desperately caught between her duty towards
- & growing affection for
- Leo & the impossibly dangerous task Magda has forced upon her.

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Ida a good-natured happy girl is looking forward to her tenth birthday when she gets on her brand new bike & sets off to buy sweets. She should be back within half an hour but she never returns. Her mother frantic with worry calls the shop friends & family but no one has seen her daughter. As the relatives reach breaking point & the media circus begins Inspector Sejer is calm & reassuring but inside he is worried: missing children are normally found within forty-eight hours. Ida seems to have vanished without a trace. ...

Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family a cynical outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past
- that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny's unwise liaison with his nephew! But Abby adept at managing her sweet silly sister Selina her lively niece & the host of her admirers among Bath's circumscribed society has less success in managing her own unruly heart. The Black Sheep is a sweeping spiritual novel that shows how Geogette Heyer became the most successful & popular writer of her generation & configures to be loved by a huge readership today.
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It is 1925 & the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple her husband Alec Fletcher & their recent twins move to a new large house on the outskirts of London. Set in a small circle of houses with a communal garden it seems like the idyllic setting
- that is until a murder victim turns up under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumours of bootleggers American gangsters & an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. Alec in his role as Scotland Yard detective has been assigned to ferret out the truth behind the murder
- but it is up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is what his relationship with her new neighbours was why he was murdered
- & who it was who did him in! Praise for Carola Dunns Daisy Dalrymple Series": Cunning...appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece
- Publishers Weekly. As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries
- " Booklist For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers novels Library Journal"."




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Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce Rosemary Sutcliffs Black Ships Before Troy now in an exciting new format. Here is Homers epic poem The Iliad brought to life by Rosemary Sutcliff with all the skill of a master storyteller. Alan Lees dramatic cover image hauntingly recreates the age of heroes in this spellbinding introduction to the Greek classics
- a book that should become part of every childhood.
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The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon.. .or too late. First published in English in 1968 Frantz Fanons seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanons descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy & dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient & as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture a denial of difference that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political & cultural liberation in our troubled times. ...

This black address book is slim has silver lettering on the cover & the pages are edged in silver foil.. Inside there are 26 sections for addresses 1 letter to each section. Each page has three spaces for name address home number mobile fax & email. Measures approximately: H 170 x W 85mm ...

This is a fantasy reworking of Wuthering Heights" which interweaves wizard lore & vendetta with Emily Brontes beloved classic. " Black Spring" takes the passionate story of Emily Brontes " Wuthering Heights" & re-imagines it in a fantasy nineteenth-century society set in savage lands sustained by wizardry where its people live by the vengeance code of vendetta. Like " Wuthering Heights" its a story within a story featuring the brooding young Damek who is swept along by his emotions. The object of his affections is Lina daughter of the village lord whose magical powers make her a witch
- & witches are not tolerated in this brutally patriarchal society. When Lina is sent away & forced to become a servant Damek promises revenge & like Heathcliff spends a lifetime securing & refining it. This book has strong crossover potential & will appeal as much to adult fans of sophisticated fantasy & the Brontes as to teen fantasy readers. This is a beautifully written & unique take on " Wuthering Heights" which mixes wizard lore & the Armenian vendetta tradition with the epic romance of the original classic."
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Written during the same period as Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn & banned in the English-speaking world upon its publication in Paris in 1936 Black Spring is one of Millers finest achievements & arguably his most distinguished book from a stylistic point of view. It consists of a number of linked episodes describing some of the crucial years in his personal saga from recollections of his childhood in Brooklyn to his time in Paris. ...

A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of The Black Swan" Nassim Nicholas Taleb's " The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions contrasting the classical values of courage elegance & erudition against modern philistinism & phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know he shows can we see the world as it really is. " Happily provocative.. .blistering.. .his observations concern superiority wealth suckerdom academia modernity technology & the all-purpose ignorant "they".. .very"able". (" The New York Times"). "A master philosopher". (" The Times"). " Taleb's crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems". (" Financial Times"). " Opinionated & witty... It showcases his wit & learning & provides ways to fillet his enemies". (" Independent on Sunday"). Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flaneur meditating in cafes across the planet. A former trader he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of " Fooled by Randomness" & " The Black Swan" an international bestseller which has become an intellectual social & cultural touchstone." ...