Its time to send the animals rescued from the pirate circus home. Uncle Mac sets sail with amazing Esme & her fearless cousins on a journey to hot & cold & distant lands
- from Scotland to Siberia to Peru! Its a voyage filled with excitement & danger. & dastardly pirates who will stop at nothing to recapture the animals. This is the third of Tamara Macfarlanes Esme stories which are perfect for newly confident readers to read by themselves or for parents to read aloud. High in action & with plenty of humour the stories are brought to life by Michael Fowkes drawings on every double-page spread.
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Describing in November 2010 the influence of Mel Nichols on motoring writing Jeremy Clarkson said: 'I still think his story about driving three Lamborghinis from Italy is the best-ever drive story...I'm trying to do stuff like that now only on television.' This book is a collection of Nichols' best writings mostly covering supercars of the 1970s & 1980s & mostly published in Car magazine at the time when under Nichols' leadership it was regarded by the industry & enthusiasts as the best motoring magazine in the world. All car fans will enjoy the 50 stories in this book for their panache & nostalgia. ...

In June 1940 Paris fell to the Nazis who made the world's cultural capital their favourite entertainment ground. Music halls & cabarets thrived during the occupation providing plenty of work for actors singers & musicians
- except for Jews. The likes of Maurice Chevalier & Edith Piaf who had entertained the French troops now unabashedly provided amusement to the Germans. After the invasion of France those artists still in Paris had to find ways to survive. Although Matisse & others kept out of view Picasso could not avoid Nazi visitors. A few like Beckett joined the Resistance. Some were arrested & died in German hands. Others entertained the enemy. The theatres reopened the movie cameras rolled galleries sold paintings looted from Jewish families pro-German writers & their rivals fought in print. Told through the experiences of renowned creative figures & witnesses of the times & the Show Went On is an authoritative account of how Paris's artistic world lived through the Occupation both of those who suffered Nazi oppression & those who prospered through collaboration.
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In June 1940 Paris fell & the citys lights went out. The worlds cultural capital had become the Nazis greatest prize. Following its cultural tradition from the century before
- having given birth to major artistic movements like Impressionism Cubism & Surrealism
- Paris remained home to the greatest artists writers & composers from Joyce to Picasso. After the invasion of France many artists fled & those still in Paris had to survive: Matisse kept out of view but Picasso could not avoid Nazi visitors. A few like Beckett joined the Resistance. Some were arrested & died in German hands. Others entertained the enemy. Maurice Chevalier & Edith Piaf sang the dancing girls returned the opera & theatres reopened the movie cameras rolled galleries sold paintings looted from Jewish families pro-German writers & their rivals fought in print. Told through the experiences of renowned creative figures & witnesses of the times & the Show Went On provides the authoritative account of how Pariss artistic world lived through the German Occupation. From the desperation of defeat to the heights of creativity this is a moving history of survival collaboration & resistance.

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All aboard the train for this cumulative picture book full of delicious read-aloud sounds! Join the eclectic & eccentric passengers on the train: ladies off to the races chattering children on a school trip business men going to the city chickens off to market...and all the while the train goes Clickerty Click Clickerty Clack... Chuff Chuff Chufferty Chuff... Woo Woooooo! Children will love joining in with the noisy characters & spotting fun details on every page. With colourful retro art reminiscent of 1950s children's TV favourite Ivor the Engine this book is perfect for train lovers of all ages! Children fond of chuffing like a train will find their pleasure ramped up to a whole new level. Cheerful & spirited this is one of those welcome picture books that turns the bedtime story into live entertainment." (" The Independent"). Rush hour at this station is full of lively sounds & motions as a colourful collection of characters wait for the train. A great read-aloud book. " Junior"." ...

How would you feel if the only man you'd ever loved was taken away from you? & imagine how he'd feel if he hadn't really been taken away at all
- but couldn't find a way to let you know... Mel Taylor was thirteen years old when she found her Mr Right. Twenty years on they are blissfully in love. She has the man she adores a gorgeous daughter a great job & a dream home. But Mel's happiness is spoilt by a dark secret & a niggling fear that her good fortune can't last for ever. Despite her husband Adam's efforts to reassure her that nothing bad is going to happen Mel can't shake the feeling that someone is about to call time on their happiness. & then it happens...
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No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens has returned to another utterly irresistible branch on her beloved Cynster family tree The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man is a Cynster lady who believes that love is not her destiny. Famously known in London Society as ' The Matchbreaker' Henrietta Cynster's uncanny skill lies in preventing ill-fated nuptials
- not in falling victim to Cupid's alluring spell. However when she disrupts one match too many she feels honour-bound to assist the dashing James Glossup & find him a suitable bride for a marriage of convenience. Yet this is no easy task. Complicated by the growing & undeniable attraction that flares between them Henrietta must convince not only James but herself that when it comes to love she will never ever fall.
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Agatha Christies world-famous mystery thriller reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Ten strangers apparently with little in common are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen. Over dinner a record begins to play & the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again...and again... ...

Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: to sit back & enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday
- relaxing in the sun eating seafood & engaging in a little mild flirtation with the attractive woman sitting under the next umbrella. But Zen is getting restless & as an alarming number of people are dropping dead around him it seems just a matter of time before the Mafia manages to finish the job it bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road. Abruptly the pleasant monotony of beach life is cut short as Zen finds himself transported to a remote & strange world far from home...and wherever he goes trouble follows.
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First published in 1993 Blake Morrison's & When Did You Last See Your Father?" is an extraordinary portrait of family life father-son relationships & bereavement. It became a bestseller & inspired a whole genre of confessional memoirs. This new edition

Includes:: a new afterword by the author." And When Did You Last See Your Father?" won the Waterstone's/ Volvo/ Esquire Award for Non-Fiction & the JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography 1993."

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