For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie editor of the Review of Applied Ethics getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. & with the arrival of baby Charlie not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie fourteen years her junior Isabel enters deeper & rougher waters. Late motherhood is not the only challenge facing Isabel. Even as she negotiates a truce with her furious niece Cat & struggles for authority over her son with her formidable housekeeper Grace Isabel finds herself drawn into the story of a painters mysterious death off the island of Jura. Perhaps most seriously of all Isabels professional existence & that of her beloved Review come under attack from the machiavellian & suspiciously handsome Professor Dove. A master storyteller whether debating ethics in Edinburgh or pursuing lady detectives in Africa here Alexander Mc Call Smith is as witty & wise as his irresistibly spirited heroine. ...

It is barely three months since the murder of his wife & Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk he sees a cliff climber fall to his death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards Lynley encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history is a blank before her thirteenth year. These events propel him into a case that brings Barbara Havers from London & thrusts both detectives into a world where revenge is only one of the motives they must sift through to identify a killer. ...

George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide & had seven UK number one singles & albums. This revealing new biography tells his story from the formation of Wham! in the early 1980s with friend Andrew Ridgley. Their success with hits including Young Guns (Go For It) & Club Tropicana & their split in 1986. His success as a solo artist with albums including Faith & Listen Without Prejudice. His legal battle with Sony which cost him millions of his own money. His personal life including his secret boyfriend Anselmo Feleppo who died in 1993 his former muse Kathy Jeung & art dealer Kenny Goss. The drug & sex scandals that eventually led him to be sent to prison in 2010 following a car crash.

Includes:: commentary by those best placed to observe his career
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As an Arrow an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks Judd Lauren was forced to do terrible things in the name of his people. Now a defector his dark abilities have made him the most deadly of assassins
- cold pitiless unfeeling. Until he meets Brenna.. . Brenna Shane Kincaid was an innocent before she was abducted
- & had her mind violated
- by a serial killer. Her sense of evil runs so deep she fears she could become a killer herself. Then the first dead body is found victim of a familiar madness. Judd is her only hope yet her sensual changeling side rebels against the inhuman chill of his personality even as desire explodes between them. Shocking & raw their passion is a danger that threatens not only their hearts but their very lives.. .


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Every island of the Caribbean has its own character & so not surprisingly does the food from their kitchens. Indeed when Christopher Columbus first arrived in the Carribean he is said to have remarked that he saw so many islands he hardly knew which to go to first. So variety is the spice of life in Caribbean cooking. It is a delightfully eclectic blend of tastes & textures influenced by ingredients & cooking techniques from Europe Asia & Africa; a diversity born out of the mixture of races
- Chinese Portuguese British Indian Amerindians & Africans whose travels & histories are the heart of the Caribbean. The essence of good Caribbean cuisine is in using fresh vegetables & fruit & seasoning meats & fish in herbs & spices. Rosamund Grants introduction to this cuisine presents recipes for traditional dishes as well as some created using ideas & ingredients borrowed from other cultures.
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With amazing culture beaches activities & weather not to mention the rum the Caribbean is a joyous riot of islands offering the ultimate escape. Ryan Ver Berkmoes Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage & you can rely on us to tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 65 islands covered 13 expert authors 500 days (and nights) of research 874 gorgeous beaches Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Cruising feature In-depth background Comprehensive planning tools Easy-to-read layout ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning.

Includes:: a fold-out overview map & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers which can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Comprehensive index. The map scale is 1: 2 500 000.


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An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed! As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True the warmth eased her rheumatism but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually her interest was aroused by an old soldiers yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph the Majors attention wandered. He never did finished the story! ...

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True the warmth eased her rheumatism but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually her interest was aroused by an old soldiers yarn about strange coincidence. Infuriatingly just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph the Majors attention wandered. He never did finish the story... June Whitfield stars as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Throws off false clues & misleading events as only a master of the art can do. (New York Times) ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form
- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design.
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