The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Vitas nursing a broken heart. Olivers heart belongs to the past. They should ...

Do you secretly dream of whirling across the dance floor in a dress more glamour personified than Joan Collins circa 1955? Are you still waiting for the love of your life to materialise (your boyfriend just doesnt know it yet)? Do you love Strictly Come Dancing? Ava Dunne is trapped in a floundering relationship with Salisburys most unromantic boyfriend. Her domineering sister Laurens plans for a grand wedding are threatening to take over her existence & thoughts of the hideous dress Laurens chosen for her to wear on the big day offer little distraction from monotonous village life. Until she joins a local dance class. OK so its not exactly Strictly her number one favourite TV show but its a start. But then a handsome stranger from the neighbouring village joins the class & Avas life gets a whole lot more exciting. Will she finally get the Big Romance that has so far eluded her with this charming dance partner or should she just count her blessings & settle with pragmatic Rob? As the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing draws closer her boyfriend becomes ever more tedious & the dance classes become an increasingly alluring diversion Ava must make a decision that will change the direction of her life forever. Prepare to be whisked off your feet with the second long-awaited Strictly Come Dancing novel. ...

The book that made Jackie Collins one of Britain's favourite authors sweeps you from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas. It plunges you into the reckless dangerous world of the Santangelo crime family. It introduces you to Gino Santangelo the street kid who makes it all the way to the top. & it then brings you Lucky
- his sensual stunningly beautiful & passionate daughter; a woman who dares to win her father's empire for herself; a woman unafraid of taking … Chances.
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Sixteen-year-old Chanda Kabelo living in sub-Saharan Africa knows only too well the truth behind the secret people are trying to keep hidden: that all around her people are dying because of AIDS. When her young stepsister dies Chanda takes charge organising the funeral for her grief-stricken mother. But Chanda remains a girl like any other with hopes worries & secrets of her own. Can she stay strong while helping her family to survive in the face of this tragedy? ...

Chanels combination of tradition originality & style has always made it the most seductive of brands. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from 1920 onwards. Dazzling clothes intricate accessories beautiful models & timeless design leave no doubt as to the lasting fame of the brand & embody everything that has come to symbolize the magic of Chanel. ...

In Chanel: An Intimate Life" acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era. Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional & financial poverty she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats artists & spies. She broke rules of style & decorum seducing both men & women yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a plaything & turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights & thrilling discoveries Lisa Chaneys " Chanel" provides the most defining & provocative portrait yet. " Chaneys research is laudable uncovering fresh details of Chanels well-trodden rag trade to riches story". (" Evening Standard"). " An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer". (" Vogue"). Lisa Chaney has lectured & tutored in the history of art & literature made TV & radio broadcasts on the history of culture & reviewed & written for journals & newspapers including " The Sunday Times" the " Spectator" & the " Guardian". She is the author of two previous biographies: " Elizabeth David" & " Hide-&-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie"." ...

By the time Wendy Lawless turned seventeen shed known for quite some time that she didnt have a normal mother. But that didnt stop her from wanting one... Georgann Rea didnt bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat & always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She had slept with too many men & some women & she didnt like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine & the cold heart to match. In this evocative darkly humorous memoir Wendy deftly charts the highs & lows of growing up with her younger sister in the shadow of an unstable fabulously neglectful mother. Georgann a real-life Holly Golightly who constantly reinvents herself as she trades up from trailer-park to penthouse suffers multiple nervous breakdowns & suicide attempts while Wendy tries to hide the cracks in their fractured family from the rest of the world. Chanel Bonfire depicts a childhood blazed through the refined aeries of The Dakota & the swinging townhouses of London while the girls beautiful but damned mother desperately searches for glamour & fulfilment. Ultimately they must choose between living their own lives & being their mothers warden. ...

The Change Handbook is the only book that provides a view into a wide variety of change methods from around the world This new edition is updated with the latest change methods including cutting-edge technologies that have emerged since the first edition was published. Key features This new edition replaces now outdated methods with full descriptions of several popular new change methods that have emerged since the books original publication There are currently no other books on the market that use this anthology format for the subject matter ...

Margaret & Patrick married just a few months set off on a great adventure
- a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine
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From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ' Wolf Hall' & ' Bring Up the Bodies' this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts & buried secrets. Ralph & Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk raising their four children & devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of 'good souls & sad cases' children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air hides the growing crises in their own family the disillusionment of their children the fissures in their marriage. Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa & Botswana of the terrible African tragedies that have shaped the rest of their lives refuse to be put to rest & threaten to destroy the fragile peace they have built for themselves & their children. This is a breathtakingly intelligent novel that asks the most difficult questions. Is there anything one can never forgive? Is tragedy ever deserved? Can you ever escape your own past? A literary family saga written with the skill & subtlety of a true master this is Hilary Mantel at her best. ...