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. ...

Gabrielle Coco Chanel was without doubt the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined & still define her style through inspired pairings of classic & contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld such as Cecil Beatons portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself the resonance between archive & contemporary photographs becomes sharp vibrant & telling. The vocabulary of Chanels style the little black dress baroque inspirations androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanels legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Junes first husband was killed in a car crash. Against all the odds her daughter was uninjured & in another miracle June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years on they are a happy family June pregnant with their own child. But now Junes second daughter is dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. & her first daughter along with her husband is dead killed by Shay Bourne an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die & he is looking for redemption. He wants to give Junes daughter his heart.. . ...

Change the World 9 to 5" is the latest book from the team that brought you the best selling " Change the World for a Fiver". " Change the World 9 to 5" features 50 simple practical things which we can all do during the working day to make a difference to the world & those around us regardless of our profession. & like " Change the World for a Fiver" it will be packed with tricks gimmicks & even the odd surprise. With the longest working hours in Europe " Change the World 9 to 5" will help us all make the most of the time we spend at work & feel good about ourselves." ...

This book marks the launch of We Are What We Do a national movement that aims to inspire people to use everyday actions to change the world. It has illustrations of 50 simple everyday actions presented with directness whimsy & wit. This book has been produced on a gratis basis & any proceeds will go towards the development of the movement. ...