Emilio & Rosa are childhood sweethearts engaged to be married. But it is 1942 & the war has taken Emilio far from Italy to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return & help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren isl&. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds & ends & homemade paints. Whilst Emilios chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been left to the sheep will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war & separation? For Rosa is no longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further into the Italian resistance movement & closer to danger as friendships & allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human perseverance & resilience are at the heart of this strong debut & the small Italian chapel remains as it does in reality on the island of Lambs Holm as a symbol of these qualities. ...

Forty years ago Exeter Cathedral close was the scene of a vicious ambush. Afterwards the bodies left lying in their blood bore witness to the conflicts tearing at heart of the Cathedral itself. Today in 1323 more deaths have occurred. Is the first an accident? The second is surely not. Murder is again polluting the Cathedral close but this killer will not be easily caught. The victim Henry Potell was feared by many & held secrets that some wished to keep hidden... For Sir Baldwin Furnshill Keeper of the Kings Peace & his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock events become increasingly mysterious. Who among Henry Potells companions knows the truth about his death? What first appears to be a matter of lust or greed soon grows more troubling as Baldwin becomes aware of the ominous Chapel of Bones built long ago in reparation for a terrible murder... ...

On a summers day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita Kansas to New York City leaving behind a marriage thats not as perfect as it seems & a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe & eyes wild & wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom & Cora for something she doesnt yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime
- an orphan a mother a wife a mistress
- but in New York she is a chaperone & her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway in a time when prohibition reigns & speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here in a time when illicit thrills & daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora & her charge Louise Brooks take their first steps towards their dreams.

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Charlie Chaplin grew up in & around the music hall. His parents aunt & their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage & Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence shaping his style of acting & the films he made most famously Limelight which tells the story of a failing variety performer & which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers lives were ruined when their audience turned against them & he was relieved to exchange the stresses of live performance for screen comedy. Barry Anthony here tells the story of the lives & careers of Chaplins family & their music-hall circle
- from dashing Eva Lester to the great Fred Karno & from Chaplins parents Hannah Hill & Charles Chaplin to The Great Calvero himself. He reveals the difficult & often-tragic lives of Londons variety community in the late-Victorian & Edwardian years a time of great change in the music hall & entertainment scene & in doing so sheds important new light on the inspiration behind Chaplins genius providing a fascinatingly fresh perspective on this popular cultural icon of the twentieth century.
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The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres ruthless & all-conquering have destroyed the planet Dune. In opposition hard-pressed but still fighting back the Bene Gesserit sisterhood co-ordinate their resistance from their as-yet undiscovered home world Chapter House. Now as a new Scattering is planned they still have one carefully nurtured asset: the sandworms offspring of the only giant worm salvaged from Dune. Chapter House is to about to turn into a barren wasteland: Chapter House will be the new Dune. ...

The great game of charades has been redesigned for kids from 4 years old & upward to play & enjoy. Children can have fun looking at the cards & acting out things such as dogs chickens trains & acting out things such as opening a present & frying a pancake. There is great fun as the whole family try to guess before the egg timer runs out. Requires 3 or more players. Carries EU Toy Safety Directive not suitable for children under 4 years ...

Charcuterie
- a culinary specialty that originally referred to the creation of pork products such as salami sausages & prosciutto
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In The Charge world renowned motivational speaker & bestselling author Brendon Burchard argues that in the hyper-digitized world in which we are living the time has come to revise the classic 'hierarchy of needs'
- which places the basic needs of safety & sustenance at the bottom. Burchard makes the case that it's time to re-examine what it takes to feel alive & fulfilled in a stressful chaotic world. Using pioneering studies from the fields of positive psychology & neuroscience as well as great stories from his own experience Burchard identifies the ten simple drives of human emotion & happiness: Control Competence Congruence Caring Connection Change Challenge Creative expression Contribution Consciousness. He shows how the 10 Cs which you can use to evaluate all your thoughts feelings & behaviour from the past 10 days -- & in every moment of your life -- are the gateways to your psychological health & happiness. The Charge provides the keys to understanding & activating these drives in clear & concrete ways that will inspire & help everyone find the one thing we all are searching for: more life in our lives.
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Welcome to the Cretaceous! This prehistoric world is pretty amazing as Jamie & Tom discover when they follow the fossilized footprints & end up in a land of real-life dinosaurs. Together with their little dinosaur friend Wanna the boys set off to explore the Cretaceous. They spy a triceratops but know they have nothing to fear
- after all this giant beast is a herbivore. But when there are lots of triceratops & theyre spooked by something its best not to get in their way.. .as the boys discover when they end up in the middle of a triceratops charge! This is the second book in the hugely popular Dinosaur Cove series which has now sold over a million copies. This new edition

Includes:: a set of Cretaceous collector cards.


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When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father hes looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he & his friend Tom discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints it takes them to another world.. .a world of dinosaurs. Jamie & Tom return to their secret dinosaur world & find their friend Wanna the Wannanosaurus waiting for them. They spot what looks like a village in the distance & set off to investigate. On the way they meet a herd of Triceratops & it seems the only way to avoid being trampled is to hitch a ride on their backs. But as they approach the village the boys realize too late that what they thought were huts are in fact termite hills. With insects swarming all over them the Triceratops charge! Can the boys hang on? Will they fall under the feet of the giant dinosaurs? & how can they get away from the huge biting termites? ...