As well as its advantages there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city & anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. Jillian Mc Kinlay -- wife of a trustee of an illustrious school -- is the latest petitioner; she asks Isabel to look into a poison-pen letter that makes insinuations about applicants for the position of principal. Isabel's niece Cat has another new boyfriend who seems too good to be true. & when a pretty cellist with a tragic story takes a fancy to her husb&-to-be Isabel finds herself contemplating an act of heroic & alarming self-sacrifice. ...

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Charlie Ashanti is on the run from an amazing floating circus with six homesick beautiful Lions & an extraordinary sabre-toothed creature. Charlie has promised to help the Lions find their way home to Morocco but he has his own problems: his Mum & Dad have been kidnapped & he is determined to find them. His new friends King Boris of Bulgaria & his security chief Edward have promised to help. But Charlie wonders if he was wrong to trust them when he & the Lions find themselves held virtually as prisoners in Venice. They eventually escape with the help of a friendly gondolier & after a dangerous sea journey the Lions finally make it home & Charlie is at last reunited with his parents. ...

Jesse is on a school trip in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. When he & three friends crawl out of the wreckage they discover a city in chaos. Streets are deserted. Buildings are in ruins. & the only other survivors are infected with a virus that turns them into horrifying predators... ...

Chasing & repousse are methods of embellishing metal objects that have been in use for millennia. With the use of punches & hammers a wide range of items from delicate jewellery such as earrings to pieces of monumental sculpture can be adorned using these techniques. The book provides clean & practical instruction that will be of use to both beginners & the more practised craftsperson. Highly illustrated the book gives a clear idea of how these methods can be used for a wide range of items. ...

It is fire season & the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police & Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed & could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the death album there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire...and now the police are out for Cole... ...

Growing up in a small town Sandy Paull dreams of something better. When she lands a job with one of Londons leading theatrical agencies her dreams appear to be coming true particularly when she meets Michael Mc Cann her handsome & dynamic boss. Ellen Shelby as a highly respected & successful agent has Hollywood at her feet. But she is as insecure with relationships as she is confident with deals. & when she meets her British rival Michael Mc Cann there is a powerful attraction between them that they are powerless to deny. But Michelle the woman Michael once loved & lost still haunts his thoughts. & when a dramatic event pulls him back into the past a nightmare of untenable proportions begins to close in on those he loves... ...

Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girl's favourite subject is riding. Chestnut Hill is buzzing! It's rumoured a show-jumping star's about to join the riding team while a hot new teacher is turning heads in class. But Honey can't help thinking that all the gossip is getting out of h&... More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (978147130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) TEAM SPIRIT (9781407130798) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) A TIME TO REMEMBER (9781407130828). ...

Tanner & his Flame Bird Firepos have met a companion a Chosen Rider to a ferocious wolf-Beast. Together they must race to locate the missing pieces of the Mask of Death. If evil Derthsin gets the mask first Avantia will be destroyed in a reign of fire. Who will Tanner meet next on his journey? & what horrors lurk in the Hidden Mines endless tunnels? ...

From the million copy best selling author of The Devil Wears Prada. How far would you go to change your life in a year? Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun. Adriana is stunning & can have any man she desires. Yet she wants an eligible bachelor wholl slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger. Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her she just cant refuse. Knocking back raspberry mojitos one night the three friends make a pact
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