In 1982 Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the Falklands Islands
- ownership of which had been disputed with
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When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive. Meanwhile his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. & when James does get home he finds that his nightmare is just beginning.. .CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. ...

Rob & Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together & become top climbers but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed & grief-stricken when he hears of Jamies death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past though hides the secret clues behind the tragedy. Layer by layer Simon Mawer peels back what happened going not only into the friends childhoods but that of their parents
- who were also intimate. & there is no escaping that past
- vividly imagined scenes in the London of the Blitz reveal how through two generations Rob & Jamie & their respective parents have been addicted
- to desire & the heady dangers of climbing. Brilliantly structured as we move from past to present & back again this novel will make Simon Mawers literary reputation.


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What would you do if the man you love was accused of murder? Bad things never happen to Charlotte. Shes living the life shes always wanted & about to marry wealthy banker Dan. But Dans been hiding a secret & the pressure is pushing him over the edge. After hes arrested for the vicious killing of a nightclub owner Charlottes future is shattered. Then she opens her door to Keisha an angry & frustrated stranger with a story to tell. Convinced of Dans innocence Charlotte must fight for him
- even if it means destroying her perfect life. But what Keisha knows threatens everyone she loves & puts her own life in danger. DC Matthew Hegarty is riding high on the success of Dans arrest. But hes finding it difficult to ignore his growing doubts as well as the beautiful & vulnerable Charlotte. Can he really risk it all for whats right? Three stories. One truth. They all need to brace themselves for the fall.
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It is not natural" for human beings to kill each other for men to oppress women parents to oppress children for individuals or nations to accumulate massive wealth & power to abuse nature to even despise our own bodies & feel guilty for experiencing natural desires. The roots of our current malaise lie in an "ego-explosion" that happened several thousand years BC. " Primitive" pre-civilization men & women lived longer healthier happier & more productive & fulfilled lives than we do. We need to learn from their approach to life rather than dismiss it. This is the revolutionary thesis of this well-researched highly praised volume overturning the accepted wisdom of the last few centuries." ...

The much-anticipated latest novel from David Nobbs is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin & is as witty as it is prescient. When revelations about the scandalous relationships & less than honest business practices of Sir Gordon Coppinger
- infamous financier & devotee of excess
- are made public the glamorous facade of his London life begins to crumble & those around him fear the worst. But much to Sir Gordons surprise all he can feel is relief. In this brilliant & funny examination of modern British values where success is governed by the principles of wealth & celebrity & driven by the insatiable desire to attain more & more we meet the perfect anti-hero: Gordon Coppinger a man going quietly sane.

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' This is a high-profile death with several possible explanations. Which can be summarized as jumped fell or pushed.' Adam Blaine returns to Martha's Vineyard out of duty rather than grief after his father
- bestselling author & celebrated human rights activist Benjamin Blaine
- falls to his death. Having been estranged from his father for ten years Adam is surprised to discover himself appointed the executor of his estate; especially as the will disinherits Adam's family leaving their wealth & home to Ben's recent lover young actress Carla Pacelli. Adam's mission
- to undo the will & protect his blood whether innocent or guilty from criminal charges
- forces him to confront his own past & pulls him into a labyrinth of lies deception & betrayal...



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In this memoir meets relationship advice book 94-year-old Cutie Cooper chronicles the challenges & triumphs of her seven decade-long marriage & then pulls out sage tips & actionable advice on the art of fighting fair knowing if youve met the one raising children while maintaining your sense of self & everything else that goes into staying blissfully bonded.

Includes:: vintage photos of Cute & her husband Harry throughout.

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For Daisy & her husband Alec a long-awaited break by the sea becomes a busman's holiday when a local ladies' man turns up murdered on the beach... Yet in the coastal town of Westcombe it's hard to find someone who wouldn't have wanted George Enderby dead. The married Casanova's scandalous seductions had earned him the enmity of every jilted lover & cuckolded husband in the area
- not to mention the resentment of his long-suffering wife. & now as Daisy & Alec investigate among the seaside cliffs beautiful beach & quaint village this holiday idyll seems nothing more than a sinister backdrop for cold blooded murder...while the murderer may be closer than Daisy thinks. Praise for the Daisy Dalrymple" series: " Cunning...appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece". (" Publishers Weekly"). " As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries". (" Booklist"). " For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels". (" Library Journal")."
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Deluxe collector's edition featuring the first edition text & containing a facsimile page of Tolkien's original manuscript. The book is quarterbound with a gold motif stamped on the front board & is presented in a matching slipcase. The Fall of Arthur the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain may well be regarded as his finest & most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave & fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands of Guinevere's flight from Camelot of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain in the portrait of the traitor Mordred in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. Unhappily The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties & it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 & urgently pressed him ' You simply must finish it!' But in vain: he abandoned it at some date unknown though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937 the year of the publication of The Hobbit & the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later in a letter of 1955 he said that 'he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur'; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem however are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting & experimentation in verse in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed together with narrative synopses & very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion & the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot & Guinevere which was never written. ...