One woman's quest to discover the dark secret at the heart of a family. Actor Gwydion Morgan's dramatic appearance at Jessica Mayhew's psychotherapy practice coincides with a turbulent time in her own life
- her husband has just revealed that he's spent the night with a much younger woman. Gwydion son of the famous Evan Morgan is good looking & talented but mentally fragile tormented by an intriguing phobia. Jessica is determined to trace the cause of his distress. So when his mother phones to say he is suicidal Jessica decides to make a house call. The Morgans live in a grand cliff-top mansion overlooking a rocky bay with its own private jetty. It's a remote & somewhat sinister place. On her visit Jessica finds out that an au pair who looked after Gwydion as a child drowned in the bay in mysterious circumstances. Could it be that Gwydion witnessed her death? In her quest to help her client Jessica finds herself becoming embroiled in the Morgans' poisonous family dynamic. At the same time she has to deal with the demands of her own domestic life: her struggle to keep her marriage intact as well as her older daughter's increasingly defiant behaviour. & then of course there is the growing attraction she feels towards her new client...
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Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lanes house in Cornwall on the understanding he will be a guinea-pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed. As a result of the experiment he is transported back to fourteenth century Cornwall. With each trip he becomes more & more involved with medieval intrigue adultery & murder. Is it merely hallucination; a subconscious escape from his own complicated life or a real journey into the past? He becomes obsessed with the world he visits & past & present eventually become inextricably & perilously mixed. ...

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There in the manor of Tywardreath the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune he witnesses intrigue adultery & murder. As his time travelling increases Dick resents more & more the days he must spend in the modern world longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before.. . ...

The warm engrossing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller Cathy Kelly Welcome to Avalon: a quaint sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations
- least of all the huge mansion on Willow Street; the house in which sisters Tess & Suki Power grew up. Now years later Tess is trying to save her marriage protect her glamorous sister Suki who has come back home dreams shattered. Similarly Mara Wilson is seeking refuge from a broken heart at her Aunt Danae's house. & Danae the inscrutable postmistress is hiding some dark memories of her own. Now that the big house is up for sale change is blowing on the cold sea wind. But before they can look to the future these four women must face up to the past...
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The House Plant Expert has been the indoor gardening bible since its introduction in 1960. Over the years it has become the best-selling plant book the world has ever known & there are now more than 14 000 000 copies in print. Updates have appeared at regular intervals & now at last the long-awaited sequel has been published. A host of new house plants have appeared during the last ten years. These plants are in the shops but they are not in the books
- until now. There are in-depth features on bonsai orchids bromeliads Christmas flowers herbs & many more. Roomscaping is introduced
- the way to use house plants alone or in groups as decorative features rather than as green or coloured pets. The problem section answers the main difficulties with indoor plants
- why they don't flower why they die how much to water & much more. There's even a miscellany
- a collection of bits & pieces from the lucky bamboo story to the easy way to measure humidity. Over 200 million house plants are sold every year in the UK & sales have increased 200% over the last decade (source: The Times). Millions of people everywhere rely on the House Plant Expert for the straightforward reliable advice it contains. Now there is The House Plant Expert: Book Two for the millions who want to know more. There are lots more plants to buy lots more ideas.



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Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths wicked sense of humour extraordinarily organised hopeless at reading social cues. & Jacob has Aspergers. He is locked in his own world
- aware of the world outside & wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone else but doesnt know how. When his tutor is found dead all the hallmark behaviours of Jacobs syndrome
- not looking someone in the eye odd movements inappropriate actions
- start looking a lot like guilt to the police. & Jacobs mother must ask herself the hardest question in the world: is her child capable of murder?


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In a city full of vampires trouble never sleeps. At the tender age of 27 Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then shes become the protector of her House watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground & seen her Master fall & rise. Now shell see her mettle
- & her metal
- tested like never before. It started with two... Two rogues vanishing without a trace. Someone is targeting Chicagos vampires & anyone could be next. With their house in peril Merit & her Master the centuries old Ethan Sullivan must race to stop the disappearances. But as they untangle a web of secret alliances & ancient evils they realize their foe is more familiar & more powerful than they could have ever imagined.

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Meet the Bird Family. All four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village a warm cosy kitchen filled with love & laughter sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that almost imperceptibly it begins to tear them apart. The years pass & the children become adults & begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all. Almost. But not quite. Because something has happened that will call them home back to the house they grew up in
- & to what really happened that Easter weekend all those years ago.
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The Housebuilders Bible" is unique
- the first book in its field to mix information & advice with detailed yardstick costings
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The Housebuilder's Bible" is unique
- the first book in its field to mix information & advice with detailed yardstick costings
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