The first official book by international superstar Lady Gaga In this book of original behind-the-scenes photographs acclaimed photographer Terry Richardson follows superstar Lady Gaga during one year of her life from Lollapalooza through the final show of her Monster Ball tour. During the time period he followed Gaga Richardson took over 100 000 images & attended more than 30 Monster Ball dates around the world. From the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards to the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal rally in Portland Maine to the Thierry Mugler show at Maxime Paris Richardson captures Lady Gaga as you've never seen her before.A year-long global odyssey
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Since the death of her beloved mother Lady Grace has become the Queens favourite Maid of Honour. But even favourites have to obey the Queens wishes
- & the Queen wants Grace to be married. Choosing between her suitors
- kindly old Sir Charles flashy Sir Gerald & sweet anxious Lord Robert
- is easy for Grace: she doesnt want to marry any of them! When Gerald is found dead after the ball at which Grace should have picked her favourite suitor suspicion falls on Lord Robert. But Grace has noticed that Sir Charles has been acting strangely
- & that there is something odd about the body. With her friends Ellie the maid & Masou the acrobat Lady Grace sets out to discover what really went on that night.



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In the court of Queen Elizabeth I Maid of Honour Lady Graces the Queens favourite & her very own Lady Pursuivant investigating intrigues at court. When Graces fellow Maid of Honour Lady Sarah disappears after a trip to meet the Queens fleet in the docks Grace knows she has to find out whats going on. She believes Sarah has run away to be married to the handsome Captain Drake
- but is she right? With the help of her acrobat friend Masou Grace leaves the court in disguise in an attempt to track down Lady Sarah & try to save her honour. But this time Grace may be taking on more than she can cope with as she faces life at sea & the dangers of pirates! Will Grace & Masou ever return from their ill-fated voyage?
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Queen Elizabeth is furious at the delays to the production of her new coin
- & so Lady Grace & her fellow Maids of Honour escape
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The Lady in the Lake" is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce & marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything & sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery he's denying nothing
- on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake..." Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence". (" Daily Telegraph"). " One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain". (" Sunday Times"). " Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes". (Anthony Burgess). Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen & he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include " The Big Sleep" " The Little Sister" " Farewell" " My Lovely" " The Long Good-bye" " The Lady in the Lake" " Playback" " Killer in the Rain" " The High Window" & " Trouble is My Business"."
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Spring 1540 I am afraid. You are in grave danger. Mother will you run away with me if I can free you? The servants call it the Lady Tower: the isolated part of the castle where Eleanors mother is imprisoned after a terrible accusation. For four years Eleanors only comfort has been their secret notes to one another. A chance discovery reveals a plot to murder her mother. Now Eleanor must free her before it is too late. But with danger & betrayal at every turn she can trust no one. Especially not her father. Eleanor must use all her cunning to survive. For she soon realises that it is not just her mother she needs to save.. .but also herself. ...

On 2 May 1536 in an act unprecedented in English history Anne Boleyn Henry VIII's second wife was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On 15 May she was tried & found guilty of high treason & executed just four days later. Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading up to her arrest
- did Henry VIII instruct Thomas Cromwell to fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he could marry Jane Seymour? Did Cromwell for reasons of his own construct a case against Anne & her faction & then present compelling evidence before the King? Or was Anne in fact as guilty as charged? Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall; now in Alison Weir's richly researched & impressively detailed portrait we have a compelling story of the last days of history's most charismatic controversial & tragic heroines.
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Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home" " The Madness of George III" " Talking Heads" " The Clothes They Stood Up In" & much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennetts house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van he suggested she move with her van to his front drive. Initially reluctant she agreed
- & Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. " The Lady in the Van" is probably Alan Bennetts best-known work of non-fiction & follows his other little blockbuster " The Clothes They Stood Up In"."
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Is it coincidence or is he losing his mind? While researching a new programme John a successful television producer comes across a story about a ghostly hitch-hiker. Soon he realises that the story of the Lady in White bears many similarities to part of his own life. Returning to London from a holiday in Ireland John begins to ask himself some uncomfortable questions. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book. ...

HIS LADY IN WAITING In her long years at the convent waiting for her betrothed Lady Isobel de Turenne has built the Comte d Aveyron into a fantasy
- a man who will rescue protect & love her... But when the Comte finally returns to claim his bride Isobel finds instead a man of contradictions
- one who masks dark secrets with desire. Wary of a mans touch but desperate to grasp her new freedom Isobel must decide ifi??its solely duty forcing the Comte to marry or whether he is truly her longedfor champion. Knights of Champagne Three swordsmen for three ladies

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