Mouth-watering recipes inside! As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf & the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life Anna Trent is already awake & at work; mixing & stirring the finest smoothest richest chocolate; made entirely by hand it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris. It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of Engl&. But when an accident changed everything Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher Claire who offered her the chance of a lifetime
- to work in Paris with her former sweetheart Thierry a master chocolatier. With old wounds about to be uncovered & healed Anna is set to discover more about real chocolate
- & herself
- than she ever dreamed.


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John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 & continued to do so for a quarter of a century. During that time Britain underwent profound social & cultural changes. In architecture grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future. In literature a new generation of angry young men (and women) challenged convention head on. In music pomp & circumstance gave way to the electric guitar. & in fashion hemlines crept up. Amongst much of the population however such rapid change met with disquiet: a nagging sense that the New had displaced much that was wonderful in the Old. By turns eccentric wistful & polemical Betjeman's writing for the Telegraph gave voice to this unease. From contemporary reviews
- often refreshingly caustic
- of novelists such as Ian Fleming Nancy Mitford & J.D. Salinger through prescient warnings about the threat posed to the English skyline by office blocks motorways & concrete lamp-standards to elegiac paeans to Norman churches & of course the gothic majesty of St Pancras station Lovely Bits of Old England collects the very best of Betjeman's contributions to the Telegraph for the first time. Taken together they offer a eulogy for what was lost & an impassioned defence of the past in the face of progress's relentless onward march.

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My name was Salmon like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers & my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years her friends & siblings grow up fall in love do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.. . The Lovely Bones" is a luminous & astonishing novel about life & death forgiveness & vengeance memory & forgetting
- but above all about finding light in the darkest of places. ' Spare beautiful & brutal prose.. ." The Lovely Bones" is compulsive enough to read in a single sitting brilliantly intelligent elegantly constructed & ultimately intriguing.'
- " The Times". ' Moving & compelling.. . It will put an imperceptible but stealthily insistent hold on you. I sat down in the morning to read the first couple of pages; five hours later I was still there book in hand transfixed.'
- Maggie O' Farrell " Sunday Telegraph"."


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A beautiful story about two lovely dinosaurs with a message as old as time itself
- that being together is better than being apart...the
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Rehvenge as a half-breed symphath is used to living in the shadows & hiding his true identity. As a club owner & a dealer on the black market he's also used to handling the roughest nightwalkers around
- including the members of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. He's kept his distance from the Brotherhood as his dark secret could make things complicated on both sides
- but now as head of the vampire aristocracy he's an ally that Wrath the Blind King desperately needs. Rehv's secret is about to get out though which will land him in the hands of his deadly enemies- & test the mettle of his female turning her from a civilian into a vigilante...

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And now a dutiful twin must choose between two lives.. . Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race becoming the male responsible for keeping the Black Dagger Brotherhoods bloodlines alive
- he is to father the sons & daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive & that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished. As his first mate the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself
- she sees the emotionally scarred male behind all his noble responsibility. But as the war with the Lessening Society grows more grim Phury must decide between duty & love.

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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell New York there's a deadly war raging between vampires & their slayers. & there exists a secret band of brothers like no other
- six vampire warriors defenders of their race. Possessed by a deadly beast Rhage is the most dangerous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood... Within the brotherhood Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. He's the best fighter the quickest to act on his impulses & the most voracious lover
- for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Possessed by this dark side Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon is unleashed making him a danger to everyone around him. Mary Luce a survivor of many hardships is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world & reliant on Rhage's protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own Mary is not looking for love. Her faith in miracles was lost years ago. But when Rhage's intense animal attraction turns into something more emotional he knows that he must make Mary his alone. & while their enemies close in Mary fights desperately to gain life eternal with the one she loves.

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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell New York there's a deadly war raging between vampires & their slayers. & there exists a secret band of brothers like no other
- vampire warriors defenders of their race.. . John Matthew has been through his vampire transition & taken to the life of the Brotherhood with a vengeance but he still can't shake the nightmare of his past & is unsure of his future as a warrior hero. He's made a promise to honour the Brotherhood & their fight with the slayers at all costs until the love of his life is kidnapped & he is forced to make a choice that could change his life & the Brotherhood's forever.. .
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In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell New York a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Now back in the Brotherhood
- & unrecognisable as the vampire leader he once was
- Tohrment is physically emaciated & heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams
- trapped in a cold isolating netherworld
- Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. When hes told he must learn to love another to free his former mate Tohr knows they are all doomed.. . Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers & with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind Kings throne Tohr struggles between the buried past & a very hot passion-filled future.. .but can his heart let go & set all of them free?



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In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell New York a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Now back in the Brotherhood
- & unrecognisable as the vampire leader he once was
- Tohrment is physically emaciated & heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams
- trapped in a cold isolating netherworld
- Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. When he's told he must learn to love another to free his former mate Tohr knows they are all doomed.. . Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers & with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King's throne Tohr struggles between the buried past & a very hot passion-filled future.. .but can his heart let go & set all of them free?



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