For fans of Jane Green & Sophie Kinsella this is yet another blockbuster from bestseller LOUISE BAGSHAWE. Gorgeous goddesses seem to surround script-reader & wannabe movie-maker Anna Brown
- from her deranged glamour-queen boss to her perfect pouting flat-mates
- for Anna being less-than-beautiful is very hard to bear. With a dead-end job & a ghastly boyfriend to boot she wonders if she can ever be a success. In fashion- & beauty-crazed London perhaps being talented just isnt enough. Enter Mark Swan Britains hottest director. Rugged reclusive & powerful everybody wants a piece of him
- from studio heads to supermodels. He could be Annas ticket to the top but how can she ever hope to snag such a big star? Fed up of being downbeat & dowdy Anna decides to chase her dreams & with a little help from her friends embarks on a madcap scheme to get just what shes after...


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This is the first in a br&-new series of murder mysteries. Miss Marple" for the younger reader! When eleven-year-old Poppy Fields goes on an activity holiday to a remote Scottish island she is looking forward to a week of climbing hill-walking & horse riding. But things take a bad turn when their instructor has what appears to be a fatal abseiling accident. When Poppy discovers that his rope was cut & more of the instructors start to have accidents she suspects foul play & decides to investigate." ...

Claude Monet is one of the most beloved painters in the history of art. His work appeals both to the broad general public & to artists who are both moved & challenged by his achievement over a working life that spanned six decades. Fall 2010 is the occasion of the first major international retrospective of this leading French Impressionist painter in more than fifteen years organized by the Musee d Orsay Paris which will be a must-see event for art lovers. With more than 300 illustrations of Monets greatest works & accessible essays by leading art historians the exhibition catalogue offers a vivid new perspective on the artist & his work. ...

Along with Turner no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists it was the man Cezanne called only an eye but my God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation painting directly from the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of colour & whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints his time in the dazzling light of Algeria as a conscript or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 1800s what Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world & its attendant phenomena. The high point of his explorations were the late series of waterlilies painted in his own garden at Giverny that in their moves towards almost total formlessness are really the origin of abstract art. This biography does full justice to this most remarkable & profoundly influential of artists & offers numerous reproductions & archive photos alongside a detailed & insightful commentary." ...

Super-charged anarchic & full of narrative acrobatics " Money" burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators & devotees in its wake". (" Observer"). This is the story of John Self consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York & London he makes deals spends wildly & does reckless movie-world business all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol tobacco pills pornography a mountain of junk food & more. Ceaselessly inventive & thrillingly savage this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money the terrible things it can do & the disasters it can precipitate. " Terribly terminally funny". (" Guardian")." ...

Welcome to the murky world of moneylenders in modern-day Britain. Prepare yourself to enter a cold hard brutal environment where a loan od GBP10 000 can turn into a debt of GBP100 000 in a matter of weeks. This is the true story of one family man who found himself trapped in a finanical meltdown that was beyond his worst nightmares. Jason Shifrin was brought up in a happy solid family where his hard-working father provided everything a middle-class family could ever need. Business tycoon Alan Sugar was a childhood family friend who Jason dreamed of emulating in the high-risk arena of big business. When Jasons early attempts at becoming a self-made tycoon failed it led to him spending half his adult life running from the mob after getting into debt to gangster moneylenders to the tune of almost ten million pounds. As a result Jason leads a bizarre double life as a loving husband & father while also having to be the ultimate ducker & diver afraid of his own shadow in case a bullet has his name on it. In order to survive Jason even hired the services of one of the countrys most notorious criminals to keep all the other gangsters off his back. Money Money Money presents a portrait of a middle-class Jewish boy trapped in a deadly world of violent trigger-happy criminals. ...

William D. Cohan's Money & Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World" is a chronicle of the most successful iconic bank on Wall Street from the firm's founding in 1869 to the present day. Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks
- & most businesses
- want to emulate; the firm with the best talent the best clients the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the ' Goldman way'? William D. Cohan has gained unprecedented access to Goldman's inner circle
- both on & off the record. In an astonishing story of clashing egos backstabbing sex scandals private investigators court cases & government cabals he reveals what really lies beneath their gold-plated image. " The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts". (" Economist"). " Startling.. .lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the meltdown". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large & hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. & that's the wonder
- & horror
- of Goldman Sachs". (" Businessweek"). " Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles & business cock-ups". (" Guardian"). "A definitive account of the most profitable & influential investment bank of the modern era". (" The New York Times Book Review"). William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book " The Last Tycoons about Lazard" won the 2007 " Financial Times"/ Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award & was a " New York Times" bestseller. His second book " House of Cards" also a bestseller is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co."




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Many people have watched or read The Secret" & believe that you can ask the Universe for any material thing you would like & the " Law of Attraction" will deliver it to you. But of course its not as simple as that. You have to change the way that you think if you want to change your world & in this special deck Esther & Jerry Hicks help you learn how to align yourself & focus your energy to manifest prosperity. Learn how to create abundance by: focusing on what you want in your life & not on what you dont have; seeing yourself as wealthy not poor; visualising yourself as enjoying the object or lifestyle that you dream of Abrahams powerful techniques will teach you what prosperity truly is & enable you to use the Law of Attraction to bring this energy into your own life." ...

Many people have watched or read The Secret & believe that you can ask the universe for any material thing you would like & the law of attraction will deliver it to you. But of course it's not as simple as that. You have to change the way that you think if you want to change your world. In this extraordinary book Esther & Jerry Hicks outline the secret behind the Law of Attraction. They explain clearly how to focus your energy to manifest prosperity. Learn how to create abundance by: focusing on what you want in your life & not on what you don't have; seeing yourself as wealthy not poor; & visualising yourself as enjoying the object or lifestyle that you dream of Abraham's powerful techniques will teach you what prosperity truly is & enable you to use the Law of Attraction to bring this energy into your own life. ...

While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at Salomon Brothers he began his second career as a journalist & helped to record a real-life 'bonfire of the vanities'. Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery & deception behind some of the biggest financial deals ever made in The Money Culture Lewis provides a contemporary record of the ups & downs of the world's money markets & the rise & fall of some of the larger-than-life personalities. ...