Tacita is pretending to ignore her husbands affair. Stella cant imagine wanting any more than she has. Theresa is determined to stay so busy she wont have time to feel guilty. Zeki hopes no-one will find out what hes up to. Jonathan imagined the family running through the woods in their wellies
- not the solitary bottles of whisky on the commuter train. & Sheila a widower mother & grandmother has disappeared. If only people were more honest about themselves & the people around them. In a small English town everyone is struggling to be the person they think they should be: casting spells making justifications willingly deluded. But sometimes the pressure of being the perfect
- or not perfect just good
- wife husband lover mother or daughter is overwhelming. Everyone needs to find an outlet. Sometimes its easier to be honest with strangers.


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The only hope for humanity isnt human. In a world where people have been all but wiped out by a virus created by part-human cyborgs called Partials & where no baby survives longer than three days a teenage girl makes it her mission to find a cure & save her best friends unborn child. But finding a cure means capturing a Partial... ...

It was the universes most elusive particle the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERNs Large Hadron Collider dont happen without dealing & conniving incredible risks & occasional skullduggery. Award-winning physicist & science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the history-making forces of insight rivalry & wonder that fuelled the Higgs search & how its discovery opens a door into the mind-boggling domain of dark matter & other phenomena we never predicted. Told with unrivalled ambition authority & access to the teams this is the greatest science story of our time
- riveting & irresistible.
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When Mr Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard is immediately summoned. Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr Jonathan Tapley QC hears of the news & the truth about his cousin's tragic past slowly begins to emerge. Meanwhile Ben's wife Lizzie is convinced she saw someone following Thomas Tapley on the day he died & she discovers that he received a mysterious visitor a few days before his death. As the list of suspects begins to mount Ben must unearth who would benefit most from Tapley's unfortunate demise. ...

On the eve of her ninth birthday Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake & discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful can-do mother tastes of despair & desperation. Suddenly & for the rest of her life food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose's gift forces her to confront the truth behind her family's emotions
- her mother's sadness her father's detachment & her brother's clash with the world. But as Rose grows up she learns that there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is about the pain of loving those whom you know too much about & the secrets that exist within every family. At once profound funny wise & sad this is a novel to savour."
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They found him in a small town in Brazil near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name Danilo Silva & his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetry in Biloxi Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-&-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife a young daughter & a bright future. Six weeks after his death $90 million disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive & the long pursuit had begun... ...

Agatha Christie's complete Tommy & Tuppence short story collection reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Tommy & Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; & even a box of poisoned chocolates. ...

Brand new edition of a top selling thriller by Nigel Hinton. Toddie Marco & Perry have been mates since childhood. Theyve grown up from being mates at school to managing a drugs gang together. But one day Perry meets Nadia & this sets off a series of events which can only end in tragedy. Revenge thriller from a award-winning writer. Particularly suitable for reluctant struggling & dyslexic teens. ...

UK health & social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory doing it in practice is incredibly difficult & complicated. In many cases moreover current training programmes research & textbooks are even more divided than front-line services & practitioners & managers are often being tasked with making partnerships work without the necessary support. Against this background this book provide a 'warts & all' introduction to partnership working summarising current policy & research setting out useful frameworks & approaches & helping policy makers & practitioners to work more effectively together. Short accessible & practical the book is aimed at students practitioners managers & policy makers in health & social care. Written by a leading team from the Health Services Management Centre the book is also fully evidence- & research-based whilst still being accessible & applicable to everyday practice. The first in a broader series on Better Partnership Working" this is the one book that everyone wanting to work in health & social care should read. This exciting series of accessible 'how to' books provides an essential introduction to partnership working. Designed to be short & easy to use the books offer practical support to those working in partnership & provide helpful frameworks to make sense of the complexity which partnership working entails. Summarising current policy & research in a detailed but accessible manner each book provides practical evidence-based recommendations invaluable for policy & practice." ...

Globally there are at least 45 species of game bird that have the word partridge in their name but in this book G. R. Potts devotes himself to the Grey Red-legged & Chukar Partridges with particular emphasis on the Grey Partridge due to its well-known decline in Britain. In this groundbreaking addition to the New Naturalist series Potts explores how mankind & partridges have evolved together both ultimately dependent on grasslands rather than forests. For thousands of years both ate grass seeds & this continued until cereals largely replaced them. Hundreds of species of plant & insect that partridges & other birds eat thrived on farms for thousands of years until the dawn of the pesticides era. Since then the long decline in partridge abundance has been a barometer for biodiversity over vast swathes of the Northern Hemisphere. Highlighting the positive example of the Norfolk Estate in the Sussex Study area Potts investigates how both Grey & Red-legged Partridge numbers have been increased flourishing in a highly productive & profitable system of farming & an oasis in what has often looked & sounded like a desert. In a small corner of England farmland wildlife is able to thrive much as it did before pesticides were introduced. This is a complex & fascinating story with a heady mix of hunting farming predation parasites disease & climate change. The way these factors have interacted tells us a lot about how lesser known species have fared & how they can be conserved for the future. Potts stresses the importance of these conservation efforts as farmers respond to the needs of an extra three billion people worldwide not just for food but for bio-fuels. in addition the pressures on farmland wildlife will further intensify in the coming years. ...