As Vera Reynolds drag queen & night club star sways onstage singing ' Falling in Love Again' a sixteen-year-old rent boy lies in the older man's apartment engulfed in flames. Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks fighting every step of the way to break through Scotland Yard's glass ceiling. Now on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad this high-profile case threatens to destroy everything she has worked for. For when Tennison's investigation reveals an influential public figure as her prime suspect a man with connections to politicians judges & Scotland Yard she's given a very clear message about the direction some very important people would like her investigation to take. Suddenly in a case defined by murky details one fact becomes indisputably clear
- that for Tennison going after the truth will mean risking her happiness her career.. .and even her life.
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Jane Fonda Number 1 bestselling author actress & fitness pioneer is an icon for generations of women. Now you can learn her secrets to living life to the full with this intimate insight into her world. Combining stories from her own life & from the lives of others with new research Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 & 50 & especially from 60 & beyond can be the time when you truly become the energetic loving fulfilled person you were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living Fonda shows you how to enjoy a more insightful healthy & fully integrated life
- one that is profoundly in touch with yourself your body mind & spirit & with your talents friends & community. Covering health fitness sex love social growth & self-understanding Prime Time" offers a vision for successful living & maturing so you too can ensure that your forties & beyond are your own prime time."
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On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. More than forty years after his rescue from a Nazi concentration camp it now seemed that Levi had committed suicide. Levis account of Auschwitz If This Is a Man is recognised as one of the essential books of mankind. No other work interrogates our recent moral history so incisively or conveys more profoundly the horror of the Nazi genocide. Ian Thomson spent over ten years in Italy & elsewhere researching & writing this rich & definitive biography. New light is shed on Levis recurring depressions & vital information is unearthed regarding the writers premature death. This matchless book unravels the strands of a life caught between the factory & the typewriter family & friends. ...

Primrose Bakery is a way of life. From croissants for breakfast to layer cakes at tea it has the whole day covered. & of course their signature buttercream cupcakes are delicious any time of day! With over 80 inspirational & easy-to-follow recipes for cupcakes layer cakes biscuits loaves & much more as well as tips like perfect icing The Primrose Bakery Book is a baking bible. It is also a gorgeously quirky window onto the very special day-to-day world of the Primrose Bakery. ...

Classic guide to acquiring & maintaining political power is refreshing in its directness yet often disturbing in its cold practicality. Starkly relevant to the political upheavals of the 20th century this calculating prescription for power remains today nearly 500 years after it was written a timely & startling lesson in the practice of autocratic rule. ...

In over thirty years as one of the most original & charismatic figures in modern music Prince Rogers Nelson has enjoyed huge success
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From Rory Clements winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award comes PRINCE the third in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. ' Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour & fear. Plague rages famine is rife the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden Age is truly tarnished. Meanwhile Spain watches & waits
- & plots. Into this turmoil a small cart clatters through the streets of London carrying a deadly load. It is the first in a wave of horrific bombing attacks on the Dutch immigrant community that will change John Shakespeare's life for ever. Driven on by cold rage Shakespeare's investigations will take him from magnificent royal horseraces to the opulent chambers of Black Luce's brothel from the theatrical underworld of Marlowe & Kyd to the pain-wracked torture cells of priest-hunter Richard Topcliffe & from the elegant offices of master tactician Robert Cecil to the splintering timbers of an explosive encounter at sea. As Shakespeare delves ever deeper he uncovers intricate layers of mystery & deception that threaten the heart not only of the realm but of all that he holds dear.
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Throughout history some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves & each other. They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution. They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted. They have enriched lives & destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ' We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy Machiavelli's The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power & the course it should take when ruling a country & expresses the author's strong & unyielding ideals & beliefs on using force rather than law to achieve your aims. Responsible for the widely-used phrase ' Machiavellian' with all of its negative connotations his extreme treatise remains a classic text to this day. ...

Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft The Prince" is translated & edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in " Penguin Classics". As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise & fall. " The Prince" his tough-minded pragmatic handbook on how power really works made his name notorious & has remained controversial ever since. How can a leader be strong & decisive yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? Examining regimes & their rulers the world over & throughout history from Roman Emperors to renaissance Popes from Hannibal to Cesare di Borgia Machievalli answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons for today. Tim Parks' acclaimed contemporary translation renders Machiavelli's no-nonsense original as alarming & enlightening as when it was first written. His introduction discusses Machiavelli's life & reputation & explores the historical background to the work. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence & served the Florentine republic as a secretary & second chancellor as ambassador & foreign policy-maker. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512 he was suspected of conspiracy imprisoned & tortured & forced to retire from public life. His most famous work " The Prince" was written in an attempt to gain favour with the Medicis & return to politics. If you enjoyed " The Prince" you might like Plato's " Republic" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A gripping work & a gripping translation". (Nicholas Lezard " Guardian"). " Tim Parks' swift & supple new translation brings out all its chilling modernity". (Boyd Tonkin " Independent")." ...