Sam the ugly duckling who grew into a swan. Now beautiful & wealthy with a glittering career no one can understand why shes still on her own. When she meets a handsome stranger on holiday things finally seem to be falling into place... Meaghan a true survivor. The teenage runaway who worked her way off the streets she was swept off her feet by a young army officer to live on the other side of the world finally escaping the family she loathed... Dani the beautiful misfit desperately looking for daddy in all the wrong places & finding instead a man who will teach her everything that is wrong & corrupt about love. & Abby the model wife everything her husband & family could want & more but never being herself. Until a dark secret threatens to pull her well-ordered life apart. ...

A history lesson they'll never forget & neither will you. Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin & believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until Chris her colleague
- & until recently her fiance
- is found dead brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city. The slaughterhouse is filled with bodies. But just as Private begin their investigations the building explodes wiping out all evidence of the crimes & nearly killing Mattie & her team. Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends one by one & destroying the trail. But who wants the past buried so badly? What is the truth about that slaughterhouse? & will Mattie become the killer's next victim?

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2012: London is hosting the Olympics & the East End is at the centre of the world. Yet surrounding the glamorous Olympic Park are some of the most deprived areas of the city. PI Lee Arnold & his assistant Mumtaz Hakim work in these streets in a community fraught with tensions. When Arnold is hired by a controversial st&- up comedian he already knows that her routine could make her a target. Arnold & Hakims new client is being followed. Are her fears justified? As they delve deeper they discover that this investigation is more complex & sinister than a simple straightforward case of stalking. ...

How Sweden got sexy? This is a graphic exploration of the origin of hardcore. Long long ago in the year 1965 there was no explicit pornography. There was the odd grainy stag film the occasional French postcard the rare Cuban chapbook or homemade Polaroid but the glossy professional color pornography ubiquitous to modern society did not exist. The man who changed all that was Berth Milton of Stockholm with his audacious little digest Private". He & " Private" were directly responsible for Swedish Parliaments decision to treat sexually explicit materials as protected free speech leading to the abolition of obscenity laws over most of northern Europe. With its smiling exuberantly uninhibited models " Private" created a fantasy of Sweden as the most liberated country on earth a sexual wonderland that enchanted men around the globe. Publisher Milton was the magazines sole photographer so the " Private" paradise was very much his personal dream. Genius & tyrant he insisted on only the best for his magazine rising in the 1970s to become the Hugh Hefner of Hardcore. This five volume 960-page mini-boxed set presents the best of " Private" from 1970 to 1979. Each 192-page book features seven to 10 of the best photo sets arranged in chronological order produced from the original color transparencies. Also included are photos never seen in the magazine plus behind-the-scenes photos of Milton at work & all of the magazine covers. Vintage art ads & editorials complete this fascinating look at the birth of pornography & the infamous Swedish Sin." ...

The chauffeur stood still for a moment then moved his broad hand up towards the button on his tight uniform jacket. His voice was low & hypnotic. 'I can give you anything you want Francesca ' he whispered. ' And I think I know what you want.' When Francesca Leeman is invited to catalogue a private collection of priceless erotica she finds her new acquaintances cultured fascinating
- & intense. She is soon drawn to their intoxicating way of life & their voyeuristic games of seduction... Black Lace Classics
- our best erotic fiction ever from our leading authors.

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P.I. Craig Gisto head of the latest branch of Private is enjoying the glamorous launch party with his new team when their celebrations are interrupted by the bloodied arrival of a boy with his eyes gouged out. The boy is the kidnapped son of one of Australia's richest men
- but investigating his death isn't their only pressing case. The rock star Micky Stevens is convinced someone's trying to kill him & believes Private are the only ones who can help. As if that wasn't enough someone is murdering the wealthy wives of the Eastern Suburbs in the most brutal way imaginable. & if they don't catch the killer soon the next victim could be someone close to Private.
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Steve Coll's Private Empire" is winner of the FT/ Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. In this prize-winning book the author of " Ghost Wars" & " The Bin Ladens" investigates the notoriously mysterious Exxon Mobil Corporation & the secrets of the oil industry. In many of the nations where it operates Exxon Mobil has a greater sway than that of the US embassy its annual revenues are larger than the total economic activity in most countries & in Washington it spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence it is to outsiders a black box. " Private Empire" begins with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 & closes with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Steve Coll's narrative spans the globe taking readers to Moscow impoverished African capitals Indonesia & elsewhere as Exxon Mobil carries out its activities against a backdrop of blackmail threats kidnapping civil wars & high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin. In the US Coll goes inside Exxon Mobil's ruthless Washington lobbying offices & its corporate headquarters in Irving Texas where top executives oversee a bizarre corporate culture of discipline & secrecy. " Private Empire" is the masterful result of Steve Coll's indefatigable reporting from the halls of Congress to the oil-laden swamps of the Niger Delta; previously classified U.S. documents; heretofore unexamined court records; & many other sources." ...

Psychologist Alex Delaware regards Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest achievements. A tormented seven year old when she first appeared in his LA surgery two years on she was fully recovered. Years later Melissa contacts Alex desperate for him to help her mother Gina. Gina was a budding Hollywood starlet until a vicious acid attack left her disfigured. Crippled with fear Gina has hidden from the world for two decades. But before Alex can help she disappears. Now Alex is locked in a search leading him into a grotesque labyrinth of hidden histories & desires... ...

July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly & the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance he is now ready for vengeance. When Sir Denton Marshall a key member of the London Olympic organising committee is found decapitated in his garden Peter Knight head of Private London is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on the security for the Games so Denton Marshall was a valuable client. But there is a more personal link: Marshall was also the fiance of Knights mother. Having only recently lost close friends & colleagues at Private London in a fatal plane crash this is another torturous blow for Knight & threatens to push him over the edge. But it soon becomes clear that Denton Marshalls murder is no isolated incident & that the killers number one target is the Games itself. As the most talented athletes in the world gather in London Knight knows he must find Sir Dentons killer. Thousands of lives are at stake... ...

July 2012: The Games have arrived in London & the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. When Sir Denton Marshall a key member of the London Olympic organising committee is found brutally murdered Peter Knight head of Private London is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on security for the Games so Denton Marshall was a valuable client. But there is a more personal link: Denton was also the fiance of Knight's mother. Knight is devastated by Denton's murder but it soon becomes clear that this is no isolated incident. The killer is targeting the Games itself & the lives of everyone involved are under threat. ...