A secretarys silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a womans mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each others bags & then learn when you unlock a strangers suitcase you enter a strangers life. These & many more poignant ironic often humorous stories
- unforgettable slices of life
- show why Maeve Binchy is one of the worlds favourite storytellers.

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The outbreak tore the USA in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness. They call it the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives he tracks down the dead to deliver peace. Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden. & where his own tragic past waits to punish him again. But in the wastelands of America you never know who
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- is watching you.. .

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In the spring of 1839 the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks & plumed shakos nearly 20 000 British & East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes & re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad & the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat & utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides & using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning & bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful & important parable of colonial ambition & cultural collision folly & hubris for our times. ...

1920. The Great War has been over for two years & it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife & baby & his experiences on the Western Front Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death & the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England & when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother John Emmett to kill himself Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide a group of war poets a bitter regimental feud & a hidden love affair more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems & that even those closest to him have their secrets.. . ...

Paul Krugman winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics shows how todays crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression
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WORD IN THE ROYAL COURT HAS SPREAD THAT THE WILD SCOTTISH BORDERS ARE TOO UNRULY. UPON THE KING'S COMMAND JOHN BRUNSON MUST RETURN HOME... Once part of a powerful border clan John has not set sight on the Brunson stone tower in years. With failure never an option he must persuade his family to honour the King's call for peace. To succeed John knows winning over the daughter of an allied family Cate Gilnock holds the key. But this intriguing beauty is beyond the powers of flattery & seduction. Instead the painful vulnerability hidden behind her spirited eyes calls out to John as he is inexorably drawn back into the warrior Brunson clan... The Brunson Clan The family who will kneel to no one... ...

The return of the Crimson Guard could not have come at a worse time for an empire exhausted by warfare & weakened by betrayals & rivalries. Into the seething cauldron of Quon Tali
- the Malazan Empire's heartland
- they march & with their return comes the memory of their vow: undying opposition to the Empire. But elements within the Guard's elite the Avowed have set their sights on far greater power while other more ancient entities are rising up intent on furthering their own arcane ends. & what of the swordsman called Traveller who with his companion Ereko seeks a confrontation from which none have ever returned? As the Guard prepare to wage war the Empress Laseen's generals & mages grow impatient at what they perceive as her mismanagement of the Empire. Is she losing her grip on power or has she outwitted them all? Could she be using the uprisings to draw out & finally eliminate the last irksome survivors from the days of Kellanved her illustrious predecessor?

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WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKED Herbert Molin a retired police officer is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango & the other is a conviction that he is being hunted constantly pursued by 'demons'. He has no close friends no close neighbours & by the time his body is eventually found Molin is almost unrecognisable. Lindman a police officer on extended sick leave hears of the death of his former colleague & to take his mind off his own problems decides to involve himself in the case. What he discovers to his horror & disbelief is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district & one which seems impossible to link to Molin's death. ...

The Economic Naturalist is back with a whole batch of intriguing new questions & answers drawn from his New York Times" columns that reveal how we really behave when confronted with economic choices. Do tax cuts for business owners really stimulate employment? Why shouldnt we just leave everything to the market? & why do we all save so little? Discover the answers to these & many more questions. With his trademark plain-speaking wit & insight Robert Frank shows through dozens of examples how our personal choices about everything from paying for food & housing to large-scale policy decisions about taxation & the regulation of markets all boil down to the same simple economic principles often resulting in the same wasteful mistakes. He shows that while our desires may be boundless the resources necessary to satisfy them remain limited & argues that choices are always best made pragmatically
- by carefully weighing the costs & benefits of competing options. This is a fascinating entertaining & revealing collection full of insights that have more bearing than ever on our bank balances & our personal happiness."
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From The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog" to karate princesses & hot cross bottoms theres a Jeremy Strong story to suit every childs sense of humour. Jeremys readers range from 7 to teen perfect for fans of Roald Dahl & Andy Stanton. Streaker was so gobsmacked she leaped into the air as if she had a pogo stick attached to each leg. KER-POING! Streaker runs like a jet-propelled hurricane which could cause problems when she enters the local dog show. She has to do well or shell get into trouble with the local police.. .and Trevor will get into trouble with horrible Charlie Smugg
- again! Award-winning Jeremy Strong has written many wacky books for children aged 7-teen including " My Dads Got an Alligator" & " My Brothers Famous Bottom". Most of which are illustrated by Nick Sharratt who also illustrates for Jacqueline Wilson! " The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog" is back causing more chaos & getting into more trouble in " The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog" " Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog" " Wanted! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog" " Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog" & " The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Goes for Gold"
- guaranteed to have you laughing your socks off! Join Jeremys Krazy Klub at website."

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