The much-anticipated new book in the number 1 bestselling Monk series a compelling & timely fable about living your best life in these complex times Published in over 46 languages with more than five million copies sold The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has touched people around the world. Published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the very first The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book Robin Sharma has written a powerful & moving fable that will resonate with readers now & for years to come. When the now-famous character of Julian Mantle falls ill he sends his nephew on an international adventure to retrieve Julian's mementoes & secret letters-writings that reflect what Julian has learned over many years about living a remarkable life a collection that may become his legacy. A moving & fascinating journey from the Bosphorus River in Turkey to a remote fishing community in India to the catacombs of Paris The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari offers transformational lessons for happiness & true success & shows readers how to live an authentic & meaningful life. ...

Sarah K has a secret. By day shes a writer & level-headed single mother; by night shes a submissive surrendering herself to forbidden delights. But will she perform the most illicit act of all
- falling in love? Written with complete honesty this is an electrifying journey to the heights of pleasure; a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey. When Max comes into Sarahs life
- charming handsome & deliciously brooding
- she cant stop herself. Before long she has surrendered to him in every way: becoming his submissive yielding her body to his every desire powerless to fight his sensual temptations. As Sarah pushes her mind & body to its limits she begins to realise that shes in too deep. Pleasure & pain have become her world. Shes addicted
- to the adrenalin to the sensation to Max himself. Now shes in serious danger of giving in to the ultimate temptation: falling in love... Daring evocative & thrilling but told with wit & honesty this is the explosive true story of life as a submissive & of a secret world in which only a few dare to play.



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Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen she yeams for her mother & for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father she has only one friend: Rosaleen a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon & Rosaleen is arrested & beaten Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice & from Lily's harsh & unyielding father they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world as about the mystery surrounding her mother. ...

Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous
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- achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's Enigma"

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Catherine Alliott bestselling author of One Day in May" & "A Crowded Marriage" takes a heart-warming look at what happens when your whole world is turned upside-down in " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton". Evie Hamilton has a secret.. .one she doesnt even know about. Yet.. . Evies an Oxfordshire wife & mum whos biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit in a manicure on her way to fetch her daughter from clarinet lessons. But shes blissfully unaware that her charmed & happy life is about to be turned upside-down. For one sunny morning a letter lands on Evies immaculate doormat. Its a bombshell knocking her carefully arranged & managed world completely askew & it threatens to sabotage all she holds dear. What will be left & what will change forever? Is Evie strong enough to fight for what she loves? Can her entire world really be as fragile as her best china? Step into Alliott country with " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" Praise for Catherine Alliott: " Classy wonderfully gossipy & breathless". (" Red"). " We defy you not to get caught up in Alliotts life-changing tale". (" Heat"). " Alliott at her best". (" Daily Telegraph"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire." ...

Seduction is the sweetest secret... One kiss then another & before she knows it Lady Julia Leighton succumbs to the breathtaking charms of a stranger... at the ball celebrating her betrothal to a man who considers her a sister. The steamy encounter changes her life in more ways than one. When she meets her seducer again Julia is no longer a lady but an outcast a paid companion to a lady who used to be her equal-- & her desire for him burns as strong as ever. He goes by Thomas Merritt a name as questionable as his intentions. A thief with a secret past he was utterly bewitched by the beautiful & innocent Lady Julia. But after their one glorious evening together the handsome rogue left without a backward glance--knowing that he could never be a part of her world again. Now in a Vienna rife with political intrigue Thomas harbors a perilous secret--and the only person who can aid him is the woman who has captured his heart. ...

Beautiful damaged the ultimate sex symbol publicly celebrated privately unhappy
- Marilyn Monroe's tumultuous life & untimely death
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Neil Mc Kenna argues that our view of Oscar Wilde even after Ellmans magisterial volume is determined by Victorian sentimentality. In his own much more modern version of Wildes story he is not only extremely promiscuous but also a sort of campaigner for sexual freedom. He reveals for example that Wildes relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas was not an idealistic doting on a beautiful boy but that Bosie was the more dominant experienced of the two who used to go out hunting together for young boys. Wildes last days in Paris were not Mc Kenna shows miserable & defeated; Paris was for him an idyllic sensual & intellectual playground free from the narrowness of London. ...

Colin Tudges The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live & Why they Matter" explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives
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The greatest writer of them all brought to glorious life. How well do you know the man you love? How much do you think you know about Shakespeare? What if they were one & the same? He is an ordinary man: unwilling craftsman ambitious actor resentful son almost good-enough husb&. & he is also a genius. The story of how a glove-maker from Warwickshire became the greatest writer of them all is vaguely known to most of us but it would take an exceptional modern novelist to bring him to life. & now at last Jude Morgan acclaimed author of Passion & The Taste of Sorrow has taken Shakespeares life & created a masterpiece. ...