Midsummer approaches & Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander's desperate hunt for the girl's identity & his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him & those he loves most into mortal danger. This title is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. ...

Why does elf + elf = fool? How many meals will Miss Mush the lunch teacher have to cook for the food to taste as bad as it smells? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first but you can use real maths to solve them & the answers are right there in the book. There are lots of clues & hints; plus all the answers are in the back of the book. Best of all all the kids you read about in the other books about Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving this & more than fifty other maths brainteasers along with the kids from Mrs Jewlss class. Youll learn a lot about maths but youll be laughing too much to notice! ...

There has been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with thirty classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead it was built with the thirty classrooms all on top of each other
- thirty storeys high! That may be why all kinds of strange stuff happens at Wayside School. Especially on the thirtieth floor. It is a school full of unusual characters too. Mrs Gorf the meanest teacher in the world. Terrible Todd who always gets sent home early. John who can only read upside down. It is a crazy mixed-up school brilliantly brought to life by the irresistible Louis Sachar.
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Between Sidmouth & Beer lies one of Englands most attractive coastlines. This book uses pairs of historic & modern photographs to explore this coast & four settlements along it
- the popular tourist town of Sidmouth & some of its hinterland Salcombe Regis hidden in its little valley the dispersed Branscombe which is really a series of several villages & Beer with its little sheltered cove that was an ideal base for fishermen. The varied geology from the red sandstone around Sidmouth to the white chalk of Beer Head is part of Englands only Natural World Heritage Site & has given rise to a spectacular variety of cliffs coves & beaches. The old views are still recognisable but there has been a fascinating variety of smaller changes that make these pairs of pictures worth a close look & they will be of interest to locals & visitors alike.
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Sidney Chambers the Vicar of Grantchester is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall with dark brown hair eyes the colour of hazelnuts & a reassuringly gentle manner Sidney is an unconventional clergyman & can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Years Eve dinner party the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter & a shocking art forgery the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective like being a clergyman means that you are never off duty. Nonetheless he manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket warm beer hot jazz & the works of Tolstoy & Shakespeare
- as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior. From the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury this is the first of The Grantchester Mysteries six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history
- from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 to the wedding of Charles & Diana in 1981
- featuring the unforgettable vicar & sleuth Sidney Chambers.


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Glamour & suspense in the bestselling Sidney Sheldon novel from the international superstar Tilly Bagshawe. Grace Brookstein is the beautiful young & naive wife of financial superstar Leonard Brookstein. In 2009 the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall & the public want someone to blame. Oblivious & seemingly unscathed Grace continues her charmed life until the death of Lenny in a tragic accident forces her to face reality. His financial affairs unravel revealing expensive crimes & now Grace is in the frame. Exposing a spiralling web of vicious lies & well-planned deceit she soon puts her own life in danger. Grace is alone angry & desperate for revenge. ...

The master storyteller's legacy continues. An elusive & shadowy killer is on the prowl codenamed the Angel of Death. When an elderly multimillionaire is found brutally murdered in Hollywood & his young wife raped & beaten the police assume the motive is robbery. A decade later in different cities around the globe
- St Tropez London & Hong Kong
- three almost identical killings take place within 5 years of each other. In all cases the victim is male wealthy elderly & newly married & his wife is found at the scene either raped or assaulted. It soon becomes clear that this is one killer. Codenamed Angel of Death by the police is she avenging some long-forgotten misdeed or does she have other motives? Who will be her next victim & how can the Angel of Death be prevented from striking again?

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The spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon's MASTER OF THE GAME one of the most glamorous & suspenseful tales ever told... It began with Jamie Mac Gregor stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter the powerful Kate Blackwell who grew her father's company into a world wide conglomerate. Now the story passes to the next generation. Spanning the decades & picking up exactly where Sidney Sheldon's bestselling Master of the Game finished Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they love lose scheme & murder through the 80s up until the present day. Heart-stopping & glamorous tense & provocative Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for... ...

Sidneys got a secret. He cant ride a bicycle. All his friends can do it how hard can it be? But when he tries its Crash! Thump! Splosh! all the way. Just when Sidneys ready to give up his friends come running to his rescue & soon he discovers that with their help even an elephant can ride a bicycle! This first book in the popular Sidney the Little Blue Elephant" series is now available as a board book." ...

Helen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordinary people united by love trying to survive the siege of Leningrad in her powerful historical novel The Siege". Leningrad September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers
- Anna & Andrei Anna's novelist father & banned actress Marina
- the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup so cold you burn furniture & books. But this is not just a struggle to exist it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive..." The Siege" is a brilliantly imagined novel of war & the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives & a profoundly moving celebration of love life & survival. " Remarkable affecting.. .there are few more interesting stories than this; & few writers who could have told it better". (Rachel Cusk " Daily Telegraph"). " Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there". (Richard Overy " Sunday Telegraph"). " Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple as all great literature should.. .a world-class novel". (Antony Beevor " The Times"). Novelist & poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel the Mc Kitterick Prize winning " Zennor in Darkness". Her novels " Counting the Stars" " Your Blue-Eyed Boy" " With Your Crooked Heart" " Burning Bright" " House of Orphans" " Mourning Ruby" "A Spell of Winter" & " Talking to the Dead" & her collection of short stories " Love of Fat Men" are all published by Penguin. This edition

Includes:: the first chapter of " Betrayal" the sequel to " The Siege"."



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