Make the most of your travels in Sri Lanka: speak Sinhala! If you're after a ticket for the cricket the best way to the beach or a taste of Ayurveda" treatment this is the book for you. Seek out the striking " Sigiriya frescoes" or kick on with the "kolam" dancers at Ambalangoda. Barter for your batiks or talk tea at the plantation
- whatever you choose add sparkle to your speech on the Isle of Gems. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical & social words & phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals & discover their culture
- a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience."

...

The roots of coincidence & conspiracy in American politics crime & culture are investigated in this examination of the connections between religion political conspiracy & occultism. Readers are presented with detailed insight into how Charlie Manson became a national bogeyman as well as startling connections between Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli Carl Jung & synchronicity; serial killers multiple personality disorder & demonic possession; & magic surrealism & mind control. Not a work of speculative history this third volume of a three-part set is founded on primary source material & historical documents. Fascinating secrets are divulged involving Hollywood icons such as Marilyn Monroe David Lynch & Jane Fonda as well as links between the Cotton Club murders the Bluegrass conspiracy & the Son of Sam cult. ...

Ellie & Jas have been best friends since for ever but can their friendship survive the ups & downs of starting a new school? With every day bringing tough new challenges theres never been a more important time for BFFs to stick together! Jas cant wait to get there but Ellie has a whole heap of worries not least what if Jas finds some new fun friends to hang out with...? ...

HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships & battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oaks complement of 1 234 men & boys 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The raid made an immediate celebrity & war hero out of the German U-boat commander Gunther Prien who became the first submarine officer to be awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. To the British the raid demonstrated that the Germans were capable of bringing the naval war to their home waters & the shock resulted in rapidly arranged changes to dockland security. Now lying upside-down in 30 m of water with her hull 5 m beneath the surface Royal Oak is a designated war grave.

Includes:: 103 Photographs

...

Within the walls of a cloistered convent a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns one dead one critically injured
- victims of a seemingly motiveless brutally savage attack. Medical examiner Maura Isles autopsy of the murder victim yields a shocking surprise but the case takes a disturbing twist. The body of another woman has been found. & someone has gone to a lot trouble to remove her face hands & feet. As long buried secrets are revealed so Dr Isles & homicide detective Jane Rizzoli find themselves part of an investigation that leads to an awful dawning realisation of the killers identity...
...

New York 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks a top Manhattan lawyer offers his services for nothing penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried found guilty & sentenced Jelks disappears & the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity -- something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves. Meanwhile the young woman in question travels to New York leaving their son behind in England having decided she'll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry -- unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. In Jeffrey Archer's epic novel family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel & the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. ...

Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives
- but it might just destroy her to take it... The gritty tale
...

New York 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks a top Manhattan lawyer offers his services for nothing penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried found guilty & sentenced Jelks disappears & the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity -- something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves. Meanwhile the young woman in question travels to New York leaving their son behind in England having decided shell do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry -- unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. In Jeffrey Archers epic novel family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel & the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. ...

Vicky van Zales fight for survival against the three men who use her as a pawn in their struggles for wealth & power begins when her millionaire father manipulates her into an arranged marriage. Her battle with & ultimate victory over her father her husband & finally her lover who all try to use her to further their own ends is set against a background of boardroom intrigue brutal ambition & bitter masculine rivalry. This is a companion novel to The Rich Are Different & continues the gripping story of the Van Zale dynasty through two decades of conflict as the sins of the fathers are finally visisted upon the next generation.. . ...

After building an empire that has made her a legend in business Olivia spends months each year planning a lavish holiday for everyone in her family to enjoy. This summer she has arranged a dream trip on a luxurious yacht in the Mediterranean which she hopes will be the most memorable of all. More than anything she hopes to express her love & her regret at all the important times she missed during her childrens early years. But her younger daughter Cassie a hip London music producer refuses the invitation altogether as she does every year. Liz her older daughter is preoccupied with a chance to recapture her dream of being a writer & is terrified of failure again. & her sons John & Phillip work for her for better or worse with wives who wish they didnt. Immersed in the splendour of the Riviera this should be a summer to remember but old resentments die hard & Olivia is still running the business full-time. As each of these individuals confront the past & the challenges of the present & future they also learn to accept the enduring unconditional love of their family
- & a mother who is strong enough to take more than her fair share of the blame & loving enough to accept them as they really are. The question is: can they do the same for her?
...