I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good the bad the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands. Catherine Townsend describes herself as part slut part hopeless romantic. Her quest is to have her cake & eat it
- an intelligent dinner date followed by a passionate one-night stand; to combine sleeping around with finding a soul mate. Sex in the City meets Girl With a One Track Mind in this candid sexy funny take on looking for love in unexpected places & how to find Mr Right
- or at least Mr Right Now.

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Chloe needs a holiday. Shes sick of making wedding dresses & her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain
- perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him & he works so hard to pay for it all he barely has time to see their children. But his old schoolfriend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain
- perfect. Both families arrive at the villa & get a shock: Gerard has double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins & tensions soon mount in the soaring heat. But theres also a secret history between the families
- & as tempers fray an old passion begins to resurface...


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Read It Yourself" is a learning to read series of classic traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales & exciting stories will amuse children & encourage them to progress further with this series & become confident readers. Each book in " The Read It Yourself With Ladybird Series" is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear beautiful pictures for extra support & interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with comprehension. This " Read It Yourself" version of " Sleeping Beauty" is a level 2 title & so suitable for children who can read short simple sentences with help. The story is told simply with frequent repetition of the main story words & phrases. Trust ' Ladybird' to help your child learn to read & become a confident reader." ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Deep in a forest of thorns lies a beautiful princess cast into an enchanted sleep by the wicked seventh fairy. Can the spell ever be broken? ...

LYNDA LA PLANTES FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL OF POLITICS. SCANDAL & AN ISLAND PARADISE... Fabulously wealthy entrepreneur Sir William Benedict has always dreamed of being accepted amongst societys elite despite his working class roots. When fast-rising Tory MP Andrew Maynard enters his life William suddenly finds that he has gained the social status that he has always craved. But when a political scandal erupts around him William is shunned by the socialites he once called friends & his reputation is left in tatters. Now the worm is ready to turn... With the help of the wild & enigmatic Justin Chalmers & his exquisite yet reclusive sister Laura Williams island paradise will become the scene of his revenge. ...

The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past! Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs! In fear Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them they were to solve a perfect crime committed many years before. ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

' There stood before me an ancient man swathed in a dark & tattered fleece his long hair & beard matted with filth his face grey with grief & age. Holding the sword out in front of me I backed away until I felt the sink behind me & I could go no further. His eyes followed me all the way.' When Bun Bendle is struck blind he feels like he is drowning in blackness. But the discovery of an ancient tomb & a strangely familiar sword changes him forever. This classic book weaves a contemporary tale with Arthurian legend in a way that is utterly spellbinding. ...

Selina Bruce has impulsively left behind her lawyer fiance in London & flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She is searching for the father she has never known but what she finds is an unexpected truth about herself & the man she plans to marry. For exotic San Antonio offers Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offers the mysterious George Dyer who holds the key not only to her past.. .but to her heart. ...

Coco Chanel high priestess of couture created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple & elegant designs freed women from their corsets & inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms & had amassed a personal fortune. But at the start of the Second World War Chanel closed down her couture house & went to live quietly at the Ritz moving to Switzerland after the war. For more than half a century Chanels life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in rumour. Neither Chanel nor her biographers have told the full story until now. In this explosive narrative Hal Vaughan pieces together Chanels hidden years from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of the Liberation. He uncovers the truth of Chanels anti-Semitism & long-whispered collaboration with Hitlers officials. In particular Chanels long relationship with Spatz Baron von Dincklage previously described as a tennis-playing playboy & German diplomat & finally exposed here as a Nazi master spy & agent who ran an intelligence ring in the Mediterranean & reported directly to Joseph Goebbels. Sleeping with the Enemy" tells in detail how Chanel became a German intelligence operative Abwehr agent F-7124; how she was enlisted in spy missions & why she evaded arrest in France after the war. It reveals the role played by Winston Churchill in her escape from retribution; & how after a nine-year exile in Switzerland with Dincklage & despite French investigations into her espionage activities Coco was able to return to Paris & triumphantly reinvent herself
- & rebuild the House of Chanel. As Hal Vaughan shows far from being a heroine of France Chanel was in fact one of its most surprising traitors."
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