Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kennas classroom Richie thought hed finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario. But then the new kid Freddy steps in & saves Craigs life & for Richie the lure of this mysterious newcomer is irresistible. Freddy is like nobody Richie has ever met. Dark sardonic & dangerous he gives flight to Richies imagination introducing him to a way of life hed never thought possible. But when a night-time prank goes gut-wrenchingly wrong Richie begins to question Freddys motives & all too soon he finds himself committed to a sinister pact with inescapably tragic consequences. Its true that Freddy saved a life
- but could he take one too? With great wit & an unflinching eye for the muddle & drama of adolescence The Suicide Club" is a pitch-perfect portrait of teenage disaffection that sets boy against boy imagination against reason
- & ultimately life against death."

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With the twenty-first century just a distant memory & the world in environmental chaos many people have lost the will to live. & business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations the shop offers an amazing variety of ways to end it all with something to fit every budget. The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business taking pride in the morbid service they provide. Until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they've never encountered before: a love of life. ...

Vikram Seths novel is at its core a love story the tale of Lata
- & her mothers attempts to find her a suitable husband through
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Inspector Thomas Lynley 8th Earl of Asherton feels some trepidation as he introduces his bride-to-be to his mother at the ancestral home of Howenstow in Cornwall. But Lynley's private concerns are soon forgotten as the brutal murder of a local journalist requires him to focus on the professional rather than the personal. The investigation tears apart powerful ties of love & friendship shattering the tranquillity of the picturesque Cornish community & exposing a long-buried family secret. Its consequences irrevocably alter the course of Thomas Lynley's life. ...

When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me.. . My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum Dad me
- & Radish
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When vibrant forty-something widow Annie Conroy spies her new neighbours having kinky sex in their back garden she decides it's time that she too woke up & smelt the erotic roses. & where better to begin her daring adventures than the luxurious Waverley Grange Country Hotel & its hidden den of iniquity: the chintz-clad but wickedly pervy Suite Seventeen? Under the stern but playful eye of exotic master Valentino Annie quickly discovers the shocking hidden depths of her own sensuality & surrenders herself body & soul to his outrageous games of power. But when the Waverley's entire future hangs in the balance & Annie has the means to help save it dare she gamble on going one step further...and giving her heart to the mysterious man who's come to control her? ...

As girls Nel & Sula shared each other's discoveries & dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams & Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns & no one least of all Nel trusts her. SULA is the story of the fear that makes people accept self-pity; the fear that will not countenance escape & that justifies itself through myth & legend. Sula herself is cast as a witch & demon by the people who resent her strength. They attack her with the most pervasive weapon of all the weapon of language & story. But Sula is a woman of power a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down. ...

Boris is a very sulky vulture
- nothing ever goes quite right for him! When his friends try to take his mind off things & cheer
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The author of The Salt Road & The Tenth Gift Jane Johnson returns with a captivating historical novel The Sultans Wife set in Morocco. Morocco 1677. The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets Nus Nus slave to the King & forced into his live of servitude as court scribe is sent to the apothecary. There he discovers the bloody corpse of the herb man & becomes entangled in a plot to frame him for the murder. Juggling the tempestuous Moroccan king sorceress queen Zidana & the malicious Grand Vizier is his only hope to escape the blame. Meanwhile young fair Alys Swann is captured during her crossing to England where she is due to be wed. Sold into Ismails harem she is forced to choose: renounce her faith or die. An unlikely alliance develops between Alys & Nus Nus one that will help them to survive the horrifying ordeals of the Moroccan court. Brimming with rich historical detail & peppered with real characters from Charles I to Samuel Pepys The Sultans Wife is a story of enduring love & adventure. Jane Johnson writes the sort of books you want to tell everyone about
- they hook you from the first page & sweep you along with passion history & romance. Im addicted Katie Fforde An utterly compelling story". (Stuart Mac Bride author of Cold Granite). " Imagine the darkest Arabian Tale combined with Tremains glorious Restoration". (Essie Fox author of The Somnambulist). " An irresistible page turner
- I loved it". (Barbara Erskine). " Full of intrigue deceit skulduggery & murder. It has romance in it but also heartbreak & personal tragedy. Its deeply evocative of North Africa
- the sights the smells the culture but there are also great depictions of London at the time & the court of Charles II. I really enjoyed it". (Ben Kane bestselling author of Spartacus: The Gladiator). " Far more than a rip-roaring read: its a true work of art. Deftly recreating the court intrigue of the tyrannical Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail
- with all its trappings of superstition black magic & torture
- it sucks you down through interleaving layers steeped in blood sweat & raw adrenalin to a mesmerising bedrock of real history... The Sultans Wife gets inside you conjuring its magic long after you read the last line". (Tahir Shah author of The Caliphs House). Jane Johnson was raised in Cornwall but now lives for half the year in a remote mountain village in Morocco. Her first novel set in North Africa is The Tenth Gift & this was followed by The Salt Road. The Sultans Wife is her third Moroccan novel. She has been involved in the book industry for many years & combines her work as a publisher with writing for both adults & children."




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