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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In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe & unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages in some you are recreated based on your credit card records & in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been. In these wonderfully imagined tales
- at once funny wistful & unsettling
- Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions & offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here & now. His stories are rooted in science & romance & awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope love & death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.

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In the first book of The Runelords Raj Ahten the Wolf Lord of Indhopal uses magic to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. He seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule
- destroying anything & anyone in his path. Standing in his way is Prince Gaborn Val Orden who must fulfil a 2 000-year-old prophecy & become the Earth King a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the earth itself. Only then will humanity have a chance to survive...
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A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends family & life in California her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved & successful of her books ' The House of the Spirits' was based on her Chilean childhood & her autobiographical works include the deeply moving ' Paula'
- a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma
- & the fascinating ' My Invented Country' which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now in ' The Sum of the Days' we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid human & deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends
- her daughter never did wake up from her coma & died in 1992
- when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband son grandchildren as well as close friends
- kindred spirits
- central to her life. ' The Sum of the Days' based on Allende's own journals & daily correspondence with her mother in Chile reveals the author to be a dazzling generous warm & hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family & friends.





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This new companion to the Sumerian civilization of the third millennium BC is a mine of information with 32 chapters exploring a vast array of topics. After an initial section exploring physical & linguistic contexts & the origins of Sumerian culture successive sections explore the material world government & administration everyday life the wider Near Eastern context & the ends of the Sumerian world. Chapters attempt to provide an up-to-date synthesis of current research & range from overarching perspectives on subjects as broad as agriculture to more in-depth discussion of topics such as fashion & calendars & counting. ...

Six months have passed sine the last Ellerton teenager died but Darina is still traumatized by the stabbing of her own beloved Phoenix. But there's work to be done as Darina must now turn her attention to the shooting of Summer Madison
- the beautiful & gifted singer-song-writer with a heart of gold. It's been nearly a year since the random shooting in a shopping mall caused Summer's meaningless death. Summer left behind recordings of her wonderful songs & a deep sadness amongst high school friends. Now Darina must act as Summer's agent to track down the psychotic killer in a clear search for justice. With the sound of Summer's music constantly playing inside Darina's head recalling the wonderful months when she was alive & performing her first gigs Darina Phoenix & the Beautiful Dead are determined to catch the crazed killer. & all the while Darina's love for Phoenix continues to beat.. .
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