Jasper Renshaw Viscount Vale has a problem: he needs to marry & produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can return to his customary life of drinking & womanizing. Melisande Fleming on the other hand has been secretly in love with Jasper for years. Knowing that Jasper is under pressure to marry Melisande grasps her fate with both hands & volunteers to wed him even though she means nothing to him. Although Jasper is initially only interested in producing an heir their wedding night is pleasant if not earth-shattering & he oddly enough finds himself curious about his wife. What does Melisande do all day? What does she think about? Melisande however has everything she told herself shed be content with: marriage to the man she loves. But to her chagrin she wants more from the Jasper. More of his time more of his thoughts & heart & really while were on the subject more lovemaking. Thus she sets out to seduce her husband by night even as he starts turning up in her life during the day. ...

A classic Black Lace tale of a love-hate affair with a charismatic master... Beautiful but shy Laura works for a powerful company where it seems that every man harbours hidden desires for her. If only she thinks with shame they could guess at her own torrid fantasies about them. But her subtle provocations are not going unnoticed or unappreciated. In fact they are taking her into dangerous territory with several men. But the real object of her desire is ' The Devil'
- a masterful & arrogant figure who both terrifies & thrills her with his demands. He is a man who is intent on becoming her complete master a man she would have to serve in ways that make her head spin. But isn't that what she always wanted?
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We're all in Sales now. Each day millions of people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. They sell planes to airlines oil shares to sheiks cars to drivers. They sell consulting agreements magazine subscriptions time-shares double glazing broadband fitted kitchens car insurance life insurance pet insurance! Some work in fancy offices with glorious views others in dreary cubicles but most look exactly like you. In fact each & every one of us spends time trying to persuade others to part with resources
- money time attention
- though most of the time we don't realise we're doing it. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. We sell our bosses on giving us more money & more time off. & in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook Twitter & in Match.com profiles. In this new book from the bestselling author of Drive Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills in every area of our lives & identifies the three personal qualities & four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes & analysis instead of exhortation Dan builds on his own sales experience & on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople
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Life is all about pitching. The problem is that we're not very good at it. Each day millions of people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. They sell planes to airlines oil shares to sheiks cars to drivers. They sell consulting agreements magazine subscriptions time-shares double glazing broadband fitted kitchens car insurance life insurance pet insurance! Some work in fancy offices with glorious views others in dreary cubicles but most look exactly like you. In fact each & every one of us spends time trying to persuade others to part with resources
- money time attention
- though most of the time we don't realise we're doing it. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. We sell our bosses on giving us more money & more time off. & in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook Twitter & in Match.com profiles. What businesses politicians & academics don't seem to have realised yet is that we're all in sales now. In this new book from the bestselling author of Drive Daniel Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales acumen in every area of our lives & identifies the three personal qualities & three essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes & analysis instead of exhortation Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be that the low road of deceit & trickery is no longer a viable option & that success in any kind of persuasion or influence now depends on being more human. Brimming with new & inspiring ideas on peddling pitching & persuading this book presents us with the tools & the tips to change the way we sell our products our ideas & ourselves.

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Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918 shell-shocked & bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of rare talent begins to find peace & is able to adjust to the changes which are overwhelming society. But soon he will have to face up to the prospect of another terrible war. ...

A three-year-old girl is snatched from a beach. Nobody heard a sound. Nobody saw a thing. Rosie Gilmour's much-needed holiday is cut short when the abduction story breaks & she's sent to cover it. Her instincts tell her something's wrong: such a crime must surely have witnesses & the girl's mother's story doesn't add up. With a child's life at stake Rosie must dig deeper into the seedy depths of the area making dangerous enemies. As she closes in on the truth she realises the penalty for missing this particular deadline could be her own demise. ...

This is a new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century about a voyage from England to Australia. Rites of Passage" (Winner of the Booker Prize): " The work of a master at the full stretch of his age & wisdom". (" The Times"). " Close Quarters": "A feat of imaginative reconstruction as vivid as a dream". (" Daily Mail"). " Fire Down Below": " Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities & poetry pain & hilarity drama & exaltation". (" Sunday Times")." ...

To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator a novelist on a trip to Stockholm & Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier & recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great a woman whose influence could change the path of history.. . Malcolm Bradbury's last novel is rich with his satirical wit but it is also deeply personal & weaves a wonderfully wry self-portrait. ...

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION Salmons vivid use of recollections & dramatic"es brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict Time Out With even World War II now just on the edges of living memory & with British forces now engaged in a lengthy brutal & attritional old-fashioned war in Afghanistan historical attention is starting to turn to the Korean War of the early 1950s. & remarkably the most notorious & celebrated battle in that conflict from a British point of view has never previously been written about at length. Andrew Salmons book which has garnered excellent reviews & sold out two hardback printings already has filled that gap. This is the story of the Battle of the Imjin River when the British 29th Infantry Brigade & above all the Glorious Glosters" of the Gloster Regiment fought an epic last stand against the largest communist offensive of the war. It lasted three days of bitter h&-to-hand combat. By the end of it one battalion of the Glosters
- some 750 men
- had been reduced to just 50 survivors. Andrew Salmons definitive history which gained excellent reviews in hardback & sold very steadily is very much in the Antony Beevor mould: accessible pacy narrative & painting a moving & exciting picture through the extensive use of eyewitness accounts of veterans of whom he has tracked down & interviewed dozens. Andrew Salmon is a Seoul-based journalist who writes for The Times The Washington Times & Forbes magazine. He first became fascinated by the battle in 2001 when he met British veterans returning to the Imjin River to mark the 50th anniversary."

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'I am making up To the Lighthouse"
- the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers
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