Vienna 1913. Lysander Rief a young English actor walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange hazel eyes & her unusual intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate & particularly destructive. Moving from Vienna to Londons West End from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish & mesmerising journey into the human psyche a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe a plot-twisting thriller & a literary tour de force. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna 1913. Lysander Rief a young English actor sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in Lysander is immediately drawn to her unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later home in London Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex scandal & spies that is slowly steadily permeating every corner of his life...
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement ignoring the impending war between the barbarians & the Empire whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims & into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor & oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice & decency. ...

Waiting For Wednesday" by Nicci French is the thrilling third novel in the highly acclaimed " Frieda Klein" series. Ruth Lennox beloved mother of three is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? & why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson's latest case. She is no longer working with him in an official capacity but when her niece befriends Ruth Lennox's son Ted she finds herself in the awkward position of confidante to both Karlsson & Ted. When it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life her family closes ranks & Karlsson finds he needs Frieda's help more than ever before. But Frieda is distracted. Having survived an attack on her life she is struggling to stay in control & when a patient's chance remark rings an alarm bell she finds herself chasing down a path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Or is it merely a symptom of her own increasingly fragile mind? Because as Frieda knows every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return... Praise for Nicci French: " Brilliantly crafted". (" Daily Mirror"). " Full of dark psychology & tension.. .nerve-tingling & addictive". (" Daily Express"). " Magnificent". (" Evening Standard"). Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple are married & live in Suffolk. Over eight million Nicci French books have been sold worldwide. There are fourteen other internationally bestselling novels: " Blue Monday" " Tuesday's Gone" " Complicit " What To Do When Someone Dies" " Until It's Over" " Losing You" " Catch Me When I Fall" " The Memory Game" " Beneath the Skin" " The Safe House" " The Red Room" " Land of the Living" " Killing Me Softly" & " Secret Smile" all published by Penguin. " Blue Monday" & " Tuesday's Gone" are the first two novels in the highly acclaimed bestselling " Frieda Klein" crime series." ...

Beautiful. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer Penn Thea & Lexi have caught everyone's attention including the eye of practical Harper. But it's her sister Gemma they've chosen to be part of their group. Sixteen-year-old Gemma seems to have it all
- carefree pretty & falling in love with the boy next door. But her greatest passion has always been the water. She craves late night swims under the stars where she can be alone yet belong to the sea. Lately she's had company. Penn Thea & Lexi spend their nights dancing singing & partying on the cove
- & one night Gemma joins them. When she wakes up groggy on the beach the next morning she knows something has changed. Suddenly Gemma is stronger faster & more beautiful than ever. As she uncovers the truth about her new mythical powers Gemma is forced to choose between staying with those she loves or entering a dark world brimming with unimaginable secrets. ' Generated an excitement not felt in the industry since Stephenie Meyer or perhaps even J. K. Rowling' New York Times 'A fast-paced romance.. .addictive' Guardian on Switched ' Drew me in & kept me hooked... cracking pace' Sunday Express on Switched

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I squeezed through the narrow gap & out into the hallway & I stood for a moment unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs & try to find somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didnt really need to make because there was no escape. Anna Lowe grows up on the doorsteps of pubs waiting for her mum to come out. Having to give up her bedroom to her mothers drunken friends. & regularly calling out the ambulance after finding her mother unconscious & covered in vomit. But it is when they move in with her mothers boyfriend Carl that things take the ugliest turn. Not only is he violent with her mother but he also sexually abuses Anna from the age of six
- destroying any semblance of normal childhood she had left. Wake Up Mummy" is the heartbreaking true story of a little girl who eventually found the courage to break free from the past."
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Duncan Bannatyne reveals how to set up a business & make it a great success. Having started out with ice cream van he knows exactly how it can be done
- & how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. In a series of clear & easy-to-follow chapters Duncan removes the barriers to getting started as an entrepreneur & helps to plan a way forward through those potentially difficult early days. He shows that there is no substitute for hard work & insists that you must be completely honest with yourself about your own strengths & weaknesses if you are to succeed. He outlines the key attributes you will need & how you can develop them to achieve your dreams. Backed with fascinating examples from his own career & case studies from a wide range of other entrepreneurs this book provides the perfect wake-up call for you to change your life for the better.
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A little ghost tries to give Lydia Lou a scare.. .but he can't even wake her up. So he fetches his noisy animal friends to help: Mew! Moo! Too-whit too-whoo! Wake up do Lydia Lou! Will anything ever wake her? A gentle & playful bedtime read from the author of THE GRUFFALO full of fun sounds which children will love to join in with time & time again. ...

A pocket-sized collection of sleep-themed Simons Cat cartoons selected from the first three Simons Cat books. In full colour & featuring a selection of brand new cartoons Simons Cat is back only smaller cheaper & cuter but as sleepy as ever. ...

Over the past few hundred years animism has been dismissed as a primitive naive & irrational perspective irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation drawn in crayon that each tree & stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision enthusiasm & sensitivity considering how soul spirit mind & consciousness have been understood through millennia. Challenging the prevailing worldviews of materialism & dualism she presents animism as a radically different yet mature & coherent philosophy. Providing deep green ethics with a wholly rational metaphysical foundation The Wakeful World is a compelling view of the nature of existence & the experience of reality giving solid ground for the now necessary journey to a sustainable world. ...