Staged in 1893 when Wilde had already achieved fame wealth & notoriety A Woman of No Importance was another attempt to fuse comedy of manners with high melodrama. Gerald Arbuthnot is a young man on the make with an American heiress & the post of secretary to the brilliant but dissolute Lord Illingworth within his reach. When he asks his mother to celebrate with them it turns out that Illingworth is Gerald's father who seduced & abandoned his mother twenty years earlier. Loyalty weighs heavier than ambition & Gerald declines the association with Illingworth. This edition which also analyses Wilde's various drafts & revisions of the play argues that the playwright here continued to explore the rivalry between an older man & woman for the affection of a beautiful young man. ...

A poignant touching & epic tale of lost love set against the drama & danger of World War Two 1947. One wet & chilly November afternoon a woman stands at the edge of a lake forced into a heartbreaking choice between her past & her future. 2008. Police diver Martha makes an incredible discovery in a local lake of a package containing a series of lost mementoes which reveal a story of intrigue betrayal & heartbreak. As the threads of the past & present are drawn together Martha's world & that of her family is changed for ever. ...

The unputdownable multi-million copy bestseller charting the rags to riches story of Emma Harte. In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen single & pregnant. By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of America & the rugged vastness of Australia. But what is the price she has paid? A Woman of Substance is as impossible to put down as it is to forget. This multi-million copy bestseller is truly a novel of our times. ...

For the first time ever a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. From the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to the sweeping avenues of Manhattan Barbara's own story is as dramatic a tale as any one of her bestsellers. Barbara Taylor Bradford's rise to fame & fortune was a difficult one. But from an early age her mother marked her out for glory
- at any cost. The drive & ambition instilled in Barbara were to reap huge rewards. From humble beginnings in Yorkshire she took London's Fleet Street by storm. & then with the creation of Emma Harte the unforgettable heroine of her first novel A Woman of Substance she inspired women the world over
- & became one of the world's bestselling authors. This is the first time that Barbara Taylor Bradford has been involved in a memoir of any kind & this unique collaboration has produced an extraordinary story. For Emma Harte's rise from Edwardian kitchen maid single & pregnant to one of the richest women in the world uncannily mirrors Barbara's own family history
- something which was as much of a shock to Barbara as it will be to her millions of fans... An incredible story of suffering loss & triumph over adversity not to be missed.


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His first book The Great Immigration Scandal" (2004) blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office & led to the resignation of the immigration minister Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at the time by the government & the liberal media for alarmism Moxons analysis has now been adopted by most of the major political parties. Indeed his views on the dangers of multiculturalism were even echoed by the Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality leading the Evening Standard to claim Moxon appears not so much a racist as a visionary. But immigration was never his primary interest in fact he joined the Home Office in order to study its HR policy as part of a decade-long investigation of men-women. This book is the result. Notwithstanding its provocative title " The Woman Racket" is a serious scientific investigation into one of the key myths of our age
- that women are oppressed by the patriarchal traditions of Western societies. Drawing on the latest developments in evolutionary psychology Moxon finds that the opposite is true
- men or at least the majority of low-status males
- have always been the victims of deep-rooted prejudice. As the prejudice is biologically derived it is unconscious & can only be uncovered with the tools of scientific psychology. The book reveals this prejudice in fields as diverse as healthcare employment family policy & politics: compared to the long & bloody struggle for universal male suffrage women were given the vote in an historical blink of the eye."


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THE WOMAN UNKNOWN: Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taking care of her sick mother & calls on the expertise of Kate Shackleton amateur sleuth extraordinaire to investigate. THE GENTLEMAN: Everett Runcie is a banker facing ruin & disgrace. His American heiress wife will no longer pay for his mistakes or tolerate his infidelity & is seeking a divorce. THE MURDER: When a chambermaid enters Runcies hotel room she is shocked to find that he is alone
- & dead! Suddenly Kate is thrown into the depths of an altogether more sinister investigation. Can she uncover the truth of her most complex & personal case to date?
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I'm halfway through my life or maybe more & I'm finally awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other people had faith been patient waiting for my moment -- enough already. Who have I been kidding? Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter colleague friend employee. She teaches at an elementary school in Cambridge Massachusetts where the children & the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art which she makes alone unseen. To be an artist is she is sure her real destiny. Then one day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old a perfect beautiful boy. Reza's parents are on a year-long visit from Paris: Skandar his father has a fellowship at Harvard; Sirena his mother is a glamorous installation artist apparently on the brink of huge success. For that magical year Nora is admitted into their charmed circle & everything is transformed. Or so she believes. As it turns out her liberation from the benign shackles of her old life is not quite what it seems & she is about to suffer a betrayal more monstrous than anything she could have imagined. ...

This is the incredible story & miraculous work of a remarkable woman. Though she began life severely learning disabled she built herself a better brain & a brain training program that has helped thousands of others do the same. Barbara Arrowsmith Young was born with severe learning disabilities. Undaunted she used her strengths to develop brain exercises to overcome her neurological deficits. She has gone on to change countless lives. In the past five years the idea that self-improvement can happen in the brain has caught hold & inspired new hope. Now thanks to brilliant path-breakers such as Barbara rather than worrying about how our brains shape us we can focus on shaping our brains. Youngs work is one of the first examples of the extensive & practical application of neuroplasticity". As the individuals described in this book change their brains readers see how the brain works & what a profound impact enhanced mental capacity has on how we can participate in the world. Here her personal story is interwoven with fascinating accounts of the clinical mysteries & triumphant stories that Barbara has encountered during her career. The Arrowsmith cognitive training program originated in Toronto in 1978 but is now being implemented in schools in Canada & across the United States." ...

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow stubborn
- or worse.
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The Book Worlds leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what youd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family problems
- son Fridays lack of focus since his career in the Chronoguard was relegated to a might-have-been daughter Tuesdays difficulty perfecting the Anti-Smote shield needed to thwart an angry Deitys promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth & Jenny who doesnt exist. & thats not all. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays the prediction that Fridays Destiny-Aware colleagues will die in mysterious circumstances & a looming meteorite that could destroy all human life on earth Thursdays retirement is going to be anything but easy.
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