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? ...

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. ...

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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Louise & Ben Hunter's loving marriage is marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. Living & working with Ben's father Ronnie they are quietly contented. But when Ronnie dies their whole world changes. Ben's lazy brother Jacob returns convinced he stands to inherit Ronnie's small fortune. & he means to have his brother's wife; though just as she did years before Louise warns him off. Jacob however is not so easily dismissed. When he realises Ben will inherit everything Jacob is beside himself with rage & commits a terrible deed one that threatens to destroy everything his brother & Louise hold dear... ...

I don t care for children...the little wretches Eglantyne Jebb wrote bitterly as a young school teacher in 1900. She would never have children of her own & had no great fondness for those of her family & friends. Yet this unlikely childrens champion devoted her life to establishing the Save the Children movement & promoting childrens human rights around the world. In her prize-winning biography The Woman Who Saved the Children" Clare Mulley tells the story of how & why a charismatic spinster revolutionized the way the world treats children. Eglantynes short life was full of humour & tragedy passion & pain. Her journeys took her from illicit romance in Cambridge to espionage in Serbia & from private spiritualism in Shropshire to public arrest in Trafalgar Square. With the help of supporters including George Bernard Shaw John Maynard Keynes & Pope Benedict XV she managed to save millions of young lives & changed the mindset of a generation before dying aged just fifty-two her hair prematurely white but her passion undimmed. Meticulously researched fresh & immediate Mulleys account of the adventures & tribulations of a humble revolutionary is a deeply moving testament to the power of humanitarian spirit." ...

This is the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent abusive marriage & a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood the audacity she learned as a teenager the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo & the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability & her strength Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real & unforgettable. ...