' Toast. You know when you're trying to make it & you just can't get it right? It's too light or too soft then totally burnt. Do you try to scrape off the black? Do you throw it away or do you just eat it? Up until now I ate the burnt toast.. .then I hit forty.' The best-selling inspirational memoir from your favourite desperate housewife. It took Teri Hatcher a divorce the experience of single motherhood a parade of bad dates a stalled career & a memorable fortieth birthday to realize that she didn't want to spend another decade preparing herself for the next disaster. Burnt Toast is the heartfelt funny poignant & inspiring account of Teri's jagged route to happiness. Teri reveals her life in unexpected ways in the hopes of keeping other women from eating the burnt toast & explains why you'll never get a second chance if you don't open yourself up to the possibility. ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN. Querry a world famous architect is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a burnt-out case a leper mutilated by disease & amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However in the heat of the tropics no relationship with a married woman will ever be taken as innocent... ...

A funny & thought-provoking compilation of"ations for & about women. We wanted to produce a book that celebrated the differences between the sexes
- without being afraid to laugh at those differences
- & yet provoke constructive thought explain Killy John & Alie Sibble. We ended up with a compilation of wit & wisdom to appeal to women from different backgrounds at different stages of life & in a multitude of different circumstance. Covering a multitude of everyday themes from chocolate to careers & from love to leadership this book is a must read for every woman living in todays world! If you feel youre too small to make a difference try going to bed with a mosquito Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul

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Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral & Airport. But as this superbly readable & insightful biography demonstrates he was an actor with much broader ambitions
- brilliantly realised in Viscontis The Leopard
- as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood. Lancasters liberal political views led not only to frequent clashes with the House Un-American Activities Committee & a voluminous FBI file but also a private life that was colourful even by Hollywood standards. Although a devoted father & husband (to three wives) the actor took numerous lovers
- of both sexes. In his sexual tastes as in his choice of roles he defied classification. Kate Bufords definitive biography offers a full frank sensitive & compelling portrait of the star of Atlantic City From Here to Eternity & Elmer Gantry (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar). Lancaster emerges as a man of restless energy relentless curiosity & continual development as an actor: a star every bit as interesting offscreen as on. As one American reviewer put it: Not many film stars receive first-class biographies; Burt Lancaster not only deserved one he got one. Acclaimed biographer Kate Buford has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio in the United States since 1994.


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It is 1861 & Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger faster noisier & dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive & unjust laws & flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty & creativity; while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic sexuality drugs & anarchy. Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile explorer linguist scholar & swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral & ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston employs him as ' King's Spy'. His first mission: to investigate the sexual assaults committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack; to find out why chimney sweeps are being kidnapped by half-man half-dog creatures; & to discover the whereabouts of his badly injured former friend John Hanning Speke. Accompanied by the diminutive & pain-loving poet Algernon Swinburne Burton's investigations lead him back to one of the defining events of the age: the brutal assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840; & the terrifying possibility that the world he inhabits shouldn't exist at all. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared & fortunes were made but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery & brought the issue to the heart of British political life. ' Hochschild's marvellous book is a timely reminder of what a small group of determined people with right on their side can achieve. Carefully researched & elegantly written with a pacy narrative that ranges from the coffee houses of London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies it charts the unlikely success of the first international human rights movement' Saul David Literary Review ' Hochschild is such a gifted researcher & story-teller that he never fails to hold the reader's attention... For all its terrible theme Hochschild's book is not in the least depressing because it is suffused with admiration for the courage & enlightenment of the men & women who crusaded against this evil & finally prevailed' Max Hastings Sunday Telegraph ' Thought-provoking absorbing & well-written' Brendan Simms Sunday Times ' Stirring & unforgettable' Economist ...

As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the citys oldest buildings
- a library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. & the death opens a door into the past exposing a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries.. .a mystery Gamache must solve if hes to catch a present-day killer. Steeped in luscious atmosphere brimming with the suspense & wit that have earned Louise Penny a massive global following Bury Your Dead is the most ingenious suspense novel of the year.
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Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde & blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Bucks father was a terrifying figure with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion
- a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the familys budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament while his aggrieved long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author (her most renowned work The Good Earth" re-entered the bestseller charts in 2004 when it was selected for Oprahs Book Club) but in this startlingly original biography Spurling recounts with elegance & great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West."
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