Three women smart & successful working in the fast & furious world of magazines meet for cocktails & gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous self-confident with a secret lover
- & hoping that one day he will leave his wife & marry her. Maggie:capable & high-achieving until she finds the one thing she cant cope with
- motherhood. Candice:honest decent or so she believes
- until a ghost from her past turns up & almost ruins her life. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives & almost destroys their friendship...


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Another delicious book in the Chocolate Box Girls series a sequel to Cherry Crush Marshmallow Skye & Summer's Dream from bestselling girls' favourite Cathy Cassidy. Coco is the youngest of the Tanberry sisters but she's as headstrong as any of them. Coco is crazy about animals & loves her riding lessons. When her favourite pony at the stables is sold Coco scopes out the new owner
- & she's not happy about what she discovers. With big sister Honey going off at the deep end & Summer only just recovering from her eating disorder Coco can't rely on family help. Can Coco save Caramel alone
- or will a new friend help her? A perfect next step for fans of Jacqueline Wilson by the bestselling author of Scarlett Dizzy Angel Cake & Ginger Snaps. For all the latest Cathy news visit website.

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Coco Chanels genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell
- Picasso Churchill Cocteau; lovers included the Grand Duke Dmitri; the English roue Boy Capel; a French poet; & a German spy & the Duke of Westminster who offered to leave his wife for her permanently if she would only bear him an heir. Paradoxically though she might have been regarded in some lights as a pioneering feminist
- sacrificing marriage to a revolutionary career in couture
- Chanel was utterly baffled by the idea of womens politics. Educated women? A womans education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stockings never go out without a hat. Chanels rise from penniless orphan to millionaire designer
- inventing sportswear the little black dress & number 5
- makes compelling reading not least because she was inclined to design her own life as deftly as she did her fashions. Axel Madsen negotiates Chanels smoke screens with skill bringing this tantalizing woman to life in all her alluring complexity.




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The much anticipated & beautifully illustrated Sunday Times Bestselling Biography Coco Chanel: The Legend & the Life was first released to great critical acclaim in 2010. Now the paperback edition of Justine Picardies biography of the French fashion designer Gabrielle Chanel has arrived. The Mail on Sunday calls it gripping the Sunday Times declares it to be fascinating the Telegraph elegant & brilliant; while the Daily Mail hails it as a vividly told account in the style of Chanel herself. This is the definitive biography of a heroine who founded the most successful fashion label in history; a woman that transformed her life into a myth veiled in enigma & scandal; whose talent & innovation endures beyond her own pioneering sartorial creations. Coco Chanel: The Legend & the Life was written by Justine Picardie as a celebration & investigation of Chanels phenomenal achievements. Shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards selling over 50 000 copies thus far & now translated into 15 languages worldwide this eloquent biography has revealed the hidden secrets of the legendary Chanel. After a decade on the trail of previously unseen evidence left by Chanel the authors exploration of Chanels extraordinary life traces the emergence of an inventor & storyteller who rose above the poverty into which she was born. Following clues to Cocos early years in a convent & passionate love affairs with playboys artists & aristocrats Justine Picardie deftly weaves together the lost threads of Chanels life. In doing so she uncovers how an abandoned child came to conjure up the iconic creations that were proudly worn by legends in their own right from Jackie Kennedy to Marilyn Monroe who famously declared that she went to bed in nothing but Chanel No.5. The pioneer of the little black dress bobbed hair & trousers for women Chanel was so much more than a couture aficionado; for in reinventing herself she was also to become one of the most influential women in history. ...

Mean Jack Frost has stolen Coco the Cupcake Fairy's magical cupcake charm & now all baking is a disaster! Can the girls find the charm before the Ice Lord's naughty gaggle of goblins get their hands on it? Join Rachel & Kirsty & meet a new fairy friend in each magical adventure! ...

The Cod
- wars have been fought over it revolutions have been triggered by it national diets have been based on it economies &
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Coda" is Simon Grays powerful account of the year in which he struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of sunlit days with this beloved wife Victoria. Written with exceptional candour & a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind Simon Grays " Coda" is as life-affirming as it is heartrending. Sadly " Coda" is being published posthumously as Gray died in August 2008." ...

Paperback Edition What do flashlights the British invasion black cats & seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language & invent new means of communicating with each other. & through CODE we see how this ingenuity & our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. Using everyday objects & familiar language systems such as Braille & Morse code author Charles Petzold weaves an illuminating narrative for anyone who s ever wondered about the secret inner life of computers & other smart machines. It s a cleverly illustrated & eminently comprehensible story & along the way you ll discover you ve gained a real context for understanding today s world of PCs digital media & the Internet. No matter what your level of technical savvy CODE will charm you & perhaps even awaken the technophile within. ...

Tory Brennan
- great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan
- & the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Life appears

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Tory Brennan great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan & the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island
- rescued from financial disaster the research institute is flourishing once more. But the tranquility is quickly shattered when Tory Brennan & her technophile gang discover a mysterious box buried in the ground. A seemingly innocent treasure hunt soon turns into a nightmarish game of puzzles as it becomes clear that one false move will lead to terrible explosive consequences. The clock is ticking. Can Tory & the Virals crack the code in time to save the city
- & their own lives?

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