Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades she examines the intense private worlds & passions of everyday people. From one mans honeymooning epiphany in Hassans Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera" & from the sharp joy of " The Merry Widow" to the bloody reality of the collections title story these are moving witty & provocative tales exploring cruel & loving relationships social change & personal obsessions & confirming her status as a leading practitioner of the art of the short story." ...

Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get out of bed in the morning? & why you always wake up bursting for a pee? Why that small blackhead has erupted into a hideous red spot overnight? & why stepping into a hot shower gives you goose bumps? Following an average family & their daily routine Dr Hilary Jones takes you on a bold & captivating journey through the human body answering these questions & hundreds more. From how our bodies function to why they react in certain ways Dr Hilary tackles the questions that matter & examines what makes us tick. Fascinating & highly entertaining A Day in Your Life reveals the incredible nature of the human body. ...

When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh & sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? & could one of the team staying at the site with Thora be responsible for the disappearances? Already an international bestseller this fourth book to feature Thora Gudmundsdottir (a delight
- Guardian) is chilling unsettling & compulsively readable.
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Mark Wallington has a dream. He is going to change the face of British comedy. Unfortunately for the residents of north London hes going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener. The result is The Day Job" an account of a year spent working in other peoples gardens: people like Mrs Fleming who is convinced there is buried treasure in the bottom bed; Mr Walters who is trying to create a fascist state policed by gnomes in his well-guarded plot in Gospel Oak; Mrs Glover who is probably the most attractive women living in Britain; & poor Mr Nugent who likes to save his urine in jam jars & pour it over his compost. Over four seasons Wallington crosses Hampstead Heath from job to job. He survives brushes with the evil contract gardeners who keep trying to knock him off his bicycle. He strives to impress literary agent Herman Gapp who might represent him
- depending on what sort of job he does on Gapps Alpine Terrace. He even finds time to fall for a housecleaner-cum-actor named Helen as he becomes part of a strange band of artistes each with a day job of their own all waiting for that first break. This is the story of long nights spent in the back room of a pub trying to write unsolicited scripts & of much longer days spent trying to understand the British & their strange obsession with gardening."
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When Louis gets eaten up by a Gulper his big sister Sarah knows she has to act fast & sets off in hot pursuit. But rescuing a boy from a Gulper's tummy isn't so simple
- especially when other strange & scary creatures are looking for their dinner too...
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One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written The Day of the Jackal" is the electrifying story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late. It is 1963 & an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the O.A.S. to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this latest plot involves a lethal weapon: an assassin of legendary talent. Known only as The Jackal this remorseless & deadly killer must be stopped but how do you track a man who exists in name alone?" ...

They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one & took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge the present day. & out of the past a cry for help: Father Anselm the brilliant Benedictine receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell
- the story of a woman betrayed by time fate & someone close to her.. .someone still unknown. As a young woman Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Pol&. But after her arrest an agent of the secret police makes her a devils bargain
- & in the dark of a government prison a terrible choice is made. Now fifty years later Anselm is called upon to investigate both Rozas story & a mystery dating back to the early 1980s in the icy grip of the Cold War. & as he peels back years of history decades of secrets a half-century of lies he exposes a truth that victim & torturer would keep hidden...

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In the 1960s mens fashion witnessed an extraordinary rebirth that led to lasting social cultural & commercial change
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Day of the Predator: the second book in Alex Scarrow's exciting Time Riders series. Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared & said ' Take my hand.. .' But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose
- to prevent time travel destroying history... When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where & when she shouldn't have Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly
- & until now
- undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy & Sal before he's torn to pieces by dinosaurs
- & without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality? Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist then he became a graphic artist then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally he grew up & became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers & several screenplays but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas & concepts he was playing around with when designing games. He lives in Norwich with his son Jacob his wife Frances & two very fat rats. The Time Riders series: Time Riders; Day of the Predator; The Doomsday Code; The Eternal War; Gates of Rome; City of Shadows; The Pirate Kings Alex's thrillers for adults: A Thousand Suns; Last Light; october Skies; Afterlight; & The Candle Man.




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At her dying mothers bedside Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them Rebecca journeys to Boscarva a beautiful mansion in Cornwall to meet a family torn by passion & greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss who is hiding an explosive secret to a handsome cousin whose kisses are dangerously seductive...to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner whose past hints of intrigue Rebecca becomes entangled in a family mystery...and unravelling it holds the key to her future & her heart. ...