In the heart of the leafy Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl probably local somebodys daughter who went out one evening & didnt come back. It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub & one the night of her death was seen leaving with an unknown man. Chief Inspector Markbys friend Meredith Mitchell has been befriended by another troubled young local girl Katie Conway. On the surface Lynne & Katie have nothing in common except their age & home town. But could the insights Katie gives Meredith into her difficult family background
- an unstable aristocratic mother a doting father at the end of his tether & a scheming resident secretary
- throw some light on the other young girl? & given that forensic evidence now points to Lynne Willss murder having taken place in the Devaux family mausoleum on her murder too.. .?

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Living on the crest of a highly successful career he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything
- except what he wanted
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If you have a Wild Unruly or Undisciplined Daugher two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter & Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. When Amy & Effie Tribble two charming but impoverished spinster sisters lose out on an inheritance they place this advertisement in The Morning Post" & hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client educating them in their School for Manners. Lovely wealthy & well bred Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite & fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion
- but all her efforts are doomed to failure. & when Clarissa enters the Tribble sisters home they fear that their reputation for matchmaking success may be destroyed
- along with their carpets & furniture!"

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Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940 the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter argues Max Hastings there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people & their army & what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero he expected others to show themselves heroes also & was often disappointed. It is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942 amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine. Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph & tragedy. He describes the 'second Dunkirk' in 1940 when Churchill's impulsiveness threatened to lose Britain almost as many troops in north-west France as had been saved from the beaches; his wooing of the Americans & struggles with the Russians. British wartime unity was increasingly tarnished by workers' unrest with many strikes in mines & key industries. By looking at Churchill from the outside in through the eyes of British soldiers civilians & newspapers -- & also those of Russians & Americans -- Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman. He condemns as folly Churchill's attempt to promote mass uprisings in occupied Europe & details ' Unthinkable' -- his amazing 1945 plan for an Allied offensive against the Russians to liberate Pol&. Here is an intimate & affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain's saviour but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led & the performance of its armed forces. ...

Sunday Times bestseller JANET EVANOVICH author of PLUM SPOOKY & SMOKIN SEVENTEEN delights with yet another Stephanie Plum adventure. Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off & loses his head
- literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime & the only one shell talk to is Trenton cop Joe Morelli. Pump up the heat: Chipoltes sponsor is offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers. Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers & collect the moolah. Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie Plums Grandma Mazur. Enough said. Bring to a boil: Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night & snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso a.k.a. Ranger during the day. Can Stephanie hunt down two killers a traitor & five skips keep her grandmother out of the sauce & solve Rangers problems & not jump his bones?
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It is a fresh new look for this hilarious story by the much-loved Dick King-Smith. Long ago in the cold lands of the North there lived a troll named Ulf who had a very bad habit
- he liked to eat fingers! Many many men women & children had found their hands a finger short thanks to the razor-sharp teeth of the Finger-eater. & who knows how many more might have suffered the same fate if it hadn't been for the actions of a resolute girl called Gudrun! From the much-loved Dick King-Smith author of children's classics such as The Sheep-Pig" (filmed as " Babe")."
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Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story this unique history book directs probing questions at orthodox history presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried
- but failed
- to explain. This groundbreaking evidence
Includes:: Accurate ancient maps that show the world as it last looked during the Ice Age thousands of years before any civilisation capable of making such maps is supposed to have existed. Evidence of the devastating scientific & astronomical information encoded into prehistoric myths. The incredible feat of the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt & of megalithic temples on the Giza plateau. The mysterious astronomical alignments of the pyramids & the Great Sphinx. The antediluvian geology of the Sphinx. The megalithic temples of the Andes. The myths of Viracocha & Quetzalcoatl. The pyramids of the Sun & the Moon in Mexico. The doomsday calendar & eerie memories of the ancient Maya. The warning from the Hopi of Arizona.


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London 1862. Sue Trinder orphaned at birth grows up among petty thieves
- fingersmiths
- under the rough but loving care of

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" There wasnt a meeting when someone didnt mention Black Hawk Down. ""
- A senior Obama administration official
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From author of Wreck this Journal" Keri Smith's " Finish this Book" is a creative adventure where the reader is the main character
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