Emily feels wicked liberated daring. & bored. But her adventure begins on holiday in La Gomera when a rugged beachcomber removes the leather thong from his neck & binds her hands behind her. Crossing oceans & continents in a nether world of smugglers arms dealers & pirates she becomes the adored but captive jewel of the tough inflexible men who make a living in inhospitable landscapes. On hot afternoons on long days without number she dedicates herself to the pleasures of sex in all its shapes & forms. She learns subservience. She becomes the perfect concubine. The perfect lover. She becomes Chengi
- Girl.
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The history of young women is a history of trouble. Arguments about whether girls have been the victims or the beneficiaries of social change have raged through modern history. This sparkling panoramic social history takes a close look at the anxieties horror stories & moral unease that have accompanied changes in girls' lives since Victorian times. It shows the importance of disentangling panic from progress if we are to understand the true story of twentieth century girls. ...

May 1941 & the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping Po Ws sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later Lois West & her young son Alex invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete knowing she has not been back there since the war. Penelope George
- formerly Giorgidiou
- is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return & make the journey she never thought shed dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island the last female foreigner. When word spreads of her visit & old Cretan friends & family come to greet her Lois & Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage & the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever
- & the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...


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May 1941 & the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping Po Ws sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later Lois West & her young son Alex invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete knowing she has not been back there since the war. Penelope George
- formerly Giorgidiou
- is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return & make the journey she never thought she'd dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island the last female foreigner. When word spreads of her visit & old Cretan friends & family come to greet her Lois & Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage & the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever
- & the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...


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September is a twelve-year-old girl Somewhat Grown & Somewhat Heartless & she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind & a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland
- well of course she accepts (mightnt you?). When she gets there she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess
- she soon discovers that she alone holds the key to restoring order. Having read enough books to know what a girl with a quest must do September sets out to Fix Things. As September forges her way through Fairyland with a book-loving dragon & a boy named Saturday by her side she makes many friends & mistakes losing her shadow her shoes & her way. But she finds adventure courage a rather special Spoon & a lot more besides...

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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva & in England half French half British naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France it seems her hybrid status
- & fluent French
- will be of service to a greater more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage dead-drops how to perform under interrogation & how to kill Marian parachutes into south-west France her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris where she must seek out family friend Clement Pelletier once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new & terrifying weapon he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles through the strange lethal landscape of the Occupation towards this reunion what completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything & neither love nor fatherland may be trusted. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is both a gripping adventure story & a moving meditation on patriotism betrayal & the limits of love.

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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva & in England half French half British naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France it seems her hybrid status
- & fluent French
- will be of service to a greater more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage dead-drops how to perform under interrogation & how to kill Marian parachutes into south-west France her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris where she must seek out family friend Clement Pelletier once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new & terrifying weapon he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles through the strange lethal landscape of the Occupation towards this reunion what completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything & neither love nor fatherland may be trusted. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is both a gripping adventure story & a moving meditation on patriotism betrayal & the limits of love.

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky is part of the Richard & Judy Summer 2013 Book Club. Find out how you can get involved with Britain's biggest & best book club. Visit the brand new Book Club website Â- ...

Salander is plotting her revenge
- against the man who tried to kill her & against the government institutions that very nearly
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This is the final book in the bestselling Millennium Trilogy". Lisbeth Salander lies in Intensive Care with a bullet lodged in her head. She will face trial for three murders & one attempted murder on her release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist Salander must not only prove her innocence but identify & denouce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse & violence. Salander is now ready to fight back. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed." ...

Salander is plotting her revenge
- against the man who tried to kill her & against the government institutions that very nearly
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