When Suzy Lunts widowed mother Josie marries Luke Palmer its mainly to keep a roof over their heads. But soon Josie realises shes made a mistake & she & Suzy flee Liverpool & a man they now fear. But will they be safe from the past in Birkenhead? ...

Lew Archer world-weary private investigator is hired by Larry & Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator
- one whos been working with Nick
- turns up dead Archer soon realizes this isnt simply about some stolen loot. To help their son Archer must uncover the truth about a kidnap years ago & discover why the handgun from a decades-old killing apparently turns up at every new & terrible murder. In The Goodbye Look" Ross Macdonald exposes the damage families can cause one another in the name of love lies & greed. Ross Macdonalds " Lew Archer" mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible humane hero & with Macdonalds insight & moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman Jonathan Kellerman Eudora Welty & Elmore Leonard."

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After taking their Higher Certificate the sixth formers want to relax this term. But the Head has a surprise: a finishing school course with old girl Gwendoline Lacey as teacher. Yet someone is determined to drive her out
- & it takes the return of Darrell to solve the mystery.
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In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war...and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is Deightons fourteenth novel & a vivid evocation of wartime England the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. At the centre of the novel are two young men: the deeply reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother estranged son of a deskbound colonel & the cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse well on his way to becoming Americas Number One Flying Ace. Alike only in their courage they forge a bond of friendship in battle with far-reaching consequences for themselves & for the future of those they love. ...

Mog was tired. She was dead tired... Mog thought I want to sleep for ever. & so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next. Mog keeps watch over the upset Thomas family who miss her terribly & she wonders how they will ever manage without her. Nothing happens for some time...then suddenly one day Mog sees a little kitten in the house. The kitten is frightened of everything
- noise newspapers bags & being picked up. Mog thinks the kitten is very stupid. But then Mog realises that the nervous kitten doesnt know how to play & just needs a little bit of help. & so Mog pushes the surprised kitten into Debbies lap where it finds it actually likes being tickled & stroked. The new family pet is settled in at last. But Debbie says she will always remember Mog. So I should hope thinks Mog. & she flies up & up & up right into the sun.
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May 1992. Hana is twelve years old when her older sister Atka puts her on a UN evacuation bus fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Thinking they will be apart for a short time they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates & months go by without contact their promise becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia while Atka & their younger siblings battle for survival in a city overwhelmed by crime & destruction. Then when Atka manages to find work as a translator events take an unexpected turn & the remarkable events that follow change her life & those of her family forever. ...

Like any street April Grove in Portsmouth has its good & bad neighbours its gossip scandal & romance. But the outbreak of war in 1939 changes everything
- especially for the children. Uprooted from their familiar urban existence they are evacuated (some happily some not) to the country. Then there are the teenagers whose first loves are accelerated & intensified by the threat of separation; & men & women too old to fight who hold the life of the street together. Based on the author's own childhood memories of growing up near Portsmouth this is a novel which shows us what England was really like then
- a story told with such nostalgia & charm that you leave the world it describes longing for the chance to return.

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From its first publication this book was acclaimed as the standard text on this field of the law. Now for its fourth edition it has been completely revised & expanded to take into account the new developments of the last five years. The book lays out both the framework of commercial law & the application of fundamental principles to typical business transactions. This unique combination of theory & practice is supplemented by specimen documents tables of statutes cases & conventions. ...

At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. Good Fellas" is Henry Hills own story telling the fascinating & sometimes brutal details of the day-to-day life of a working New York mobster
- the violence wild spending sprees his wife his mistress his code of honour. From the small-time scamming of his early years his first arrest at the age of sixteen & initiation into the dealings of his wiseguy friends & bosses Henry Hill tells of the good times dodgy dealings indulgences & the insularity of the mob-controlled neighbourhoods. But things start to go too far. To save his own life Hill turns into a Federal witness & the mob is to this day still hunting him down for revealing their involvement in hundreds of crimes including arson extortion hijacking the six-million dollar Lufthansa heist (the most successful cash robbery in US history) & murder."
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Nova Kumalisi would do anything for her closest friend Mal Wacken. She owes him her life. So when he asked her to be the surrogate mother for him & his wife in spite of her fears about how it would alter their friendship Nova agreed. Eight years later Nova is bringing up their son alone & she & Mal don't speak. Months into the pregnancy Mal's wife changed her mind about the surrogacy agreement. Already suspicious of how close Nova & Mal were Stephanie realised her strained marriage was in serious trouble when she found a text from her husband to Nova saying ' Goodnight Beautiful'. She asked Mal to cut all ties with his closest friend & unborn child. Now seven-year-old Leo is critically ill & Nova despite her anger & hurt wants Mal to have the chance to know his son before it's too late. Will it take a tragedy to remind them how much they mean to each other? ...