Earthy sexy & vivacious the life of beloved country singer Patsy Cline who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years is explored in colourful & poignant detail. An innovator -- & even a hell-raiser -- Cline broke all the boys' club barriers of Nashville's music business in the 1950s & brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits & torch ballads like Walking After Midnight " "I Fall to Pieces" & " Crazy." She is the subject of a major Hollywood movie & countless articles & her albums are still selling 45 years after her death. Ellis Nassour was the very first to write about Cline & did so with the co-operation of the stars who knew & loved her -- including Jimmy Dean Jan Howard Brenda Lee Loretta Lynn Roger Miller Dottie West & Faron Young. He was the only writer to interview Cline's mother & husbands. This updated edition features not only a complete discography & a host of never-before-published photographs but

Includes:: an afterword that details controversial claims about her birth the battle between Cline's siblings for her possessions the amazing influence Cline had on a new generation of singers & in Cline's own words from letters to a devoted friend her excitement as her career soared to new heights & her marriage descended to new depths."

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Rachel & Kirsty are thrilled to be spending the week at Golden Palace
- where real kings & queens once lived! Whilst they are settling
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From the Orange Prize long-listed & award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love & The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak Honour is a novel of love betrayal & a clash of cultures. A powerful book; thoughtful provoking & compassionate". (Joanne Harris author of Chocolat). ' My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten...' Leaving her twin sister behind Pembe leaves Turkey for love
- following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves & their children. Yet no matter how far they travel the traditions & beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them
- carried in the blood. Their eldest is the boy Iskender who remembers Turkey & feels betrayal deeper than most. His sister is Esma who is loyal & true despite the pain & heartache. & lastly Yunus who was born in London & is shy & different. Trapped by the mistakes of the past the Toprak children find their lives shattered & transformed by a brutal act of murder...A powerful novel set in Turkey & London in the 1970s Honour explores pain & loss loyalty & betrayal the trials of the immigrant the clash of tradition & modernity as well as the love & heartbreak that too often tears families apart. " Vivid storytelling.. .that explores the darkest aspects of faith & love". (Sunday Telegraph). " Rich & wide as the Euphrates river along whose banks it begins & ends Elif Shafak has woven with masterful care & compassion one immigrant family's heartbreaking story
- a story nurtured in the terrible silences between men & women trying to grow within ancient ways all the while growing past them. I loved this book". (Sarah Blake author of The Postmistress). "[ Elif Shafak] joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi Zadie Smith Monica Ali Aamer Hussein Andrea Levy Hanan al-Shakyh & Leila Aboulela who offer us fictional glimpses of London's Others". (The Independent). Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul & The Forty Rules of Love & is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph Guardian & the New York Times & her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 views since July 2010. She is married with two children & divides her time between Istanbul & London."


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Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The time 1993. The place Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. & Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate...A fast-moving intrigue.. .a cracking good read. This is the first novel I have read by Jeffrey Archer; it will not be the last
- Mail on Sunday". Back in top form... Archers imagination at its most sublime.. .an entertaining pacey page-turner
- " Sunday Times". Few are more famous than Archer for keeping the pages turning.. .an extravagant romp
- possibly his best
- " The Times"."



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Enter a world of darkness & danger honour daring & destiny in David Chandlers magnificent epic trilogy: The Ancient Blades. One thief against the world! When allies become enemies to whom can a clever thief turn? Armed with one of seven swords forged at the dawn of time Malden was chosen by Fate to act as saviour!and failed dismally. Deceived by the trickery of his one-time ally Morget the young thief employed his newfound might to help destroy the naturally barrier protecting the kingdom of Skrae -- & now there will be no stopping Morgets barbarian hordes from pillaging the l&. Suddenly friends & former supporters alike covet the young heros magic while seeking his destruction -- from the treacherous King & leaders of the City of Ness to the rogue knight Cloy who owes Malden his life. It will take more than Maldens makeshift army of harlots & cutpurses to preserve a realm. Luckily the sorceress Cythera fights at his side along with the ingenious irascible dwarf Slag. & the wily thief still has a desperate & daring plan or two up his larcenous sleeve! ...

Carole Barber has come to Paris with its rain-slick slate roofs & winding streets to work on her novel
- & to find herself after
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It is a beleaguered & betrayed Secret Service that has been put in the care of George Smiley. A mole has been uncovered at the organisation's highest levels
- & its agents across the world put in grave danger. But untangling the traitor's web gives Smiley a chance to attack his Russian counterpart Karla. & part-time spy Jerry Westerby is the weapon at Smiley's disposal. The Honourable Schoolboy is remarkable & thrilling one of three books (together with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy & Smiley's People) to feature the legendary clash between Smiley & Karla two brilliant spymasters on opposite sides of the Cold War.
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George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby The Honourable Schoolboy a passionate lover & a seasoned reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east to Hong Kong. So begins the terrifying game.. . ...

The first of a major new Feist acquisition returning to his best-loved series. Written with Bill Forstchen acclaimed writer of great military fantasy novels in the US. FREEDOM AT ANY PRICE? Hartrafts Marauders a crack band of Kingdom raiders are a special unit designed to infiltrate & fight behind enemy lines. They are currently heading for a frontier garrison after a disastrous encounter with the Tsurani. Meanwhile a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both sides arrive at the same time & discover the garrison has been overrun by a migrating horde of moredhel (dark elves) & they are forced by circumstances to band together & fight as one unit to survive. The only problem is who do they hate the most
- their mutual enemy or each other? As they make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom they have to struggle not only with the elements & their enemies but also their conscience. For what is more important
- ones life or ones honour?

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Vividly & beautifully told often deeply shocking The Honoured Society is the true story of one womans personal journey to the dark heart of the Mafia. In 1979 having been fascinated by Coppolas masterpiece The Godfather twenty-year-old Petra Reski jumped into her car & drove from her home in Germany to the Mafia-stronghold of Sicily; she wanted to see for herself the stark truth behind the glamorous fiction. In 2007 six Mafioso were shot dead outside a pizzeria in the North German town of Duisburg; in thirty years the influence & violence of organised crime had only grown but now Reski would be called to report on the scene as one of the worlds foremost Mafia experts. In The Honoured Society Petra Reski exposes just how far Italys mafias permeate everyday life across Europe. Through her firsthand accounts of meeting crooked priests & heroic victims wet-eyed wives & murderous husbands she also tells the human stories & too often the human costs of the Mafias ongoing bloody war. ...