In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britains oldest commercial bank. Voted most admired bank respected by competitors applauded by investors & trusted by customers it looked forward to the next three hundred. Less than 15 years later it was bust reviled as part of the spectacular collapse of HBOS the conglomerate it had joined. One of the high-profile victims of the credit crunch its spectacular fall caused seismic shock waves throughout the financial world. What went wrong? Ray Perman who has followed the Bank since the 1970s when he was a Financial Times journalist uncovered the story from documents & dozens of interviews with people at the top in Bank of Scotland & HBOS
- from being the bank of choice for the highrolling Monte Carlo mega-rich to losing GBP10 billion. It is a cautionary tale for our times. In the complex world of modern global finance the brilliant men who ran the company ignored the simple banking rules that their predecessors learned the hard way three centuries before.
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Adventures with Tom Sawyer made Huck rich -- but his Pap is a violent drunk & the broad Mississippi is the road to liberty. Hucks raft can carry him & his friend Jim a runaway slave to safety. When they lose their way one foggy night though they are headed downriver into dangerous territory. How can one small boy pilot his way through a land of mortal feuds lynch mobs & tricksters? When life & freedom are at risk how can Huck figure out the difference between wrong & right? ...

Bargained Into Her Bosss Bed In the fastpaced cutthroat world of Hollywood producer Max Hudson has a movie deadline breathing down his neck
- when his gorgeous assistant Dana Fallon suddenly resigns wreaking havoc! No amount of money will sway her decision
- but luckily Max has other means of persuasion... Propositioned Into a Foreign Affair Publicly Bella Hudson had the world at her feet. Privately her life was in turmoil: a humiliating breakup paparazzi at her heels... The Hollywood starlet needed to escape. Then she found a night of pleasure
- mediafree
- in hotel magnate Sam Garrisons bed. Only Sam wanted more & he was willing to do anything to keep her! Seduced Into a Paper Marriage No one ever denied Devlin Hudson. The boss of Hudson Pictures could have any woman he wanted until his prim & proper wife Valerie Shelton walked out on their matrimonial merger. Devlin wasnt going to rest until he got her back! & this time he vowed to win her over the oldfashioned way...in bed.



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1579 St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews & suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris uncovers a complex tale of passion & duplicity of sexual desire in tension with the repressive atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk & the austerity of the academic cloister. ...

Hue Boy is small
- smaller than all his friends & he doesnt seem to grow at all no matter what his mother gives him to eat or how
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Calorie counters are bought to help control eating & get on top of weight problems. But today we understand that the problems more often start in the supermarket trolley. So this book makes it really easy to choose all the right products. The next most important point is that food packaging offers you cals per 100 grams in an effort to hide the real impact from you. This book tells it like it is portion by portion glass by glass. Just using it to buy a healthier calorie content in the food you buy in the supermarket will help keep you in better trim & shape. Like all of the best ideas it's very simple really
- practical.
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Spenser is back & embroiled in a deceptively dangerous & multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south & the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year-old horse destined to become the next Secretariat. When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive president of the Three Fillies Stables to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger he can hardly say no: hes been doing pro bono work for so long his cupboards are just about bare. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement Spenser takes the case. ...

It has been said that I will eat anything. That is of course nonsense. A fried egg that still has a pool of runny egg white clinging to the yolk is a definite no-no. Still I must admit that it was with some pride that I read in one review of my series A Cook on the Wild Side that I had been given the sobriquet Hugh Fearlessly Eatsitall" For almost two decades Hugh has been writing about food in all its guises. To some his concept of good eating might seem a bit skewed
- hed always bypass a Mc Burger in favour of a squirrel sandwich & make a detour for fresh road kill
- but to others he is a shining & shaggy beacon of good sense in a food world gone mad. Armed with a broad mind a quick wit & a ready appetite Hugh covers almost every area of global food culture whether singing the praises of offal; playing poisson roulette with the deadly fugu fish in Tokyo; analysing the tea-dunking qualities of some classic British biscuits; or reminding us that a reindeer isnt just for Christmas but tasty all year round."

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Hugh Jackman is one of Hollywood's hottest properties. He has become an international superstar thanks to his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series & is loved by fans worldwide thanks to his extremely varied career as an actor & producer in film television & musical theatre. Born in Sydney Australia in 1968 Jackman was offered a role in Neighbours aged 24 but turned it down in order to study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. He then went on to star in several muscial theatre productions in Australia before gaining international recognition on London's West End in a critically acclaimed production of Oklahoma! for which he received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2000 Jackman's Hollywood break came as he was cast as Wolverine a role that catapulted him to stardom. He has since reprised the role in box office hits X-Men 2 X-Men: The Last Stand & X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He has continued to combine a successful theatre career with his work on the big screen winning a Tony Award for his 2004 Broadway performance in The Boy From Oz. Rumoured to have been shortlisted for the role of James Bond Jackman then went on to star in 2006 animated film Happy Feet & alongside fellow Australian star Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's epic film Australia. Named ' Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine in 2008 Hugh Jackman's stock has continued to rise & in 2009 he hosted the 81st Academy Awards. ...

This elegant journal

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