Mark Wilkinson has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of Engl&. American immigration knows him as Joe Novak. & at the Valhalla the mysterious complex where he sells lofty ambition & dark desires he goes by Mr Jones. Since he was eighteen Mark has been running away. Running from his small town his vanished mother his broken father. But one night in Las Vegas shocked by violence & ambushed by memories he is propelled back to his real name & his real past. Back to Bethany Wilder: carnival queen partner in dreams & tragic ghost. From the acclaimed author of Ten Stories About Smoking comes an electrifying novel about the power of dreams to destroy of memory to distort -- & of what it means to be home. ...

The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy & one women against the world. Tracy Whitey is on top of the world. Young beautiful intelligent she is about to marry into wealth & glamour
- until betrayed by her own innocence she finds herself in prison framed by a ruthless mafia gang & abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten & broken but surviving with her dazzling ingenuity Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal
- determined to avenge those who have destroyed her life. Her thirst for revenge takes her from New Orleans to London from Paris to Madrid & Amsterdam. Tracy is playing for the highest stakes in a deadly game. Only one man can challenge her
- hes handsome persuasive & every bit as daring. Only one man can stop her
- an evil genius whose only hope of salvation is in Tracys destruction...



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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two dirty centuries? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why for centuries did people fear fruit? All these questions will be answered in this juicy smelly & truly intimate history of home life. Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom bathroom living room & kitchen covering the architectural history of each room but concentrating on what people actually did in bed in the bath at the table & at the stove. From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding teeth-cleaning to masturbation getting dressed to getting married this book will make you see your home with new eyes. ...

Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich & like many a girl she yearned for a pony. She was never to get one but this didnt stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Ponies is the story of that all-consuming interest & of the authors nerve-wracked attempts later in life to ride once again. However as Susanna Forrests journey unfolds it leads her to horse-obsessed princesses recovering crack addicts courtesans warriors pink-obsessed schoolgirls national heroines & runaways across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age to lavishly adorned equestrian Victorians & twenty-first-century children on horseback in Brixton she explores the development of this Pony Cult from its earliest times to the present day. Alternating between Berlin London & Norfolk urban suburban & rural Susanna Forrest visits gymkhanas & pony shows horse refuges & inner-city riding schools acquainting herself with fabulous figures such as Alice Hayes a medical missionary turned horsebreaker who was the first woman to ride a wild zebra & a fragile & fierce old lady called Hope who today carries a knitting bag full of painkillers for her old riding injuries. In doing so she takes to the saddle once more & rediscovers her own riding legs in this frank eclectic & captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world."" ...

Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich & like many a girl she yearned for a pony. She never did get one of her own but this didn't stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Horses is the story of that all-consuming interest. As Susanna's journey unfolds it leads her to horse-fixated princesses recovering crack addicts national heroines & runaways across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age to lavishly adorned equestrian Victorians & twenty-first-century children on horseback in Brixton she explores the development of this Pony Cult from its earliest times to the present day. In doing so she takes to the saddle once more & rediscovers her own riding legs in this frank eclectic & captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world."" ...

Tender magical & captivating
- a story of family friends & the unlikeliest of romances.. . What if love was right there in front
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In 1854 high in the Pyrenees in the tiny country of Andorra a band of mercenaries lead by highlander Courtland Mc Carrick wages war under ruthless general Reynaldo Pascal. Though Court is a cold-hearted merc who was cursed years ago to walk with death or walk alone " even he balks when he learns how vicious Pascals campaign against the people of this region really is. He removes his men from the fray demanding only to be compensated for the time theyd spent under the Generals leadership but the man refuses. This Scottish leader will exact his revenge-by kidnapping the generals exquisite Castilian fiance & forcing her back to his highland home. Annalia Tristan Llorente staid beautiful a noblewoman to her toes despises the fierce barbaric highlander. Because of his cadres skills her own brothers resistance was crushed & he was imprisoned-only to be freed once Annalia weds the general. Distrusting Courts seemingly mercurial loyalties she tells him nothing of her brothers imprisonment allowing Court to think Anna is more mercenary than he since she longs to return to the rich general to wed. With every mile further from her home she plots to escape hating the highlander more with each thwarted attempt outrage bubbling in her every time he captures her in his powerful arms. Annalias fury only increases when she finds herself attracted to the dark commanding warrior. But if she succumbs & loses her innocence she signs her brothers death warrant as well as her own. From the moment Court sees that Annas prim facade masks fiery passionate lass beneath his hearts ensnared. He realizes he will never let her go & for the first time he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life. Until it comes true when the general vows hell hunt the two never stopping until hes destroyed them both." ...

Ethan Mac Carrick the eldest & most wicked of the Mac Carrick brothers tricks lovely & innocent Holly Weyland into thinking he's eloping with her; instead he takes her to his wind-tossed seaside estate in the Highlands planning to seduce her & make her his mistress until he tires of her. Yet just when Ethan realizes he can't live without this goldenhaired lass Holly discovers his deception. Can he convince her that he's had a change of heart or is it too late? ...

When Hugh Mac Carrick was a young man he did something very reckless with Jane Weyland the daughter of his superior. While she merely used him as a summer flirtation to practise her wiles on he fell in love. This was ill-advised because Hughs family harboured dangerous secrets & was shadowed by a deadly curse. Even if these obstacles were absent Hugh knew a woman like Jane
- heart-breakingly beautiful rich & from a prominent English family
- would never marry a Scot with no title or prospects. So to avoid the impossible temptation to kiss her & the misery of seeing her marry another he left the country. Now ten years later Hugh is wealthy an assassin in Her Majestys Service & still secretly in love with Jane. When he receives a missive that her life is in danger & rushes to protect her will he be able to resist the overwhelming need to make her his? Jane Weyland is furious when her father summons Hugh to London to protect her. Clearly her father has lost his mind even with his assurances of a speedy annulment when things die down but why would Hugh agree to this insanity after she all but begged him to say no? How dare he do this to her? Her fury stoked she decides to torment him just as she had all those years ago with soft touches whispers & seductive play
- that he can do nothing about it without risking marriage to her a consequence hed made clear he didnt want. But she soon discovers that Hugh is not the gentle young man he used to be & that toying with the fever-pitched desires of a hardened warrior might get her burned.


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Kelly Cutrone has long been mentoring women on how to make it in one of the most competitive industries in the world. In her trademark no-bullshit style she combines personal & professional stories to share her secrets for success without selling out. Raw hilarious shocking but always the honest truth If You Have to Cry Go Outside calls upon you to gather up your courage like an armful of clothes at a Mc Queen sample sale & follow your soul where it takes you. Whether you're just starting out in the world or looking to reinvent yourself this book will be the spark you need to figure out what you have to say to the world--and how you're going to say it. ...