Ming & Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties & both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China & Beata from Pol&. Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel. In this chilling expose investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel & unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Workers are trapped & controlled
- the lack of freedoms this invisible strait of society suffers is both shocking & scandalous & at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.
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When his parents are lost in space Sam is left heartbroken in the care of the horrible Hilda Hardbottom. Then he finds a tiny spaceship in the cabbage patch & meets a little alien called Splodge. How Splodge makes him invisible & how Sam uses his new talent in his darkest hour makes a touching & extremely funny story with lovely memorable characters. ...

This title has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. It's Paris 1937. Andras Levi an architecture student has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship a single suitcase & a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary & secret life just as Europe's unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty. From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest & Paris from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps & beyond The Invisible Bridge" tells the story of a marriage tested by disaster & of a family threatened with annihilation bound by love & history." ...

Molly loves animals & wants to be a vet when she grows up just like her dad
- as everyone says; she's got the magic touch! Snowdrop
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In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote Of all tasks describing the contents of a book is the most difficult & in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities perfectly irrelevant. ...

Gabriella Midwinter used to have a home. She wasn't invisible back then... For fans of Cathy Cassidy & Jacqueline Wilson a stunning ...

Hedge fund managers who survived & profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses & amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers it is time to rethink money management in the broadest of terms. Drastic changes need to be made & managers who actually made money during 2008 make for a logical starting place. The Invisible Hands provides investors & traders with the latest thinking from some of the best & the most successful players in money management highlighting the specific risk & return objectives of each & discussing the evolution of certain styles & beliefs in money management. Contains revealing interviews with top hedge fund managers who survived & prospered through the 2008 financial crisis Outlines investments & strategies for the rocky road ahead Reveals how hedge fund managers are seeking a new paradigm of risk management & profit making opportunities in the post-crisis world Gives guidance on how traditional investors such as pensions endowments foundations & family offices should rethink how they approach asset allocation & portfolio construction Page by page the top macro thinkers found in this book reveal their own approaches to markets risk & the broader world in which we live as well as their advice on how investors should be approaching money management in todays uncertain world. ...

The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellisons superb portrait of a generation of black Americans Invisible Man". ...

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend a career a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured & incapable of speech she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander Queen Supreme one operation away from being a real woman who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past & making up something better & that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look. The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie her best friend & fellow model; kidnap Manus her two-timing ex-boyfriend; & hit the road with Brandy in search of a br&-new past present & future. ...

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend a career a loyal best friend. But a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her an 'invisible monster' so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander Queen Supreme who will teach her that reinventing yourself sometimes means erasing your past & making up something better... Injected with new material & special design elements Invisible Monsters Remix is a radically refashioned 'director's cut' of a favourite Chuck Palahniuk novel turning a daring satire on beauty & the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. ...