THE LAST DETECTIVE Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective
- computers & spreadsheets & technology are not
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The first two volumes of Alan Clarks were irresistible irreverent infamous outrageous. This last volume is a fitting finale to the work of a man who has been described as the best diarist of his century. The third volume begins in 1991 with Alan Clark contemplating quitting as an MP. Life at Saltwood Castle his home hangs heavy; then comes the Scott inquiry & the Matrix Churchill affair. Publication of the first volume of the Diaries leads the coven a family of former girlfriends to sell their story to the NEWS OF THE WORLD. This volume follows his attempts to return to Westminster an affair that threatens his marriage & closes with the tragedy of his final months when he is diagnosed with a brain tumour but keeps his diary until he can no longer focus on the page. ...

News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R. Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood & suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel Osgood sends his clerk Daniel Sands to await its arrival. When Daniels body is found by the docks the manuscript is nowhere to be found Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest that leads him to the dangerous streets of London in order to unearth the rest of Dickens final mystery & solve another of his own. ...

This is the last diet youll ever need. Why? Because Dr Eva Orsmond at last gives you the truth about healthy weight loss for life. Eva has helped thousands of people lose weight through her clinics & on RTEs Operation Transformation. Now you can benefit from her easy-to-follow weight-loss steps tasty recipes & sound advice which will guide you on your way to achieving your healthy weight
- & staying there. The Last Diet is flexible balanced & realistic. It shows you how to: * Change your behaviour: replace the bad habits with good ones * Prepare for the plan with a 10-step guide * Change your life with Evas 4-phase plan * Address your emotional issues with food * Cook easy healthy low calorie meals with 90 recipes included This book will educate you about food & food choices. It will show you how to create a lifestyle change that is based on a healthy eating routine. Most of all it will offer you a real chance at achieving healthy weight loss for life.
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A mistake waiting to happen? Its been four years since infamous party girl delectable Daniella Danatello brought her powerful family the wrong sort of publicity! Danis desperate to get back in their good books & accepts a job as physiotherapist on her fathers rugby team. Theres just one thing
- one man
- standing in the way of earning back her selfrespect: the team doctor Zac Price. With killer abs & infuriatingly sexy arrogance Zac is one massive distraction
- & now shes his colleague any involvement with him would break all the rules. Danis determined to keep away...but Zacs just too tempting to ignore...


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I know what they see when they look at me. The charming soft-spoken dragoness bred from the most powerful of royal bloodlines. A disguise stronger than any battle shield that allows me to keep all suitors at tails length. A technique thats worked until him. Until Ragnar the Cunning handsome barbarian warlord & warrior mage from the desolate Northlands. Unlike those whove come before him he does not simply submit to my astounding charm & devastating smile. Instead he dismisses me as vapid useless & to my great annoyance rather stupid! Yet Ill allow no male to dismiss me. Soon hell learn my worth my many skills & the strength of my will. For this one challenges me enough to make me want to ruthlessly taunt him tease him & finally when the trap is set bring him to his knees. ...

Operation Varsity was the last major airborne offensive of World War II & remains the largest & most successful drop in history. Conducted primarily by the British 6th Airborne & the American 17th Airborne Divisions including Canadian elements the goal of the operation was to cross the Rhine River & gain a foothold in Germany. Drawing on war diaries unit histories after-action reports & interviews with veterans The Last Drop" details the horrors of parachuting through flak-filled skies the dangers of piloting a glider safely to the ground & the struggles of infantry combat & shows how thorough training extensive planning solid execution & sheer guts combined to make Operation Varsity a stunning victory." ...

violet has always kept her strange ability to sense dead bodies a secret from everyone except her family & best-friend-turned-boyfriend Jay. But now she's using her gift to help track down murderers working in a group that

Includes:: the mysterious & dangerously attractive Rafe. When violet discovers the body of a college girl murdered by the girlfriend collector" she is determine to solve the case. But now the serial killer is on the lookout for a new "relationship" & violet seems to have caught his eye..."

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At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks & local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman Tzu Hsi also known as Empress Orchid who must face the perilous condition of her empire & devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling Empress Orchid" Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves & her doomed empire." ...

The Last Escape" by Tony Rennell & John Nichol is an extraordinary look at the final days of World War II. As WW2 drew to a close hundreds of thousands of British & American prisoners of war held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe faced the prospect that they would never get home alive. In the depths of winter their guards harried them on marches out of their camps & away from the armies advancing into the heart of Hitler's defeated Germany. Hundreds died from exhaustion disease & starvation. " The Last Escape" is told through the testimony of those heroic men now in their seventies & eighties & telling their stories publicly for the first time. " Gripping moving & thoughtful. The excellent team of Nichol & Rennell have done it again". (Patrick Bishop author of " Fighter Boys"). John Nichol is a former RAF flight lieutenant whose Tornado bomber was shot down on a mission over Iraq during the first Gulf War. He was captured & made a prisoner of war. Tony Rennell is a writer for the " Daily Mail" & a former deputy editor of the " Sunday Times". Their previous books include " The Last Escape" " Tail-End Charlies" & " Medic"." ...