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
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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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In a corrupt world where crooked cops & desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal one man has power over them all. The Last Don" is Mario Puzo at his finest
- a masterful saga of the last great American crime family the Clericuzios & their powerful reach into Hollywood & Las Vegas. Domenico Clericuzio is a wise & ruthless man who in his old age is determined to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren. But as he strives to establish his heirs in legitimate society secrets from his family's past spark a vicious & bloody war between cousins..."
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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. ...

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"." ...

Ernest Hemingway once said that a good story was like an iceberg; what is visible is always smaller than the part that remains hidden beneath the water which confers intensity mystery power & meaning on what floats on the surface. This is certainly true of the fourteen stories here the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English. Imbued with the melancholy folklore of exile as Roberto Bolano once put it & set largely in the world of the Chilean diaspora in Central America & Europe the narrators of these stories are usually writers grappling with private quests (Bolanos beloved failed generation) who typically speak in the first person as if giving a deposition like witnesses to a crime. They are characters living in the margins on the edge in constant flight from nightmarish threats. In Sensini an elderly South American writer instructs another younger writer also living in exile in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. The title story tells of a journey to Acapulco that gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. Dance Card provides the reader with sixty-nine reasons not to dance with Pablo Neruda. & the story Mauricio (The Eye") Silva opens with the following sentence: Mauricio Silva also known as The Eye always tried to avoid violence even at the risk of being considered a coward but violence real violence is unavoidable at least for those of us who were born in Latin America during the fifties & were about twenty years old at the time of Salvador Allendes death." ...

Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish & obscene it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; & Harry the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn" was banned by British courts in 1967 a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers including Anthony Burgess." ...