This is the bestselling autobiography of iconic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson featuring his take on his latest business ventures personal achievements & intrepid adventures. You'll discover how Sir Richard is committed to building a better world through responsible holistic business practices & ventures such as the Virgin Health Bank which is contributing to regenerative medicine Virgin Fuels which has pledged GBP200 million to renewable energy projects & his company's charitable arm Virgin Unite. You'll also learn about how Sir Richard & his company are reaching for the stars in a new era of commercial space travel with Virgin Galactic. With insights into this very public figure's personal life as well as his business successes & the lessons he's learned along the way this is an amazing memoir motivational business guide & inspiring story that will capture your imagination. ...

Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya & Northern Ireland the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class if not world-beating. However their recent performance in Iraq & Afghanistan is widely seen as
- at best
- disappointing; under British control Basra degenerated into a lawless city riven with internecine violence while tactical mistakes & strategic incompetence in Helmand province resulted in heavy civilian & military casualties & a climate of violence & insecurity. In both cases the British were eventually & humiliatingly bailed out by the US army. In this thoughtful & compellingly readable book Frank Ledwidge examines the British involvement in Iraq & Afghanistan asking how & why it went so wrong. With the aid of copious research interviews with senior officers & his own personal experiences he looks in detail at the failures of strategic thinking & culture that led to defeat in Britains latest small wars. This is an eye-opening analysis of the causes of military failure & its enormous costs.

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Two lives. Two families. One tragedy. Lauren Scott is bright talented & beautiful. At eighteen she is the most precious gift in the world to her mother & has a dazzling career ahead of her. Oliver Lomax is a young man full of promise despite the shadow his own deeply troubled mother casts over him. Then one fateful night Oliver makes a decision that tears their worlds apart. Until then Lauren & Oliver had never met but now they become so closely bound together that their families are forced to confront truths they hoped theyd never have to face secrets theyd never even imagined... ...

Lauren Scott is bright talented & beautiful. At eighteen she is the most precious gift in the world to her mother & has a dazzling career ahead of her. Oliver Lomax is a young man full of promise despite the shadow his own deeply troubled mother casts over him. Then one fateful night Oliver makes a decision that tears their worlds apart. Until then Lauren & Oliver had never met but now they become so closely bound together that their families are forced to confront truths they hoped theyd never have to face secrets theyd never even imagined... ...

Gaunt returns in the latest omnibus edition of the Gaunts Ghosts novels! The Tanith First-&-Only are among the most legendary regiments of Imperial Guard & at their head stands Commissar Ibram Gaunt unflinching in duty & unrelenting in combat. The Lost sees the very future of the regiment in jeopardy as Gaunt battles the forces of Chaos across the Sabbat Worlds from rescue missions to the horrors of the battlefield the Tanith First-&-Only must survive extreme dangers or be forever lost. ...

Not everyone who's missing is lost When two teenage girls go missing along the Irish border forensic psychologist Paula Maguire has to return to the hometown she left years before. Swirling with rumour & secrets the town is gripped by fear of a serial killer. But the truth could be even darker. Not everyone who's lost wants to be found Surrounded by people & places she tried to forget Paula digs into the cases as the truth twists further away. What's the link with two other disappearances from 1985? & why does everything lead back to the town's dark past- including the reasons her own mother went missing years before? Nothing is what it seems As the shocking truth is revealed Paula learns that sometimes it's better not to find what you've lost. ...

This book tells the stories behind the disappearances of some of our most famous works of art
- & some that never existed at all.
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The gritty drama from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Nobody's Girl. Bullied by everyone around her for years has Mavis Jackson finally found happiness? Or is it a case of going from the frying pan straight into the fire? BULLIED Taunted by everyone around her including her mother Lily 15-year-old Mavis Jackson is devastated when her only ally her father Ron leaves home to beat his gambling addiction. Forced to walk the streets in search of junk to sell the future seems bleak. BRIBED Until an unexpected fairy godmother arrives in the form of Edith Pugh. Struck down with a debilitating illness she needs help around the home. In Mavis she sees the perfect solution. Especially as she has ulterior motives...BLAMED Meanwhile Ron has fallen off the wagon & disappeared. Best mate Pete doesn't know where he is & has to break the terrible news. But does he have another reason for his sudden interest in the Jackson family? BETRAYED Back at Edith's Mavis revels in her new job. But when Edith reveals her true motives for taking Mavis under her wing she faces a monumental decision one which could change her life for ever... ...

Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough in the summer of 1358 but his friendship with the lovely Julitta Holm has caused a scandal in Cambridge so he has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners charged to discover what happened to Peterborough's abbot who went for a ride one day & has not been seen since. When the Commissioners arrive they find the town in turmoil. A feisty rabble-rouser is encouraging the poor to rise up against their overlords the abbey is at war with a powerful goldsmith & his army of mercenaries & there are bitter rivalries between competing shrines. One shrine is dedicated to Lawrence de Oxforde a vicious felon who was executed for his crimes but who has been venerated after miracles started occurring at his grave. However it is not long before murder rears its head & its first victim is Joan the woman in charge of Oxforde's tomb... ...

Looking back perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure fear of other people
- but mostly fear of myself. It
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