The enchanting sequel to A Countrymans Lot which told the story of Max Hardcastles move to the Yorkshire Dales & the richness of life as an antiques dealer The Luck of a Countryman contains an array of eccentric characters & curious situations which are guaranteed to delight & amuse. Old favourites reappear in new -- & sometimes alarming -- situations. & a myriad of new personalities join in the ups & downs of life in the Dales. Life is not all plain sailing but the Hardcastles join in wholeheartedly with the trials & triumphs that beset the peaceful village of Ramsthwaite. How will they ever shift Thievin Jacks van from the pond? & will the wedding of the year go off smoothly? ...

This is a P.G. Wodehouse novel. Seize this wonderful chance to embark on a Wodehousian voyage on the luxurious liner S.S. Atlantic
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The bash at the Miller farm was the hottest party Jenny Humphrey had ever attended. Literally. But when Dean Marymount announces that someone is going to be held responsible & expelled for burning down the antique red barn the heat is really on. Tensions are rising rumours are flying & pretty soon everyone is a suspect. But was it Julian Jennys shaggy-haired new crush whose engraved Tiffany lighter was found at the scene of the crime? Or could it have been Callie & Easy who were in the barn together when the blaze began? Tinsley knows shes also in the line of fire for organising the party but luckily shes come up with a crafty way to stay out of trouble: by blaming Jenny. ...

In a memoir hailed for its searing candour & wit Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when as an eighteen-year-old college freshman she was brutally raped & beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit -- as she struggles for understanding (' After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend I have changed in their eyes'); as her dazed family & friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort & support; & as ultimately she triumphs managing through grit & coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest & conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing thrilling & inspiring Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: ' You save yourself or you remain unsaved.' 'A rueful razor-sharp memoir.. . Sebold tells what it's like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it's like -- slowly bumpily triumphantly -- to heal' Sarah Kerr Vogue ...

With the sensual grace of a panther Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino restless ready eager for action. That night began a dazzling odyssey filled with dangerous passion & sun-drenched sex sadistic vengeance & breathless suspense. From the decadent luxury of California to Paris New York & a private Greek island Lucky fought for her father's honour for ruthless triumph for the wild card of a fabulous love. Her rivals; an ice-cold Hollywood wife…a much-married heiress strung out on cocaine…a jaded magnate hooked on power…a crazed hoodlum lusting for murder. But Lucky was a gamb Ier & a lover a woman who ruled her empire & pursued her man with the potent Santangelo strength … her way on her terms whatever the odds. Jackie Collins tops the sensational success of Hollywood Wives & Chances with Lucky so hot it will have to be printed on asbestos."" ...

Hot guys horses & high school hi-jinks! Ivy & Olivia are super excited
- their aunt on their mother's side has invited them to
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Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! Tilly's riding skills are improving by
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At the age of ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce & two labour camps & was soon separated from his parents. Using his wits & some remarkable strokes of luck he managed to survive until he was liberated from Sachsenhausen in 1945. After experiencing the turmoil of Europes post-war years
- from the Battle of Berlin to a Jewish orphanage in Poland
- Buergenthal went to America in the 1950s at the age of seventeen. He eventually became one of the worlds leading experts on international law & human rights. His story of survival & his determination to use law & justice to prevent further genocide is an epic & inspirational journey through 20th Century history. His book is both a special historical document & a great literary achievement comparable only to Primo Levis masterpieces.

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Kingsley Amis' witty campus novel Lucky Jim" is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies & vanities of 1950s academic life. This " Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains an introduction by David Lodge. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons
- as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's deliver a lecture on ' Merrie England' & resist Christine the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertr&. Inspired by Amis's friend the poet Philip Larkin Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character adrift in a hopelessly gauche & pretentious world. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London wrote poetry criticism & short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain. Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as " Lucky Jim" (1954) & " That Uncertain Feeling" (1955); his other works include " The Green Man" (1970) " Stanley & the Women" (1984) & " The Old Devils" (1986) which won the Booker Prize. If you enjoyed " Lucky Jim" you might like Amis's " The King's English" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "A flawless comic novel...I loved it then as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud." (Helen Dunmore " The Times"). "A brilliantly & preposterously funny book." (" Guardian")."
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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night & then as a mausoleum. During the night too hed somehow been on a cross-country run & then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious & ridiculous Professor Welch a neurotic & unstable girlfriend Margaret burnt sheets medieval recorder music & over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck life is never simple... ...