In a castle in the mountains outside Rome Lucrezia Borgia is born into historys most notorious family. Her father who is to become Pope Alexander VI receives his first daughter warmly & her brothers Cesare & Giovanni are devoted to her. But on the corrupt & violent streets of the capital the Borgia family is feared & Lucrezias father causes scandal living up to his reputation of most carnal man of his age. As Lucrezia matures into a beautiful young woman her brothers are ever more protective & become fierce rivals for her attention. Amid glorious celebrations their father becomes Pope & shortly after Lucrezia is married
- but as Borgias the lives of the Popes children are destined to be marred by scandal & tragedy & its a fate that Lucrezia cannot hope to escape.
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A brilliant & moving debut novel about one woman's struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from the horrors & destruction of World War II & the ensuing lifelong memories from this extraordinary experience. In this extraordinary first novel by Debra Dean the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind & memory of an elderly Russian woman. Marina the woman in question was a guide at Leningrad's famous Hermitage Museum. In the late autumn of 1941 as the Luftwaffe roared over & around Leningrad she & her colleagues were set the task of taking the thousands of priceless paintings sculptures & objets d'art out of the grand galleries of the former Tsarist Palace & storing them safely against the German bombardment & seemingly inevitable invasion. The German assault threatened to destroy a large part of Europe's artistic history: if Leningrad fell to the Germans everything that was not destroyed would be looted & given to the Nazis. Marina whose own parents had disappeared during Stalin's persecution of intellectuals in the 1930s clings to her hope of becoming an art historian through her job at the Hermitage. The novel shifts between Marina's experiences at the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad & her current existence as a very old lady in America whose mind has begun to fray. Debra Dean depicts with subtle skill how Marina's mind already ravaged by disease picks up some incident object or person at the wedding she's been brought to & flips back to the dreadful year-&-a-half in Leningrad which has informed her life ever since. ...

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Maeve Binchy's novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide & when she died on 30th July 2012 she did so as Ireland's best-loved writer. In books such as Circle of Friends Tara Road & Scarlet Feather no one else told stories like Maeve Binchy. Humane down-to-earth funny her novels captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. Millions of her fans were disappointed when she announced in 2000 she was retiring
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- & now that she has passed away more will want something to remind them of her. More than a biography this extraordinary book visits Maeve Binchy in the land of her birth which is the environment of her novels & in the company of the author & her fictional characters sets out to discover the emotional contours which define her as a writer & person.

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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesnt matter where we were born or how we grew up? Maeve Binchy The Maeve Binchy Writers Club gives a unique insight into how a No.1 bestselling author writes. Inspired by a course run by the National College of Ireland it comprises 20 letters from Maeve offering advice tips & her own wonderfully witty take on the life of a writer in addition to contributions from top writers publishers & editors. Whether you want to write a saga or a thriller comedy or journalism or write for the radio or stage this also gives advice on the best way to get started & what editors publishers & agents are looking for. The Maeve Binchy Writers Club is a fascinating & informative guide to inspire all budding writers as well as entertaining Maeve Binchy fans the world over. ...

THE GLASS LAKE Kit Mc Mahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass where everyone knows everyone & where change comes slowly. Then one day Kits mother the beautiful mysterious Helen Mc Mahon disappears presumed drowned in the lake & then the gossip runs wild. SCARLET FEATHER Cathy Scarlet & Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises heaps of talent & even a few contacts
- but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of Scarlet Feather as they are. QUENTINS Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love betrayal & revenge. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant
- but as she uncovers more of what has gone on she wonders about the wisdom of bringing it to the screen...

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Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy & America The Mafia: The First 100 Years" tells the gripping story of the most mythical & misunderstood criminal organisation. How did the Mob evolve from a gang of bumbling killers into the smooth-running international 'corporation' of today? Drawing on nearly two decades of research William Balsamo
- great-nephew of the original godfather
- & George Carpozi Jr. reveal the Mafia's coalescence into an organisation whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic & into a presidential administration. Delving behind the headlines to uncover the true extent of the Mafia's influence " The Mafia: The First 100 Years" reads like the most compelling crime fiction yet is the terrifying deadly truth."

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