From the prestigious dormitories of Westfield to the irresistible socialite scene of present-day London: everywhere Allegra Mc Corquodale goes scandal follows her. & in Allegra's shadow are her closest friends since school the Midnight Girls. Romily de Lisle: super rich brilliant & bored. She's as blessed as Allegra when it comes to looks but she's a force to be reckoned with. & Imogen Heath: pretty timid & hopelessly drawn to Allegra's reckless charm. She longs to be a part of the glitzy high-society world where her friends move with such ease. Once free of the cloistered worlds of school & university the Midnight Girls face new & different challenges but they are for ever bonded by a terrible secret they've sworn never to break. Bitter rivalries arise as their professional lives soon cross paths. Greed tragedy & sinister passions threaten their allegiance & each of them stand to lose what they love most... ...

This is the new edition of the exciting adventure stories set in Sandy Lane Stables perfect for pony lovers. Riding at the Hawthorn House Trials is all that Kate has dreamed of & this year shes in with a real chance of winning. As she works hard to prepare for the day it seems nothing will distract her from her goal. But then on Christmas Eve the mysterious midnight horse rides into Kates life & then suddenly everything changes. Unluckily for Kate his owner Izzy has entered the trials too
- & Izzy needs to win. This is just one title in the perfect pony tales adored by horse-lovers everywhere.
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Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park a Jane Austen-themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts are racing & stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues
- real & pretend sinister & romantic
- increasingly tough to sort out. Its midnight in Austenland & Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine worthy of Austen herself.

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Revenge courage & murky pasts collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories Midnight in Death Eve's name has made a Christmas list but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now he's escaped & has her in his sights. With her husband Roarke at her side Eve must stop this madman from exacting his bloody revenge
- or die trying.. . Interlude in Death When respected Commander Skinner offers Lieutenant Eve Dallas a promotion if she'll give her husband Roarke up to custody she reacts badly. Roarke's Irish past is murky but he's a changed man
- so what is the Commander after? With Eve & Skinner at one of Roarke's holiday resorts for a police convention Skinner's thwarted vengeance soon brings death to their luxury surroundings.. .

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A father hunts for his daughters killer in the gripping true story Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. On a frozen morning in January 1937 in the dying days of colonial Peking a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner the teenage daughter of the citys former British consul ETC Werner. Her heart had been removed. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamelas killer with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller the Triads & a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion...by all but ETC Werner. With a network of private investigators & informers he followed the trail deep into Pekings notorious Badlands & back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. Some 75 years later deep in the Scotland Yard archives British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by ETC Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult heroin addicts & disappearing brothels the truth behind the crime can now be told
- & is more disturbing than anyone could imagine. Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era. " An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last". (David Peace author of " Red Riding" & " The Damned United"). " Fascinating & irresistible. I couldnt put it down". (John Berendt author of " Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil"). Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery but all the facts are true". (Kirsty Lang BBC Radio 4 (" Book of the Week")). " Engrossing true crime whodunnit...A terrific read". (Andrew Holgate " Sunday Times"). " Not only does Mr French succeed in solving the crime he resurrects a period that was filled with glitter as well as evil". (" The Economist"). " French has an easygoing prose style...well chosen"es bring a new vigour & crispness... He succeeds in giving voice to a tragic quest for justice". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " It is the storytelling flair that marks " Midnight in Peking" so highly above the run-of-the-mill true crime stories: with its false leads & twists it sucks the reader in like the best fiction". (" The Scotsman"). " The shocking true tale combined with prose you cant drag yourself away from makes " Midnight in Peking" a work of non fiction as compulsive as any bestselling crime novel. It also brings justice at last for a young woman whose murder nearly went unsolved". (" Sunday Express"). Born in London Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst & commentator on China; his books include a history of North Korea a biography of Shanghai adman & adventurer Carl Crow & a history of foreign correspondents in China."
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A journey into the heart of Sicily using art food history & literature to shed light on southern Italys legacy of political corruption & violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. ...

St Petersburg 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. With her looks & talents she feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle of friends. But revolution is in the air & as society begins to fracture she is forced to choose between her heart & her head. She loves her brooding cousin Yasha but he is wild destructive & bent on revolution; Horace Wallich the Englishman who works for Faberge is older & promises security & respectability. As the revolution descends into anarchy & blood-letting a commission to repair a priceless Stradivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But will man will she choose to take with her? & is it already too late? ...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. & a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah Georgia a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed
- & whose dirty linen is gleefully aired
- in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story & a hugely entertaining & deliciously perverse travelogue Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil is as bracing & intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.

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Beautifully repacked edition of this stunning novel of contemporary & historical betrayal & revenge from the author of LADY ...

Its said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London then the Tower will crumble & the kingdom will fall. As it happens thats not so far from the truth.. . One by one the magical wards that guard the city are failing: the London Wall defiled with cryptic graffiti the ravens found dead at the Tower the London Stone destroyed. This is not good news. This array of supernatural defences
- a mix of international tourist attractions & forgotten urban legends
- formed a formidable magical shield. Protection for the City of London against.. .well thats the question isnt it? What could be so dangerous as to threaten an entire city? Against his better judgement resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to find out. & if hes lucky he might just live long enough to do something about it.. .

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