Brenda has had a long & eventful life & she has come to Whitby to run a B&B & enjoy some peace & quiet. She & her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for tea & keeping their eyes open for mysterious goings on in town. & what with satanic beauty salons roving psychic investigators & the frankly terrifying owner of the Christmas Hotel theres plenty to watch. But the oddest thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. With her terrible scars her strange lack of a surname & the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes Brenda should know that people as well unique as she is just arent destined for a quiet life. ...

Wounded firefighter Connor Mac Kenzie has come to rebuild the 100-year-old Mac Kenzie family cabin
- & to be alone. A horrific
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A lot can happen in a year
- & Evie Cara & Olivia are about to find out just how much... Evie is a hopeless romantic whos never
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RUMOUR HAS IT THAT THE EARL OF DEBEN THE MOST NOTORIOUS RAKE IN LONDON & IN NEED OF AN HEIR HAS SET ASIDE HIS PENCHANT FOR MARRIED MISTRESSES & TURNED HIS SKILLED HAND TO SEDUCING INNOCENTS! But if Lord Deben expects Henrietta Gibson to respond to the click of his fingers hes got another think coming. For she knows perfectly well why she should avoid gentlemen of his bad repute: 1. One touch of his lips & hell ruin her for every other man. 2. One glide of his skilful fingers to the neckline of her dress will leave her molten in his arms. 3. & if even one in a thousand rumours is true its enough for her to know she can never ever trust a rake... ...

A devil in disguise... When wealthy heiress Miss Lindsey Crompton sneaks into the house of the Earl of Mansfield
- a known cad
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Small & insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment
- but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian & so begins a dazzling magical adventure.
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Small & insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobodys idea of a hero least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment
- but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian & so begins a dazzling magical adventure.
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The stunningly original & brilliant first novel from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters & saints murderers & angels & pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe & predictable life & into a world that is at once eerily familiar & yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door an Angel called Islington an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train a Beast in a labyrinth & dangers & delights beyond imagining... And Richard who only wants to go home is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city.

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In the early autumn of 1940 stricken with incurable cancer Neville Chamberlain reflected upon the likely judgement of history upon his career. ' Few men' he concluded 'can have known such a tremendous reverse of fortune in so short a time.' A little over two years before following his dramatic flights to visit Hitler Chamberlain had been lauded as the man who saved the world from the very brink of war. But the outbreak of that war in September 1939 the collapse of his own government in May 1940 & the military perils that soon followed set in motion a process that would leave him the most reviled discredited Prime Minister of the twentieth century the leading exponent of a disastrous & humiliating foreign policy & the most culpable of the ' Guilty Men'. Despite a mass of revisionist history over the last 30 years the popular reputation of Neville Chamberlain remains that of a man taken in by Hitler a man who really believed that he had won 'peace for our time'. Yet whatever the ultimate verdict on the policy of appeasement Chamberlain's reputation deserves to be based on his career as a whole. Despite an enduring image as a right-wing Conservative his most constructive work was carried out in the field of social reform. He was also seen at the time as a successful Chancellor of the Exchequer who steered Britain out of the worst effects of the Depression & a formidable party political manager. David Dutton traces the evolution of Chamberlain's reputation among contemporaries & those who have lived since in the popular mind & in the changing evaluation of academic history & gives his own appraisal of one of the most conspicuous political careers of the twentieth century. ...

In this controversial re-evaluation of Neville Chamberlain & appeasement Frank Mc Donough draws on a fascinating range of primary & secondary sources to make his case. He argues that Chamberlain believed a Second World War would be disastrous for Britain & focussed all his energies to avoid it. In doing so he used & abused the 'mood of his age' which favoured a collective international drive o preserve peace & not nationally self-interested policy which Chamberlain followed. It was Hitler's entry into Prague in March 1939 which exposed appeasement as a fantasy & forced Chamberlain under pressure from national opinion to make a half-hearted & muddled attempt to stand up to the dictator. It was a task to which Chamberlain's flawed political judgement was even more ill-suited & which ultimately led to the outbreak of war in September 1939. The book differs from other studies of the subject by setting Chamberlain's actions within a wider chronological framework & by taking a fresh look at the underlying influences on the policy of appeasement within British society. ...