Reykjavik Saturday night. He offered her another margarita & as he returned from the bar he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine & he was sure she would give him no trouble...48 hours later a young man is found dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in at his flat. The victim is found wearing a womans t-shirt while a bottle of Rohypnol lies on the table nearby. Detective Elinborg already struggling to juggle family life & the relentless demands of her job is assigned the case. But with no immediate leads to the killer can she piece together details of the victims secret life & solve a brutal murder? ...

A dazzling novel from Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi: ' Mesmerising from start to finish' Evening Standard A mysterious tragic accident in the 1950s; an inexplicable suicide twenty years later. What was the strange link between the two
- & Caroline Hunterton's long-buried past? A secret which could not be kept for ever especially from her two daughters Chloe & Fleur. Fate had separated the sisters in time & distance
- but bound them in mutual hatred
- until journalist Magnus Phillips decided to tell the story that would tear their lives apart. Moving from wartime Suffolk to fifties Hollywood from glitzy Madison Avenue to London's theatrical aristocracy & the machinations of cheque-book publishing An Outrageous Affair explores the extraordinary sometimes fatal consequences of truth.


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A MARRIAGE MOST INCONVENIENT! Agreeing to a fake betrothal should suit both society dressmaker Belle Marchmain & landowner Adam Davenant fittingly
- clearing Belles debts & keeping Adams husb&-hunters at bay. Even if blue-blooded Belle with her extravagant clothes & razor-sharp tongue despises the very air that nouveau riche Adam breathes! If Adam wants a wife whos agreeable he has his work cut out. Yet when his demanding mouth caresses Belles for the first time ever shes lost for words. Maybe Adams found the one way to tame the only woman whos ever stood up to him & make her say I do...
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The jewels shine bright the glamour is completely envy-inducing the labels are lustworthy & the sex scenes are guaranteed to make you blush. A brilliantly told old-school bonk-saga
- hard to find nowadays. 5 stars Heat (No 1 in Heats Top 5 books section) This thrilling tale of money deceit & love is indulgently escapist. 5 stars Closer Outrageous Fortune is one of these books that takes you into the world of the characters & leaves you there until you reluctantly drag yourself away again I loved every page! Fab! 5/5 Chloes Chicklit Reviews
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Ben Copperfield is a freelance journalist who specialises in all things equine so when he is called with the news that the hot favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup has been kidnapped just a few weeks before the race he wastes no time in following the story up. This could be the racing scoop of a lifetime. But as the date of the Gold Cup draws ever closer it is unclear whether the missing horse is still alive. Where could a valuable racehorse be hidden for so long? & what is the secret from the owners past that he is keeping from the police? Doggedly chasing the truth Ben finds himself tested both physically & psychologically as he gradually uncovers a tale of prejudice ambition & heartbreak. ...

Thirty-two women writers including Can Lit luminaries Sharon Butala (Lilac Moon The Perfection of Morning) Lorna Crozier (Whetstone Apocrypha of Light) & Alison Pick (The Sweet Edge) speak frankly about real-life travel experiences. Whether around the corner or around the globe each woman explores both the inner & outer journeys that they have undertaken. From muddled romance to illegal smuggling & isolated retreats to rigorous development work these women have done it -- unexpectedly sometimes but always without regret. ...

This photocopiable book is full of innovative user friendly exciting & unusual activities that promote creative thinking & problem solving skills for 5-7 year olds. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year
- at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do something different to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons & would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried & tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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This photocopiable book is full of innovative user friendly exciting & unusual activities that promote creative thinking & problem solving skills for 7-9 year olds. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year
- at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons & would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried & tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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This photocopiable book is full of innovative user friendly exciting & unusual activities that promote creative thinking & problem solving skills in upper KS2. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year
- at the end of term (particularly after SATs in Year 6) at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons & would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried & tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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' My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday I don't know.' Sandra Smith's new translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties & dream-like atmosphere of L' Etranger. In The Outsider" (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault his anti-hero will not lie. When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. & when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society & the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd & revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world. Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist & playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include " The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942) " The Plague" (1947) " The Just" (1949) " The Rebel" (1951) & " The Fall" (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for " Literature" in 1957 & his last novel " The First Man" unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 & was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born & raised in New York City & is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature & Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize." ...