An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in ' Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people & witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; & in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol & Bianca Jagger & since then he has been up close & personal with some of the most famous women in the world: Julia Roberts Madonna Sharon Stone & Donatella Versace. Whether sweeping the floor for the Royal Shakespeare Company or co-starring with Faye Dunaway & an orang-utan in ' Dunstan Checks In' (they both took ages to get ready) Rupert Everett always brings as much energy & talent to his life as he does to his career. A superb raconteur & a keen observer of human folly (especially his own) Rupert Everett turns his life into a captivating story of love fame glamour gossip & drama. ...

In this lyrical reimagining of a Chinese classic & set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to take shelter with her cousins in the capital she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor presided over by the ruthless scheming Xifeng & the prim repressed Baochai. As she learns the secrets behind their glittering facades she finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue & hidden passions reaching from the petty gossip of the servants quarters all the way to the Imperial Palace. When a political coup overthrows the Emperor & plunges the once-mighty family into grinding poverty each woman must choose between love & duty friendship & survival. In this dazzling debut Pauline Chen draws the reader deep into the secret exquisite world of the womens quarters of an aristocratic household where the burnish of wealth & refinement mask a harsher truth: marriageable girls are traded like chattel for the familys advancement & to choose to love is to risk everything. ...

Step into the red collection... From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep this collection brings you a stunning ...

The First Law trilogy was Joes take on the great epic fantasy tales. Then in BEST SERVED COLD he took on a fantasy version of a classic revenge story & we have a superb tale of war waged in the frozen north still to come. With this his next novel Joe Abercrombie is once again venturing in a new direction & on a new adventure with one of the most enduring powerful & popular characters of the First Law Trilogy. Its going to be their biggest challenge yet.. . ...

They burned her home. They stole her brother & sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past & ride away smiling but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back & she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen & her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own & out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever through feud duel & massacre high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca infamous soldier of fortune & his feckless lawyer Temple two men no one should ever have to trust... The past never stays buried... ...

A phenomenally popular vampire romance sequence
- now showing on ITV2
- from the best selling author of Night World L. J. Smith.

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Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic
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The Green Men of Gressingham return with this sequel available for the first time as a 4u 2read. Full of twists turns & fiery surprises! The Green Men of Gressingham are struggling to find things to do now that they are no longer outlaws. But just when things are getting boring Lord Dashwood sends them on a very unusual mission! Can the Green Men complete it without setting their bottoms on fire? A hilarious story from an award-winning & hugely popular author. With a reading age of 7 it is particularly suitable for dyslexic reluctant & struggling readers. ...

Like the best memoirs this one is written with novelistic & poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic probing & heart-warming read
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Here are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf" in one volume
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