The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements mythical & modern ironic & moving exhilarating & melancholy...a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive. Times Literary Supplement " The Republic of Love" is a hymn to the pleasures & pains the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discovers that happiness is "a kind of by-product of existence & not an end in itself". This piece of knowledge saves her Shields suggests from the watery ambiguous yearning of the mermaid "plaintive coy" wordlessly calling out to no one. A simple message but Shields delivers it with so much grace & so little pretension that it is impossible not to be enchanted by her voice. She sings with the charm of a true siren. In her hands we believe anything can happen. Guardian A novel thats so engrossing it makes you want to retire to a squashy sofa until you reach the end. Vividly fresh...glittering & spangled with fabulous surprises. Sunday Times" ...

THE CRUSADES ARE OVER & EUROPE IS IN CHAOS. After years fighting in the desert sun
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BONUS: read an exclusive short story about Alex Lenas first love
- only in the first hardcover printing. The final instalment in
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Harry Goldfarb heroin addict & son of lonely widow Sara cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion & best friend Tyrone C Love & making the most of all the hash poppers & dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV dreaming of the life she could have & struggling with her own addictions
- food & diet pills. But these four will pay a terrible price for the pleasures they believe they are entitled to. A passionate heart-breaking tale of the crushing weight of hope & expectation Requiem for a Dream" is a dark modern-day fable of New York."
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With dashing Scotland Yard detective Alec Fletcher at her side Daisy Dalrymple is enjoying a splendid performance of Verdis Requiem featuring her neighbour Muriel Westleas celebrated sister Bettina. But the show comes to an abrupt end when what emerges from the stars gifted vocal chords is literally a dying gasp. Daisy soon learns that the doomed diva was notoriously difficult & had more than her share of enemies. Theres a philandering tenor a burly Russian bass & even her own vocal coach husband with whom she had a turbulent relationship. Did one of them poison the singer? Or was it someone determined to see that Daisys investigation ends on as bitter a note as Bettinas last performance. Praise for the Daisy Dalrymple" series: Dunn describes 1920s London & the characters in detail & highlights the interplay between Alec & Daisy
- " Library Journal". Engaging.. . Dunns style gives an entertaining spark
- " Publishers Weekly"."

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equiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre Mexico 1953. The present text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino Barcelona 1974 which bears a few minor variants mainly in paragraph structure. It has been reprinted a number of times & translated into many languages & is one of the most widely read Spanish texts in the 20th century. This edition is aimed primarily at sixth-formers & university undergraduates & the introduction & notes have been compiled in the light of recent socio-politial topic-based syllabuses & communication studies courses. The inclusion in the introduction of a substantial section on the now out-of-print " Contraataque" (1937) the wartime narrative which contains the germ of the post-war novel is intended to provide the student with a context for the study of the process in Senders writing inspired by the Civil War
- from explicit militant propaganda penned in the heat of battle to implicit poetic parable historical emotion recollected in the comparative tranquillity & distance of exile. It is hoped that such a juxtaposition will illuminate both the content & literary achievement of " Requiem"."
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How do you learn to trust again? Denise Hilton a young single mother is driving through Edenton North Carolina when her car skids off the road during a storm. With her is her four-year-old son Kyle a boy with severe learning disabilities for whom she has sacrificed everything. When volunteer fireman Taylor Mc Aden finds her she is unconscious & bleeding but when she wakes an even more chilling truth becomes clear: Kyle is gone. When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents Taylor feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives & the search for Kyle is no exception. But there is one leap of faith Taylor cannot bring himself to make
- to commit to a relationship. Will this chance meeting with Denise prove any different?
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Fourteen years ago four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene
- a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers Nico Ketty Ed
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Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs. After failing her biology O-level she realised shed have to start at the bottom cleaning out kennels at Battersea Dogs Home. From frail old men looking for a four-legged companion to famous folk whove lost their favourite hound it seemed that at some point everyone passes through Batterseas doors. Amongst the clamour of thousands of lost pets crying Rescue Me! & the noise of the railway lines above Melissa found she had come home. The first dog Melissa fell for was Tulip a sweet elderly & somewhat dotty mongrel who decided a solo bus ride into the West End might be fun. Next up was Roscoe: found by the ambulance team with his dead owner he is rehabilitated with a little help from his masters hat. & then
- many many dogs later
- there is Gus. With his owner in jail Melissa finally finds the dog she is to take home as her own. Heart-warming & compulsively readable Rescue Me" is Melissas memoir of her fifteen years at Britains most-loved dogs home."

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Get ready to play some Texas Hold em... Things are getting tricky for sexy Sadie Hollowell about to be forced into a bubblegum-pink bridesmaid dress for her little cousin Tally Lynns wedding. & if that aint problem enough the second she drives back into town the entire population of Lovett Texas will be fixing her up with the nearest available man
- any man. She needs a rescue plan now. & good-looking stranger Vince Haven might just be the perfect date she needs to get her family off her back. But moody ex-Navy SEAL Vince Haven is only stopping by Lovett to visit his crazy Aunt Luraleen. No strings attachedis his motto & hell be damned if he acts as any womans fake date! Sadies out of luck again
- but when Vinces aunt makes him an offer he cant refuse he could be hanging around town for a while. & if Sadie gets that date after all she might just get more than she bargained for!

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