One summer can change everything... What happens when a friend breaks the one rule that should never be broken? Best friends Bella & Poppy are living the dream
- Notting Hill glamour Shoreditch lofts exclusive parties & drop-dead gorgeous men. But sometimes living life to the max catches up with you & even the strongest friendships can be pushed to the limit. Poppy Bella & their friends spend the summer having as much fun as they possibly can
- from the hedonistic escapades of Ibiza to doing Glastonbury in style. But amongst the laughter come tears betrayal & backstabbing & one devastating decision threatens to bring it all crashing down. & once the sunglasses have come off Bella is forced to question if her lifelong friendship has been broken beyond repair. The perfect escapist read Revelry will have you laughing crying & gasping with shock.

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Eli Monpress is vain. Hes cocky. & hes a thief. But hes a thief who has just seen his bounty topped & hes not happy about it. The bounty topper as it turns out is his best friend & master swordsman Josef. Hes been keeping secrets from Eli. Apparently hes the only prince of a rather feisty country & hes been ordered to come home to do his duty. This means throwing over personal ambitions like proving hes the greatest swordsman who ever lived. Family drama aside Eli & Josef have their hands full. The Spirit Court has been usurped by the Council of Thrones & someone calling herself the Immortal Empress is staging a massive invasion. But its not just politics
- the Immortal Empress has a specific target in mind: Eli Monpress the greatest thief in the world. This omnibus edition contains: THE SPIRIT WAR & SPIRITS END
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From the outset Seumas Milnes Guardian essays on the Wests war on terror provoked angry denunciations on both sides of the Atlantic. A decade on the advocates of violent capitalism have been silenced. From class to religion Blair to Obama Palestine to Pakistan bank bailouts to the Arab uprisings the rise of China to the wave of change in Latin America Milne exposes the breakdown of the new world order
- & draws out the prospects for the emerging politics of the future. In a media culture dominated by eager apologists Milne has consistently written against the grain. This book offers a compelling perspective on the convulsions that have brought us to todays crisis
- & a powerful indictment of a global & corporate empire in decline.

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Hunky Parker is the new craze. His drooling dribbling pig face is everywhere: on T-shirts & badges & there are even horrible pig-trotter trainers & pig-swill yogurts in the shops. But it's when the Hunky TV shows air nationally that the trouble really begins. Suddenly people are going crazy for Hunky goods.. .and when the shops have sold out dangerous rioting starts. Dinah & her friends are suspicious. Is it really just a trend or is something more sinister afoot? Watching a Hunky video provides a valuable clue. Dinah & the rest of SPLAT set off in search of the real Hunky Parker. But someone is blocking them at every turn-someone who wants to keep the identity of Hunky Parker a secret.. . Someone who plans to control the entire nation! ' Gillian Cross's novels should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance among eight- to ten-year-olds. The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster has the same sort of appeal as ' Famous Five' or ' Secret Seven' novels.' Sunday Telegraph ...

Fright-master R.L. Stine invites you on an all-new all-terrifying adventure! The thrill ride begins when 12-year-old Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret
- & a wicked plan. Just when she thinks the nightmare is over Britney receives an invitation to an amusement park where everything is not as it seems. Who
- or what
- is summoning ordinary kids to Horror Land? Britney & her friends must find out fast
- or remain trapped forever in the scariest place on Earth.



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Having been ordered into therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject former private investigator Izzy Spellman is wisely taking a break from Spellman Inc having embarked on a less controversial career as a barmaid. But when her boss Milo simultaneously cuts her bartending hours & introduces her to a friend looking for a private eye Izzy reluctantly finds herself with a new client. A suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed it would appear to be a routine case involving nothing more than that most boring of PI rituals: surveillance. But Izzy soon discovers that shes not the only person keeping a close eye on Mrs Ernie Black & with each passing hour the Case of the Wayward Wife throws up more questions than answers. ...

Elizabeth Haynes second novel is a taut & gripping murder mystery introducing a compelling new heroine Genevieve
- office worker
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The hotly-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada
- the million copy bestseller that took the world by storm Available in gorgeous
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From Rory Clements winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award comes REVENGER the second in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. ' Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times 1592. England & Spain are at war yet there is peril at home too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply. The quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen's long reign insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers now in the possession of the Earl of Essex. Essex is the brightest star in the firmament a man of ambition. He woos the Queen thirty-three years his senior as if she were a girl his age. She is flattered by him
- despite her loathing for his mother the beautiful dangerous Lettice Knollys who presides over her own glittering court
- a dazzling array of the mad bad dangerous & disaffected. When John Shakespeare infiltrates this dissolute world he discovers not only that the Queen herself is in danger
- but that he & his family is also a target. With only his loyal footsoldier Boltfoot Cooper at his side Shakespeare must face implacable forces who believe themselves above the law: men & women who kill without compunction. & in a world of shifting allegiances just how far he can trust Robert Cecil his devious new master?


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This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery incest & murder. The play's chief moral spokesman Vindice is at the same time enamoured of & disgusted by the luxury of the court. Locating the play in relation to the best recent criticism & exploring its complexities with a contemporary eye furthers the reputation of these comprehensive student editions. ...