LYNDA LA PLANTES FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL OF POLITICS. SCANDAL & AN ISLAND PARADISE... Fabulously wealthy entrepreneur Sir William Benedict has always dreamed of being accepted amongst societys elite despite his working class roots. When fast-rising Tory MP Andrew Maynard enters his life William suddenly finds that he has gained the social status that he has always craved. But when a political scandal erupts around him William is shunned by the socialites he once called friends & his reputation is left in tatters. Now the worm is ready to turn... With the help of the wild & enigmatic Justin Chalmers & his exquisite yet reclusive sister Laura Williams island paradise will become the scene of his revenge. ...

California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But shes up against Daniel Pell a master of control who mesmerises seduces & exploits people for his own murderous ends. A convicted killer who is known as The Son of Manson for the chilling parallels between him & the notorious ritual murderer. To track down Pell before he destroys yet more lives Kathyn Dance must enlist the help of four people from the killers past. The three women who lived under his sadistic sway in the cult he once headed. & the young girl known as the Sleeping Doll the only survivor of her familys slaughter at Pells hands.. . ...

The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past! Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs! In fear Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them they were to solve a perfect crime committed many years before. ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

' There stood before me an ancient man swathed in a dark & tattered fleece his long hair & beard matted with filth his face grey with grief & age. Holding the sword out in front of me I backed away until I felt the sink behind me & I could go no further. His eyes followed me all the way.' When Bun Bendle is struck blind he feels like he is drowning in blackness. But the discovery of an ancient tomb & a strangely familiar sword changes him forever. This classic book weaves a contemporary tale with Arthurian legend in a way that is utterly spellbinding. ...

Coco Chanel high priestess of couture created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple & elegant designs freed women from their corsets & inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms & had amassed a personal fortune. But at the start of the Second World War Chanel closed down her couture house & went to live quietly at the Ritz moving to Switzerland after the war. For more than half a century Chanels life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in rumour. Neither Chanel nor her biographers have told the full story until now. In this explosive narrative Hal Vaughan pieces together Chanels hidden years from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of the Liberation. He uncovers the truth of Chanels anti-Semitism & long-whispered collaboration with Hitlers officials. In particular Chanels long relationship with Spatz Baron von Dincklage previously described as a tennis-playing playboy & German diplomat & finally exposed here as a Nazi master spy & agent who ran an intelligence ring in the Mediterranean & reported directly to Joseph Goebbels. Sleeping with the Enemy" tells in detail how Chanel became a German intelligence operative Abwehr agent F-7124; how she was enlisted in spy missions & why she evaded arrest in France after the war. It reveals the role played by Winston Churchill in her escape from retribution; & how after a nine-year exile in Switzerland with Dincklage & despite French investigations into her espionage activities Coco was able to return to Paris & triumphantly reinvent herself
- & rebuild the House of Chanel. As Hal Vaughan shows far from being a heroine of France Chanel was in fact one of its most surprising traitors."
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Amy Bella Chloe Daisy & Emily are friends at school & have their own Alphabet Club (just look at their initials!). Daisy is the newest member & is desperate to fit in even though Chloe is very unfriendly to her at times. When the girls begin planning sleepover parties for their birthdays Daisy is dreading her own
- she doesn't know what her friends will make of her rather special older sister.. .
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This is not a play. This is a poem in several registers set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise which happens five times in five different forms: new moon half moon full moon no moon & moon reborn. Various characters some living some dead all based on real people from the Severn catchment talk towards the moment of moonrise & are changed by it. The poem which was written for the 2009 festival of the Severn aims to record what happens when the moon moves over us
- its effect on water & its effect on voices
- Alice Oswald A Sleepwalk on the Severn" is a poem for several voices set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise which happens five times in five different forms: new moon half moon full moon no moon & moon reborn. Various characters some living some dead
- all based on real people from the Severn catchment
- talk towards the moment of moonrise & are changed by it. Commissioned for the 2009 festival of the Severn Alice Oswalds breathtakingly original new work aims to record what happens when the moon moves over the sublunary world: its effect on water & its effect on language."



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An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism but they're getting nowhere. A distressed twelve-year-old calls a police hotline & blames his father for the explosion. It could be a breakthrough but there's no hard evidence & the boy has a history of violence & emotional problems. Only CHERUB agents can unearth the truth. They're trained professionals with one essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

In The Sleepwalkers" acclaimed historian & author of " Iron Kingdom" Christopher Clark examines the causes of the First World War. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car & shoot dead Franz Ferdinand & his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule & it created a powerful new Serbia but it also brought down four great empires killed millions of men & destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous & complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In " The Sleepwalkers" Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War & its causes. Drawing on many fresh new sources this account reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture putting Serbia & the Balkans at the centre of the story. Starting with the brutal assassination of Alexander I of Serbia in 1903 Clark shows how far from being the place of enviable stability it appears to us Europe was racked by chronic problems: a multipolar fractured multicultural world of clashing ideals terrorism militancy & instability which was fatefully saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. He shows how the rulers of Europe who prided themselves on their modernity & rationalism behaved like sleepwalkers stumbling through crisis after crisis & finally convincing themselves that war was the only answer. Reviews: " Formidable.. .one of the most impressive & stimulating studies of the period ever published". (Max Hastings " Sunday Times"). " The arguments [ Clark] sets out in this quite superb account of the causes of the First World War are so compelling that they effectively consign the old historical consensus to the bin.. .a masterpiece. Its not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history". (" Mail Online"). "A brilliant contribution". (" Times Higher Education"). " Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject. Planting himself at the contingent end of the spectrum he prefers to establish how the war happened rather than to explain why by means of hindsight... It is a refreshing approach. He provides vivid portraits of leading figures...[ He] also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war". (" Irish Times"). About the author: Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge & a Fellow of St Catharines College. He is the author of " The Politics of Conversion" " Kaiser Wilhelm II" & " Iron Kingdom". Widely praised around the world " Iron Kingdom" became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany." ...