James Blackwood is sexy & handsome & a fighter pilot
- every girl's dream partner. At least that is what Diana Arnold thinks when
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On the way to school one day Sid is so full of happiness that he starts to fly. But no one believes him; dogs don't fly. Poor Sid is miserable until his dad lets him into an amazing secret: some dogs do! Offering a whole new storytelling experience this picture book & DVD edition features a charming story animation narrated by Kevin Whately (Inspector Morse Peak Practice). ...

Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard
- falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome
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THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL. Patrick Melrose cleaned-up & world-weary is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies he finds his search for redemption & capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit & a newly fashioned openness can Patrick who has been to the furthest limits of experience & back again find release from the savageries of his childhood? This title was originally published along with Never Mind & Bad News as part of a 3-book package also called Some Hope. ...

DEVIL BY NAME... Rupert Stirling Duke of Stratton has long since acquired the nickname Devil. & with outrageous exploits both in & out of ladies' bedchambers my has he earned it! Risque behaviour is beyond Pandora Maybury widowed Duchess of Wyndwood
- although with her dark secret she's far too well acquainted with being the subject of ribald gossip for her liking. If only the Ton knew just how innocent she really was...including Rupert who after rescuing her from a compromising situation seems intent on wickedly compromising her himself! Daring Duchesses They'll scandalise the Ton
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On 17 April 1986 John Mc Carthy was kidnapped in Beirut. For the next five years he was cut off from everything & everybody he knew & loved from family friends & perhaps above all from Jill Morrell the girl he was going to marry. For five years John Mc Carthy had to endure the deprivation
- both physical & psychological
- of captivity; the filth & squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation & repeated self-examination; & the pain of ignorance of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive. For Jill Morrell the five years of Johns captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock & disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken & that her life had changed irrevocably that all their plans had been shattered. But Jill refused to give up hope. For five years she & a group of friends worked ceaselessly on behalf of John & all British hostages in the Middle East until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John Mc Carthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. A day when they could begin again. This is their story a remarkable account of courage endurance hope & love.

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Described recently by Empire" magazine as Britains best ever blues singer John Martyn was one of rock musics last real mavericks. Despite long-term addiction to alcohol & drugs which contributed to his death in January 2009 he produced a string of matchless albums. Loved by fans & critics loathed by ex-managers he survived the music business he despised for forty years. With contributions by Martyn many of his lovers & over twenty musicians who knew him well this book documents his upbringing in Glasgow & rise through the Scottish & London folk scene of the 1960s his many highs & lows & his friendships with the great lost souls of British rock music
- Nick Drake & Paul Kossoff."
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Forbidden love & family secrets In World War Two Liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart. Rosie has grown up in the heart of Liverpools Italian community treated as one of their own. With a father away at sea & a mother more interested in other men than her only daughter the bighearted Grenellis are the closest thing Rosie has to a proper family. But when war breaks out & Italy becomes the Allies adversary everything changes. The community is torn in two: friends become enemies neighbours become traitors & Rosie is left uncertain of just who she can trust. As war intensifies & Liverpool is subjected to relentless bombings things become more perilous. When a devastating attack leaves her mother dead Rosie is sent to live with her aunt in Edge Hill. Her father is feared missing at sea & her aunt lets slip a family secret which has unimaginable consequences... Fleeing her cruel aunt Rosie becomes a Land Girl & falls in love
- with someone utterly forbidden. As bombs drop & families are ripped apart by conflict at home & abroad can they find happiness or will war stand in their way?
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Dave Aston is a dead man walking. He was a member of the elite British SAS. He'd ridden an adrenalin wave invincible. Black Ops in Iraq & Afghanistan. Until that final mission into bandit country. Unauthorised with no back up. That was when his luck ran out.. . Now he's returned home to an alien civilian life of bad dreams & bad people. Everything is lost: his marriage his home & his self-respect. Down & out with a broken body & a damaged soul on the cold mean streets of his homel&. There he discovers that the astonishing circle of deceit is complete. But is he just too far down to fight back against a new evil force at work in his own back yard? Can he possibly find the strength & courage to avenge his friends & save himself? ...

From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child & Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teachers determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family. They were all just somebody elses kids" -- four problem children placed in Torey Haydens class because nobody knew what else to do with them. They were a motley group of kids in great pain: a small boy who echoed other peoples words & repeated weather forecast; a beautiful seven-year-old girl brain damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry ten-year-old who had watched his stepmother murder his father; a shy twelve-year-old who had been cast out of Catholic school when she became pregnant. But they shared one thing in common: a remarkable teacher who would never stop caring -- & who would share with them the love & understanding they had never known to help them become a family." ...