Dark family secrets & a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Bankss fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!
- now a hugely successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban who has been evading the family clutches for years is run to ground & persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering
- part birthday party part Extraordinary General Meeting
- convened by Win Wopuld matriarch & most powerful member of the board at Garbadale the familys highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Albans past. What drove his mother to take her own life? & is he ready to see Sophie his beautiful cousin & teenage love? Grandmother Wins revelations wll radically alter Albans perspective for ever.


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Stella the Star Fairy is all in a flutter trying to put the sparkle into Christmas. Stella looks after all the special Christmas lights
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The Sten submachine gun
- officially the Carbine Machine Sten
- was developed to fulfill the pressing British need for large

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One stormy night five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick
- a boy who many years ago learned what
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The true story of Donna Ford who between the ages of five & eleven was abused by her stepmother Helen. Labelled the bastard the little witch & the evil one; beaten isolated & afraid to even look at her own reflection this beautiful little child was told she was lucky to be the victim of abuse
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A powerful family drama set in India & Scotland from 1915 to the 1960s Its 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart recently widowed leaves her baby son Frazer with her mother-in-law Cora while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mothers care. Though Bess makes a new life in Edinburgh & knows the joy
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- of motherhood with further children her heart always aches for the little boy she left behind. When Frazer travels to Scotland twenty years later it seems Besss dreams of a reconciliation will come true. But Frazer trails danger in his wake & its possible that not only he but also Bess & her whole family will live to rue the day of his return...

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