Ellie Summer & Jasmine are so excited to visit Sugarsweet Bakery to watch the annual baking contest. But soon evil Queen Malice & her horrible Storm Sprites arrive to spoil the fun. Can the girls find a way to save the competition & get the silverspun sugar they need to help cure King Merry? ...

Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kennas classroom Richie thought hed finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario. But then the new kid Freddy steps in & saves Craigs life & for Richie the lure of this mysterious newcomer is irresistible. Freddy is like nobody Richie has ever met. Dark sardonic & dangerous he gives flight to Richies imagination introducing him to a way of life hed never thought possible. But when a night-time prank goes gut-wrenchingly wrong Richie begins to question Freddys motives & all too soon he finds himself committed to a sinister pact with inescapably tragic consequences. Its true that Freddy saved a life
- but could he take one too? With great wit & an unflinching eye for the muddle & drama of adolescence The Suicide Club" is a pitch-perfect portrait of teenage disaffection that sets boy against boy imagination against reason
- & ultimately life against death."

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With the twenty-first century just a distant memory & the world in environmental chaos many people have lost the will to live. & business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations the shop offers an amazing variety of ways to end it all with something to fit every budget. The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business taking pride in the morbid service they provide. Until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they've never encountered before: a love of life. ...

Vikram Seths novel is at its core a love story the tale of Lata
- & her mothers attempts to find her a suitable husband through
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Inspector Thomas Lynley 8th Earl of Asherton feels some trepidation as he introduces his bride-to-be to his mother at the ancestral home of Howenstow in Cornwall. But Lynley's private concerns are soon forgotten as the brutal murder of a local journalist requires him to focus on the professional rather than the personal. The investigation tears apart powerful ties of love & friendship shattering the tranquillity of the picturesque Cornish community & exposing a long-buried family secret. Its consequences irrevocably alter the course of Thomas Lynley's life. ...

In 1941 Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives & personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day sixty-five years later that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence Suite Francaise would be rediscovered & hailed as a masterpiece. Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis Suite Francaise falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Francaise is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However amidst the mess of defeat & all the hypocrisy & compromise there is hope. True nobility & love exist but often in surprising places. ...

When vibrant forty-something widow Annie Conroy spies her new neighbours having kinky sex in their back garden she decides it's time that she too woke up & smelt the erotic roses. & where better to begin her daring adventures than the luxurious Waverley Grange Country Hotel & its hidden den of iniquity: the chintz-clad but wickedly pervy Suite Seventeen? Under the stern but playful eye of exotic master Valentino Annie quickly discovers the shocking hidden depths of her own sensuality & surrenders herself body & soul to his outrageous games of power. But when the Waverley's entire future hangs in the balance & Annie has the means to help save it dare she gamble on going one step further...and giving her heart to the mysterious man who's come to control her? ...

As girls Nel & Sula shared each other's discoveries & dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams & Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns & no one least of all Nel trusts her. SULA is the story of the fear that makes people accept self-pity; the fear that will not countenance escape & that justifies itself through myth & legend. Sula herself is cast as a witch & demon by the people who resent her strength. They attack her with the most pervasive weapon of all the weapon of language & story. But Sula is a woman of power a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down. ...

Boris is a very sulky vulture
- nothing ever goes quite right for him! When his friends try to take his mind off things & cheer
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