We all know the anthem Stand By Your Man that Tammy took to the top of the charts but few know the staggering story of the woman behind the song. Virginia Wynette Pugh was born into a poor family in Mississippi but was blessed with an astonishing singing voice. She always believed in her talent so when her first marriage was breaking down she bundled her three children into her car & roared off to make her name in the capital of Country music Nashville. An overnight success Wynette took the persona of the tortured housewife & turned it into hit records. Yet Tammy never found the idealized love she desperately yearned for & her soap opera life included five husbands (one marriage lasting only forty-four days); four kids; thirty-plus operations; a monstrous addiction to painkillers; & even a bizarre unsolved kidnapping attempt that some insiders suggest Tammy might have staged herself. Her tragic death at age 55 shocked her fans but not those who knew of her health & addiction problems. Then the final indignity: her family had Wynettes body exhumed a year after her passing to ascertain the cause of her demise yet the death has never been fully explained. Jimmy Mc Donough has been a true fan of Tammy all his life & has spent years researching the singers story. TRAGIC COUNTRY QUEEN is the definitive biography of this complex & often contradictory artist. The author interviewed musicians producers fellow Country music superstars ex-husbands & family members (many who speak publicly for the first time). He reveals Tammys mysterious & often desperate pre-Nashville days & her chaotic private life which included vast wealth affairs fires overdoses controlling husbands pills gunshots & fine music. The more I unearthed the more haunting her music became writes Mc Donough. Funny heartbreaking & remarkably researched Tragic Country Queen is the book on the queen of country music. ...

The final breathtaking volume in the Tamuli series. The pace as always is white hot
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Liza Kellyanne & Billie are ambitious heroines chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics reality television & rock music. Their journey unfolds thrill by thrill shock by shock in an unputdownable story about the illusions of glamour the dark side of success the elusiveness of love & the fragility of relationships. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career free fall a surprise pregnancy & a brutal murder. & it all happens during one unforgettable season at a summer share in the Hamptons. Tan Lines -- a Valley of the Dolls for the 21st century -- portrays their passions triumphs & heartbreaks with a sly intelligence & a wickedly sharp prose that will be loved by fans of Jackie Collins Jacqueline Susann & a whole new generation of readers. ...

Bestselling author Tana Ramsay knows the challenges of cooking for a demanding family
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Tana Ramsay shows how easy it is to cook up real family food to satisfy the entire family. Working with simple recipes & basic ingredients she shares her favourite family recipes for every occasion from school night suppers & weekend breakfasts to birthday surprises & Halloween bites. As a busy mother-of-four & the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table -- especially if you want your family to eat real healthy food. With the help of her trademark easy-to-follow & mouth-watering recipes Tana shows how to transform mealtimes with minimum fuss & make real food something you all eat everyday -- without spending hours in the kitchen. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 recipes for every family occasion throughout the year including: / School-rush breakfasts lunchtime bites & quick-fix dinners / Lazy lunches birthday surprises & family parties / Summer picnics Easter feasts & Christmas treats ...

Half-African half-Indian & beautiful Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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The rightful High Druid of Shannara has been banished to the harsh world called the Forbidding by a treasonous fellow druid. Her only hope for rescue is her nephew Pen
- but Pen is under seige as well. Both he & his parents are sought by the druids who want to make sure that their magic will never help the real leader to return. Yet there is worse to come. For the dark magic that banished the High Druid into the Forbidding allowed the simultaneous transference of a fearsome denizen of the Forbidding back into the druids world. & now there is a terrible peril in the Four Lands
- a creature that can take on any shape can kill at will & is only the harbinger of a much greater devastating invasion to come.. .

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An edge city poised at the northernmost tip of Africa just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic Tangier is more than a destination it is an escape & the Interzone as William Burroughs called it has attracted spies outlaws outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time the most prominent being Burroughs' Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. The list of edge" writers who were drawn to Tangier is long among them Ibn Battuta Samuel Pepys Alexandre Dumas Mark Twain Edith Wharton Walter Harris Jean Genet Paul & Jane Bowles Tennessee Williams William Burroughs Brion Gysin Patricia Highsmith Jack Kerouac Truman Capote Gore Vidal Allen Ginsberg Alfred Chester Joe Orton & Mohamed Choukri."
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Horris Kew conjuror & confidence-trickster has returned to the Magic Kingdom of Landover & a chorus of disapproval immediately assaults Ben Holidays ears. Both Questor Thews the Court Wizard & Abernathy the Court Scribe (currently magically transformed into a dog) urge Ben to lock him up or exile him. Fair as ever Ben decides to consider the problem rather than act immediately. Alas this leads to disaster for Horriss return is not what it seems & Ben soon finds himself in deadly peril. Only his lady Willow holds the means to save him. But Willow has disappeared on a mysterious mission of her own... ...

After her antics in A Most Improper Magick Kat Stephenson is back to cause more chaos! Stepmama drags the family to Bath to find Kats sister a new suitor. But unknown to most of its gossipy visitors Bath is full of wild magic. When Kat uncovers a plot to harness this magic in the Roman Baths she finds her brother Charles is unwittingly involved. Kat must risk her newfound magical powers as she defies the Order of the Guardians to foil the plot & clear her brothers name ...