Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past your only hope for the future is your identical twin. Now imagine years later discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood your family & the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you where fact & fiction are impossible to distinguish. With dogged courage he has spent years hunting for the truth about his hidden past & his remarkable family. His quest to understand his true identity has revealed shocking betrayals & a secret tragedy extraordinary triumph over crippling adversity & above all redemption founded on brotherly love. Marcus his twin brother has sometimes been a reluctant companion on this journey but for him too it has led to staggering revelations & ultimately the shedding of impossible burdens. Their story spans continents & eras from 1950s debutantes & high society in the Home Counties to a remote island in the Pacific & 90s raves. Disturbing funny heart-breaking & affirming Alex & Marcus's determination to rebuild their lives makes us look afresh at how we choose to tell our stories. ...

The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds
- including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother
- to choose

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The fast-paced new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Best Laid Plans Morning Noon & Night & Bloodline. Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers but they belonged in a different faraway world. She had no idea who it could be who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately hard not to panic but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares & she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom. Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling novel Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to Quebec City to San Francisco with a climax that will leave the reader stunned. ...

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious & left for dead & his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped & murdered. Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon he receives an anonymous email telling him to log on to a certain website. The screen opens on to a web cam
- & it is Elizabeth's image he sees. As Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive & what really happened the night she disappeared the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeth's murder on him. & everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...
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Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious & left for dead & his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped & murdered. Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon he receives an anonymous email telling him to log on to a certain website. The screen opens on to a web cam
- & it is Elizabeths image he sees. As Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive & what really happened the night she disappeared the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeths murder on him. & everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...
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John aged sixty suffered a stroke & recovered fully except in one respect: although he can see perfectly he can no longer recognise faces even his own reflection in a mirror. Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture she experiences a vivid emotion: denim = extreme sadness; wax = embarrassment; orange peel = shock. Jimmie whose left arm was recently amputated can still feel it
- & its itchy. Our brains are the most enchanting & complex things in the known universe
- but what happens when they go wrong? Dr V. S. Ramachandran the Sherlock Holmes of brain science & one of the worlds leading neuroscientists has spent a lifetime working with patients who suffer from rare & baffling brain conditions. In The Tell-Tale Brain he tells their stories & explores what they reveal about the greatest mystery of them all: how our minds work & what makes each of us so uniquely human.

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First published in 1839 this entertaining dictionary of provincial language aimed to record & preserves the array of England's local dialects. This is the perfect guide to yaping-about with sosse-brangles & swobbling like a true Victorian trubagully. ...

Paul Ekman is a renowned expert in emotions research & nonverbal communication. In Telling Lies he describes how our language facial expressions & the way we hold our bodies can be read to tell whether we are being honest or not. Fox TV has created a series inspired by Ekman s work starring Tim Roth of Reservoir Dogs & The Incredible Hulk as Dr. Cal Lightman who is hired by law enforcement agencies to spot deception & expose the truth in criminal investigations. For this edition Ekman has added a new chapter on his latest research. He has figured out the most important behavioral clues to deceit developed a one-hour self-instructional program that trains people to observe & understand micro expressions & done research that identifies the facial expressions that show if someone is likely to become violent. A self-instructional program to train recognition of these dangerous signals has also been developed. Lie to Me premieres on January 28 2009. ...

Telling Stories" by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books. " Clear honest. An unusually frank & well-written rock memoir". (" The Times"). The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs the lows the joys the agonies & the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band as told by front man & survivor Tim Burgess. " Like the best bits of every cautionary rock star tale.. .there is armed robbery & smuggling. There's serious fraud. There are near & actual death experiences divorce industrial cocaine consumption & magnificent cameos from Madonna Alan Mc Gee Ronnie Wood Joe Strummer LA drug dealer Harry The Dog & Joaquin Phoenix. A minor classic". ("Q"). For readers who enjoyed " Life" by Keith Richards & " Bit of a Blur" by Alex James " Telling Stories" is one of the finest music books of recent times. It's a story of achievement & survival from London to LA. "A vivid read". (" Independent on Sunday")."' The Charlatans' frontman recalls the heyday of Britpop & Madchester with endearing exuberance. He's unflinchingly honest about the bad times but also peppers his story with anecdotal nuggets about the pitfalls of rock 'n' roll excess". (" Metro"). " Burgess keeps a level head a sharp eye & a nice turn of phrase". (" Independent"). " Written with the stylish flow of a novel
- light & dark hilarious & melancholic". (Emma Forrest). " For a man whose behaviour borders on the suicidal Timothy Burgess the people's friend is what you call a life enthusiast. He is also mad. It's a much-abused word mad.. .but he really is proper coo-ee clouds pan-dimensional mad mad". (Syliva Patteerson " Sky"). Tim Burgess was born in Salford but grew up in a village near Northwich Cheshire. Leaving school at 16 to work at ICI his real love was music & soon afterwards he was invited to join new band The Charlatans. For twelve years Burgess lived in Los Angeles but he has recently returned to the UK."
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Telling Tales is the second book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail's killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend -- & of the fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquiries & the villagers are hauled back to a time they would rather forget. Tensions begin to mount but are people afraid of the killer or of their own guilty pasts? Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap Hidden Depths Silent Voices & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves' Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...