Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel & filled with visions of a life of leisure good weather & mango juice in their gin a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in India. On arrival they are dismayed to find the palace is a shell of its former self the staff more than a little eccentric & the days of the Raj long gone. But as they soon discover life & love can begin again even in the most unexpected circumstances. ...

Under the reign of Louis XV corruption & intrigue have been allowed to blossom in France & Justin Alastair the notorious Duke of Avon & proud of his soubriquet Satanas flourishes well. Then from a dark Parisian back alley he plucks Leon a red-headed urchin with strangely familiar looks just in time for his long over-due schemes of revenge on the Comte de St Vire. Among the splendours of Versailles & the dignified mansions of England Justin begins to unfold his sinister plans
- until that is Leon becomes the ravishing beauty Leonie...
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Paolo Nutini is a 19-year-old singer/songwriter from Paisley Scotland & These Streets" is his debut album. Nutinis songs suggest he knows an awful lot about the vagaries of life & love & demonstrate his unique gift for expressing in song the attitudes & experiences of someone his age. " These Streets" records his experiences of moving to London a song which wistfully name checks the places in which he grew up & is sure to strike a chord with anyone who has ever lived in bedsit-l&. Many of the songs on the album including " Last Request" & " Rewind" were inspired by a turbulent relationship with a girlfriend & " Jenny Dont Be Hasty" is a true story about encounters with an older woman." ...

One innocent child A secret that could destroy his life Imprisoned for a heinous crime when she was a just a teenager Allison Glenn is now free. Desperate for a second chance Allison discovers that the world has moved on without her... Shunned by those who once loved her Allison is determined to make contact with her sister. But Brynn is trapped in her own world of regret & torment. Their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. & if the truth is revealed the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him the girl who tried to protect him & the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden... Praise for TV Bookclub pick The Weight of Silence Deeply moving & lyrical...it will haunt you... Company magazine Fans of Jodi Picoult will devour this... Red magazine ...

Auntie F. came in announcing dramatically that Hitler is coming tomorrow at which my father remarked that he would now that he's just finished papering upstairs. At the outbreak of World War Two May Smith was twenty-four. She lived in a small village near Derby with her parents & taught at the local elementary school. The war brought many changes: evacuees arrived in the village; nights were broken by the wail of the siren as bombers flew overhead; the young men of May's circle donned khaki & disappeared to far-flung places to 'do their bit'. But a great deal remained the same: May still enjoyed tennis parties holidays to Llandudno & going shopping for new outfits
- coupons & funds permitting. & it was during these difficult times that May fell in love. These Wonderful Rumours! gives a unique & surprising insight into life on the Home Front. Through May Smith's observant witty & sometimes acerbic diary we gain a new understanding of how the people of Britain coped with the uncertainty the heartbreak & the black comedy of life during wartime.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life. The disaster became an international media event mainly because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after they managed to raise her stern about 18ft above sea level. Still the Royal Navy-led rescue operation failed to find the submarine for many hours only to rescue four of all those trapped. Very little is known about what actually happened as the only comprehensive book written on the subject was published in 1958. Many years have now passed since the Thetis & her men died for which no one was held to be ultimately accountable. However a great deal of unpublished information has come to light in archives throughout the United Kingdom & beyond. After four years of painstaking research Thetis; The Slow Death of a Submarine explores in minute detail a more rounded picture of what really happened before during & after her tragic loss. In doing so Tony Booths book also takes a fresh look at culpability & explores some of the alleged conspiracy theories that surrounded her demise. The result is the first definitive account what happened to HMS Thetis
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- a fitting tribute as the seventieth anniversary of her loss will be on 1 June 2009. Len Deighton -Some said that Thetis was an unlucky ship. Just how unlucky Tony Booths painstaking research will tell you.

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January 1941. Dark days for Britain standing alone against the menace of Nazi Germany & for four friends fighting their own personal battles.. . When Rose Taylor receives two proposals on New Year's Eve she has to face an agonising choice that threatens to separate her from all those she loves. Meanwhile Richard Stephens has to come to terms with his shattered dream
- the only thing that sustained him through the chaos of Dunkirk & the long months on the run as an escaped prisoner of war. For beautiful Felix badly burned when his Spitfire was shot down in flames there is the prospect of weeks of painful surgery watched by his anguished lover. But as the months go by each of them finds the courage to face danger. For it lurks on every side.. .
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During more than thirty years in a variety of houses Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet & butler. As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks boil rabbits for the estate dogs carry the wood up & down stairs every day for thirty fires & sleep on the floor outside his masters room. He cleaned shoes ironed underwear & socks & once had to stand all night in the hall waiting for a late visitor to arrive. But as a butler he was the best paid servant in the house waited on feared & respected by the other servants. Bob Sharpe knew the real world of upstairs downstairs & the secrets of the landed gentry
- even to the point of incest & attempted murder! They Also Serve shows you life below stairs as it really was & is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey & nostalgia memoirs.
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