ONE MURDER. Piet Hoffmann is the Swedish police forces best undercover operative. Not even his family know of his double identity. Yet when a drug deal with the Polish mafia goes fatally wrong his secret life begins to crumble around him. TWO MEN. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmanns true identity he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. THREE SECONDS. Hoffmann must desperately maintain his cover; else he is a dead man walking. But in the doggedly-perceptive Ewert Grens he has just made the most relentless of enemies. ...

Priya Sereena & Alexa Kauls family left Kashmir to live in the UK. The three girls grew up in Derbyshire & loved rushing home from school to watch their mother make delicious dahl korma & rogan josh with fresh spices from brought from Kashmir. When they had families of their own they longed for a spice box like the one their mother had
- full of all the spices needed to make the recipes they craved from their childhood. So they created a spice box with thirteen essential spices & collected 100 family recipes that can easily made at home
- just add ingredients from any supermarket or high street grocer. This book is the three sisters own collection of easy to make Indian dishes. Whether you are a traditional or a creative cook or you have a busy lifestyle you will enjoy making & creating these delicious recipes. There is detailed section on how to identify & use fresh spices & plenty of information about the medical & culinary uses of ginger cardamom turmeric & more. Nearly all the dishes can be made in advance & frozen so ditch the take away menu & make your own fresh versions of our favourite cuisine with real Indian flavours & spices.

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Three women who almost had it all... Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her loving husband
- now all she wants is a child. But family ties broken or reasserted will force each woman to face a journey from France to Africa or from Africa to France that will take the future out of their hands & change their lives forever. Domineering fathers weak lovers the perilous road of the refugee
- they will need all their courage & inner strength if they are to overcome. From Man Booker International Prize finalist Marie NDiaye.

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Antigone defending her integrity & ideals to the death Oedipus questing for his identity & achieving immortality
- these heroic
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This is a book for anyone who has ever thought What if?" A true story about a woman who dared to follow her dreams... Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood an ambitious 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night craving another life she was seized by a moment of inspiration & tapped "second hand bookshop Scotland" into Google. She clicked on the first link she saw. A month later she arrived 2 000 miles across the Atlantic in Wigtown on the west coast of Scotland & knocked on the door of the bookshop she would be living in for the next month... The rollercoaster journey that ensued
- taking in Scottish Hanukkah yoga on Galloway's West Coast & a waxing that she will never forget
- would both break & mend her heart. It would also teach her that sometimes we must have the courage to travel the path less taken. Only then can we truly become the writers of our own stories."

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Three forest trees dream of what they will one day become. One dreams of becoming a royal throne; one of being a ship that can withstand any storm; & one longs to stay in the forest & grow as tall as tall can be. When they are felled it seems their dreams are over. But as each tree is crafted into a new item
- a manger a fishing boat & a rugged cross
- it becomes clear that through the role they play in one important life their hopes are more than fulfilled. This traditional folktale is accompanied by stylish artwork from a highly sought-after children's book illustrator & will help set the Christmas & Easter stories into the overall context of the Christian faith.

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VILLAGE GOSSIP: For the locals of Turnham Malpas the rural peace is disrupted when a famous actor comes to stay. When he meets Caroline the rectors wife he is instantly attracted to her. Before long the villagers lives are turned upside down: a marriage is wrecked a proud man humbled & two people are brought closer together as gossip scandal & jealousy mount...TROUBLE IN THE VILLAGE: The appointment of a new verger causes trouble when events from his past return to haunt him bringing violence & danger to the peace of the village. & there are the strange goings-on in the church at night one of the villagers houses is ransacked & a couple is beaten up...A VILLAGE DILEMMA: An unwelcome visitor arrives in Turnham Malpas. Why is Bryn Fields
- who fled four years ago under the worst possible circumstances
- back? & what are his plans for the village? For the rector & his wife there are more serious problems to cope with when their twins start asking about their real mother...

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This title is a top ten bestseller
- new in paperback. Chris Stewart's sea-faring 'prequel' to Driving Over Lemons" was launched
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The latest novel from the genuinely bestselling author of seventeen compelling novels from A Woman of Substance to The Triumph of Katie Byrne. As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris Alexandra Gordon Kay Lenox Jessica Pierce & Maria Franconi share the challenges & excitement of developing their artistic talents to the fullest under Sedgwick's caring & demanding guidance. But once best friends they part enemies & after graduation they go their separate ways pursuing careers & establishing lives in different corners of the world. Alexandra a set designer becomes a leading figure in New York's theatre world. Kay who marries & moves to Scotland designs a successful line of clothing. Jessica an interior designer makes her home in California while Maria returns to her native Italy where she continues to work in her family's textile business. For each of them the arrival of an invitation to Paris to celebrate Anya Sedgwick's eighty-fifth birthday stirs up complicated feelings: nostalgic memories are coloured by poignant regrets & the reluctance to revisit their own pasts mixes with curiosity about the other women. It is ultimately their desire to deal with unfinished business that convinces all of them to attend the party. During three eventful weeks in Paris they visit their old haunts rekindle ties & awaken in each other the sense of wonder adventure & possibilities they had shared so long ago. ...

After years of trying for a child Jack & Melissa Mc Guane adopted a beautiful baby girl. Nine months later a call from the adoption agency plunges them into every parents worst nightmare: the father never signed away his parental rights & now he wants his daughter back. The biological father is a sullen eighteen-year-old with gangland connections & even worse is the son of a well-connected federal judge who is prepared to use the full weight of his influence to get what he wants. Together they wage a harrowing campaign of intimidation & harassment aimed at destroying the Mc Guanes before they can fight back. Jack & Melissa know that the boy has no love for his daughter but what they dont know is why he & the judge want the girl so badly. With three weeks until they must legally hand over their baby just how far outside the law are they prepared to go to find out? ...