This title is an impassioned controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history
- from world-famous historian
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Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours has no home life & cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure & adrenalin. Until one day...she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge it'll wreck her career. She walks right out of the office gets on the first train she sees & finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big beautiful house she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper & finds herself being offered the job. They have no idea they've hired a Cambridge-educated lawyer with an IQ of 158
- Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. Disaster ensues. It's chaos as Samantha battles with the washing machine...the ironing board...and attempts to cook a cordon bleu dinner. But gradually she falls in love with her new life in a wholly unexpected way. Will her employers ever discover the truth? Will Samantha's old life ever catch up with her? & if it does...will she want it back?
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Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal but she's learning to live with it. Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online.. .and he kills himself. Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. & she wants to take them down. A searing story of love revenge & betrayal from a bestselling author. ...

Undone by her Tender Touch Pippa should have known better. She knew that Cameron had built a fortress around his feelings. Yet here she was pregnant after an evening of passion with the enigmatic entrepreneur. He would surely offer her a financial arrangement. But given his tragic past would he ever want more? More Than Perfect When billionaire Lucius inherits his best friends child he needs a wife. Preferably one who fulfils his every need... So he checks out the Pretorius Programme since it had found him the perfect assistant... However Angie Colter makes a few tweaks to the programme so suddenly she is the perfect wife! But what if Lucius finds out the truth? ...

Its the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses ghosts good & bad patrol the streets & librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once & for all quickly ensues. Only Teo the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby can go between the linings to subvert evil & restore order. ...

The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War its activities cloaked in mystery & intrigue. The fate therefore of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones & memorials of those courageous individuals. Then in 2003 the first batch of SOE personal files was released by the National Archive. Over the course of the following years more & more files were made available. Now at last it is possible to tell the stories of all those agents that died in action. These are stories of bravery & betrayal incompetence & misfortune of brutal torture & ultimately death. Some died when their parachutes failed to open others swallowed their cyanide capsules rather than fall into the hands of the Gestapo many died in combat with the enemy most though were executed by hanging by shooting & even by lethal injection. The bodies of many of the lost agents were never found destroyed in the crematoria of such places as Buckenwald Mauthausen & Natzweiler others were buried where they fell. All of them should be remembered as having undertaken missions behind enemy lines in the knowledge that they might never return. ...

Angelic powers forbidden romance & the choice between fulfiling your destiny or following your hearts desire. Clara has known she is part-angel since she turned fourteen two years ago. But only now through fragmented visions of a terrifying bush fire is her Purpose
- the crucial rite of passage for every part-angel
- becoming clear to her. When Clara meets Christian the boy in her visions he is everything she could wish for
- so why does she also have feelings for her enigmatic classmate Tucker? Clara discovers that her Purpose is only a small part of a titanic struggle between angels & their destructive counterparts the Black Wings. & when the fire of her vision erupts & both Christian & Tucker are in danger who will she choose to save?


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Unearthly Disclosure is a story of alien bases alien contacts & abductions genetic mutants animal mutilations & government paranoia. Here Timothy Good one of the worlds most respected authorities on the alien phenomenon reveals for the first time sensational information provided to him by high-level military & scientific sources who confirm that aliens have established subterranean & submarine bases on Earth & that extra-terrestrial contact has been made with a select group in the US military & scientific intelligence community. Among numerous revelations in this book are those involving the alien creature photographed by Filiberto Caponi in Italy. The author spent several years investigating this controversial case & commissioned an Expert Witness checked by the Law Society to analyse Caponis astonishing photographs. Published for the first time this unique story forms the central section of Unearthly Disclosure. ...

A broken heart & a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged & typically rather cautious journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an inglorious three-month teenage chapter involving a Lambretta four crashes & an 18-month ban for drink-driving a plan had begun to loosely form... And so having completed a six day residential motorcycle course & hastily re-mortgaged his flat Mike sets off alone resolving to go wherever the road takes him & enjoy the adventure of heading off into the unknown. He ends up travelling almost 20 000 miles & reaching the four extremes of Europe: the Arctic Circle in the north the Mediterranean coast in the south the Portuguese Atlantic to the west & the Iraqi border of Turkey in the east. But really it's a journey inwards as on the way Mike finds his post-divorce scars starting to heal & attempts to discover what he as a man in his forties who hasn't quite found his place in the world should be doing. Self-deprecating poetic & utterly engaging his is a heroic journey taken for the rest of us too scared to leave our 9 to 5 office-bound existence. ...

In Uneven Development" a classic in its field Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development expanding on established ideas regarding space & nature & combining these with a critique of capitalist economics. In his groundbreaking analyses of the production of nature & the politics of scale Smith anticipated many of the asymmetrical contours that now mark neoliberal globalization." ...