Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job
- until the bride whose wedding she is organising is brutally killed with everyone
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This is the story of an atrocity on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in 1894. An English landowner Agnes Mac Donnell was brutally attacked & her home
- Valley House
- burnt. Agnes survived but was so disfigured she wore a veil in public for the rest of her life. The islands wild man James Lynchehaun was convicted of the crime & sentenced to life imprisonment. However he escaped twice & won a groundbreaking legal case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. A Franciscan monk in Achill Brother Paul Carney had befriended & assisted Lynchehaun & wrote up the fugitives story. Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 & decided to locate his drama The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synges influences in constructing the character of Christy Mahon. Agnes Mac Donnell lived on in Achill & in 1923 was found dead with a wine glass at her feet. James Lynchehaun became a destitute figure & died in Scotland in 1937. The crime the trial & escapes & the island tensions are unravelled in this gripping account.

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There is something very amiss in the finances of Michaelhouse. Despite a new influx of well-heeled students there is an acute lack of funds for the upkeep of the buildings even for decent provisions. It is only when the Brother in charge of the account books dies unexpectedly that some sort of explanation is revealed: he has been paying large amounts of money for goods the college itself has never received. Although shocked by this evidence of fraud Matthew is more concerned with the disappearance from his herbarium of a quantity of pennyroyal a preparation known to cause a woman to miscarry & a pregant visitor to his sisters household has died from an overdose of pennyroyal. Had she meant to abort her child or had someone else wanted to ensure she was unable to provide an heir to her husbands wealthy estates? When Matthew learns that it was her husband who had received Michaelhouses money for undelivered goods he begins to search for other connections & exposes a very treacherous vein of deceit. ...

The definitive development history of the most famous Velocette motorcycles based on the authors earlier work out of print for many years & much sought-after today.

Includes:: the most comprehensive appendices ever published on this historic marque.

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The international bestseller Dean Koontz delivers a masterclass of storytelling suspense in this thriller. What would you do if a serial killer forced you to choose who he murders next? On the windscreen of his SUV Billy finds the first note. It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police an elderly woman will be killed. If he doesnt approach the police a schoolteacher will die. He thinks its a hoax. The schoolteacher is killed. Further notes taunt Billys conscience forcing him to decide who lives & who dies. He must think the unthinkable fast in an accelerating nightmare. More communications from the killer follow with ever tighter deadlines. Each is more personal more confrontational than the last until he is isolated with no one to rely on but himself. Finally he must risk everything to save the helpless clueless victims... ...

Audrey Popkin realises she has bitten off more than she can chew when she gets embroiled with icy-cool banker Sterling Foster. His ideas about how to have fun are more bizarre than any English Literature graduate should have to put up with! One morning she packs her bags & walks out of his luxury Florida apartment heading back to Washington DC in search of a more regular deal with a more regular guy. But for a girl like Audrey this is not as easy as it sounds. When Patrick Dugan the charismatic owner of an old-world bar with a talent for mixing the smoothest cocktails fixes Audrey in his sights some strange alliances are about to be formed. Within a week Audrey talks her way into a job at Patricks bar & a room in the apartment he shares with a drag queen jazz singer called Basil
- who has a great line in platinum wigs. Audrey soon realises that Patrick is not all he seems. Why is he pretending to be gay? & what is he covering up for his father a pillar of the local community? Audrey is so besotted with the enigmatic barman that she doesnt realise they are connected by a mutual adversary
- a steely cold-hearted son of a bitch who will take them all down if he doesnt get his little plaything back. A fast-paced tale of everyday amoral folk & the delicious cocktails they drink!

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A lavishly illustrated & deeply personal story of the creation of an idiosyncratic Australian country garden Velvet Pears is an inspirational book that is also full of practical ideas. Author Susan Southam created the amazing garden at Foxglove Spires on the land of an old dairy paddock. Susan generously shares her lifes lessons in this beautiful special gift book. Velvet Pears captures the essence of living simply & with the seasons within a local community with a sustainable lifestyle. "" ...

This is the groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality & why it leads to shame over one's identity & how to overcome it
- now expanded & fully updated. Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory however serious problems still exist. Substance abuse depression suicide & sex addiction among gay men are at an all-time high causing many to ask Are we really better off?" Drawing on contemporary research psychologist Alan Downs' own struggle with shame & anger & stories from his patients " The Velvet Rage" passionately describes the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame & offers practical & inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance & self-defeating behaviour. Updated to reflect the effects of the many recent social cultural & political changes " The Velvet Rage" is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture & helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men."
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Youve devoured Fifty Shades.. . Now discover Velvet Touch. When Karen Heywood is offered a new job as assistant archivist she hopes that the mysterious halls & old libraries of Blackwood Towers will finally reveal to her the inner strength & purpose shes spent her life searching for. But as dark secrets & desires start to rise to the surface Karen realises theres more to the job than she bargained for. Secrets that she craves to unravel
- & only one man whose answers will set her free. Blackwoods mysterious owner Lord Mallory Burnet.. .the same man whos starting to consume her every waking thought.
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Once there was a velveteen rabbit who longed to be real. He was owned by a boy who loved him more & more every day even when the rabbits velveteen coat grew old & shabby & worn. Then one day something magical happened & the rabbits wish began to come true... ...