Frederica Kimball had been waiting for the day when Nicholas Le Beck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didnt know what had hit him...sweet adorable Freddie whom hed always loved like a kid sister was suddenly looking & acting like a sensual woman. The waiting was over but the wanting had just begun! ...

A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous & cruel like any other
- but with certain differences. The neighbours
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The Sunday Times bestseller Vienna 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief a young English actor walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. She is clearly in distress but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange hazel eyes & her unusual intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. They begin a passionate love affair & life in Vienna becomes tinged with a powerful frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe begins to write a journal enjoys secret trysts with Hettie & appears
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- to have been cured. Back in London 1914. War is imminent & events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander in the most damaging way. Unable to live an ordinary life he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex scandal & spies where lines of truth & deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britains safety & use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion & betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to Londons West End from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish & mesmerising journey into the human psyche a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe a plot-twisting thriller & a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart Restless & Ordinary Thunderstorms.


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Vienna 1913. Lysander Rief a young English actor walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange hazel eyes & her unusual intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate & particularly destructive. Moving from Vienna to Londons West End from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish & mesmerising journey into the human psyche a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe a plot-twisting thriller & a literary tour de force. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna 1913. Lysander Rief a young English actor sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in Lysander is immediately drawn to her unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later home in London Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex scandal & spies that is slowly steadily permeating every corner of his life...
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Waiting For Wednesday" by Nicci French is the thrilling third novel in the highly acclaimed " Frieda Klein" series. Ruth Lennox beloved mother of three is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? & why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson's latest case. She is no longer working with him in an official capacity but when her niece befriends Ruth Lennox's son Ted she finds herself in the awkward position of confidante to both Karlsson & Ted. When it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life her family closes ranks & Karlsson finds he needs Frieda's help more than ever before. But Frieda is distracted. Having survived an attack on her life she is struggling to stay in control & when a patient's chance remark rings an alarm bell she finds herself chasing down a path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Or is it merely a symptom of her own increasingly fragile mind? Because as Frieda knows every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return... Praise for Nicci French: " Brilliantly crafted". (" Daily Mirror"). " Full of dark psychology & tension.. .nerve-tingling & addictive". (" Daily Express"). " Magnificent". (" Evening Standard"). Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple are married & live in Suffolk. Over eight million Nicci French books have been sold worldwide. There are fourteen other internationally bestselling novels: " Blue Monday" " Tuesday's Gone" " Complicit " What To Do When Someone Dies" " Until It's Over" " Losing You" " Catch Me When I Fall" " The Memory Game" " Beneath the Skin" " The Safe House" " The Red Room" " Land of the Living" " Killing Me Softly" & " Secret Smile" all published by Penguin. " Blue Monday" & " Tuesday's Gone" are the first two novels in the highly acclaimed bestselling " Frieda Klein" crime series." ...

Beautiful. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer Penn Thea & Lexi have caught everyone's attention including the eye of practical Harper. But it's her sister Gemma they've chosen to be part of their group. Sixteen-year-old Gemma seems to have it all
- carefree pretty & falling in love with the boy next door. But her greatest passion has always been the water. She craves late night swims under the stars where she can be alone yet belong to the sea. Lately she's had company. Penn Thea & Lexi spend their nights dancing singing & partying on the cove
- & one night Gemma joins them. When she wakes up groggy on the beach the next morning she knows something has changed. Suddenly Gemma is stronger faster & more beautiful than ever. As she uncovers the truth about her new mythical powers Gemma is forced to choose between staying with those she loves or entering a dark world brimming with unimaginable secrets. ' Generated an excitement not felt in the industry since Stephenie Meyer or perhaps even J. K. Rowling' New York Times 'A fast-paced romance.. .addictive' Guardian on Switched ' Drew me in & kept me hooked... cracking pace' Sunday Express on Switched

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For seventeen-year-old Janie getting sucked into other peoples dreams at any given moment is getting tired. Especially the falling dreams & the standing-in-front-of-the-class-naked ones. But then there are the nightmares the ones that chill her to the bone...like the one where she is in a strange house...in a dirty kitchen...and a sinister monster that edges ever closer. This is the nightmare that she keeps falling into the one where for the first time Janie is more than a witness to someone elses twisted psyche. She is a participant... ...

I squeezed through the narrow gap & out into the hallway & I stood for a moment unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs & try to find somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didnt really need to make because there was no escape. Anna Lowe grows up on the doorsteps of pubs waiting for her mum to come out. Having to give up her bedroom to her mothers drunken friends. & regularly calling out the ambulance after finding her mother unconscious & covered in vomit. But it is when they move in with her mothers boyfriend Carl that things take the ugliest turn. Not only is he violent with her mother but he also sexually abuses Anna from the age of six
- destroying any semblance of normal childhood she had left. Wake Up Mummy" is the heartbreaking true story of a little girl who eventually found the courage to break free from the past."
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Duncan Bannatyne reveals how to set up a business & make it a great success. Having started out with ice cream van he knows exactly how it can be done
- & how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. In a series of clear & easy-to-follow chapters Duncan removes the barriers to getting started as an entrepreneur & helps to plan a way forward through those potentially difficult early days. He shows that there is no substitute for hard work & insists that you must be completely honest with yourself about your own strengths & weaknesses if you are to succeed. He outlines the key attributes you will need & how you can develop them to achieve your dreams. Backed with fascinating examples from his own career & case studies from a wide range of other entrepreneurs this book provides the perfect wake-up call for you to change your life for the better.
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