Tis the season to be jolly... But can Eve find happiness through the frost...? Eve has never liked Christmas not since her beloved fiance was killed in action in Afghanistan on Christmas Day. So when her adored elderly aunt dies the last thing she is expecting is to be left a theme park in her will. A theme park with a Christmas theme... And thats not the only catch. Her aunts will stipulates that Eve must run the park with a mysterious partner the exotically named Jacques Glace. Who is this Jacques & why did Aunt Evelyn name him in her will? But Eve isnt going to back down from a challenge. Shes determined to make a success of Winterworld no matter what. Can she overcome her dislike of Christmas & can Jacques melt her frozen heart at last...? ...

Winter in Denton is cold bleak & busy time for Detective Inspector Jack Frost whose unsolved crime figures are mounting as he struggles to bring them down in the face of manpower shortages & budget cuts. Denton is having more than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes; a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a long buried skeleton; an armed robbery at a local mini-mart; a ram-raid at a jewellers & a series of burglaries. But Frost's main concern is for the safety of a missing schoolgirl. Nine weeks ago Vicky Stuart eight years old didn't return home from school & in spite of exhaustive enquiries & extensive searches has never been seen since. Another little girl from the same school is reported missing. Her body is found...raped & strangled. Frost's prime suspect strongly protesting his innocence hangs himself in his cell leaving a note blaming Frost for driving him to suicide. Subsequent evidence points to the man's innocence. Coarse insubordinate & fearless DI Jack Frost is in serious trouble. ...

Winter Games" is a dazzling tale of secrets & betrayal & the perfect novel for fans of " The Bolter" by Frances Osborne & all those fascinated by the Mitford sisters. Munich 1936. She doesnt know it but eighteen-year old Daphne Linden has a seat in the front row of history. Along with her best friend Betsy Barton-Hill & a whole bevy of other young English upper-class girls Daphne is in Bavaria to improve her German to go to the Opera to be finished. It may be the Third Reich but another war is unthinkable & the girls are having the time of their lives. Arent they? London 2006. Seventy years later & Daphnes granddaughter Francie Fitzsimon has all the boxes ticked: large flat successful husband cushy job writing up holistic spas... The hardest decision she has to make is where to go for brunch
- until that is events conspire to send her on a quest to discover what really happened to her grandmother in Germany all those years ago. Praise for Rachel Johnson: " Wonderfully readable". (" Guardian"). " Shiveringly brilliant". (Jilly Cooper). " Very funny relentlessly observant". (" Daily Mail"). " Sharp funny & knowing". (India Knight). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."
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Winter Games is a dazzling tale of secrets & betrayal & the perfect novel for fans of The Bolter by Frances Osborne & all those fascinated by the Mitford sisters. Munich 1936. She doesn't know it but eighteen-year old Daphne Linden has a seat in the front row of history. Along with her best friend Betsy Barton-Hill & a whole bevy of other young English upper-class girls Daphne is in Bavaria to improve her German to go to the Opera to be 'finished'. It may be the Third Reich but another war is unthinkable & the girls are having the time of their lives. Aren't they? London 2006. Seventy years later & Daphne's granddaughter Francie Fitzsimon has all the boxes ticked: large flat successful husband cushy job writing up holistic spas... The hardest decision she has to make is where to go for brunch
- until that is the discovery of a photograph of Daphne sends her on a quest to discover what really happened to her grandmother in Germany all those years ago. A dazzling tale of secrets & betrayal Winter Games is powerful novel of innocent lives caught up in the march of history. Johnson has a brilliant eye for the telling specifics... She is a natural comic writer & has a breezy Mitfordian tone that makes you laugh at the same time as wincing in recognition... To write an entertaining romp set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany is a tricky feat to pull off. Yet Johnson has done it
- & done it in style". (Observer). "A rip-roaring read". (Evening Standard ' There's never a dreary moment in this blast of a book.. . Johnson's descriptions are irresistibly exuberant.. . As addictively fizzily invigorating as the Alpine air itself' Daily Mail ' Johnson delivers a genuine sense of time & place.. .there isn't a dull sentence in this sure-footed novel' Jenny Colgan Telegraph ' An excellent romp. Full of 'tally-ho' Mitfordian charm.. .a witty fast read' Red ' Excellent on period detail the blundering innocent abroad & young heartbreak' Sunday Times ' The Jane Austen of W11' Scotsman Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. The Mummy Diaries Notting Hell Shire Hell & A Diary of The Lady are all available now from Penguin."

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So who put the body in with the spring bulbs? The merest hint of spring has arrived in Cheshire & so has young reporter Daisy Dalrymple. The feisty flapper's visit is a breath of fresh air for gloomy Occles Hall. But while photographing the rather barren grounds Daisy spots that someone's been digging among the first green shoots
- & much to her horror unearths the corpse of missing parlour maid Grace Moss. So begins an extraordinary adventure as first the dead woman's shocking secret is revealed & then Daisy swiftly realizes she needs to catch the killer before she herself is left pushing up the daisies. Praise for the Daisy Dalrymple" series: ' Manners (P G Wodehouse-style) & mystery get equal time in a low-key story with considerable charm'
- " Kirkus Reviews". ' Engaging.. . Dunn's style gives an entertaining spark'
- " Publishers Weekly"."


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You know what its like. Dark at teatime & sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays. Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely & the Swallows & Amazons along with Dick & Dorothea
- the Ds
- plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach it if they cant sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up & there is a mix up about signals the Ds disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows & Amazons save their friends?

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' You know what it's like. Dark at teatime & sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.'" Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely & the Swallows & Amazons along with Dick & Dorothea -- 'the D's' -- plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach it if they can't sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up & there is a mix up about signals the D's disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows & Amazons save their friends?" ...

' Well ' said Nancy ' You know what it's like. Dark at teatime & sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.' Nothing
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When Marnie receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend she is wrenched from her orderly London life & sent back into a past from which she has fled but never escaped. Ralph Marnie & Oliver once knew each other well & are still inextricably bound by ties of love & betrayal. Now they meet again in Ralph's secluded cottage in the Scottish highlands to spend the precious days that Ralph has left with each other. As they reminisce Marnie is taken back to the summer years ago when everything changed between them & heartbreak & desire broke up their little group. Will Ralph have the chance to say what needs to be said before it's too late? & can they put the devastating events of twenty years ago to rest & rekindle the intimacy they once shared? ...

After assignments as a Canadian diplomat in Mexico Colombia Sudan & South Africa Nicholas Coghlan & his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird a 27foot sailboat from Cape Town across the South Atlantic & into the stormy winter waters of the Beagle Channel Tierra del Fuego & the Strait of Magellan. Coghlan recalls earlier adventures in Patagonia when taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in the later seventies & with both Argentina & Chile in the grip of harsh military dictatorships he & his wife explored the region over three successive summers. & now as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels & inlets around snow-covered Fireland he reflects on the voyages of past explorers: Magellan Cook Darwin Slocum & others. Sailing enthusiasts & readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlans world-wise narrative to their libraries. Coghlan revisits their past adventures in Patagonia: Twenty-five years prior he was a school teacher in Buenos Aires; he & Jenny would lead trekking expeditions to remote areas in the South of Argentina & Chile while both nations were in the grips of military dictatorships. This time as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels & inlets around Tierra del Fuego Coghlan reflects on the voyages of past explorers
- Magellan Cook Darwin & others. Sailing enthusiasts & readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlans world-wise narrative to their libraries.
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