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Will Arden ever find a movie-worthy love again?________What everyone is saying about You, Me and the Movies:'Moving and emotional' Eva Woods, bestselling author of How to be Happy 'I LOVED THIS BOOK!!
'Anything to Anywhere!' That's the motto of the Air Transport Auxiliary, the brave team of female pilots who fly fighter planes between bases at the height of WWII. Bobbie learned to fly in her father's private plane and Jean was taught the queen's English at grammar school before joining the squad.
Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, or Sister Stan as she is affectionately known, has been described as a visionary and social innovator. Inspired by the work of Mother Mary Aikenhead, Stan went on to dedicate her life to the service of the poor and to fighting for a fairer, more equal society. This title presents her portrait.
Leads readers on a sensuous tour of their partners' bodies, their own bodies, and the myriad ways in which the two can complement one another to the delight of each, while not forgetting the guidelines for safe sex. This title reveals the five secrets of great sex, and more.
In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and what her work has taught her.
Four neglected siblings were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in north-east of Scotland, they endured an onslaught of physical and mental abuse at the hands of an elderly foster mother. For ten years the children's cries for help were ignored in the naive social-work climate of late 1950s.
At the age of thirty-four, Polly Evans finally fulfilled a childhood dream - to learn how to ride a horse.
William Hesketh Lever - soap-boiler, social reformer, MP, tribal chieftain, multi-millionaire and Lord of the Western Isles - was one of the most extraordinary men ever to leave his mark on Britain. This book traces Lever's footsteps from his humble Bolton boyhood to a business empire that straddled the world.
Eva Valentine is back and Trouble is still her middle name! After surviving a near-death experience, Eva marries the man who nursed her back to health. Living it up in style on their honeymoon she discovers she is already three months pregnant.
She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness.Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella:"I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail"Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan"Properly mood-altering . . .
There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr Stephen Malone.
When Lila Cunningham moved to Malta, she glimpsed a chance of a life she had dreamed of. But then, Malta became the focus of Hitler's attention just as Lila became the focus of attention of three different men. As Lila learns to live with privation and fear, she slowly realises the value of true love in all its forms.
'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' - Observer*The magnificent new novel by award-winner Kate Atkinson*In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage.
FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4's START THE WEEK and BBC RADIO 3's FREE THINKINGSet against the colourful background of the entire campaign for women to win the vote, Hearts and Minds tells the remarkable and inspiring story of the suffragists' march on London. 1913: the last long summer before the war.
Thousands of years ago, in an ancient world where the gods control all and heroes fight to have their names remembered down the ages, two extraordinary women become entangled in one of the greatest heroic tales of all time .
'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' Alan TitchmarshReturn to Ragley for Jack Sheffield's delightful eleventh novel - a nostalgic and humorous story set in the early 1950s.
Rather than stay - and starve - in the countryside they love, Harry sets out to find a job in the factories and mills of nearby Hull, and Ellen must leave behind everything she's ever known to follow her husband and build a new life for her family on the unfamiliar city streets.
English society beauty Genevieve Shelby King parties to the utmost with the Anglo-American artists and writers of Montparnasse.As her desire for the pair of unobtainable shoes develops into an obsession with their creator, Genevieve's elaborately designed life comes under threat, and she is forced to confront the emptiness at its heart.
Surely, she would argue to her friend Amy, believing in God should be all about love and forgiveness, not hatred?But Amy has been brought up to believe that mixing with other religions results in eternal damnation, and when Maddy becomes friendly with George, the good-looking Jewish boy who lives nearby, Amy fears the worst.
A mother found. In the midst of a Swedish winter, a young mother is found murdered behind her son's nursery. Halfway across the world, in the sweltering Kenyan heat, a government official is kidnapped. And what of the Swedish mother slain in the snow? Until her killer is found, no one is safe...
In Singapore Susan Roper, secure in the supremacy of the British Empire, enjoys dancing,clothes and fast cars, tennis and light flirtations with visiting naval officers- her life is devoted solely to pleasure.
Sammy and Boots are troubled by the first stirrings of industrial unrest, as the unions start to flex their muscles and old loyalties change, while an attractive new employee causes Sammy some troubles of a different kind.
Pauline Quirke was a skinny child, a slim teenager, a curvy woman, then -- according to her bathroom scales (curse them) - just plain fat.
When Matthew's beloved wife Molly died, long before her time, her son Mark grieved as much as anyone. Since he was a small boy his mother had been sickening with the illness that eventually carried her off, and now at the age of sixteen Mark longed to earn his father's respect by assisting with the family business, a prosperous antiques shop.
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