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The next instalment of a wonderful saga telling the story of a Cockney family in peace and war from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples. Does he stand a chance against a determined woman and the rest of the Adam's family?The King of Camberwell is the third in Mary Jane Staples's Adams Family series.
Over the course of a year, he and his family set out to discover whether it was possible to live a 'normal life' - job, mortgage, kids, holidays - while at the same time making each daily choice or decision an 'ethical' one - for the family, their neighbours and the environment.
Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter.
Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, this book brings them together again to close down a predator.
And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do horrific things. When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case.
A mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and an eminent British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. At first, the incidents appear unconnected. But Inspector Yusuf Khalifa is suspicious, so too is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray.
There's only one problem though - with so much real-life drama going on all around them, the girls are never going to find it easy... The WWW Club - a tale of calories, gossip, laughter, a little romance...and the enduring power of female friendship.
When Ruth and Gray meet as children while their parents play at being adults in a rackety old Bohemian house, an electricity passes between them that neither will ever forget.
When Bridget Harrison arrived in Manhattan to work for America's most famous tabloid, the New York Post, she was in at the deep end from day one. Dispatched by day to cover murders and muggings in the roughest corners of New York, by night she began to write a column about her search for love in a dating shark tank.
It's 1826, and Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish, incarcerated in the fortress of Badajoz. As he plans his escape, his thoughts return to the year 1812 when he was a cornet in Wellington's Peninsula Army. While Hervey paces his prison cell, and re-lives the bloodshed of battles past, friends rush to his aid.
He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless devastation, and brought an end to Rome's pre-eminence in Europe. Attila was coarse, capricious, arrogant, ruthless and brilliant.
As these dark forces seek immortality inside him, so Gavril must feed on the blood of innocents - or die. Toppled by the loss of the Tears of Artamon, Emperor Eugene of Tielen is tormented by his own daemon, but he must defend his lands against King Enguerrand of Francia who claims ownership of the Tears.
A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions:_________________What is the best way to scare a gendarme?
'A rare treat, delivered with aplomb' Sunday TelegraphOn the day of Charles and Diana's wedding, Rebecca Monroe's mother locked herself in the bathroom and never came out.
This book is Billy Bragg's urgent, eloquent and passionate response to the events of 7 July 2005, when four bombs tore through a busy morning in London, killing 52 innocent people and injuring many more.
Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life, passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food. This cookery book blends together personal history, world events, period atmosphere and family anecdotes into a poignant story.
Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection.
and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight. My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.
America is a difficult place to live below the surface. But Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are trying to do just that. Nathan Boone, a mercenary, has been tasked to hunt down the brothers. The only person who stands between them and death is Maya. When she is summoned to protect the brothers, she must leave everything behind if she is to succeed.
Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: Paradise, the house at the head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her family.
Pern AL 50: the geneticist Wind Blossom is nearing the end of her long life and is painfully aware that the colonists are running out of the modern technology the settlers brought with them to Pern and that they are forgetting how to use what they do have.
According to David Taylor, the most important discovery you can make is to discover who you really are. He invites you to join him on a journey of discovery, as he strips away myth and mystery, hype and jargon to reveal how we can turn dreams into reality with simple, practical steps.
Stanley undertook his quest with gusto, filing reports that captivated readers and dominated the front page of the New York Herald for months. INTO AFRICA traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters.
Partly a memoir of a working-class way of life that has gone for ever, this work presents a record of the love between mother and son, and a portrait of the artist as a young actor.
Marion's search for the father she never knew takes her to St Ives. Here she learns of a lifeboat tragedy which is intrinsically tied up with her father's life. To find out more, Marion must delve deep into the past where she has to confront the demons which have tortured her own adult life.
Her life is a constant round of lunches with her hilariously bitchy girlfriends (known as the Star Chamber), parties, and yet more parties. But she soon finds out that Aaron, the son of a billionaire, is more than a match for her and that, for the first time in her life, Clarissa has bitten off more than she can chew.
If you are unable to purchase the ad as described, then you will have this choice: kill yourself immediately or I will destroy one of these innocent people.'Until the moment he opens the letter, New York psychologist Dr Frederick Starks has led a quiet and, so he believes, blameless life.
Johnny Peterson was the kind of lad who could light up a room and inspire the best in everyone he met. Then one night he was killed by a car. Appearing only to his withdrawn younger brother and his grief-stricken mother, Johnny's appearances as an angel will change the lives of everyone forever.
Wrongly branded as a spy, the dark and handsome Viking lord Selig Haardrad suffered greatly in the dungeons fo Lady Erika of Gronwood.
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