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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is a messy, but multiple murders always are. This one is particularly gruesome - a shotgun fired repeatedly at close range, and a wealthy German family living in Provence is wiped out - five deaths in all if you count the unborn child.Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad has never seen anything like it. After a meticulous search of the murder scene, his investigation rapidly turns into one of the most baffling - and personal - cases of his career.Many of the villagers in the region remember only too well the atrocities committed during World War Two. But some memories, Jacquot soon discover, are less reliable than others.When a mysterious young woman arrives claiming a special insight, her presence could be the breakthrough Jacquot needs, but does she have something more sinister on her mind? Together they follow a trail that leads back more… Read More

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Fresh out of university and in disgrace, Lexie Sinclair is waiting for life to begin. When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep in rural Devon, she realises she can wait no longer, and leaves for London. There, Lexie carves out a new life for herself at the heart of bohemian 1950s Soho, with Innes by her side.
In the present, Ted and Elina no longer recognise their lives after the arrival of their first child. Elina, an artist, wonders if she will ever paint again, while Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood - memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events.
As Ted's search for answers gathers momentum, so a portrait is revealed of two women seperated by fifty years but linked by their passionate refusal to settle for ordinary lives.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Welcome to Lomaverde - a new Spanish utopia for those seeking their place in the sun. Now a ghost town where feral cats outnumber the handful of anxious residents. A place of empty pools, long afternoons and unrelenting sunshine.Here, widowed Midlands bus driver Dermot Lynch turns up one bright morning. He's come to visit his son Eamonn and his girlfriend, Laura. Except Eamonn never opened Dermot's letter announcing his trip. Just like he can't quite get out of bed, or fix anything, or admit Laura has left him.Though neither father nor son knows quite what to make of the other, Lomaverde's Brits - Roger and Cheryl, Becca and Ian - see in Dermot a shot of fresh blood. Someone to enliven their goat-hunting trips, their paranoid speculations, the endless barbecuing and bickering.As Dermot and Eamonn gradually reveal to one another the truth about why each left home, both get… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.If you are new to Australia, it is possible that you cannot yet tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey. When somebody says, 'Hullo, y'old bastard,' do you take offence? If on the other hand you hear yourself referred to as 'that bastard', can you afford to be complacent? John O'Grady, whose racy mastery of Australian idiom has enlivened all his books from They're a Weird Mob on, has now compiled a phrase-book of slang expressions and their find shades of meaning. The result is uniquely funny and uniquely Australian. To read Aussie English is a naturalization ceremony in itself. 'Blokes', 'bludgers', 'blow-ins' and 'bottlers' - they are all here, with their counter-parts down the alphabet.

In good condition - dust jacket good slight markings - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is the 'Weird Mob' of Samoa. It is as irresistibly funny and appealing as the same author's Nino Culotta stories (They're a Weird Mob and Cop This Lot) - the most talked-about best-sellers Australia has ever seen.Ioane Papatiso (it means John the Baptist, and you say the first name 'Yo-ah-nay') is a small Samoan who is always in big trouble. He never starts any trouble, but whenever there is a free-for-all in his village, or things go wrong in a big way, you can always say that if he had not been present the trouble would not have happened.Ioane has a big brain, and he means well. It is strange that anyone so well-meaning should have to go to the police station so often. But then it is not everyone who wanders out of hospital still wearing hospital pyjamas; and it is not everyone whose home-brew lays out his guests all over the plantation. Ioane is not popular with the… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth - women and sports - have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career. But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his own son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his newfound father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.At the same time, another father is grooming his son to… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has some markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An engaging historical tale from a much-loved author - London, 1890. Singer Rose Paton is confident that, with her looks, youth, and talent, she's destined for greater things. When mysterious stranger Marcus Bennley asks her to sing at his sister's birthday party, as his present to her, she accepts for the half a guinea – more than two weeks' wages. But will the deal be quite so sweet as promised, or has Rose made a terrible mistake entangling herself with the Bennleys?

In good condition - dust jacket has slight water damage - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Clare was devastated after her fiancé was killed in the First World War. She inherited Merle Place, a large house that was a military hospital during the war, but which now needs expensive renovation. Completely out of her depth, Clare tries to sell the house, hampered by her cousin Donald who has invited himself to stay indefinitely.Clare's only enjoyment is writing her weekly serial for The Ladies Own Journal, so her hopes rise when she is asked to write a novel. She meets fiction editor Steve Flint, who is very encouraging, but her attempts to write are thwarted by a series of disasters. And, while Steven is a friendly shoulder to cry on, could her feelings for him cause problems?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An inappropriate love affair sets a tragic chain of events in motion - Louise Legrand is the wilful young daughter of Madeline and her first husband. Oscar Swain is Madeline's bedridden second husband. Madeline's first mother-in-law offers to pay for Louise to have art lessons, but when Louise falls in love with Daniel, her middle-aged art teacher, and they elope to America, no one realizes it will start a train of events which will lead to tragedy.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Late Victorian England. When Bella marries Lloyd Massie she believes she is the happiest woman in the East End of London. Her wedding is a joyful occasion but a young, dedicated detective knows that she is in grave danger. Lloyd Massie, the bride-groom, has already killed once but the police cannot prove it. To complicate matters, Jack the Ripper begins to terrorise the area and all police resources are turned towards his capture. Frustrated, the detective does his best to protect Bella and her sister Lottie but Massie always seems to be one jump ahead of them and the sisters' lives are at risk.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Four young people are playing tennis beneath a hot Portuguese sun. A wedding has been arranged between two of them - Lucy and Andrew - and the small English community of San Domingos is looking forward to the celebrations. But among the people who live and work around the thriving copper mine, life is not as serene as it seems.The heat of midsummer raises tensions: suspicions flourish, tempers fray and infidelity threatens to destroy the close-knit community. Just as it seems that nothing else can go wrong, an explosion at the mine leads to an arrest.Only Eduardo, the young Portuguese doctor, seems untroubled by the gathering storm. Can anything be done to avert the approaching disaster?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sometimes the old way is the only way...When a retired East End villain is murdered by a feral street gang, his brother Ritchie Archer returns to London from Spain to investigate. With the police thwarted at every turn, Ritchie decides to take the law into his own hands and bring old school justice back to the streets of East London. Rounding up his old firm, he leads a vigilante crusade against the vicious young criminals, using every grisly method at his disposal to find and punish his brother's killers. A vicious street war follows, with no prisoners taken on either side, leading to a dramatic conclusion as the feral youths lay siege to a hospital Ritchie's firm is hold up in.They're outgunned and outnumbered, but this firm has never been outclassed yet.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.I'm so excited that you're stepping into the world of 15-Minute Meals. The promise of this book is simple: Delicious, Nutritious, Super-fast food that's a total joy to eat and perfect for busy people like you and me.My relationship with you, the public, and these Cookbooks I write is an incredibly important one. Over 30 million of you have bought my books in the last 10 years, and I never take that amazing support for granted. With each new book I feel a massive responsibility to push myself and give you something I really believe in; something I think you will love, with recipes that deliver on every level, and this book is no exception. It's had a clear game plan right from the start, because not only am I responding to what you are all screaming out for - Tasty, Quick, Affordable food - I'm doing it with recipes that are anchored in balance and nutrition. The Creation of this Book has… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Catarina's elderly husband dies she moves to the Dower House where things are about to change dramatically with the arrival of Catarina's younger sister Joanna. Tricked by her cousin Matthew into a sham marriage, Joanna is now pregnant and alone.Catarina has a plan to hide her sister's disgrace, but then tragedy strikes suddenly at the Dower House. What will be the fate of Joanna's unwanted child?

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Following on from the internationally successful BBC programme The Human Body, Superhuman explores the body's amazing ability to heal, renew and regenerate itself. This stunning, illustrated book complements the television series and relates dramatic tales of futuristic medicine. We see how the body's own power of self-repair is being enhanced by new drugs and techniques, we look ahead to what will be possible in the near future, including 'designer' babies, viruses carrying repair genes to cells, when they become cancerous, tailor-made human tissue and organs grown in the laboratory, genetically modified animal organs for human transplantation and electrodes implanted into the eye allowing the blind to see.Superhuman records the before, during and after of treatments and operations on real people. It concentrates on six key medical areas, infection, transplantation, trauma, repair… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a remote Greek village, Captain Elias and his guerrillas in the resistance are engaged in battle with the Nazis. A church burns to the ground in an act of betrayal, and several die trying to protect a religious icon hidden there. What happens that day lies shrouded in mystery until, sixty years later, the icon surfaces on the New York art market, generating keen - and possibly deadly - interest from a variety of interested parties, each wanting if for a different reason...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe altered at checkout.For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the nightmare beings one sultry California night when his wife disappears. No phone call, no ransom note, no body. reveals whether Leigh is dead or alive.Then, suddenly, a woman shows up on Ray's doorstep demanding answers: Kathleen, an old friend of Leigh's. Ray wants answers, too, but his questions seem strange and shady to Kat. Suspected by his wife's friend and by the police, Ray launches a desperate and alarming search of his own. Using a collection of keys he has held on to since he was a boy - keys to homes he and his mother once lived in - Ray quietly yet boldly enters each house, one by one, hoping to unlock the secrets of his own past. As past and present collide, as a chilling mystery begins to unravel, Ray is suddenly confronted with the most agonizing decision of his life - to face his own violence-laden past, acting… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Greeting Cards using Digital Photos provides inspiration and practical guidance for both beginners and experienced cardmakers, on how to make beautiful, personal greetings card with digital photographs.Full of practical hints and tips for creating a professional look