Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from the internationally bestselling author, Philippa Gregory, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of Katherine of Aragon as the barren wife of a notorious king, but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born ...
Chloe Mills is intelligent, hardworking, moments away from her MBA and starting a successful career. The only thing standing in her way is her boss, Bennett Ryan. He''''s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate and.completely gorgeous - a beautiful bastard. Sh e''''s determined to ignore him, do the best job ...
When Hanna "Ziggy" Bergstrom moves to New York City for graduate school, Will Sumner thinks his responsibilities to his best friend\''s nerdy little sister will be limited to the occasional dinner and check-in. Little does he know that Ziggy is ready to break out of her bookworm academic shell and move ...
When Ryan Media Group opens a new office in New York, numbers whiz Sara Dillon happily accepts the position of Director of Finance. On her first weekend in her new town, Sara has wild - and very public - sex with a gorgeous stranger on a balcony overlooking Chloe Mills\'' raucous engagement party. Sara ...
This is a re-sized edition of the original flap book that introduces the fascinating world of science in a simple and engaging way for younger readers. It is full of surprises to keep enquiring minds entertained, including flaps beneath flaps. It includes basic science topics from how plants grow to ...
''Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo''s late novels'' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates ...
It\''s July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance. When Sir Denton Marshall, a ...
Following the publication of Anna Gavalda''s international bestseller, "Hunting and Gathering", this book introduces us to Anna Gavalda''s witty and dazzling collection of stories, "I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere", together with her heart breaking and poignant novella, "Someone I Loved" ...
Isabel, a world-weary photojournalist, is grounded back home in Oklahoma, when her car plummets off a bridge into a lake. Struggling on the edge between life and death, she's miraculously saved by the Water Goddess, but with one tiny caveat: Isabel must travel to another time to seduce the legendary ...
Filled with creative, playful activities, This Book Thinks You’re an Artist asks budding artists to imagine their eccentric- artist alter ego before working through seven key topics: observation, drawing, color pattern, design, sculpture, and, crucially, how to steal ideas (Be inspired! Offend the viewer!). ...
‘Why can\''t people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.’ Just before the First World War, two young couples meet in Germany. The seemingly perfect yet brittle relationship of the Ashburnhams soon gives way to unhappiness and betrayal, ...
This novel is based on the historical occurrence of the appearance of the false messiah Sabbath Zevi and the mass following he generated. While the bare facts of the delusion may be true, I believe that the fleshing out of the characters, their thoughts and behaviour are a misrepresentation. ''''Satan ...
New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and tie. But they shared a self-deprecating sense of humour, plus certain deep-seated neuroses, and love soon blossomed. Alvy supported ...
Není snadné být faraonem v pubertě. Nesmíte s sebou nosit peníze, ovoce vám loupají mladé ženštiny nevázaných mravů, kdekdo si myslí, že můžete za to, že vychází slunce a kukuřice roste. Neustále se vám zdá o sedmi hubených a sedmi tučných kravách, a k tomu všemu ještě díky parakosmické nestabilitě vybuchne ...
In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister''s boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in ",The Rosewell Incident",, how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the ...
Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London\''s East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced ...
Lesley Pearse, author of the UK and international best-sellers Belle and Charlie, explores trust and betrayal, in her thrilling historical novel Trust Me. She lost her parents and then was sent far, far away. When their father tragically kills their mother, Dulcie and her sister are sent to an orphanage. ...
