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It is the year 1663 and after an unhappy childhood and a long spell in a French orphanage, sisters Marguerite and Marie leave for a new life in Quebec.

Chief Superintendent Philippe Maigret - the most decorated police officer in Paris - has been given an undercover assignment by his friend, Christophe Saint-Valéry, the Minister of Police. He is to find an ancient grimoire - an 18th Century book about witchcraft - stolen from the Aix-en-Provence reference library some months ago.

It began life as Peter Bennett's journal, a straight-forward account of his experiences as a long-suffering patient on the ward of a typical NHS hospital in the course of several extended visits in 2018. It gradually morphed into a more complex and interesting book; a vivid, unflinching, moving and hilarious memoir of his time.

A rare and ancient manuscript, saved from destruction and hidden since colonial times, is discovered in the basement of the British Library. A secret that links two great chefs, separated from each other by 250 years.

MILO wakes up in a rural Cambodian hospital after a bus crash took the lives of treasured members of his core team. As he struggles to find his husband, RA, friends, and colleagues, he learns the bus accident was almost two years ago to the day.

The story revolves around Randul, a young Veddah tribesman, while foraging for unique ingredients in the Sri Lankan forests, chances upon a small number of priceless Padparadscha sapphires. This discovery leads to a chain of events that impact upon him and those he encounters.

Night after night jostling crowds clamour for entry to Edinburgh‿s Theatre Royal with one name on their lips: the Real Mackay. But who is he? The answer leaps off the page in this meticulously researched historical novel which plunges the reader into the weird and wonderful golden era of Scottish national theatre, through the eyes of Charles Mackay

Movie soundtrack music is big business. In both film studios and at major record labels, entire divisions focus exclusively on marketing movie music. Reed Rapture is the first study to describe the background, the history, and the numerous important appearances of the saxophone on movie soundtracks.

Two people meet and discover they share a love of acting, telling stories and reading Roland Barthes. They agree to meet up two or three times a month and exchange haikus and stories that occur to them after reading Barthes‿ A Lover‿s Discourse: Fragments.

In this thought provoking and life transforming book, James Garrett, author of REACH for Teenagers, offers an insight into some of the common issues related to REACH and encourages the reader to ask questions, make comments and engage in conversation.

Jay knew it was wrong to sleep with a junior colleague, but until he was pulled into the dean's office at the university where he taught, he never imagined the encounter could be considered sexual assault. Yet Eve has accused him of coercing her into bed in exchange for job benefits-and he thought they were in love.

Organized hypocrisy is everywhere, evident in our daily lives and part of our DNA. We cannot ignore or avoid it and need to understand it as we can be unknowing participants or victims. Organized hypocrisy is the disconnect between talk, decision-making, and action by multiple actors.

Bobbie Jacobson's honest and deeply personal story brings home her passion for preventing ill-health. Not just for individuals, but for whole communities. It is a passion too often thwarted by governments, vested interests and imposed on an obedient health management system.

At Last is about life after death. About the compromising effects of grief but also about how legacy can have a transformative impact on the lives of others.

Two young people are struggling to find themselves and a role in life. For one, the world is changing too quickly. For the other, change can't come soon enough. Linking them are overgrown railway sidings - home to wildlife but about to be destroyed.

Whitechapel 1888; a killer is on the loose and the newspapers are ensuring the nation knows all about not just the crimes but the terrible living conditions in which they are being perpetrated.

Step aside bull and bear, the humble sloth is the BEST animal to characterise successful investing. A guide ideally suited for beginner investors that want to benefit from the humble miracle of low-cost, index investing.

Heinz Bauer is an ordinary man caught up in the Nazi terror which swept Germany. Career detective turned Gestapo officer, he works the system to protect his family and survive the war.

In Other Woods emerges from over two decades of experience in developing an independent school that actively held at the forefront the essential question "what constitutes right education?".

Suffolk Sonnets Among Others is a collection of Sonnets which celebrate the people, history, and heritage of the county of Suffolk.

Billy Hansen was born with Polydactyly. He has extra fingers, twelve fingers instead of ten. When Billy finds a piano in his classroom, he realises that he can use his extra fingers to his advantage.

Mairead Kelly, only seventeen, barefoot, starving and alone, flees the unimaginable horror of the Irish Famine, only to find disease and desperate squalor in nineteenth century industrial Liverpool. Against all odds she rises triumphantly above the destitution - but what is the tragic secret she is harbouring?

The British Isles including Ireland are a unique tapestry of islands off the Continental shelf of NW Europe. Though there are thousands of islands making up this archipelago, a modest 221 (excluding Great Britain and Ireland) are permanently inhabited, mostly in the Gaelic, Irish and Welsh or Celtic west.

A unique, untold, true story of a middle-aged housewife recruited by the British Intelligence Services during World War Two.

It is December 2021 and Lizzie Ferguson has signed up for a silent retreat in an attempt to banish the disturbing ghosts uncovered by lockdown.

In 1952, Teresa Pyott's father received an inheritance, including a London house, from a woman to whom he was not related.

The Stamp of Innocence is a heart-rendering tale of an ordinary Welsh family whose lives were ripped apart by false imprisonment and an epic 16-year battle to restore the family honour.Noel Thomas, who was a respected village sub-postmaster and councillor was sent to prison accused of stealing money from the post office he ran on Ynys Mon, Wales. A charge based on computerized evidence which later turned out to be totally false. Noel tells the story in his own words as we follow his heroic journey with all its twists and turns over the years to clear his name.Fighting not only two huge corporate institutions in the form of computer giants Fujitsu and the Post Office with all their power, influence, and money. But also taking on successive UK Governments as well- the sole shareholder of POL (Post Office Limited).The book also features the voice of his daughter, Sian Thomas, who has devoted years of her life researching and networking widely to help her father clear his name.The Stamp of Innocence is a story about an unbreakable bond between a father and daughter, building up to their eventual redemption in the Court of Appeal in April 2021, and their continuing campaign to be fully compensated for the cruel injustice perpetrated against them.It's also a story about their beloved island community and the support provided by that community to sustain the family through all their trials and tribulations.It's a tale to shock and horrify, but it's also an uplifting tale about the resilience of the human spirit.

A unique recollection of social life and changes in the Highlands of Scotland in the early twentieth century. It documents not only a personal struggle to succeed in the construction industry from straitened circumstances in Inverness before and during the First World War, but also a search for advancement through work in the British Empire.

Dawn Lewis has settled.A once renowned, international fashion designer, she has now retired to a small village in the south of Leicestershire where she spends her days rambling with other retirees or completing jigsaws alone whilst watching old movies on Netflix. A long way away from the Gucci and Champers jet setting lifestyle she once lived for.Her ex-husband has remarried, her son has lost his way, and her daughter insists on setting her up with boring men, who she has no interest in. So, when she reconnects with her son, she decides to share a piece of her history with him; a piece that rocked her world...Paris 2001. A contest designed for reality tv. Thrown together with a retiring model, and a smooth-talking journalist, Dawn Lewis witnesses just how much conflict and chaos are created for tv, where exchanging integrity is the norm. When she escapes the madness and is ready to make a change for the better, she is hit with a life-altering tragedy.Will opening twenty-year-old wounds help? Or will it allow the past into her future?