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Gerald Hennessey - silver-screen star and much-loved heartthrob - never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire seaside town on the English Riviera. Murdered on the 4.30 from Paddington, the loss of this great man throws Temple Regis' community into disarray. Not least Miss Judy Dimont, corkscrew-haired reporter for the local rag, The Riviera Express. Investigating Gerald's death, she's quickly called to the scene of a second murder.

The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader or listener - such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline, but for those who master it, the rewards are many. In this series of works by our greatest female writers, we bring you a selection of those we consider the best. In Volume 2 we bring you the classics 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton.

It is 1650 and a baby lies raw and cold, dead before it even drew breath. A young servant girl, terrified and alone, is accused of its murder and sent to the gallows. Protesting her innocence in the chill air of a December morning, Anne Green is hanged. Moments later, her lifeless body is lifted down from the scaffold and carried to the College of Physicians for brutal dissection.

From the author of The Daffodil Sea comes this post-war saga of love and loss. Corporal Reith Douglas loses his memory after sustaining a head injury. Desperate to recover his past, he little realises that things are never quite what they seem.

At thirty-two, Abby's pretty much got her shit together. She has a good job, a cozy home, a supportive family...and a biological clock that's starting to feel more like a time bomb. Turned off the by the cold science of artificial insemination but wary of the complications that might come from enlisting a close male friend, Abby settles on a happy medium. She places an ad in a newspaper and goes in search of men willing to help her conceive the good old-fashioned way.

Après avoir affronté seule le mariage de son ex et de sa sœur, Léopoldine Courtecuisse en veut à Quentin sur lequel elle comptait pour la soutenir dans cette épreuve. Deux nouveaux meurtres, en plein marché de Noël, vont les contraindre à faire encore une fois équipe. Deux meurtres, deux enquêtes... de quoi occuper la brigade et le « gang des connasses » !

Mannequin pieds et jambes, Leeloo collectionne les objets Disney ainsi que les aventures d'un soir. Cette pétillante femme-enfant éprise de joie de vivre milite même activement pour le Front de Libération des Tétons en Otage ! Elle s'embarque dans un fabuleux voyage au cœur de l'Ouest américain avec ses amis. Parmi eux se trouve Elyas, kiné et champion de base-jump, dont le sex-appeal magnétique lui attire d'improbables ennuis au quotidien. Son béguin d'enfance... L'homme de ses rêves.

Recyclage du plastique : la grande illusion. Depuis 30 ans, dans son labo de chercheuse et sur tous les terrains du monde, Nathalie Gontard explore et scrute l'univers du plastique. D'abord fascinée par les potentialités du matériau magique, elle l'a vu ringardiser les matières traditionnelles et envahir sournoisement la planète. Elle a découvert ses empreintes sur les plages, au cœur des sols et même dans la chair d'innombrables animaux.

Meet Ella and her mother Fabia Moreno, who arrive in York one cold January day to set up their vintage dress shop. The flamboyant Fabia wants to sell beautiful dresses to nice people and move on from her difficult past. Ella just wants to fit in. But not everyone is on their side. Will Fabia overcome the prejudices she encounters? What's the dark secret she's hiding? And do the silk linings and concealed seams of her dresses contain real spells or is this all just 'everyday magic'?

Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another.

From the bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy. 'The number you are calling is unavailable. Please try again later.' Gina has only been married six months when her husband Rex goes on holiday to Spain and vanishes without a trace, tipping her dream new marriage into nightmare. As a frantic search gets nowhere, Gina is adamant that he's alive and vows never to give up hope.

Vous restez éveillée une partie de la nuit en repassant en boucle votre journée ? Vous avez du mal à vous concentrer car les pensées négatives vous envahissent ? Vous avez le sentiment de ne pas pouvoir contrôler votre esprit ?Vous êtes certainement une overthinker, une personne qui ressasse pendant des heures des pensées, des expériences et des sentiments négatifs. Ces prises de tête sont souvent sources de tristesse, de colère, d'anxiété et de dépression.Sortez de la boucle infernale et retrouvez sérénité et joie de vivre.

Pilotée par le consortium Forbidden Stories, ce livre est une enquête sur le scandale du logiciel Pegasus que de nombreux Etats, comme le Maroc, le Mexique ou les Emirats arabes unis, ont utilisé pour espionner en toute illégalité des journalistes, des militants ou des responsables politiques.

Die Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer ist auch heute noch ein aktueller Klassiker der Jugendliteratur. Es ist mehr als eine typische Lausbubengeschichte. Neben dem Waisenbub Tom Sawyer spielen die Tante Polly, der Halbbruder Sid, die Cousine Mary, der Sklave Jim und vor allem Huckleberry Finn die Hauptrollen in diesem spannenden und turbulenten Abenteuerroman, der auch die Erwachsenen begeistert.

Die Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer i ist auch heute noch ein aktueller Klassiker der Jugendliteratur. Es ist mehr als eine typische Lausbubengeschichte. Neben dem Waisenbub Tom Sawyer spielen die Tante Polly, der Halbbruder Sid, die Cousine Mary, der Sklave Jim und vor allem Huckleberry Finn die Hauptrollen in diesem spannenden und turbulenten Abenteuerroman, der auch die Erwachsenen begeistert.

When Kate and Nathan receive a photo of four kidnapped models, the clock starts ticking for the detectives to save their lives before it’s too late. Kate has been on the Murder Team for a few months now, working run-of-the-mill cases with Nathan. But the memory of that first case, and it's disturbing details, still bothers her. Meanwhile, four models arrive at a shoot in a local abandoned mental asylum and are violently kidnapped. The next day, a photo of them lands on the desk of Kate and Nathan, with a chilling note.

Elasia Masters used to make her living stealing from the rich. Now that the Crooked Family has kicked her out, she can’t do that anymore, or so she thought. Her new employer, Ormil Salavar, has a great first assignment for her. He wants her to travel to the southernmost border of the Commonwealth, break into the home of a nobleman, find, and steal an ancient, potentially dangerous artifact. How can everything change, and nothing really change? Once again, the young thief will have to use all her skills and training to take something that doesn’t belong to her without getting caught.

Former lovers become partners in Natalie Charles' new novel of the perfect crime... On the eve of trial, prosecutor Sally Dawson has all the evidence she needs to convict a man of killing his wife - until the "victim" reappears. Now, alone and pregnant, to save her career she must trust the very man who broke her heart - her sworn enemy, Ben McNamara. The case confounds Ben, a former marine JAG, but not the attraction budding between him and Sally. Their mutual desire never died.

The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader or listener - such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline, but for those who master it, the rewards are many. In this series of works by our greatest female writers, we bring you a selection of those we consider the best.

Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous power and wealth, of great beauty and total destruction.