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Is there such a thing as just good friends...?When a long-distance phone call summons private investigator Annie McHugh's lover and business partner, Gerry, across the Atlantic Annie's left in charge.

Follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of Annabel's, Mark Birley; the womanising, multi millionaire James Goldsmith; and the infamous Lord 'Lucky' Lucan.

After countless battles and sieges, the soldiers of the first crusade are at last within reach of their ultimate goal: Jerusalem. Demetrios Askiates, the Emperor's spy, has had enough of the crusade's violence. But when a diplomatic mission leads to a deadly ambush, he realises he has been snared in the power struggles which underlie the crusade.

But for Evie life is harder. Honor adores Evie for her unconventionality, her honesty and her naughty sense of humour - although others find Evie prickly and impatient.

Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom. This book tells the story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Open House and Never Change. Three women demonstrate the power of love and the importance of freedom in this unique new novel by the author of The Art of Mending, Open House, and The Year of Pleasures.

Two high profile victims are found murdered within 24 hours of each other. Both men have been scalped. Jan Fabel and his murder team find themselves under pressure to track down the killer. But Fabel is caught in a web of intrigue, obsession and revenge that seemingly spans sixteen centuries. He must find the crucial link to slove these murders.

Many mediums, like the notorious Madame Blavatsky, were exposed as charlatans yet there were some mediums who continued to communicate directly with another world, who despite every rigorous scientific test seemed to prove that souls survived death.

'We must reject the idea - well-intentioned, but dead wrong - that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business".' So begins this astonishingly blunt and timely manifesto by leading business thinker Jim Collins.

In the crypt of the Medici Chapel in Florence, palaeopathologist, Edie Granger, and her uncle, Carlin Mackenzie, are examining the mummified remains of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. Edie and Mackenzie both have serious doubts about the true identity of at least two of the five-hundred-year-old bodies.

The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land. Through all the years of his reign, through stark personal tragedy and chill forebodings as his son grew into a weak, corrupted price, Edward I strove to weld a nation united from England, Scotland and Wales.

Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just as grand a match. A good and generous husband but a weak king, he rules a nation that still remembers his cruel and foolish father, King John.

and that she not only had no husband - which was a commonplace on Leather Lane - but seemed never to have possessed one...'When the mysterious Sarah Tanner opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms on the corner of Leather Lane and Liquorpond Street, her arrival amongst the poor market-traders causes something of a stir.

Provides advice, tricks and solutions to conquer the challenges of motherhood.

Seizing the day, as they pull into Euston station, Alan asks Ange out to dinner and so begins the unlikeliest of liaisons. They even travel to Rome seeing many wonderful things as Alan learns to live for the moment and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.

Determined to start a new life, Louisa Forrester has come to Scotland in search of a second chance. She meets Marnie Donovan, an American woman who has travelled to Scotland in search of the childhood home of her eccentric benefactress. This is a story of three women and how they learn to embrace the future.

In school playgrounds, parents huddle in worried packs, putting together their final plans to survive the summer weeks - school is officially out. Amanda has a plan to make it through the summer holidays with her three, overexcited offspring. But the addition of fellow-mum Suzanne and her perfect son Orlando quickly shatters Amanda's adventure.

A sequel to the book "Lost in Translation".

David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales and Kate Medhurst, from a genteel town in the Thames Valley, embark upon an idyllic love affair away from the conflict that surrounds them.

Drawing on dozens of interviews with his family, lovers, colleagues and friends - and mining a rich store of primary research - Donald Spoto chronicles Alan's achievements as a performer against the backdrop of a complicated personal life.

The hit novels behind the major new TV series Vienna Blood___________________________Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the city's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds.

And why footballers are in fact underpaid. Packed with amusing anecdotes, bustling with great football stories and full of strong opinions, Lovejoy on Football is the must-have football book of 2007.

In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. When someone decides the only solution is to have her killed before she loses her husband the election Constantin's innocent involvement with her pitches him straight into the middle of a murder investigation.

Can't wait to read the next one!' -- ***** Reader review'Buy this book and read it, you won't regret it' -- ***** Reader review*********************************************JONATHAN QUINN'S WORK COMES AFTER THE CRIME.

The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!"'The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham.

In a snowbound village in the German mountains, a young woman discovers an extraordinary secret. Within hours of getting her message, Nick finds himself on the run, delving deep into the past before it catches up with him. Hunted across Europe, Nick follows Gillian's trail into the heart of a five-hundred-year-old mystery.

When father-of-two Sam loses his job, he reluctantly agrees to stay at home while his wife returns to work.

The school athletics fair is meant to be a celebration of youth and fitness, but personal grudges, haughty attitudes, and long-standing rivalries have turned healthy competition into all-out war! And can the misfits of class 2-C ever hope to defeat the athletic, hard-studying, self-righteous creeps of class 2-D?

Harima Kenji has tried everything he can think of to attract his cute-but-dim classmate Tsukamoto Tenma. Can a delinquent punk and a stubborn, quick-to-anger rich girl end their long-running feud? Meanwhile, the inscrutable foreign exchange students from America in rival class 2-D face off against our hapless heroes from 2-C.

When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France, her mother, Jessica knows instinctively there is more to it. However, Natalie's father, Charlie is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions. This book presents a story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal.