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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's summer 1936 in rural Sussex, a local girl Kitty Allen answers an advert looking for 'a good plain cook', she has no idea what she's in for. Her employer is an American who believes in sunbathing in the nude. Kitty is in no place to criticise - after all she claimed to be a good cook, despite hardly knowing how to boil an egg.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. More people are working alone than ever before - whether as entrepreneurs, freelancers, creatives or consultants. Here's how to work alone and like it.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Jonmarc Vahanian was just a blacksmith's son in a small fishing village before raiders killed his family. Wounded and left for dead in the attack, Jonmarc tries to rebuild his life. But when a dangerous bargain with a shadowy stranger goes wrong, Jonmarc finds himself on the run, with nothing ahead but vengeance, and nothing behind him but blood.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. A fierce, and funny memoir of how the New York Times-bestselling author embraced her creativity - and how it saved her.

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Hardback. Condición: Good. Here, Kate Mosse tells her personal story of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her mother look after her beloved father through Parkinson's, then supporting her mother in widowhood, and finally as 'an extra pair of hands' for her 90-year-old mother-in-law. This is a story about the gentle heroism of our carers, about small everyday acts of tenderness, and finding joy in times of crisis. It's about juggling priorities, mind-numbing repetition, about guilt and powerlessness, about grief, and the solace of nature when we're exhausted or at a loss. It is also about celebrating older people, about learning to live differently - and think differently about ageing. But most of all, it's a story about love.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Never stake more than you can afford to lose.When failed magician turned cardsharp Valen Quinol is given the chance to play in the Forbearance Game-the invitation-only tournament where players gamble with secrets-he can't resist. Or refuse, for that matter, according to the petty gangster sponsoring his seat at the table. Valen beats the man he was sent to play, and wins the most valuable secret ever staked in the history of the tournament.Now Valen and his motley crew are being hunted by thieves, gangsters, spies and wizards, all with their own reasons for wanting what's in that envelope. It's a game of nations where Valen doesn't know all the rules or who all the players are, and can't see all the moves. But he does know if the secret falls into the wrong hands, it could plunge the whole world into war.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this annual bestseller, featuring the latest facts and figures about the world we live in.

Paperback. Condición: Good. From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. Patrick Dixon looks at how the future will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical - a future of boom and bust and great economic change as the emerging markets grow up; a future of great advances in medicine and also greater threats from viral epidemics; a future of political shocks and greater conflicts; a future in which people will strive for more privacy and businesses will change the way they relate to their staff and their customers; a future in which there will be driverless cars and solar power generated in the desert will power cities thousands of miles away. In short, with great perception and insight, Patrick Dixon highlights the risks that a future-proof business needs to be aware of, and what to prepare for if it is to prosper and survive in a world where customers and markets, politics and demographics, technology and skills, and opportunities and choices will be very different.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Bold, practical strategies that will shatter the glass wall in the workplace, and boost any woman's career.

Paperback. Condición: Good. From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.

Paperback. Condición: Good. The order of the world is in turmoil. An age of industry is beginning, an age of machines fuelled by magic. Sprawling cities rise, strange devices stalk the land. New money brings new power. The balance between the Hundred Kingdoms is upset. For the first time in generations the threat of war looms. In these turbulent days, fortunes can be won.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Empire. Revolution. Magic. Gerrit is the son of Bourshkanya's Supreme-General. Despite his powerful storm-affinity and the State's best training, he can't control his magic. To escape the brutal consequences, he flees. Celka is a travelling circus performer, hiding both her link to the underground and her storm-affinity from the prying eyes of the secret police. But Gerrit's arrival threatens to expose everything: her magic, her family, and the people they protect. The storms have returned, and everything will change.…

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Condición: Fair. While mankind is adjusting to its encounter with an alien civilisation, soldier Jim Leyton has absconded from the agency that trained him, and allied himself with a mysterious faction in order to rescue the woman he loves. Since his death, scientist and businessman Philip Kaufman has realised that there is more to the virtual world than suspected.…

Condición: Very Good. While mankind is adjusting to its encounter with an alien civilisation, soldier Jim Leyton has absconded from the agency that trained him, and allied himself with a mysterious faction in order to rescue the woman he loves. Since his death, scientist and businessman Philip Kaufman has realised that there is more to the virtual world than suspected.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. 'Fans of the Locked Tomb series should check this out' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'This is a story of revolution and feminine rage' - GRIMDARK'A beating, bloody heart' - ANCILLARY REVIEW OF BOOKSKorinna is raised to be a weapon for the empire. Aster is prepared to tear it all down.Heresy is power. Chaos is divineKorinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her Order. Or so she has been raised to believe. When she finishes her training, her destiny is revealed to her: she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium. But when she is kidnapped by pirate Aster Haran, Korinna's world is ripped apart. Aster is a witch, a dark matter eater. She has a vendetta against the Imperium, and the will to destroy everything in her path. She can train Korinna to use her magic to a devastating effect, and Korinna is drawn to her against her better judgment.Sahar is a judge for the empire, tasked with keeping order. She must find Korinna and return her to her ship. As war and Sahar loom closer, Korinna must choose her side, seize her power and fulfil her destiny.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. A manifesto for groups around the world that are seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other threats.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Loxley Fiddleback can see the dead, but the problem is. the dead can see her. Ghosts have always been cruel to Loxley Fiddleback, especially the spirit of her only friend, alive only hours before. Loxley isn't equipped to solve a murder: she lives near the bottom of a cutthroat, strip-mined metropolis known as "The Hole," suffers from crippling anxiety and doesn't cotton to strangers. Worse still, she's haunted. She inherited her ability to see spirits from the women of her family, but the dead see her, too. Ghosts are drawn to her like a bright fire, and their lightest touch leaves her with painful wounds. Loxley swears to take blood for blood and find her friend's killer. In doing so, she uncovers a conspiracy that rises all the way to the top of The Hole. As her enemies grow wise to her existence, she becomes the quarry, hunted by a brutal enforcer named Hiram McClintock. In sore need of confederates, Loxley must descend into the strangest depths of the city in order to have the revenge she seeks and, ultimately, her own salvation.…

Condición: Good. While mankind is adjusting to its encounter with an alien civilisation, soldier Jim Leyton has absconded from the agency that trained him, and allied himself with a mysterious faction in order to rescue the woman he loves. Since his death, scientist and businessman Philip Kaufman has realised that there is more to the virtual world than suspected.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Suitable for those who want to know what the next four decades hold in store, this title charts the rise and fall of fertility rates across continents; how energy resources will change in light of new technology, and how different nations will deal with major developments in science and warfare.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Eye-opening, moving, and crafted with expert research, this is a vital journey of epic scope, across the world's most challenging new frontiers.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Loxley Fiddleback can see the dead, but the problem is. the dead can see her. Ghosts have always been cruel to Loxley Fiddleback, especially the spirit of her only friend, alive only hours before. Loxley isn't equipped to solve a murder: she lives near the bottom of a cutthroat, strip-mined metropolis known as "The Hole," suffers from crippling anxiety and doesn't cotton to strangers. Worse still, she's haunted. She inherited her ability to see spirits from the women of her family, but the dead see her, too. Ghosts are drawn to her like a bright fire, and their lightest touch leaves her with painful wounds. Loxley swears to take blood for blood and find her friend's killer. In doing so, she uncovers a conspiracy that rises all the way to the top of The Hole. As her enemies grow wise to her existence, she becomes the quarry, hunted by a brutal enforcer named Hiram McClintock. In sore need of confederates, Loxley must descend into the strangest depths of the city in order to have the revenge she seeks and, ultimately, her own salvation.…

Condición: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condición: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condición: Good. The intense brand-new military horror series from one of the Major Horror Authors of the 21st Century - American Library Association.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Inside the weird and wonderful world of infinity, from endless hotels to bottomless cookie-jars - now in paperback.

Paperback. Condición: Good. The Corhonase citadel is a place of virtue and debauchery - and deadly secrets. For the Laurentine spies embedded there, every day brings danger. Nothing is as it seems, whether in the ballrooms and salons of the nobles' court or the catacombs beneath the citadel. Saliel has many secrets; her spying is one, her past as a pickpocket in Laurent's slums is another, but her most deeply guarded secret is the magic she possesses. She walks a narrow path between discovery as a spy and being burned as a witch. With a sadistic Spycatcher closing in, Saliel and her fellow spies are tested to the limits of their endurance. In the fight to stay alive they must trust each other - or die. Magic may be their only hope of survival.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. If you are part of a nuclear family with 2.4 children living in the suburbs then Christmas is an idyllic moment to savour the satisfaction of a life well lived. The eighteen contributors to The Junky?s Christmas write with elegance and compassion from behind the myths and the fairy tales.…