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He steps off the train and they're there, watching and waiting, anticipating the moment when his head will turn and their eyes will meet. But there are too many people. The platform's crowded and for ten seconds nothing happens, until suddenly somebody moves, a gap opens up and he sees them off to his...

An exotic location will keep Frances Gardiner's mind focused on her career as a jockey, interrupted by a terrible accident over a year earlier. She can't afford to let love get in the way, but no one could have foreseen how her life was to change when she decided on impulse to take up a job abroad.After...

Living the life of a busy nurse means Selina doesn't have much time for romance, or so she thinks. But sometimes you have got to take a chance in life, and Selina does just that with amazing consequences.When her flatmate leaves to get married Selina feels it might be time to make a change too, and...

It was not an easy prospect for nanny Isabelle Mendes to hand over three year old Jack Carlton to a father he had never seen. After his mother was killed in an accident it had been decided that Jack should live with his estranged father, Jeffrey, and that Isabelle, who had looked after him since birth,...

The most comprehensive reference book on sports betting on the market with over 500 entries. Wide ranging, often quirky, sometimes offbeat but never boring if you're interested in betting on sports or even just reading about it. Laid out in an A-Z format, the book takes a wide angled definition of...

In his days as a young seaman Stuart MacDonald dreamt of sailing away on his own, but a career at sea and later in business got in the way. Finally at the age of sixty four he quit work and set off from Scotland. With no fixed idea of how long he would be away, or how far he would get, he reaches the...

This book is by way of a follow-up to that best selling tale of daring-do and self sacrifice entitled 'A Boy's Own Offshore Adventure'. It came about as a result of a discussion with my wife, who wondered whether I could write a block-busting detective novel, in the manner, she said, of your hero Ian...

Human culture from around the World contains many myths that attempt to explain such things as the creation of the Universe, the Sun, planets, Moon and the Earth, the existence and role of gods and goddesses, nature spirits, rites of passage for young people and the hero overcoming evil. Both Freud...

Two young outsiders - Bron, a jaded musician unworldly and luckless, and Dan, a semi-reformed criminal secretive and haunted - are brought together by a chance encounter and drawn by kinship of character, desperation and music into each other's worlds. Between them on Dan's council estate comes the...

Lisa Jacobson, a young Danish girl, is a victim of vicious World War II retribution. She leaves Denmark and discovers success and tragedy in the Gower Peninsula of South Wales. During the 1950's and 60's she is persecuted by betrayal, deceit and revenge, but the passion of her Celtic...

Disfigured and forgotten by the Falkland's War, Kristian Treharne embarks upon the more challenging campaign of renewing an old love affair - a mission fraught with more unexploded bombs and surprises than even his veteran instincts are able to anticipate. Meanwhile his sister, Charlotte Treharne,...

NICE International was set up to respond to the requests from around the world for help to improve evidence-based decisions about resource allocation in healthcare by improving systems, capacity and information- gathering. NICE International works with individual governments or funding agencies to support...

Jamie Stewart was a young man with everything. Charm, good looks, a baronetcy and a vast fortune. Unfortunately, he had something more a gift inherited from his mad grandfather Clarence, which enabled him to read minds. A destructive gift which made him invincible at the poker table but crippled his...

In 1830 the Dunn family, two farm workers and a governess Allie emigrate to Western Australia, building 'Woburn House' beside the Margaret River. A daughter is born which is a disappointment causing a rift between the couple.The story follows the success and failure of the family, their trials and up...