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Shockwave The
Countdown to Hiroshima
Stephen Walker’s countdown to Hiroshima and its aftermath is a tense, real-life narrative of events as they unfolded in the last terrible weeks of the war. Unprecedented interviews with American and Japanese witnesses interweave in a tapestry of voices. They include the co-pilot who writes a minute-by-minute diary on board the Enola Gay. The atomic scientist who arms the bomb in mid-air, equipped with a screwdriver. The Japanese student desperately searching for his lover in the ruins of the city. The doctor forced to treat thousands of burnt bodies with only soy-bean oil and leaves. Last voyage of the
Valentina
But the discovery of her mother’s portrait sends the girl back to Italy to find her family—and the truth about Valentina. Amid the olive groves of the Amalfi coast, its balmy air rich with the scent of figs, a tale of deception and betrayal is waiting to be discovered. It is a tale that takes Alba into the past — but also gives her a new future. Santa Montefiore brilliantly captures the intrigue and skulduggery of a country at war in a very absorbing romance’. The Little Lady
Agency
Meet Honey: A multi-tasking Marry Poppins in silk stockings who, as owner of The Little Lady Agency, can make over a man faster than Trinny & Susannah—and business is booming. So far Melissa has kept her secret adventures as Honey separate from her home life. But when an intriguing new client requests her services on a regular basis, it becomes hard to tell where Honey ends and Melissa begins. A warning: Start this only if you’ve got a whole day to spare - you won’t want to stop reading until it’s finished. A fabulously funny and original debut, introducing the most loveable romantic heroine since Jane Austen’s Emma’ Chris Manby Grip
But Francis Carrolt has
put everything he has into a project that will finally bring him the
success he craves. He simply cannot afford to bail out his son. And his
ambitious wife, Rachel, wants a baby-while his dangerously alluring
first wife wants him back. Everyone wants to keep a grip: on their money
and their jobs. On their dreams. But something’s got to give. |
At 9.15 am on August 6,
1965 a bomb plummets towards a city. Few of the bustling commuters below
look up. There are no sirens, no warnings. When it explodes, the
temperature soars to millions of degrees. Tens of thousands of people
are annihilated. The destruction is catastrophic, as if a small sun had
suddenly blown itself to bits..jpg)
Alba always feels like an
outsider. She hardly knew her Italian mother and her English father acts
as if Valentina never existed. She despises country life almost as much
as she despises her stepmother and step-sister. On board the houseboat
named after her dead mother, Alba’s life is little more than a selfish
search for fun and pleasure.
Meet Melissa: A shy,
homely gal who can bake the perfect sponge, but can’t find the perfect
man. Her friends adore her; her posh, eccentric family ignore her..jpg)
James Carroll only meant
to do one deal to get to film school. But it went wrong. Now he owes
`A330,000 to drug-dealer Roger Oates. Just a year of quiet business away
from retiring with his beloved family to his dream home in Honolulu,
Roger knows this is no time to let anyone get away with anything. So if
James can’t pay, his parents must.