This fun witty self-help book for brides-to-be tells the modern woman the truth about weddings. A Modern Girl’s Guide to Getting Hitched gives tips guidance and case studies on how to plan for your big day cope with your families and friends and achieve your own goals. This entertaining and informative book is aimed at real women and tells the truth about weddings that the magazines don’t dare to mention. Topics covered include: – Coming to terms with never being able to pull men again – Dealing with the details that will drive you mad and discovering the available options – Looking like a princess – without having to behave like one – Creating the right service for you – Speeches – choosing the right people for the job and controlling their content – Choosing a bridesmaid without losing all your female friends – Learning how to balance being a wedding bore with a full-time job – Judgement Day – including common disasters and last minute fixes A Modern Girl’s Guide to Getting Hitched is a must-have light-hearted guide to one of the most unintentionally stressful days of a girl’s life.

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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner her childhood friend who like Cecilia has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start and will have become victims of the younger girl’s imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner her childhood friend who like Cecilia has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start and will have become victims of the younger girl’s imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

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Two new girls have arrived at Malory Towers – and they couldn’t be more different! Tomboy Bill spends more time with her horse than in the classroom while American girl Zerelda seems determined not to fit in with the others. Darrell has an exciting term in store. Not only does her sister Felicity start at Malory Towers she’s made Head of the Fourth Year! But can Darrell live up to the responsibility of the role?

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The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her slave Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole a small dockside trader is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar rum and slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful haunting intensely disturbing this is a novel of desire and shame of individuals of a society and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.

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Nothing is more personal than a name and the naming of a baby is taken very seriously by all parents-to-be. With an extensive easy-to-use alphabetical listing of every boy’s and girl’s name imaginable 40 001 Best Baby Names unique among the plethora of baby name books on the market also includes fun individualised lists such as: good names for race-car drivers names that spawn nasty nicknames names for children who are handsome or beautiful nerd/dork/wallflower names deathrow names names for smart kids and much much more! With 40 001 names to choose from in an accessible enjoyable format 40 001 Best Baby Names is the essential resource for all parents-to-be.

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Be careful what you wish for… ; ; Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart a wise head and poor planning skills; which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when Death came for Desiderata. So now it’s up to Magrat Garlick Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn’t marry the Prince. ; ; But the road to Genua is bumpy and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire werewolf and falling house (well this is a fairy tale after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who’ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper “happy ending” even if it means destroying a kingdom!

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The Fifth Form is putting on a pantomime and Darrell’s writing it! But Cinderella doesn’t always go smoothly. Which girl will get to play the lead? And who on earth is writing the producer anonymous letters? New girl Amanda doesn’t really fit in at Malory Towers. She’s headstrong and arrogant – but is fantastic at games! Amanda’s destined to swim for the Olympic team – but will she make it?

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Age-range: 14+ ‘Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep – sometimes with each other. We’re smart we’ve inherited classic good looks and we know how to party. It’s a luxe life but someone’s got to live it.’ The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool – set in New York’s glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents. ‘Gossip Girl’ is the ultimate in sophistication scandal and luxury – in fact if Carrie Bradshaw of ‘Sex and the City’ had a younger sister there is no doubt she would be ‘Gossip Girl’! Publisher’s Weekly is quoted: ‘Gossip Girl has the effect of gossip itself – once you enter it’s hard to extract yourself; teens will devour this whole’. We will be publishing the series at regular intervals throughout 2003 with a high profile energetic and suitably cutting-edge marketing campaign. This deliciously catty and engrossing series will be the spicy vanguard for Bloomsbury pushing the bundaries into young adult fiction.

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