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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Get acquainted with a northern soul Jimmy Nail has been a household name since Auf Wiedersehen Pet hit our screens in the 1980s. since then his career as an actor and a musician has put on him on the silver screen alongside Madonna and given him a No. 1 hit single. Success on this astonishing scale was beyond the wildest dreams of the working class lad whose harsh childhood and brutal schooling put him on a collision course with Strangeways. But a short spell in prison helped propel Nail onwards and upwards. With the support of his friends and family it wasn’t long before Jimmy’s unique talents and single-minded determination brought him attention of a different kind and changed his life for ever. In A Northern Soul Jimmy Nail tells his own vivid story in this intriguing inspiring and sometimes confounding account of how one man rose to fame and fortune by refusing to be anything but himself.

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The VFS-002M is Mac compatible and comes with 35mm and 110mm slide and negative trays. Convert your old memories onto your PC or Mac ready for editing archiving restoring or printing. Transfer your old 35mm negative film and slides and 110mm instamatic negatives onto your PC/Notebook/Mac via a simple plug and play scanner with no driver to install. With fast one touch scanning it is easy to bring those old pictures back to life. Perfect for restoring all those old cherished memories and moments back into the digital world and sharing by email or Facebook. If you want to remove redeye or enhance your image in anyway then simply use the bundled Arcsoft Media Impressions software. This is the first scanner to be capable of scanning 110mm negatives. Features: Create digital images of all your old slides and 35mm and 110mm negatives Scans 35mm slides and negatives and also 110 instamatic negatives Plug and play – no drivers to install captures an image in 1 second Compatible with PC (XP Vista 32 and 64 Windows 7) and Mac Includes Media Impressions software for image capture and editing Quick one touch scan Contents: USB powered VFS-002 scanner 110 negative tray 35mm negative tray 35mm slide tray Lens cleaning tool Arcsoft Media Impressions software Quick install guide Size: Dimensions: 7.7 x 9.2 x 10cm     Weight: 189g

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Whilst sticky notes are a pretty useful piece of kit in our lives they aren’t terribly exciting. These origami sticky notes won’t revolutionise your life but they might make day-to-day tasks like writing shopping lists slightly more fun and are a great way to help kill time at work. Each sticky note has on it instructions and dotted lines for you to follow and create a simple origami design from a very cute looking cat to a swan or even the somewhat random piano there’s something for everyone.  With 100 of them to do you should be an expert by the time you run out of paper!

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This is the warm and enchanting new novel from the bestselling author of “Going Home”. Laura Foster was a hopeless romantic. It was her greatest character flaw for it was the one thing that genuinely got her into trouble! Her friends know it her parents know it – even Laura acknowledges she lives either with her head in the clouds or buried in a romantic novel. But what’s wrong with seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses even if it’s not delivered her a real-life dashing hero yet? But when Laura’s latest relationship ends in disaster rather than a glorious sunset she swears off men and particularly hopeless romantic fantasies for good. With her life in tatters around her she foolishly agrees to go on holiday with her parents and grandmother (combined age nearly 200!). After a few days of traipsing round Norfolk craft shops and National Trust properties Laura’s ready to tear her hair out. And then she meets prickly but sexy Nick estate manager at Chartley Hall one of the country’s greatest stately homes. She swiftly finds she shares more than just a sense of humour with him – in fact she starts to think she could fall for him. But is Nick all he seems?Or has Laura got it wrong again? Will he be the one who makes her enter the convent permanently or is he The One who could thaw her frozen heart? ; ; ‘Well written… you’ll love it’ Daily Mail ; ; ‘Romantic… Gripping…Marks Harriet Evans out as a writer of superior popular fiction her seemingly sunny coming of age story darkening at every turn’ The Lady ; ; ‘Escapism that brings with it the promise of “custard yellow” sands and hot summer sun.’ Independent ; ; ‘Complex storylines flawed characters and cupboards that positively rattle with skeletons. If you’ve yet to add Harriet Evans to your “must-read” list now is a great time to start.’ Daily Record ; ; ‘A modern romance and a delightful tale of second chances’ Now ; ; ‘Heartwarming and hugely enjoyable’ Closer ; ; ‘A broken heart and a forbidden affair are the compelling components of this poignant tale of self-discovery…Wonderful.’ Marie Claire ; ; ‘(A) story of heartbreak and rivalry… An effortless and deeply satisfying romantic tale’ Glamour ; ; Praise for I Remember You: ; ; ‘A cute story about a girls search for happiness…Very touching warm and sweet’ Heat ; ; ‘A moving and witty story of love friendship and self discovery this is a great read for those cosy nights in’ Closer ; ; ‘The perfect girly read’ Cosmopolitan ; ; ‘A touching tale’ Daily Express

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Whilst sticky notes are a pretty useful piece of kit in our lives they aren’t terribly exciting. These origami sticky notes won’t revolutionise your life but they might make day-to-day tasks like writing shopping lists slightly more fun and are a great way to help kill time at work. Each sticky note has on it instructions and dotted lines for you to follow and create a simple origami design from a very cute looking cat to a swan or even the somewhat random piano there’s something for everyone.  With 100 of them to do you should be an expert by the time you run out of paper!

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Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable alcoholic mother a mother who played tortuous unpredictable games – games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son but a slave; no longer a boy but an ‘it’. His bed was an old army cot in the basement his clothes were torn and smelly and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog’s bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting an inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive. ‘Dave Pelzer conveys brilliantly how his own determination allowed him to keep alive his dream of one day find a family who would be proud to call him their son. Truly touching and emotionally shocking. A marvel’ Best

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Our Personalised Love and Romance Calendar makes the ideal present for that love struck couple we all know, or even as a gift for that special person in your life to show how you feel. Ok, it’s not quite an engagement ring but it’s got to be better than a mix-tape, committing to a whole twelve months of date reminders, and general organised bliss?

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The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor stalwart of the Conservative Association who dreams of membership of Scotland’s most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. In McCall Smith’s hands such characters retain charm and novelty simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith tackling issues of trust and honesty snobbery and hypocrisy love and loss but all with great lightness of touch. Clever elegant and funny this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters’ struggles to resolve them.

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Our Personalised Love and Romance Calendar makes the ideal present for that love struck couple we all know, or even as a gift for that special person in your life to show how you feel. Ok, it’s not quite an engagement ring but it’s got to be better than a mix-tape, committing to a whole twelve months of date reminders, and general organised bliss?

Price : £ 14.95

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