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Smart and sexy divorcee Lucy Shaw, Shaw by name but unsure by nature, wants to find something - or someone - to bring her lasting happiness. But she keeps looking in all the wrong places: including the chocolate aisle of her local supermarket, the occasional bottle of vodka and her complex and troubled past, and she finds she loses more than she gains - a husband, her patience, her enormous boobs and her dignity for starters.Hampered by her tendency always to want what she hasn't got and an apparent inability to let go of the past, will Lucy ever find her elusive happy-ever-after? This witty, amusing, highly entertaining and fast-paced novel is sure to make you feel Lucy's dilemma, and warm your heart.

Do you remember that fellow who discovered Pluto? How he was just taking measurements for years and years and then one day he saw the same figures he always saw and... boof! A light went off in his brain, as if... yes, well... I just... it's kind of the way I feel right now...'This eclectic collection of poetry and short stories tells of love, loss, and life in all its intricacies. The raw, honest, heartfelt poems illuminate the multi-faceted perspectives and feelings of an author reflecting upon his life, his loved ones, his deterioration and his imminent and inevitable demise, whilst his short stories whisk you off on an escape to a variety of curious worlds, past, present and future. Collated and written in his final months, this collection is David Unsworth's last hurrah and gift to the world, a world for which he had boundless love and curiosity.

A personal account of fighting back against cancer

It should have been me,' cries Chief Inspector David Warne, over his wife's broken, dead body, the price for putting a London crime boss inside. Now, in the Garden of England, he searches for the killer of the gay heir of a prominent local family, headed by an industrialist from his Lancashire home town. North/South, past/present, white/black, gay/straight, justice/injustice are the themes. The 2003 invasion of Iraq is imminent, and Warne has just been on the big London demo against it. Who is the killer he seeks? What's the connection between the industrialist and the crime boss? What horror will the past reveal? Will Warne ever again find love?

Thriller

A historical novel set both in the 14th century and the 20th century

A contemporary thriller

A story for children aged 6 to 9 about the friendship between a little girl and a fox cub

A fantasy novel

Story for children about a young lion seeking love

A libretto and lyrics for a musical about Ada Lovelace

A collection of light-hearted poems about thepandemic lockdown

Contemporary novel about a newly released prisoner

A novel about a young woman living in Bristol during the Second World War

A story of a real-life English country home

A novel set in Britain during the Second World War

Historical novel set in the twentieth century between the Wars

Family memoir

A poem

A memoir of forty years of sea adventures and exploration

Have you ever thought about why a country's borders are where they are? 'Dividing up the World; the story of our international borders and why they are where they are', is an utterly fascinating study of how borders have come about and the stories behind them.As well as unearthing tales and anecdotes relating to more familiar borders, the author also examines less well-known ones including the Drummully Polyp, the Scots Dike, the Medicine Line, the Gadsden Purchase, Neutral Moresnet, the Green Line, the Sand Wall, the Gambian 'Ceded Mile', the Caprivi Strip and an island that changes nationality twice a year.The result is a highly entertaining, meticulously- researched book, full of accounts of geography, maps, politics, colonialism, power, aggression and negotiation. After reading 'Dividing up the World; the story of our international borders and why they are where they are', you will never think of borders in the same way again.

Contemporary novel about a rugby player

science-fiction novel about people travelling to a new planet

Contemporary coming-of-age novel set in Tuscany

Contemporary novel set in the world of chess

Novel about mental health issues and the Holocaust

Gurkha military memoir

Memoir

Children's mystery adventure novel

Contemporary thriller