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'The Write Way to Die' is a fast-paced and intriguing blackly comic tale of murder in the creative quarter of a seaside town where the bodies are mounting up amongst the art installations.When Amy joins a writing group, it's murder. On paper, at least, as the eclectic members pen their perfect killings. The planner, the housewife, the pantser and the classicist all contribute their stories, some darkly comic, others simply gruesome. Then there's Robert, who wants to write a killer worthy of a nickname. Enter The Exhibitionist, the stuff of nightmares, and the darkest of all.
'A Giraffe Thing' is a compelling tale of love, loss and lies that will test your moral compass as you ride the emotional rollercoaster of Lou's life. Lou's dysfunctional family is built on fragile foundations of adultery. She lost the only man she ever loved and it nearly destroyed her. He was never truly hers though. Now she runs the risk of losing her daughter too. That really would destroy her. But secrets have a way of coming out.
So what are you saying, Josh?' Lindsay asked me, 'that there's a secret Roman town down here where people speak Latin and which nobody knows about in the world we come from?' This extraordinary, highly imaginative, hugely entertaining novel tells the story of fifteen-year-old Josh Moonford, his younger twin brother and sister Sam and Dora, Cornish girl Lindsay Penhaligon, warm-hearted gang leader Troy Wilson and arrogant sixth-former (and self-proclaimed genius) Declan Jacques, and their mind-blowing adventure in the underground high-tech Roman world of Cantia, located beneath the famous cathedral city of Canterbury. Can Josh and his friends - aided by the world-famous movie star Carlo Clancy - end the brutal Cantian revolution that could lead to disaster for our world?
The Perfect Slime presents the latest state of knowledge and all aspects of the Extracellular Polymeric Substances, (EPS) matrix – from the ecological and health to the antifouling perspectives. The book brings together all the current material in order to expand our understanding of the functions, properties and characteristics of the matrix as well as the possibilities to strengthen or weaken it. The EPS matrix represents the immediate environment in which biofilm organisms live. From their point of view, this matrix has paramount advantages. It allows them to stay together for extended periods and form synergistic microconsortia, it retains extracellular enzymes and turns the matrix int...
Will Lucy ever be able to put her own happiness first? Lucy Shaw, sure by name but not by nature, wants to make her marriage work. In her head, that is. Her heart has other ideas as she embarks on a bittersweet journey to try and find true happiness.To the outside world, Lucy's life looks close to perfect: a doting husband, a model son, a lovely home, but it's all an act and the strain is starting to show as Lucy searches for something that will make her life bearable.This is a warm, witty and searingly honest novel of life, love and friendship.
Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.
Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her... so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?Not only that, but as Vanny tries to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, she develops a crush on Norwegian sex-god Sven while also falling for a stunning and adoring Frenchwoman. Meanwhile, Vanny's hoping a revolutionary new drug treatment will save her best friend Charlotte's life.Set in London, Monaco, Budapest, Helsinki, Odessa, New York... and Leicester, this sparkily written, passionate, emotional and entertaining novel will rock your boat... even if you've never shouted'Checkmate!'
Medically unexplained somatic symptoms are problematic in psychiatry, primary care settings, and other clinical areas. The burden they impose on health-care systems constitutes a significant public health problem. At the international symposium "Rethinking Somatoform Disorders," this problem was addressed by specialists working in somatoform disorders, psychiatric nosology, epidemiology, and biological and cross-cultural psychiatry. The meeting was the third of the Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the World Psychiatric Association.
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