Pip has lost both his parents. On a visit to their grave, he meets a run away convict who is to change Pip's life. Pip has one wish in life, to become a gentleman. His wish becomes an obsession after he falls in love with Estella. His poor uneducated background is changed when a mysterious person gives Pip enough money to make his dream come true.
Hard Times is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire.rnIt depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedomuntil their sporot is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pom…
When spirited socialite Emma Woodhouse appoints herself matchmaker to her gentle friend HArriet, she can't possibly imagine the chaos she will create. Yet might this social disorder bring a match for Emma herself? One she would never have guessed.......
For Now Forever..... Tycoon Daniel Macgregor is wealthy, charming and incredibly arrogant! He's also exactly the type of man that fiercely independent Anna Whitfield wants to avoid. Convincing Anna to marry him will be the biggest challenge of Daniel's life!rnIn from the Cold ...... As widowed Allanna Flynn nurses soldier Ian MAcGregor back to health, their growing attraction turns into an all …
A call frm an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus of the Lothian And Borders olice. Suddenly it seems Edinburgh's streets are crowded with the lost and forgotten. Happy reading
To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the …
Kay scarpetta has been training at the dover port mortuary, mastering the art of virtual autopsy, a ground breaking procedure that could soon revolution forensic science. and it is not long before the new skill urgently need to bwe put into paratice. A young man drops dead apparently from a heart condition, erily close to scarpetta home. But when his body is examined, there are stunning indicat…
A really gripping narrative, full of suspense and unexpected turns, which will keep you hooked until the climax on its final page.... I have never read a thriller based in Russia which has such an authentic feel.bu Orlando Figes, Evening Standard.rnrn'Archangel is Harris's strongest book yet, confirming him as the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller. by Peter Millar, T…
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Books, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel …
On his first voyage, Gulliver finds himself in Liliput, a land where everybodu and everything is one twelfth his size. Then his travels take him to Brobdingnag, a land of giants. Through his experiences, both funny and frightening, he learns many things about people and customs in different cultures.