Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn`t? Nina`s mum isn`t so sure. But she`s busy with her new husband & five year old Katie. & Nina`s almost an adult after all. & if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina`s drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can`t help piece together Saturday night. All Nina feels is a deep sense of shame, that something very bad has happened to her...A dark, funny
- sometimes shocking
- coming of age novel from one of the UK`s leading comedians. NINA IS NOT O.K. will appeal to fans of Caitlin Moran & Lena Dunham.

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Bringing to life another side of St Tropez & the legendary Cote d` Azur, Nina shows us a place where cooking has brought people together for generations & creates recipes inspired by locals, places & stories from her childhood here. She explores the real St Tropez & the surrounding area through its secret, scenic walks, eccentric bric-a-brac markets, vineyards & bustling communities of artists & fishermen. Oozing with charm & filled with classic French recipes for gourmet breakfasts, picnics, lunchtime snacks & dinner parties to impress, NINA ST TROPEZ represents family cooking from across the south of France
- with that added splash of St Tropez elegance & glamour that`s intrigued people for decades. Nina Parker has a passion for food. After university, she joined the team at L` Anima, London as a commis chef & fell in love with their style of cooking that uses fresh Italian ingredients with a rustic touch. She has spent time in some fantastic kitchens: from The Dorchester for Alain Ducasse, Tom Aikens, The Ledbury, to the unrivalled Senequier Bakery in St Tropez. Whilst working as chef for Bocca di Lupo`s Gelupo in Soho, they won TIME OUT`s `best gelateria`. In 2012 she launched her own catering company NINA, dedicated to bringing a taste of her childhood to the heart of London & beyond.
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Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaw`s drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fool`s-gold chase through the city`s grimy apartments & creaking transport system Pawel struggles for survival as part of a generation adrift in moral space & disconnected from family, neighbours & friends. Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe`s finest writers: both an existential crime novel & a major work of literature. ...

At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl & her family emigrate from the continent in search of a better life in America, only to pitch up in Ireland by mistake. In 1958, a mute boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. & in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity & family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith. Spanning generations & braiding together three unforgettable voices, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan shows us what it means to belong, & how storytelling can redeem us all. ...

Nine lives, nine very different religious paths: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet
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As one of al-Qaeda`s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks & swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda`s chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on civilians & saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side
- & his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy. From the killing fields of Bosnia to the training camps of Afghanistan, from running money & equipment in Britain to dodging barrel bombs in Syria, we discover what life is like inside the global jihad, & what it will take to stop it once & for all.
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Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt`s harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad & as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness & a devastating blend of angry despair & cool detachment, Zsolt
- one of the earliest writers on the Holocaust
- provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure of the cruelty, indifference, selfishness, cowardice & betrayal of which human beings
- the victims no less than the perpetrators
- are capable in extreme circumstances. Interspersed with moments of grotesque farce, grim irony & occasional memories of human kindness, Zsolt`s nightmarish but meticulously realistic chronicle of smaller & larger crimes against humanity is as riveting as it is horrifying.



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Winter, 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper has just claimed his thirteenth victim. Ripper thirteen, police nil. As public anger against the police mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is sent to take over the investigation. The Strafford Shootings remain unsolved, & the murders of the Jubilee summer of 1977 are still attributed to the Ripper. But Hunter soon realises that all is not as it seems
- & that the police are more heavily implicated in the killings than anyone could have imagined. Jack Whitehead, alone & mad in a mental institution after trying to exorcise the demons from his head with hammer & nail, appears to hold the key. What is the connection between the Ripper & this fresh spate of violence? & what will happen when these men's separate hells collide?
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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. ...

May 1983. John Pigott, an overweight lawyer as noble in his intentions as he is a slave to his desires, finds that the man convicted for Clare Kemplay's murder might be innocent
- & that all the people who could answer his questions are dead. June 1977. BJ the rent boy's life is in danger for what he knows, plagued by the horrors he has witnessed. Soon he must confront the possibility that the man purporting to be his saviour is the devil himself. December 1974. Maurice Jobson, the senior policeman known as The Owl, is sucked into a morass of corruption where murder & cruelty present themselves as the only tools for survival. Nineteen Eighty Three is a dark, disturbing & intense finale to The Red Riding Quartet, one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing.
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