Download or read book Wicked Jilly written by Elizabeth Best and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jilly lay on her fat little stomach watching the sheets flapping in the wind. She lay perfectly still; only here eyes moved. Suddenly, Jilly raced towards the sheets. Then she was flying through the air, her mouth full of sheet and the wind blowing wildly. "Wicked Jilly!" Nanna cried. Nanna's life becomes hectic when she decides to buy a new dog as company for her old dog, Tash. 'Wicked' Jilly gets up to all sorts of mischief. Poor Nanna needs copious cups of tea and many good lie-downs to cope with Jilly's antics. But when Jilly runs away, Nanna realises just how special she is.
Download or read book Wicked written by Jilly Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of two schools... At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual. ------------------------------------ 'Simply enjoy the wicked pleasures Cooper does so well' The Observer 'A brilliantly refreshing read' Polly Vernon 'The perfect beach companion' Daily Mail 'I devoured it with as much joy as I would a bucket of pistachio ice cream' Daily Mail
Download or read book Pandora written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together. Look for Anne Rice’s new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, coming November 29, 2016.
Download or read book Riders Vol 2 written by Jilly Cooper and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brooding Jake Lovell, under whose hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, is driven to the top by his loathing of the darling of the show ring, Rupert Campbell-Black. Having filched each other's horses, and fought and fornicated their way around the capitals of Europe, the feud between the two men finally erupts with devastating consequences at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Download or read book All Dressed Up written by Jilly Gagnon and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remote hotel. A murder mystery. A missing woman. Everyone has a role to play, but what’s real and what’s part of the game? “Jilly Gagnon’s well-crafted maze of clues and shifting realities is the perfect read for fans of Lucy Foley.”—Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten The weekend getaway at a gorgeous hotel should have been perfect. But Becca is smarting from her husband Blake’s betrayal and knows that the trip is just an expensive apology attempt. Still, the drinks are strong, and the weekend has an elaborate 1920s murder mystery theme. She decides to get into the spirit and enjoy their stay. Before long, the game is afoot: Famed speakeasy songstress Ida Crooner is found “murdered,” and it’s up to the guests to sniff out the culprit. Playing the role of Miss Debbie Taunte, an ingenue with a dark past, Becca dives into the world of pun-heavy clues, hammy acting, and secret passages, hoping to take her mind off her marital troubles. Then, the morning after they arrive, the actress playing Ida’s maid fails to reappear for her role. Everyone assumes she flaked out on the job, but when snooping for clues as “Debbie,” Becca finds evidence that the young woman may not have left of her own free will. Told over a nail-biting forty-eight hours and interspersed with in-game clues, set pieces, and character histories from the flapper-filled mystery nested inside a modern one, All Dressed Up is a loving tribute to classic whodunits and a riveting exploration of the secrets we keep.
Download or read book Rivals written by Jilly Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into The Cut-Throat World Of Corinium Television Comes Declan O Hara, A Mega-Star Of Great Glamour And Integrity With A Radiant Feckless Wife, A Handsome Son And Two Ravishing Teenage Daughters. Living Rather Too Closely Across The Valley Is Rupert Campbell-Black, Divorced And As Dissolute As Ever, And Now The Tory Minister For Sport. Declan Needs Only A Few Days At Corinium To Realise That The Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, Is A Crook Who Has Recruited Him Merely To Help Retain The Franchise For Corinium. Baddingham Has Also Enticed Cameron Cook, A Gorgeous But Domineering Woman Executive, To Produce Declan S Programme. Declan And Cameron Detest Each Other, Provoking A Storm Of Controversy Into Which Rupert Plunges With His Usual Abandon. As A Rival Group Emerges To Pitch For The Franchise, Reputations Ripen And Decline, True Love Blossoms And Burns, Marriages Are Made And Shattered, And Sex Raises Its (Delicious) Head At Almost Every Throw As, In Bed And Boardroom, The Race Is On To Capture The Cotswold Crown.
Download or read book Appassionata written by Jilly Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most fun you can have under a Tenor... Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is in hock up to its neck and is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O'Neill, who claims droit de seigneur over every pretty woman joining the orchestra. And then Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian plans of his own to sabotage the RSO. Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper's novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, but also ends triumphantly with a rampageous orchestral tour of Spain and the high drama of an international piano competition. ------------------------------------- Praise for Appassionata: 'Delicious ... I could not put the damned thing down' Sunday Express 'A boisterous tale of sex and Chopin' Tatler 'Sexy, dazzling protagonists... the humour comes thick and fast' Daily Express
Download or read book Polo written by Jilly Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player.The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous.Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up, Ricky's life exploded into tragedy, and Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses - and Ricky France-Lynch. Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, and Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey - to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach and Deauville, and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought - a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup... ------------------------------ 'Compulsively readable and funny...the irrepressible Jilly remains irresistible' The Times 'Polo is the best thing she's ever done' Daily Mail 'A work of towering genius' Evening Standard
Download or read book The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous written by Jilly Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysander Hawkley is a good man - but far, far too attractive to women. Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a stray dog, an ill-treated horse or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue. And with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one bit. Lysander's mid-life crisis had begun at twenty-two. Reeling from the death of his beautiful mother, he was out of work, drinking too much and desperately in debt. The solution came from Ferdie, his fat, fast-operating friend: if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous, why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire, Lysander causes absolute havoc. But it is only when he meets Rannaldini, Rutshire's King Rat and a temperamental, fiendishly promiscuous international conductor, that the trouble really starts. The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini is Kitty, his plump young wife who runs his life like clockwork. Soon Lysander is convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs, even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker: Rupert Campbell-Black. --------------------------------- 'Wicked, sexy, sparkling with wit' Sunday Express 'Irresistible... I devoured it in a day... she's on cracking form' Sunday Telegraph 'Delicious ... her bawdy humour shines through at all times ... settle down and have a rollicking good time. Satisfaction guaranteed!' Jackie Collins
Download or read book Gigglers Aqua written by Kara Munn and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teaching guide accompanies the transport strand of Go Facts. It provides lesson plans and photocopiable resources for teaching non-fiction skills through guided reading and writing.
Download or read book Score written by Jilly Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-04 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos. As Rannaldini, Tristan, his charismatic French director, a volatile cast and bolshy French crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent feuds, abandoned bonking, temperamental screaming, and devious plotting will ensue. But although everyone wished Rannaldini dead, no one actually thought the Maestro would be murdered. Or that after the dreadful deed some very bizarre things would continue to occur. SCORE! is Jilly Cooper's most thrilling novel to date.
Download or read book famous written by Jilly Gagnon and published by Katherine Tegen Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut author Jilly Gagnon bursts onto the scene with a story equal parts bite and romance, perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Jennifer E. Smith, about falling for someone in front of everyone. In this modern day love story: Girl likes boy. Girl snaps photo and posts it online. Boy becomes insta-famous. And what starts out as an innocent photo turns into a whirlwind adventure that forces them both to question whether fame—and love—are worth the price…and changes both of their lives forever. Told from alternating points of view, #famous captures the sometimes-crazy thrill ride of social media and the equally messy but wonderful moments of liking someone in real life.
Download or read book Spring Mischief written by Caroline Kington and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third delightful rural romantic comedy set in the fictional West Country village of Summerstoke follows the fortunes of the Tucker family as they struggle to make ends meet in an increasingly challenging world. Their arch-enemies, the Lesters, are pressing them to sell their dairy farm; the Tucker brothers are at one another's throats over their wildly differing approaches to modern farming; love—or at least lust—is in the air; and just to complicate matters further, a TV crew has arrived in Summerstoke to film a romantic comedy series. The stage is set for all kinds of mayhem and machinations, as the Aga saga meets A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Download or read book Butterfly Cove written by Christina Skye and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl’s gone bad . . . for the town’s new golden boy in this “sweetly sexy treat” from the New York Times–bestselling author of A Home by the Sea (Booklist). Maybe opposites don’t always attract. If they did, architect Olivia Sullivan would have run away with bad boy Rafe Russo when they were teenagers. Instead, Olivia has spent ten years dreaming up designs for a life that hasn’t gone the way she planned. Still reeling from her career’s implosion and her father’s death, Olivia thanks her lucky stars for the support of her three lifelong friends. But this good girl is through sitting on the sidelines. When Rafe returns to the beautiful Oregon coast where they grew up, her former flame ignites a new desire. Now Olivia must take a walk on the wild side to show the new deputy that in matters of love . . . being bad can feel very good. Freshly back from Afghanistan, rugged ex-Marine and new deputy Rafe is done breaking laws and hearts. He’s always regretted leaving Olivia behind, but now she’s after adventure and he’d better proceed with caution. Because wanting her again might be easy, but fighting for a future together will be his biggest risk yet. “The sparks start to fly . . . Every one has a dream, and these four girls are making theirs come true. Butterfly Cove sounds like a great place to live.” —Fresh Fiction
Download or read book Hedgehogs in the City written by Ned Pike and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They climed into the scoop and Ruttel pressed the buttons. The scoop moved, back, left, right and then SPROINGG! It flung the three spiky bundles right onto the back of the garbage truck. Part of a series of full-colour chapter books with fun storylines allowing students to experience reading success as they become confident readers.
Download or read book Wennabees and Yum worms written by Duncan Richardson and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly opened the lid wide and smiled. "They're the yum-worms." She held up a shiny, fat, green worm and bit the tail off. "Oooh!" squeeked the worm, and its tail shot out even longer than it was before. "See?" said Holly. But Ms Reed couldn't see. She had fainted.
Download or read book Invisi pets written by Lisa Thompson and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hi kids. What's in the box?" Mum asked. "It's Sam's new pet", said Olivia. "His name is Wuzzy", said Sam softly. Suddenly from out of the box came a loud screech that made them all jump. Part of a series of full-colour chapter books with fun storylines allowing students to experience reading success as they become confident readers.
