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Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it all, he barely has time to see their children. But his old school-friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Both families arrive at the villa and get a shock: Gerard has double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins, and tensions soon mount in the soaring heat. But there's also a secret history between the families - and as tempers fray, an old passion begins to resurface ...

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Secessionism and the European Union is a significant contribution to the literature on the evolving agendas of sub-state European parties, particularly those that have come to adopt the objective of independence.... The book is highly accessible, divided as it is into many short sections. * European Political Science * In this timely book, Glen Duerr provides a thoughtful discussion of a crucial actor in the contemporary politics of secessionism in Western Europe: the secessionist party. Informed by several interviews with party representatives and officials, Duerr's study is an important contribution to the literature on nationalism. -- Andre Lecours, University of Ottawa The old countries of Europe, once thought to be settled, are in danger of breaking apart-a development which would completely scramble the geopolitical calculus of this region and of the world. Dr. Glen Duerr does a masterful job in explaining the roots and reasons behind three of the most successful secessionist movements: Scotland, Flanders and Catalonia. In clear, accessible language, Duerr looks at the changing nature of national identities in these regions as they steer a transition from a narrowly based ethnic nationalism to a more inclusive civic nationalism. We have long needed a book like this. It will be invaluable for anybody interested in nationalism, international relations, and European studies. -- David Kaplan, Kent State University

'Lightness of touch and witty observation make this a perfect holiday [listen].' -- The Sunday Mirror

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Sophie Kinsella has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages. Sophie first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (also published as Confessions of a Shopaholic). The book's heroine, Becky Bloomwood - a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money - captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Becky has since featured in seven further bestselling books, Shopaholic Abroad (also published as Shopaholic Takes Manhattan), Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic & Sister, Shopaholic & Baby, Mini Shopaholic, Shopaholic to the Stars and Shopaholic to the Rescue. Becky Bloomwood came to the big screen in 2009 with the hit Disney movie 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. Sophie has also written nine standalone novels which have all been bestsellers in the UK, USA and other countries around the world - Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I've Got Your Number, Wedding Night, My Not So Perfect Life, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Best Fiction in 2017 and Surprise Me. Sophie's latest novel, I Owe You One, is a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything. In 2014 she published a Young Adult novel, Finding Audrey, about a teenage girl with social anxiety and her madcap family, and in January 2018, Sophie published the first illustrated book for young readers in her Mummy Fairy and Me series, about the charming adventures of a mother-daughter fairy duo (also published as Fairy Mom and Me). Sophie wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, aged 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence, Swimming Pool Sunday, The Gatecrasher, The Wedding Girl, Cocktails for Three and Sleeping Arrangements. Sophie was born in London. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She lives in the UK with her husband and family. Katherine Kellgren has recorded over 75 audiobooks, including winners of the Audie Award, the American Library Association's Odyssey Honor, the Earphones Award, the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award and ForeWord Magazine's Audiobook of the Year. She was named one of AudioFile Magazine's Best Voices of the Year for 2008, and in 2009 received the Audie Award for Best Solo Narration - Female. Katherine has appeared onstage in London and New York, and has recorded numerous plays and dramatisations of novels for radio.

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