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    • Wicked!

      • 1120 stránok
      • 40 hodin čítania

      Britain’s number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education.Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster of fashionable Bagley Hall, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his school with the students at Larkminster Comprehensive. His reasons for doing so are purely financial but he is also encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the young, pretty and enthusiastic new principal of the comprehensive school. The determined Janna has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure, and she will do anything to rescue her run-down, demoralized and cash-strapped school.The parents of Bagley Hall’s rich and pampered children are none too keen on this radical move, but the students see it as a great opportunity to get up to even more mayhem than usual. And for the pupils at the comprehensive school, many of them struggling with appalling home backgrounds, violence and lack of any parental support (problems which are not unknown to some of the Bagley Hall pupils) mixing with the posh school up the road is often a mixed blessing.

      Wicked!2012
      3,7
    • Pandora

      • 609 stránok
      • 22 hodin čítania

      No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family for 50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. During a firework party, the painting was stolen, and the hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York, and London.

      Pandora2010
      3,6
    • Huslistka

      • 352 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania
      Huslistka2009
      3,9
    • Boj o získanie televíznej licencie - tak by sa dal stručne zhrnúť strhujúci dej ďalšieho románu britskej autorky. Bývalý špičkový jazdec Rupert Campbell-Black poľahky preplával do politiky a stal sa - i vďaka osobnému šarmu - úspešným ministrom športu. Jeho dávny rival, lord Tony Baddingham, riaditeľ nezávislej televíznej spoločnosti, sa rozhodne, že v interview znemožní svojho soka pred celou krajinou. Reláciu moderuje Declan O'Hara, miláčik divákov, no objektívny človek s hlboko zakoreneným zmyslom pre spravodlivosť. Declan nesúhlasí s Tonyho praktikami, a preto s Rupertom založia konzorcium, ktoré sa chce ako konkurent uchádzať o televíznu licenciu. Lord Baddingham sa tomu bráni a rozpúta kampaň, v ktorej nešetrí nikoho a nič. Rozpúta nevídané vášne, odhalí lásky a ľúbostné aféry a tým zasiahne do života všetkých postáv.

      Rivali2006
      4,1