Vivienne: 233 books

Hilda Hopkins is up to her old tricks. After a close shave with her old nemesis, PC Barbara Grey, at Victoria Station, Hilda finds herself a cushy billet as Maid to a Madame. Madame Tempest to be precise! While Madame busies herself handing out discipline, lines and lashes to a steady stream of middle...

Narrowly escaping capture by hopping a freight train out of London, Hilda finds herself in the country home of Sir Ambrose Possnet-Meysey and once more having to make a life or death decision! Our machine knitting serial killer wants nothing more than to be left alone with her beloved yarns, patterns...

Hilda Hopkins is back with a vengeance in this hilarious seventh adventure. From scaring her driving instructor half to death to going all the way with twisted security staff at a secret laboratory, our machine knitting undercover assassin is pitted against evil scientists and their killer creations....

Even tucked away in a convent, knitting scarves for the Nuns to earn her keep, Hilda is but one mere coincidence away from death and drama! This time she is arrested, then abducted and then she absconds from the clutches of a murderous gang of bank robbers, all the time accompanied by her arch nemesis,...

2000 years ago the roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern book for today....

In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in Western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on...

Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed...

"Johnston, Roseby, and Kuehnle take you behind the child's eyes, into their heads...[they] flesh out the familial context, and bring it all back into the larger social world....When you are done reading, you know who these families are, what the children need, and -- as a clinician -- how you...

Now with online resources to support subject knowledge! Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. To help your students master this, the 8th edition of this established text now comes with a range of online resources available...

Lighten Up offers a unique lifestyle program that invites you to return to the basics of wellness. You will learn not to obsess about health, but rather manage the seven issues that have the greatest impact on your everyday health and well-being. These seven issues are: your love relationship with...

This guidebook collects the best 30 high fell walks in the Lake District. Every route is graded for difficulty and ranges between 7-23km, and includes annotated OS maps and variant routes. The walks are divided into 6 sections according to where walkers can start: the Keswick area, Borrowdale and...

This guidebook describes 30 low-level day walks in the valleys, beside the lakes and on the low fells of the Lake District, suitable for walkers of all abilities. Each route is illustrated with OS map extracts, and range from 7 to 17km in length, with no technical difficulties over terrain from wide...

Each story may be read as a standalone, but it is advised to read in order. The trilogy is now complete. Jada Hunt knows her town has issues. As the owner of Quickdraw’s bustling new spa, she isn’t prepared to move without a fight. Quickdraw is home, and she plans to stand her ground. Cougar...

Princess Ysolde Westbrook faces an uncertain future if she fails to obey the king’s decree and choose a husband. As she denies one suitor after the next, an assassination plot places her life in peril. Years of service as a paladin to the goddess of light make Geoffrey Ashcroft the paragon...