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"My name is Ekaterina. I am 11 years old. I am dead."The sinister message appears on the Seven Continents Diamond Mining Corporation's website once a month. Chief Executive Sir Gilbert Villiers wants to have it stopped before his bid to mine for diamonds in Antarctica is ruined by any scandal.Consultants Kirill Solokov and Macey Church are hired to find the source. Macey investigates the company headquarters in London while Kirill follows a clue from Sir Gilbert's wife, the former ballerina Tatyana, which takes him halfway around the world to Kazbakistan and an abandoned diamond mine with a terrible secret. What is the connection between the mine, Sir Gilbert and the head of the environmental organisation ECO Warriors, Dr Roy Marsden? Kirill and Macey must find out before a powerful enemy destroys Sir Gilbert's reputation.

"My name is Ekaterina. I am 11 years old. I am dead."The sinister message appears on the Seven Continents Diamond Mining Corporation's website once a month. Chief Executive Sir Gilbert Villiers wants to have it stopped before his bid to mine for diamonds in Antarctica is ruined by any scandal.Consultants Kirill Solokov and Macey Church are hired to find the source. Macey investigates the company headquarters in London while Kirill follows a clue from Sir Gilbert's wife, the former ballerina Tatyana, which takes him halfway around the world to Kazbakistan and an abandoned diamond mine with a terrible secret. What is the connection between the mine, Sir Gilbert and the head of the environmental organisation ECO Warriors, Dr Roy Marsden? Kirill and Macey must find out before a powerful enemy destroys Sir Gilbert's reputation.

Timothy and Nicholas Aldridge are identical twins with very different lives. Timothy runs the family farm in a quiet part of the south-west of England, while Nicholas is a senior manager for the advertising company Madison & Oggers in London.One wet weekend both their worlds change for ever. Nicholas has an accident and has to stay on the farm, so Timothy secretly takes over his brother's job in London.Follow them both from one comic disaster to another as they find success, true love and happiness when chaos enters their lives.

Timothy and Nicholas Aldridge are identical twins with very different lives. Timothy runs the family farm in a quiet part of the south-west of England, while Nicholas is a senior manager for the advertising company Madison & Oggers in London. One wet weekend both their worlds change for ever. Nicholas has an accident and has to stay on the farm, so Timothy secretly takes over his brother's job in London. Follow them both from one comic disaster to another as they find success, true love and happiness when chaos enters their lives.

This language learner edition is graded as Council of Europe level B2 (intermediate). In addition to the original text, it contains tips for improving your English, pre-reading questions, post-reading discussion questions and a vocabulary list of key words for each chapter.Timothy and Nicholas Aldridge are identical twins with very different lives. Timothy runs the family farm in a quiet part of the south-west of England, while Nicholas is a senior manager for the advertising company Madison & Oggers in London. One wet weekend both their worlds change for ever. Nicholas has an accident and has to stay on the farm, so Timothy secretly takes over his brother's job in London.Follow them both from one comic disaster to another as they find success, true love and happiness when chaos enters their lives.

Beautiful sights, good food and warm weather is what young executive Emily Lee is looking for when she arrives to spend a week at the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation on the island of Pacelli in the Venetian lagoon. But is the Centre's guru, Dottore Caliban Leone, quite as spiritual as he pretends? What exactly is in the exotic tea he mixes? And what kind of supplies are being delivered by boat in the middle of the night? When Maria, the yoga and fitness teacher disappears, Emily decides to investigate. The search leads her from Pacelli to the fashionable Lido and then to the dark canals and narrow backstreets of Venice itself, where she finally learns which of the colourful individuals she has met at the Centre can really be trusted.

Beautiful sights, good food and warm weather is what young executive Emily Lee is looking for when she arrives to spend a week at the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation on the island of Pacelli in the Venetian lagoon.But is the Centre's guru, Dottore Caliban Leone, quite as spiritual as he pretends? What exactly is in the exotic tea he mixes? And what kind of supplies are being delivered by boat in the middle of the night?When Maria, the yoga and fitness teacher disappears, Emily decides to investigate. The search leads her from Pacelli to the fashionable Lido and then to the dark canals and narrow backstreets of Venice itself, where she finally learns which of the colourful individuals she has met at the Centre can really be trusted.