In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, keen for renovations to begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave.

Wild animals have done their grisly work & the human corpse is badly decomposed. Then a valuable signet ring is found close by, providing the first vital clue. It leads Commissario Guido Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice, to a family still grieving for its abducted son.. .

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Life as a student is good for Flynn. As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. But beneath the surface, things are changing. On a good day he feels full of energy & life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes he wants to compose & practise all night, at other times he can ...

Life as a student is good for Flynn. As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. But beneath the surface, things are changing. On a good day he feels full of energy & life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes he wants to compose & practise all night, at other times he can ...

One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis & joins SOE. Barely 28 years of age he ends up as a leader of French resistance, set up by Jean Moulin, whose horrific death features in the story, & heads a massive underground movement of some 20, 000 men.

The book has been compiled by Ray Jenkins, a distinguished TV, film & radio dramatist from first-hand interviews, with the drama of raids, torture & sudden death ever present

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The hill people & the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, & the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, & he & my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop.' Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents & grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, & when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans & a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, & sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees & hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for, & finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. ...

The hill people & the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, & the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, almost over my head, & he & my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents & grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, & when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans & a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, & sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees & hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for, & finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. ...

The hill people & the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, & the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, & he & my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop.' Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents & grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, & when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans & a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, & sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees & hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for, & finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. ...

The hill people & the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, & the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, & he & my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop.' Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents & grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, & when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans & a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, & sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees & hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for, & finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. ...