Kat Matthews believes life is an adventure, to be taken at leisure. When vacationing with her mother in Vale, Colorado, she meets an eccentric, rich couple who have a bizarre proposition. They want to hire her to date their son. & not just date him. They want her to train him in how to date so he ...

Kat Matthews believes life is an adventure, to be taken at leisure. When vacationing with her mother in Vale, Colorado, she meets an eccentric, rich couple who have a bizarre proposition. They want to hire her to date their son. & not just date him. They want her to train him in how to date so he ...

Bitter Almonds is a remarkable memoir, a tribute to Sicilian food & culture, & the record of an historic & vanishing craft. At the heart of the book are forty-six recipes of unique Sicilian specialities, written down for the first time.

In the early 1950s, Maria Grammatico & her sister were sent by their impoverished mother to the San Carlo, a cloistered orphanage in Erice, an ancient hill town on the western coast of Sicily. It was a Dickensian existence

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' The truth about my family is that we disappointed one another. When I hear the word 'disappoint' I taste toast, slightly burnt.' ...

Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s & '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words & tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; & she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle ' Baby' Harper, who loves her & loves to dance, & her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. But then a tragedy & a revelation will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself & her family. ...

Fran Benedetto's husband beats her. What began as a trusting marriage is now shadowed by abuse & Fran escapes by disappearing with her young son. With the help of an underground support organisation for abused wives, Fran begins life afresh in Florida, gaining in confidence as she gradually realises that she has found a safe haven. However, a fairground accident draws Fran back into the spotlight, & her fears that her husband is pursuing her return. Tense, powerful, suspenseful, Anna Quindlen's new novel is exceptional in it's insight into love, marriage & pain. Exploring the bonds between mother & son & the delicate line between love & cruelty, Black & Blue is unputdownable & extraordinarily moving in its portrayal of a woman on the run from her own life. ...

Described on the title-page of the first edition as 'the autobiography of her horse, translated from the original equine', BLACK BEAUTY was Anna Sewell's only book, written when she fatally ill but determined to record her passopnate indignation at the insensitive behaviour of people towards animals. It has been loved by children ever since its first publication in 1877, just a few months before the death of its author, whose declared aim had been to 'induce kindness, sympathy & an understanding treatment of horses'. The illustrations by Lucy Kemp-Welch first apperared in 1915. ...

Next was break me to harness. First, a stiff heavy collar on my neck. Then there was a bridle with great side-pieces called blinkers against my eyes. Then there was a small saddle strap that went under my tail: that was the crapper. I hated it, it stopped me having a crap. I never felt more like kicking so I kicked him in the goolies & they swelled up like melons. He had to put the harness on me while balancing his balls with one hand & could only move very slowly. In time I got used to everything (and he got used to swollen balls) & I could do my work as well as my mother. I used to wash up after dinner. Yes, I was a very good horse. ...