A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site...



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Fourteen-year-old Gyuri is let off going to school for 'family reasons'. His father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store Gyuri witnesses his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper with nonchalance & boredom. Two months laters after saying goodbye to his father he finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'.
Within a fortnight Gyuri is unexpectedly pulled off the bus & detained without explanation This is the start of his journey to & subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. On arrival he finds he is unable to identify with other Jews, & in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer.
Fatelessness' power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust, the strangeness is compounded by Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of everything he witnesses.

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Fourteen-year-old Gyuri is let off going to school for 'family reasons'. His father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store Gyuri witnesses his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper with nonchalance & boredom. Two months laters after saying goodbye to his father he finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'.
Within a fortnight Gyuri is unexpectedly pulled off the bus & detained without explanation This is the start of his journey to & subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. On arrival he finds he is unable to identify with other Jews, & in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer.
Fatelessness' power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust, the strangeness is compounded by Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of everything he witnesses.

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In this book & CD edition of Father Christmas Needs A Wee, Bernard Cribbins brings to life the excruciating dilemma that ...

Julien's parents talk about Father Christmas endlessly, but he doesn't believe in him any more. Nevertheless he humours his parents & writes Father Christmas a letter asking for a video games console, just like his cousin Patrick's. His parents think it might be a bit expensive, but Julien is sure Father Christmas can cover it. Sure enough, on Christmas morning, with his mother & father feigning surprise, there it is. Then his mother spots another parcel under the tree. It doesn't look very exciting & no one knows where it's come from. Julien tears the paper off & is delighted with what he finds... ...

There are lots of books about parenthood. But if you look closely most of them are about motherhood. Fathers get brief paragraphs about needing the odd cuddle themselves & being helpful for carrying the heavier elements of baby kit, but that's it.

Fatherhood
- The Truth, on the other h&, is a shed-friendly man's guide to the whole scary, life-changing business. One that looks beyond the happy-clappy cliches into the fiery hell of night feeds & projectile vomiting. ' Shit happens' will suddenly start to make sense as a phrase. Providing crucial information & insight on every aspect of parenting with pitch-perfect humour, it takes the dad-to-be on a white-knuckle ride from conception to the first birthday that also considers the emotional truths & selfish imperatives that fathers are usually asked to bury out of sight. A personally informed journey, Fatherhood
- The Truth also touches all the crucial practical bases to make it a one-stop, know-it-all manual for the prospective dad.



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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. &, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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