In this groundbreaking & helpful book, influential teacher & physician. Deepak Chopra, explores how our hearts have lost their centre & why love so often falls short of filling a deep, aching need within us. He also explains how we can rediscover the love we long for, one which is rich & meaningful, satisfying & lasting
- by restoring to love is missing element: spirituality. In presenting the long-forgotten, timeless laws of love, together with practical suggestions for bringing them into our lives, Deepak Chopra shows us how to transform our lives for rever
- & the lives of those whom we love.

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From the processional routes of ancient Britain to Victorian promenades along the sea-front, Britain's pathways are inextricably woven into our landscape & history. In this magical book, David Stewart & Nicholas Rudd-Jones set out to explore some of the most evocative & beautiful tracks & ways that criss-cross the nation, explaining how they came about & what they tell us about the people who made them. As they do so, they give both the keen & the casual walker a very real sense of what it is like to walk in our ancestors' footsteps. ...

To many, Patrick O' Brian was the greatest British novelist of the Twentieth Century. The twenty volumes of the series set in the Royal Navy of the beginning of the Nineteenth Century & featuring Aubrey & Maturin have been hailed as 'the best historical novels ever written' by the New York Times.

Nikolai Tolstoy was O' Brian's stepson & his acquaintanceship with him lasted forty-five years during most of O' Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy, Nikolai's mother. Tolstoy stayed with the couple regularly at their French home & was a frequent correspondent with the reclusive & secretive author, discovering facets of his character & creative genius that he showed to no one else.

He has unique access to letters, notebooks & photographs, which will appear in this book. This volume tells the story of O' Brian's life up to his decision to move to Collioure in the South of France. His oppressed childhood, his precocious writing success, his first visit to Irel&, his sailing experiences as a young man, & the truth behind his first marriage, divorce & name change are all dealt with.
This is the first part of the definitive biography of one of our literary geniuses.




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Balloons? Sausages on sticks? An entertainer? Oh NO! It must be a party...

Patrick loves making models & creating his own

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When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. A manhunt begins. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene & is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red. What do the letters mean? Is Sligo playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?

Perry Scholes is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars & death

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When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, & a manhunt begins, but the letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene. When the other letters of the alphabet start appearing in sequence all over town, each immaculately painted in red, a seemingly random act of violence appears to be part of a bigger & more terrifying picture. For the town's inhabitants, it feels like the beginning of a new age of terror, with Adam Sligo still on the loose. What do the letters mean? Is he playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?

One man, Perry Scholes, is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars & death
- & photographic images of both. He trawls the motorways & edgelands listening to police radio so that he can get to the car-crash or the crime scene before the police. Like his hero Weegee
- the original ambulance-chaser photographer
- he makes a living selling these shots to the papers. He always gets there first
- he was the one to find the old BMW with its young corpses; he is the one who spots the painted letters, & begins to document their appearances.

As the town is paralysed by fear & paranoia
- its inhabitants polarising into a new-age group that gather around a shrine to the murdered couple & a vigilante cult that arm themselves for the battle against evil
- Perry finds himself trapped in a nightmare. A killer is at large, & the alphabetical messages he leaves seem to be personal messages for Perry. Who is leaving them, & why, is the centre of this dark, disturbing parable of urban anxiety & primitive fear.









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When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. A manhunt begins. The letter A is found blazoned on the wall at the murder scene & is soon followed, around town, by the other letters of the alphabet, each immaculately painted in red. What do the letters mean? Is Sligo playing games with the police? Or putting a spell on the town?

Perry Scholes is mixed up in all this from the start: a man haunted by cars & death

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Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower & retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour & fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy & appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible & irresistible hero yet
- his father.
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Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower & retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour & fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy & appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible & irresistible hero yet
- his father.
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