Politics tells the story of a father & daughter. It also tells the story of a m-nage
- trois. Politics explores crucial domestic
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The argument of this book can be stated simply. There are two concepts of a free society, one liberal, the other libertarian. For the past fifty years the libertarian view has prevailed. Shared by politicians of the left & right, it maintains that a free society is ideally one in which individuals are free to pursue their own choices, both political & moral. This view has been tried & failed & has given rise to a social disorder more bleak than any within living memory. In The Politics of Hope Jonathan Sacks proposes a new politics of responsibility in which families, neighbourhoods, communities, voluntary organisations & religious groups have all part to play, a politics not of interest, but of involvement. How, he asks, as a society, do we move from the politics of despair to the politics of hope? ...

To fifteen-year-old Anne the woods that lie beyond her house are a temporary refuge from her noisy, chaotic family, until one day she gathers her courage & steps into the woods, never to return. Slowly, she makes a new life for herself, learning to forage & to hunt, to build a house from the bounty of the woods & to listen to the voices of the trees. As she endures her first, terrible winter she develops the strength of character that will carry her through the dangers of her unconventional life & the bitter beauty of falling in love, but as the outside world encroaches on her secret existence Anne faces a terrible tragedy. ...

Polly Fenton loves her job teaching English in London, & she's mad about Max Fyfield. But she's leaving both behind to embark on a year-long teacher's exchange to Vermont. Swapping Marmite for Hershey bars & cornflakes for Cheerios is one thing. Trading lives with her American counterpart Jen is quite another. But the minute Polly's feet touch down Stateside, she's swept off them altogether. She's dazzled by the brave new world; her letters become shorter, then less frequent. When she meets Chip Jonson, school athletic trainer, home thoughts from abroad cease altogether.

Meanwhile in London, her boyfriend, his brother, her best friend & her replacement are forming quite the cosy foursome. If, by the end of the first term, a certain amount of bed-hopping seems inevitable, who is it to be?

Spanning three terms & two countries, this is a sparky & sassy story of New England & Old Engl&, fidelity & flirtation, receiving one's comeuppance
- & making amends.




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Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8, 000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful & treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides. The events which followed became the stuff of folklore, & resulted in the famous fiction of Whisky Galore. But what really happened.. . ? ...

It is 1936 & Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the countryside they love into central Liverpool. Money is desperately short & with her mother working & her father sick, Polly is easily led astray by a new pal, the handsome, idly Sunny Anderson.

But soon war looms, & Sunny joins the navy to train as a signaller. After the horrors of the May vlitz, Polly too decides she wants to help her country & goes into the WRNS. She hears that an old pal, Tad Donoghue from the Dublin slums, is now in the Royal Air Force. Tad hopes to be reunited with his Polly, but she is in love with Sunny...isn't she?

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It's time for Polly to open her pet shop.

The first customer of the day is Max the Magician, but which pet will

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In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, & magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, & a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita Mac Leod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school & become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, wild, & gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well.

But before she had time to grow up, Ricky's life exploded into tragedy, & Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses
- & Ricky France-Lynch.

Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, & Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey
- to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach & Deauville, & on to the royal polo fields of England & the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought
- a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup...






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In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, & magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, & a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita Mac Leod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school & become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, wild, & gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well.

But before she had time to grow up, Ricky's life exploded into tragedy, & Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses
- & Ricky France-Lynch.

Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, & Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey
- to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach & Deauville, & on to the royal polo fields of England & the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought
- a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup...






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