It was situated on a perfect natural harbour at the mouth of a great river leading into a huge new l&. Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world.

The Island at the Centre of the World returns to the origins of New York

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Fleeing the gathering storm-clouds of war in 1939, a party of British débutantes are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical ...

The Women of Maldona are an ancient order devoted to physical perfection, Sapphic love & strict discipline. Unfulfilled by her mundane London existence, their leader, Jana, selects the most nubile & obedient of her slaves & sets out on a quest for adventure.

In an ancient castle on a deserted Aegean isl&, Jana & her dedicated followers set about recreating their passionate rituals of punishment & reward. But her reign as Supreme Mistress comes under threat from a flagellant girl goddess who calls herself Aphrodite. In the scorching Mediterranean heat, it is only a matter of time before their rivalry comes to a head in the most sensual & physical of battles.

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The inhabitants of Halcyon Island are ruled by the laws of the Deliverer & follow the same customs & traditions that have prevailed for hundreds of years. The laws state ' No incomers', but when Thomas & Molly find a shipwrecked canoe with a boy & girl, barely alive, inside they are determined not to reject them outright. New blood on the island is bound to cause a disturbance, but the effects the incomers have on the close-knit community are beyond anyone's predictions. ...

Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke & Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, it became known that a group of body snatchers
- two men in particular, John Bishop & Thomas Williams, called the ' London Burkers'
- were supplying the anatomy schools with fresh 'examples' for dissection. The case became known as ' The Italian Boy' & caused a furore which led directly to the passing of controversial legislation which marked the beginning of the end of body snatching in Britain. The case revealed something else as well: some extremely unpleasant aspects of life in London, a city that had increased in size by one-third to over one-&-a-half million inhabitants between 1801 & 1831, & which was continuing to expand at a phenomenal & unprecedented rate. In The Italian Boy, Sarah Wise not only investigates the case of the London Burkers but also, by making use of an incredibly rich archival store, the lives of ordinary lower-class Londoners. She shows how the case challenged their notions of community & criminality, & how it made many feel that at the heart of their great city lay unknown, unknowable mysteries. Here is a window on the lives of the poor
- a window which is opaque in places, shattered in others
- but which provides an unprecedented view of low-life London in the 1830s.



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Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund. ...

Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund. ...

Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England & Italy. It is played, watched, written about & talked to death by millions virtually every day of the year. But how do the characteristics of England & Italy affect the game in these two footballing nations? Do the national stereotypes of Italians as passionate, stylish lotharios & the English as cold-hearted eccentrics still hold true when they kick a ball around?
In The Italian Job, for the first time, a footballer of the first rank, Gianluca Vialli, in conjunction with sportswriter & broadcaster Gabriele Marcotti, tackles this debate head on. Uniquely positioned across both the English & the Italian games, they provide a fascinating & highly controversial commentary on where football is now & where it
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Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England & Italy. It is played, watched, written about & talked to death by millions virtually every day of the year. But how do the characteristics of England & Italy affect the game in these two footballing nations? Do the national stereotypes of Italians as passionate, stylish lotharios & the English as cold-hearted eccentrics still hold true when they kick a ball around?

In The Italian Job, for the first time, a footballer of the first rank, Gianluca Vialli, in conjunction with sportswriter & broadcaster Gabriele Marcotti, tackles this debate head on. Uniquely positioned across both the English & the Italian games, they provide a fascinating & highly controversial commentary on where football is now & where it

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