Valerie Ann Worwood's The Fragrant Pharmacy has become the classic encyclopaedia of aromatherapy & essential oils. Now, in ...

The Fragrant Pharmacy opens the way to a whole world of fresh possibilities. It is a new approach to nature through one of ...

Marion Sharpe & her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet & ordinary, they have led a peaceful & unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Unremarkable that is, until the police turn up with a demure young woman on their doorstep. Not only does Betty Kane accuse them of kidnap & abuse, she can back up her claim with a detailed description of the attic room in which she was kept, right down to the crack in its round window.

But there's something about Betty Kane's story that doesn't quite add up. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stumped. & it takes Robert Blair, local solicitor turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair...

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'A major contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in all its complexity.' John Keegan in his Introduction.



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Mark Sanborn met his postman, Fred, just after he moved to Denver. Fred knocked on his door, introduced himself & welcomed him to the neighbourhood. He also asked Sanborn about himself & how he wanted his mail handled while he was away. Needless to say, Sanborn was shocked. He asked Fred more about his job & how he approached it. Fred's answers inspired him to develop motivational seminars promoting Fred's attitude & approach to life. To embody the Fred philosophy is to realise & practise that:--Everyone can make a difference--Success is built on good relationships--You must continually create value for others & it doesn't have to cost anything--You can reinvent yourself whenever you want. In this succinct & inspiring guide, Sanborn shows us how we can all truly make a difference everyday & become a ' Fred', as well as how to recognise, reward & attract Freds into our lives. ...

A wealthy American is burdened by a recurrent dream about his native Irel&, a country that had long ceased to interest or trouble him. Convinced that the Irish are asking him for help, he equips his errant gr&-nephew, Tom Blessman, with a generous bank account, & dispatches himto the old country to offer assistance. In Dublin, Tom is bewildered to find a city thronged with glossy, happening people & an economy in overdrive. The Irish apparently want for nothing. As Tom attempts to make sense of it all
- & to resolve his own personal history
- he falls in with a fascinating gallery of characters, some of them super-rich, some trying to make their way in this opportunistic new world, & others pinning their hopes & ambitions to art, literature & 'heritage projects'. Central to this alluring scene is the sprawling Kinane family, especially Eileen, the lost soul of the family, whose waif-like beauty Tom pursuses through the city's bars, art galleries & parties, becoming ever more entangled with the dangerous Irish merry-go-round.

Teeming with brilliant characters, clamourous with the life of Dublin's pubs & cafés, & the atmosphere of its streets, The Free & Easy is a hugely entertaining & mordant take on Ireland past & present from one of Ireland's most stylish & interesting writers.



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Joanne Harris's bestselling novels, Chocolat, Blackberry Wine & Five-Quarters of the Orange, are affectionately known as ...

Joanne Harris's bestselling novels, Chocolat, Blackberry Wine & Five-Quarters of the Orange, are affectionately known as ...

Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim & today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes & gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom & manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian Engl&. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight & imagination seeking escape from the cant & tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom. ...