Very simple, lively short texts
- full of the rhythm & repetition that small children love
- are accompanied by Sam Childs'

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In 1980, following more than twenty years of torture & suffering as a political prisoner of the communist Chinese government, Dr Tenzin Choedrak left his native Tibet to live in exile in India & returned to his duties as the Dalai Lama's personal physician. Now, in his moving memoir, this eminent master of the Tibetan medical tradition gives witness to his extraordinary life. It is a life irrevocably linked to the destiny of the Tibetan people & one of the most terrible collective crimes of the twentieth century.

As Dr Choedrak graphically describes his impoverished early years as a child monk, & his progress as a student doctor in Lhasa, an entire culture & the unique therapeutic practices of Tibetan medicine are vividly brought to life.

Yet it is Dr Cheodrak's account of the atrocities committed by the Chinese against the Tibetan people that ultimately marks this memoir as an exceptional testimony of forbearance & hope. For, despite the incredible cruelty & squalor inflicted upon him & his fellow prisoners, Choedrak used his skill & compassion to attend to his torturers. With unbelievable courage, he also refused to abandon his Buddhist faith & the beliefs to which he has devoted his life.

Through his words, as collected by Gilles Van Grasdorff, & a preface written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Choedrak's The Rainbow Palace is a profound & moving testament to the power of love & faith.





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The Brogdens were one of Chalywell's most important families. Old Jacob had started the family antique business when he was nine years old, going round the big houses & buying small items of bric-a-brac for pennies. Now Brogden's was famous for its beautiful furniture & pictures. But the most beautiful
- & valuable
- thing in Jacob's life was his granddaughter, Lois
- for Lois reminded him of the daughter he had lost so tragically many years ago. When Lois fell in love with John Farrar, the whole family were dismayed, for between Jacob & the Farrars was a deep & abiding feud that could never be mended. Lois, conscious of the storm clouds of war gathering over her future, was determined that nothing & no-one should come between her & her beloved John. But as war broke out, as families were torn apart, Lois found her life changing irrevocably. Loyalty, love, tragedy & hope were to direct her into a future she had never dreamed of.


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Rudy Baylor's world collapses when the law firm he was due to join is taken over. Suddenly, just before his bar examination, he is without employment & up to his neck in debt. His whole future hinges on his only two prospective clients.
One is an eccentric old lady who claims to have a twenty million dollar fortune & wants a new will drafted. The other is a case against an insurance company that has denied a claim involving a young man dying of leukaemia.
Donny Ray Black might have been saved if Great Benefit had paid out months ago, but now he has no hope. Both he & his mother want to bring Great Benefit to its knees & they choose Rudy, even though he has never argued a case in court.
But this case is only the tip of the iceberg: there are hundreds of similar claims popping up all over the US. Soon Rudy finds himself facing the very legal firm whose takeover cost him his job, in a trial which threatens to blow the lid off one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in America history. He is one young man against a battery of million dollar lawyers, & his opponents will do anything to stop him.


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'MUUUUMMMM.. . DAAADDDD.. . I'm BORED!'

Whether it's the weekend, half term or the summer holidays, these words will likely

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