The Taverners had lived at Buscombe, the mellow stone manor house in Wiltshire, for generations. They had farmed the land & sent their sons to war (and even, latterly, to commerce) in a way of life that seemed timeless. But in 1870 a new generation is about to take control
- Tom Taverner, dedicated, impulsive, deeply caring about his inheritance, & his sister Catherine, intelligent, humorous, but frustrated by the limited opportunities open to women in a man
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Since publishing her first, critically acclaimed novel English Correspondence, Janet Davey has become known for her ability ...

Since publishing her first, critically acclaimed novel English Correspondence, Janet Davey has become known for her ability ...

' When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate...

What I asked for? Any life but this

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' When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate...

What I asked for? Any life but this

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* V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science
- so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a
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* V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science
- so much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a
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We all know how it works: first you go to School, then you go to University, & then you enter Real Life. & that's the important bit. Real Life is about achievement, recognition, choices. It's about a boss who trusts you, a wardrobe that suits you, friends who support you & a relationship that fulfils you. It`s a mobile phone, an expense account, a company car & a place to park it. Happily Ever After.

Unforunately, Real Life isn't working that way for The Temp. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough & the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her. Living in Stockwell while she moves through a series of jobs ranging from the horrifying mindless to the bemusingly witless to the simply extraordinary, she realises that something isn't right.

Who cares about a boss who trusts you? She'd settle for a boss who knows her name. This can't be Real Life, can it?

Building on the success of her INDEPENDENT column, Serena Mackesy has created a wonderfully witty, acerbic exposé of office anthropology & a genuinely moving story about the early-twenties doldrums.





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We all know how it works: first you go to School, then you go to University, & then you enter Real Life. & that's the important bit. Real Life is about achievement, recognition, choices. It's about a boss who trusts you, a wardrobe that suits you, friends who support you & a relationship that fulfils you. It`s a mobile phone, an expense account, a company car & a place to park it. Happily Ever After.

Unforunately, Real Life isn't working that way for The Temp. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough & the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her. Living in Stockwell while she moves through a series of jobs ranging from the horrifying mindless to the bemusingly witless to the simply extraordinary, she realises that something isn't right.

Who cares about a boss who trusts you? She'd settle for a boss who knows her name. This can't be Real Life, can it?

Building on the success of her INDEPENDENT column, Serena Mackesy has created a wonderfully witty, acerbic exposé of office anthropology & a genuinely moving story about the early-twenties doldrums.





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In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci & the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were found in a twentieth-century London church. These were the beginnings of a quest through time & space that led the authors into the mysterious world of secret societies & such bodies as the Freemasons, the Knights Templar & the Cathars & finally back to the ideas & beliefs of the first century AD & a devastating new view of the real character & motives of the founder of Christianity & the roles of John the Baptist & Mary Magdalene.

They reveal nothing less than a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art & even in the great Gothic cathedrals, whose revelation could shake the foundations of the Chruch.

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