This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas & her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet & an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable & flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, & eventually as her deadly sexual rival. For after her parents were divorced, Julia ...

Hannah & Humphrey Drayton were regarded by all who knew them as the perfect married couple. However, Hannah soon came to realise that this stuffy, City broker was stifling her with his insistence that she should always comply with his wishes. The only relief she had from his tyranny was his absence on Thursday evenings, when he played bridge with a group of acquaintances, & at weekends, which he spent with an elderly couple who regarded him as the son they had never had.

Hannah, in despair & in the face of her husband

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' What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at death & care for the dying & the whole way we look at life, & care for the living'

Written by Buddhist meditation master & popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life & death that underlies the Tibetan tradition. It

Includes:: not only a lucid, inspiring & complete introduction to the practice of meditation but also advice on how to care for the dying with love & compassion, & how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment & so become 'servants of peace' working in the world.



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Swati Varma is one of modern Delhi's more bleesed inhabitants. Then on brilliant morning when the world seemed cleansed by the coming of the rains, the unthinkable happens: his pregnant wife is killed in a road accident. Devastated, Swati makes a pilgrimage back to the land of his forebears, Panayur, in the state of Kerala, to scatter his beloved's ashes in the sacred waters of the Papanasini river.

Returning to this long-forgotten world, he is reunited with a childhood companion who now cares for the crumbling, ghost-filled palace that was his home. For Panayur
- seemingly still free from the religious turmoil that threatens so much of the country
- was once a kingdom, & Swati is the direct descendant of the its last king. As two friends talk, share memories & exchagne secrets, thousands of miles away, Vel
- a cousin Swati never kew he had
- sets out on a quest for the truth about his family that will take him from America, to Berlin &, ultimately, to Panayur.

And so begins an extraordinary & healing journey. One that will lead both Swati & Vel back through the cruel, vibrant, myth-filled history of the kings of Panayur to the legend that lies at its heart
- the legend of the tiger by the river...








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Jack Havoc, jail-breaker & knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. In the faded squares of shabby houses, in the furtive alleys & darkened pubs, the word is out that the Tiger is back in town, more vicious & cunning than ever. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer & hunt him down through the city's November smog before it is too late. ...

Molly Mc Intyre was born in St Thomas's, London in 1984 with an abnormality in the formation of her muscles. Her condition was never fully diagnosed. Her mother, Lesley, a photographer, was told that Molly would probably never leave hospital & that she might not survive more than a few weeks. Lesley took Molly home & she lived for fourteen years. Molly died at home in Putney.

Throughout her brief life Molly was highly active. She travelled in Europe & America. She went to a state school in Lambeth. She joined a dance class in Covent Garden & lived every day to the full with the complete knowledge that her time was limited. Her mother photographed her constantly. The Time of Her Life opens with the first picture of Molly as a baby & ends with the last picture of her on her deathbed.

The pictures are interspersed with some of Molly's own written observations. Molly's energy & attitude is inspirational & the accomplishment of her mother, Lesley, probably has no published precedent.



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It is 1953. At the Coronation party at the Palace Hotel, two lives are about to change forever.

Claudia
- 16,


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It is 1953. At the Coronation party at the Palace Hotel, two lives are about to change forever.

Claudia
- 16,


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