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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' The Tickle Ghost is somewhere near.
Can you see him? Can you hear?
Slowly creeping up the stairs.
He'll try to catch


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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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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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Carel is rector of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth, & their West Indian servant, Patti. Here too are Eugene, a Russian -migr-, & his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, co-guardian with him of Elizabeth, tires to make contact with Carel but is constantly rebuffed. These seven characters go through a dance of attraction & repulsion, misunderstanding & revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself
- a priest who believes that, God being dead, His angels are released. At the end, Muriel finds herself with the power of life & death over her father.
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Carel is rector of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth, & their West Indian servant, Patti. Here too are Eugene, a Russian -migr-, & his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, co-guardian with him of Elizabeth, tires to make contact with Carel but is constantly rebuffed. These seven characters go through a dance of attraction & repulsion, misunderstanding & revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself
- a priest who believes that, God being dead, His angels are released. At the end, Muriel finds herself with the power of life & death over her father.
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