Dr Ravi Kapoor has reached the end of his tether. He is over-worked & exhausted; his South London hospital is out of funds; & reporters are hounding him about a pensioner, who for three days lay on a trolley in A & E, untended, the blood stiffening on her clothes. Even home life has become impossible, as his father-in-law, a disgusting & difficult old man, has been kicked out of his nursing home & has moved into Ravi's spare bedroom. But then that 'tip top man', his cousin, Sonny, has his brainwave, his 'great eureka'. These Foolish Things is about Dunroamin, a converted guesthouse in Bangalore, where Sonny opens a home for old people. Travel & set-up are inexpensive, staff willing & plentiful
- & the British pensionsers can enjoy the hot weather & take mango juice with their gin. Skilfully inter-weaving the stories of the inhabitants of Dunroamin, their characters & their families, Deborah Moggach has created a world in which hilarity is matched with the poignancy of getting old, & comedy with the darker issues of care in the community.
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Under the reign of Louis XV, corruption & intrigue have been allowed to blossom in France, & Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon & proud of his soubriquet ' Satanas', flourishes as well. Then, from a dark Parisian back alley, he plucks L-on, a red-headed urchin with strangely familiar looks, just in time for his long over-due schemes of revenge on the Comte de St. Vire. Among the splendours of Versailles & the dignified mansions of Engl&, Justin begins to unfold his sinister plans -- until, that is, Leon becomes the ravishing beauty Leonie.. . ...

Under the reign of Louis XV, corruption & intrigue have been allowed to blossom in France, & Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon & proud of his soubriquet ' Satanas', flourishes as well. Then, from a dark Parisian back alley, he plucks L-on, a red-headed urchin with strangely familiar looks, just in time for his long over-due schemes of revenge on the Comte de St. Vire. Among the splendours of Versailles & the dignified mansions of Engl&, Justin begins to unfold his sinister plans -- until, that is, Leon becomes the ravishing beauty Leonie.. . ...

QUIVER AT! Horrible demonic stuff oozing out of computer screens!

SHOCK HORROR! Elvis Presley pulling his face off!

GASP



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Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To his older brother, Robert, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. & to James Morison, his wife is the foundation on which his family rests & life without her is unimaginable.

William Maxwell

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Charlotte has always thought there's something not right about living in Compton Rosehay (aka Stalemate). Perhaps it's the plastic families, the identical rows of houses, or the girls who only talk about diets. When she meets Elaine, Charlotte sees there is life outside her stifling neighbourhood. Together they spot the cracks in the town's exterior, to discover the hidden world of Stalemate. ...

In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility, & an incredible capacity for both loyalty & barbarism. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, & expendable weapons? Children.

This passionate & campaigning book is part of a personal mission against the use of child soldiers, by the three-star general who commanded the UN mission in Rwanda. When Romeo Dallaire was tasked with achieving peace there in 1994, he & his force found themselves caught up in a vortex of civil war & genocide. He left Rwanda a broken man, disillusioned, suicidal, a story he told in the award-winning international sensation Shake Hands with the Devil.

Now, in They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, Dallaire provides an emotionally daring & intellectually enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication.







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In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility, & an incredible capacity for both loyalty & barbarism. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, & expendable weapons? Children.

This passionate & campaigning book is part of a personal mission against the use of child soldiers, by the three-star general who commanded the UN mission in Rwanda. When Romeo Dallaire was tasked with achieving peace there in 1994, he & his force found themselves caught up in a vortex of civil war & genocide. He left Rwanda a broken man, disillusioned, suicidal, a story he told in the award-winning international sensation Shake Hands with the Devil.

Now, in They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, Dallaire provides an emotionally daring & intellectually enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication.







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The sixtieth birthday party of Silas Kane was marred by argument & dissension amongst his family. & then, the morning after the celebrations, Kane is found dead at the foot of a cliff. The theory that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog is confirmed when the coroner returns a verdict of death by misadventure.

But then Kane

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