The new medieval thriller from Queen of the Dark Ages Karen Maitland set on the wilds of Dartmoor 544 pages Maitland Karen ...

Kell is one of the last magicians with the ability to travel between parallel universes linked by the magical city of London It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into his possession & he met Delilah Bard Four months since the Dane twins of White London fell & the stone was cast with Holland's dying body back into Black London Now Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events waking only to think of Lila & as Red London prepares for the Element Games-an international competition of magic-a certain pirate ship draws closer But another London is coming back to life The balance of magic is perilous & for one city to flourish another must fall ...

From the bestselling author of A Week in Paris & the Richard & Judy Bookclub pick A Place of Secrets comes a gripping & moving story of secrets passed through the generations of one family Photographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father Tom While sifting through his papers she finds he'd been researching an uncle she never knew he'd had Intrigued she visits her father's childhood home the once beautiful Carlyon Manor She meets an old woman named Beatrice who has an extraordinary story to tell Growing up in the 1930s Beatrice plays with the children of Carlyon Manor
- especially pretty blonde Angelina Wincanton Lucy's grandmother Then one summer at the age of fifteen she falls in love with a young visitor to the town Rafe Ashton whom she rescues from a storm-tossed sea But the dark clouds of war are gathering & Beatrice Rafe & the Wincantons will all be swept up in the cataclysm of events that follow Beatrice's story is a powerful tale of courage & betrayal spanning from Cornwall to London & Occupied France in which friendship & love are tested & the ramifications reach down the generations & as Lucy listens to the tales of the past she learns a secret that will change everything she has ever known Praise for Rachel Hore's novels A tour de force Rachel's Paris is rich romantic exotic & mysterious' JUDY FINNIGAN An elegiac tale of wartime love & secrets' Telegraph A richly emotional story suspenseful & romantic but unflinching in its portrayal of the dreadful reality & legacy of war' Book of the Week Sunday Mirror ' Pitched perfectly for a holiday read' Guardian ' Engrossing pleasantly surprising & throughly readable' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'A beautifully written & magical novel about life love & family' CATHY KELLY
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For every fan of manga anime J-pop or Zen A Geek in Japan is a hip smart & concise guide to the land that is their source Comprehensive & well informed it covers a wide array of topics in short articles accompanied by sidebars & photographs providing a lively digest of the society & culture of Japan Designed to appeal to the generations of Westerners who grew up on Pokemon manga & video games A Geek in Japan reinvents the culture guide for readers in the Internet age Spotlighting the originality & creativity of the Japanese debunking myths about them & answering nagging questions like why they're so fond of robots author Hector Garcia has created the perfect book for the growing ranks of Japanophiles in this inspired insightful & highly informative guide ...

Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist The Freudian slip' the Oedipus complex' childhood sexuality' libido' narcissism' penis envy' the castration complex' the id' the ego' & the superego' denial' repression' identification' projection' acting out' the pleasure principle' the reality principle' defence-mechanism'
- are all taken for granted in our everyday vocabulary Psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate & provoke long after the death of its originator Its central hypothesis that we live in conflict with ourselves & seek to resolve matters by turning away from reality did not emerge from experimental science but from self-examination & the unique opportunities for observation presented by the psychoanalytic technique
- in particular from the confessions produced by free-association' in Freud's consulting room Written during the turmoil of the First World War A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis was distilled from a series of lectures given at Vienna University but had to wait for the war to end before being made available to the English speaking world

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In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved & how without meaning to do so she let it take over her life She suggests moving away from planning regimentation & gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector Frequently funny & always stimulating she writes of the alchemy of gardens of the 19th-century plant-collectors & plant illustrators & of the gardening philosophers all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award ...

Over 1 million copies sold THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA&S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 This novel is astonishing uplifting & wise Don&t miss it& Chris Cleave No historical novel this year was more witty insightful or original than Amor Towles&s A Gentleman in Moscow& Sunday Times Books of the Year Charming shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom & nihilism& The Times Books of the Year &A supremely uplifting novel It&s elegant witty & delightful
- much like the Count himself& Mail on Sunday Books of the Year On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov
- recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew member of the Jockey Club Master of the Hunt
- is escorted out of the Kremlin across Red Square & through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely But instead of his usual suite he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?


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Do you know how to trim your whiskers properly? With beards & moustaches more popular than ever this delightful little book sets out to answer this pressing question & if a trim is not required then it will show you how to wax polish & maintain your face furniture so that it is always in tip-top condition Alongside these manly grooming tips is a guide to famous facial-hair aficionados from Karl Marx to Des Lynam; a breakdown of styles; & a perambulation through hirsute history including an explanation of why the beard was considered sacred by the ancient Greeks & slovenly by ancient Romans So whether it's the Handlebar or the Chevron; the Goatee or the Spade
- peruse this book for hints & tips of how to handle your facial fuzz Chris Martin is the former editor of the publishing industry website Bookends He is the author of Greenwich Mean Time Celebrity Tattoos & the Golf Companion as well as Has Britain Gone Bonkers He has two children two cats & has enjoyed an on-off relationship with the Goatee for over twenty years He lives in London
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Yakuza heir Homura Yasobe has a secret lover the young businessman Touji Karasuma A resourceful man who will do whatever it takes to succeed Touji is in fact the noble son of the rival company competing with Homura If anyone were to find out it would mean war between the groups! But can the two keep their rendezvous secret? ...

' For Christmas I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels' Sam Mendes Guardian' Philip Kerr is the contemporary master of the morally complex thriller' New York Observer The third in Philip Kerr's universally loved ' Berlin Noir' trilogy A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther enter the new & terrifying world of post-war Vienna In the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin So when an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge Bernie doesn't hesitate for long Despite an unsavoury past Gunther is convinced that the shooting of an American Nazi-hunter is one crime Becker didn't commit But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be Communism is the new enemy & with the Nuremberg trials over some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace
- alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison Vividly evoking the atmosphere of postwar Vienna A Germen Requiem brings all Philip Kerr's pace & mordant wit to the tangle of guilt suspicion & double-dealing that laid the foundations for the Cold War
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