The first in an exciting new series that tells the story of some of Britain's most beautiful landscapes Written with the general reader
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLING AUTHOR! Heartwarming uplifting & lovely this is the story of how three women find themselves empowered by unexpected pregnancy from the bestselling author of Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe & The Queen of Wishful Thinking Three South Yorkshire friends all on the cusp of 40 fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol For Helen it's a dream come true although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes For Janey it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time & she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened seeing as she & her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception For Elizabeth it is mind-numbing because she knows people like her shouldn't have children Damaged by her dysfunctional childhood & emotionally lost she not only has to contend with carrying a child she doubts she can ever love but she also has to deal with the return to her life of a man whose love she must deny herself ...

Now a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world a life ruled by the seasons & her animals She is a farmer's wife & shepherdess living alongside her husband Clive & seven children at Ravenseat a 2000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire It's a challenging life but one she loves In The Yorkshire Shepherdess she describes how the rebellious girl from Huddersfield who always wanted to be a shepherdess achieved her dreams Full of amusing anecdotes & unforgettable characters the book takes us from fitting in with the locals to fitting in motherhood from the demands of the livestock to the demands of raising a large family in such a rural backwater Amanda also evokes the peace of winter when they can be cut off by snow without electricity or running water the happiness of spring & the lambing season & the backbreaking tasks of summertime
- haymaking & sheepshearing
- inspiring us all to look at the countryside & those who work there with new appreciation

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Discovery Walking Guides " Celebrating 25 Years of Adventures" is slashing the price of its ' Challenge' books from GBP899 to GBP499 for books bought up to 30 September 2013 If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales you're in for a treat as we trace our way up the Three Peaks First though we'll do them one at a time giving a chance to savour the experience as well as getting to know the area Paul Shorrock is the 'local' expert who has brought together the whole ' Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge' adventure He starts by exploring each of the three peaks through six day walks before moving on to tackle the whole challenge Everything you need to explore these glorious landscapes & prepare yourself for the 12 hour Challenge is included in ' The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge'-
- Fully detailed walk descriptions with frequent timings to aid navigation for the six day walks & the complete challenge
- OS 25k large scale mapping of all the walking routes
- gps waypoints for the pin-point navigational accuracy that is so valuable for a successful challenge
- Full training accommodation & local information for everything you need to know before attempting the challenge The Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales provide some of the finest walking in Britain With a combination of high peaks & stunning scenery the area is rightly popular with outdoor types from leisure walkers up to super-fit fell runners It always seems to follow that when you have a mix of high places & human beings sooner or later someone will come up with an idea of a challenge of some kind With the Three Peaks of Pen y Ghent Whernside & Ingleborough the solution was simple
- do them all in one walk! New for the 2nd edition is the news that Paul's routes are now the 'official' Y3P routes




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Find your way to awesome with this brilliant toolkit of goals plans & challenges! 144 pages Syed Matthew ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs this hyperreal adventure drama Gifted 10-year-old cartographer & amateur scientist TS Spivet (Kyle Catlett) lives on a ranch in Montana with his emotionally detached cowboy father (Callum Keith Rennie) his beetle-obsessed mother Dr Clair (Helena Bonham Carter) & fame-hungry older sister Gracie (Niamh Wilson) When TS receives notification that one of his inventions the perpetual motion machine was a success & has been awarded the prestigious Baird Prize from the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC he sets off alone to attend the reception Actors Helena Bonham Carter Robert Maillet Callum Keith Rennie Directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet Classification 12 Run Time 105 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Experience the spectacular prequel to a family favourite The Black Stallion – stunningly filmed to tell a powerful story of friendship When a young girl Neera is lost in the desert she meets a remarkably fast & wild black colt They bond & find their way back home only to realise her grandfather’s horsebreeding days are over Neera decides to enter a gruelling horse race against fearsome opponents to restore her grandfather’s reputation But she must risk losing her best friend – the young black stallion ...

I am tired of being used hurt & cast aside Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever A decade ago the deadly illness swept through her nation Most of the infected perished while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings Adelina's black hair turned silver her lashes went pale & now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto an abomination ruining their family's good name & standing in the way of their fortune But some of the fever's survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars-they are believed to have mysterious & powerful gifts & though their identities remain secret they have come to be called the Young Elites Teren Santoro works for the king As Leader of the Inquisition Axis it is his job to seek out the Young Elites to destroy them before they destroy the nation He believes the Young Elites to be dangerous & vengeful but it's Teren who may possess the darkest secret of all Enzo Valenciano is a member of the Dagger Society This secret sect of Young Elites seeks out others like them before the Inquisition Axis can But when the Daggers find Adelina they discover someone with powers like they've never seen Adelina wants to believe Enzo is on her side & that Teren is the true enemy But the lives of these three will collide in unexpected ways as each fights a very different & personal battle But of one thing they are all certain Adelina has abilities that shouldn't belong in this world A vengeful blackness in her heart & a desire to destroy all who dare to cross her It is my turn to use My turn to hurt ...

Introducing the most gallant & redoubtable figure in naval history
- Horatio Hornblower The seventeen year old Hornblower became
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THE YOUNG LOVERS is a contemporary ROMEO & JULLIET set against the uneasy political climate of Eastern Europe in the 1950s David Knight stars as the son of a US Embassy official Through the chance meeting of the title the young man falls in love with Odile Versois daughter of a Communist politico As the music of Tchaikovsky hammers away on the soundtrack the star-crossed lovers conduct their clandestine affair spied upon all the while by the girl's governess ...