WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CARYL PHILLIPSIn 1945 Rick Braithwaite a smart highly educated ex-RAF pilot looks for a job in British engineering He is deeply shocked to realise that as a black man from British Guiana no one will employ him because of the colour of his skin In desperation he turns to teaching taking a job in a tough East End school & left to govern a class of unruly teenagers With no experience or guidance Braithwaite attempts to instill discipline confound prejudice & ultimately to teach ...

' Incredibly moving' Daily Mail' To Siri with Love is a beautifully honest & illuminating love letter to Gus your typical atypical nonneurotypical human' Jon Stewart'A moving & witty memoir with a big heart' Nigella Lawson' For all the raw honest pain of Newman's book you close it with a sense of optimism & tenderness' Daily Telegraph' An uncommonly riotous & moving book that will make readers laugh
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- before sweeping them finally into a soul-spilling high tide Technology's great promise may in fact be to summon capture & display our most human qualities both the darkness & the light to pave avenues of deepened connections with others' New York Times No one would consider Judith Newman's domestic life normal She & her husband keep separate apartments-his filled with twin grand pianos as befits a former opera singer; hers packed with the clutter & chaos of twin adolescent boys conceived late in life & one of those boys is Gus her sweet complicated autistic 13-year-old With honesty & humour To Siri With Love chronicles one year in the life of Gus & the family around him -- a family with the same crazy ups & downs as any other & at the heart of the book lies Gus's passionate friendship with Siri Apple's 'intelligent personal assistant' Unlike her human counterparts Siri always has the right answers to Gus's incessant stream of questions about the intricacies of national rail schedules or box turtle varieties & she never runs out of patience She always makes sure Gus enunciates & even teaches him manners by way of her warm yet polite tone & her programmed insistence on civility Equal parts funny & touching this is a book that will make your heart brim & then break it Warm wise & always honest Judith Newman shows us a new world where artificial intelligence is beginning to meet emotional intelligence -- a world that will shape our children in ways both wonderful & unexpected

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The Little Wooden Bear This little bear will make you smile with sentiments to suit every occasion This glass dome decoration encases our favourite little bear adorned with a giant Birthday gift This classic vintage style decorative Kloche will make a stunning display in your home Material Glass with a wooden base Packaging Presented in a branded unique giftbox ...

After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife Astrid & their two children Thomas leaves the house He walks down the street & he keeps on walking At first Astrid asks herself where he's gone & then when he's coming back & finally whether he is even still alive In precise & hypnotic prose that cuts as cleanly as a scalpel To the Back of Beyond is a novel that takes away the safe foundations of a marriage & a lifestyle to ask deeper questions about identity connection & how free we are to change our lives It is a graceful & resonant work from one of Europe's most important writers ...

Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller Richard & Judy pick & finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century sure to appeal to fans of A PLACE CALLED WINTERNOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017'A clever ambitious novel' The Sunday Times' Persuasive & vivid Breathtaking' Guardian Winter 1885 Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester accepts the mission of a lifetime to navigate Alaska's Wolverine River It is a journey that promises to open up a land shrouded in mystery but there's no telling what awaits Allen & his small band of men Allen leaves behind his young wife Sophie newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have Sophie would have loved nothing more than to carve a path through the wilderness alongside Allen
- what she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand every ounce of courage of her that it does of her husband
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Television drama charting the dazzling & hazardous sea journey from England to Australia in 1812 as experienced through the eyes of a young Englishman Edmund Talbot Based on the trilogy by William Golding the bulk of the story is set on board a ship on the high seas towards the end of the Napoleonic War ...

Come on a new magical colouring adventure from your home right the way to the ends of the earth! Colour your way through a riotous world of dragons witches lagoons mountains & deserts inspired by folk tales & landscapes from around the globe With a beautiful scene that folds horizontally & stretches to an amazing 17 feet (5 metres) this is the longest colouring adventure in the world! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Nobel Laureate William Golding&s (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government ...

John Grimes will one day command his own starship & change the course of Galactic history But right now he a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy Introducing three John Grimes novels (The Road to the Rim To Prime the Pump The Broken Cycle) by A Bertram Chandler & a story collection (The Hard Way Up) all in one attractively-priced volume of space adventure ...

Samuel Johnson & James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands & Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye Raasay Coll Mull Inchkenneth & Iona Here they paint a picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment 640 pages Maps; 16 Plates black & white ...