This practical guide will help you identify your church's strengths & weaknesses discovering what action to take to improve itshealth Focusing on the quality of your church's life rather than just the numbers attending & avoiding quick-fix' solutions Robert Warren offers a realistic & positive process for revitalizing your church helping you assess your parish against the seven marks of a healthy church The goal is nothing less than encountering the reality of God's presence in & through the life of your church The material is fully road-tested & has been used in local churches across the UK & beyond ...

Lose weight & improve your health with delicious recipes & an easy-to-follow 28 day plan with an introduction by Professor Tim Spector A healthy gut is vital to our digestion energy levels weight & wellbeing The Healthy Gut Handbook is a practical guide to boosting your gut health & choosing foods that make you feel & look great It

Includes:: a 28-day plan to kick-start a healthy gut & helpful tips on how to maintain this way of eating for life Over 80 tasty & simple recipes are full of easy-to-find & inexpensive ingredients vital to gut health from yoghurt & olive oil to pulses fermented foods proper cheeses & even wine & chocolate! With easy-to-follow daily planners space to make your own notes & ideas on how to track your progress The Healthy Gut Handbook makes eating for gut health simple fun &
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA classic of fantastic literature Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet is the occult twin to Alice in Wonderland published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution Soon she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos & birthday cakes endure twisted religious preaching & eat in a canteen overlooked by the mysterious portrait of a leering Abbess But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounding the life of the Abbess a joyous & brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold Written in the early 1960s The Hearing Trumpet remains one of the most original & inspirational of all fantastic novels Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a British born Surrealist painter & writer described alongside people such as Pablo Picasso & Joan Miro as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement Born in Lancashire to a strict Catholic family she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover Surrealist painter Max Ernst before moving to Mexico in 1942 The Hearing Trumpet her most famous piece of writing was first published in France in 1974 If you enjoyed The Hearing Trumpet you might like Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days' Luis Bunuel' One of the most original joyful satisfying & quietly visionary novels of the twentieth century' Ali Smith' This book is so inspiring I love its freedom its humour & how it invents its own laws What specifically do I take from her? Her wig' Bjoerk ...

Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love & loss in this life-affirming & uplifting tale Once there was a girl who was full of wonderment at how the world worked She shared all her dreams & excitement with her father who always had the answer to every question That is until one day when his chair was empty not to be filled again
- how would she find the meaning of life now?
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Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love & loss in this life-affirming & uplifting tale Once there was a girl whose life was filled with wonder at the world around her Then one day something happened that made the girl take her heart & put it in a safe place However after that it seemed that the world was emptier than before But would she know how to get her heart back? In this deeply moving story Oliver Jeffers deals with the weighty themes of love & loss with an extraordinary lightness of touch & shows us ultimately that there is always hope ...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace Stan & Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic & social collapse Living in their car surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs & in a rather desperate state So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience
- a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs & a home of their own
- they sign up immediately All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month swapping their home for a prison cell At first all is well But slowly unknown to the other Stan & Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison Soon the pressures of conformity mistrust guilt & sexual desire take over & Positron looks less like a prayer answered & more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled

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' The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear' Making its twenty-three-year-old author an overnight literary sensation this story of isolated lost lives intersecting in a small town in the American South is a masterpiece of humane sensitivity Ten new titles in the colourful small-format portable new Pocket Penguins series ...

' She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction Carson Mc Cullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South it is the story of John Singer a lonely deaf-mute & a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind sympathetic nature The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day a young girl desperate to grow up an angry socialist drunkard a frustrated black doctor each pours their heart out to Singer their silent confidant & he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine Moving sensitive & deeply humane The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness the human need for understanding & the search for love ...

This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels & truck stops exposed to the abusive exploitative men she encounters As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment Jeremiah also learns to love his mother even as she descends into drug-fueled madness Told in spare lyrical prose rich with imagination & dark humor The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things transforms the savagery of Jeremiah&s world into an indelible experience of compassion This special edition

Includes:: an additional seven stories previously uncollected by JT Le Roy the literary persona of Laura Albert

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog & attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles & pituitary gland of a recently deceased man A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose & the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance An absurd & superbly comic story this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution ...