Six years ago schoolgirls Evelyn & Philippa Hapwell were swept from a war-time bunker to a fantasy kingdom Now almost grown-up they've returned to the real world but grieving Evie will do almost anything to go back to the magical Woodlands that holds her heart 416 pages Weymouth Laura ...

' What shall we do?' said Twoflower ' Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully He always held that panic was the best means of survival As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star the Discworld could do with a hero What it doesn't need is a singularly inept & cowardly wizard still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world or a well-meaning tourist & his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own Which is a shame because that's all there is ...

It is known as the Discworld It is a flat planet supported on the backs of four elephants who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A' Tuin as it swims majestically through space & it is quite possibly the funniest place in all of creation As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star the Discworld has only one possible saviour Unfortunately this happens to be the singularly inept & cowardly wizard called Rincewind who was last seen falling off the edge of the world ...

Published in Britain at the end of 1986 this & its prequel (The Colour of Magic above) were among the top five best-selling books on the 1986 Andromeda list Moreover Pratchett was Andromeda's best-selling author for the same year It was also chosen as a lead title for Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club ...

'I promised that I would one day write a book & tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers I have at last kept my promise' In Ireland 1951 the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years It was a place of secrets lies & cruelty A place where women picked grass by hand & tarred roads whilst heavily pregnant Where they were denied any contact with the outside world; denied basic medical treatment & abused for their 'sins'; where after the birth they were forced into hard labour in the convent for three years But worst of all was that the young women were expected to raise their babies during these three years so that they could then be sold
- given up for adoption in exchange for a donation to the nuns Shocked by the nuns' inhumane treatment of the frightened young women June risked her job to bring some light into their dark lives June's memoir tells the story of twelve women's experiences in this home & of the hardships they endured but also the kindness she offered them & the hope she was able to bring
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Arthur Simpson
- ' British to the core' but without a passport to prove it
- lives in Athens scraping by as a driver journalist

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In this colourful modern-day parable of good & evil a humble village electrician devotes his compassion & ingenuity to destitute neighbours in a wind-swept valley of Kyrgyzstan Played with wry humanity by acclaimed writer-director Aktan Arym Kubat the trusting “ Mr Light” strikes a suspect bargain with a rich developer running for local office as unemployment threatens the survival of the community Stoking a dream to supply wind-generated electricity to the whole valley Mr Light comes up against an increasingly dark cloud of corruption Subtitle information Original language Kyrgyz Subtitles for the hard of hearing None Subtitles English ...

The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles Home Place Sussex 1937 The English family at home For two unforgettable summers they gathered together safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games lavish family meals & picnics on the beach Three generations of the Cazalet family Their relatives their children & their servants
- & the fascinating triangle of their affairs Read the next books in the series Marking Time Confusion Casting Off & All Change
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The Lighterman is the third book in the bestselling series of legal thrillers starring barrister Charles Holborne Simon Michael's follow up to the bestselling The Brief & An Honest Man continues the adventures of criminal barrister Charles Holborne The Lighterman provides more of Charles' personal history dating back to the war years when he worked on the River Thames with his cousin Izzy Gangland leader Ronnie Kray is not a man to forgive or forget Holborne has "taken liberties" & revenge will follow But how to get at a tough & resourceful Brief with his own history of criminality & a penchant for violence? The answer find a man who can't be hanged twice Now Holborne must dig up the secrets of the past to save two livesone of them his own Simon Michael brings the past vividly back to life across a beautifully rendered 60s landscape & delivers a gripping piece of thriller fiction that will excite any fan of the genre ...

From Robert Eggers the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece The Witch comes this hypnotic & hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe & Robert Pattinson) on a remote & mysterious New England island in the 1890s As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock & strange apparitions emerge from the fog each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored ...