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 ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light When Hamish the lighthouse keeper's cat hears that Mr & Mrs Grinling are going to put him on a diet he decides to find somewhere else to live Soon though Hamish realises that there's no place like home The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH published over thirty years ago It is now a modern picture book classic & his adventures have been loved by children ever since ...

When Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper locks himself out of the lighthouse he tries everything to get back inside Not only is Hamish the cat trapped inside he also needs to switch on the light to warn the ships that they're near the rocks on the coast Luckily Mrs Grinling has an ingenious plan to get back in but will it work? ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light The Lighthouse Inspectors have decided that it's time for Mr Grinling to retire But when a stranded whale desperately needs the Grinlings' help the Lighthouse Inspectors realise that Mr Grinling is still the best man for the job The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH was published over thirty years ago & his adventures have been loved by children ever since It is now a modern picture book classic ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light When Mr Grinling decides he needs a hobby he tries everything from baking to birdwatching But one morning a stroll along the beach inspires Mr Grinling to take up something very different & before too long Mr Grinling surprises everyone by learning to surf! The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH was published over thirty years ago & his adventures have been loved by children ever since It is now a modern picture book classic ...

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors & the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds Whenever I smell salt water I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880 When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father!' Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons but not by any means the most productive The Lighthouse Stevensons all four generations of them built every lighthouse round Scotland were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction & optics & achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson put into writing his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high endeavour beautifully told; indeed this is one of the most celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory ...

The perfect holiday read; 'A beautiful novelfull of unexpected twists' DAILY MAILElizabeth's eyes have failed She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her but her mind remains sharp & music fills the vacancy left by her blindness When her father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat she enlists the help of a delinquent teen Morgan to read to her As an unlikely friendship grows between them Elizabeth is carried back to her childhood home
- the isolated lighthouse on Porphyry Island Lake Superior
- & to the memory of her enigmatic twin sister Emily But for Elizabeth the faded pages of her father's journals reveal more secrets than she anticipates & provide the key to a moment she has never understood The day when she found a grave marked with her own name

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' To risk my life had to mean something Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army Smuggled into Iran Gulwali began a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe spending time in prisons suffering hunger making a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat & enduring a desolate month in the camp at Calais Somehow he survived & made it to Britain no longer an innocent child but still a young boy alone In Britain he was fostered sent to a good school won a place at a top university & was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012 Gulwali wants to tell his story
- to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men women & children who are making this perilous journey every day One boy's experience is the central story of our times This memoir celebrates the triumph of courage & determination over adversity
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