A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties cocktails & deferential servants seems unchanging But it is poised on the edge of the abyss This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore & as we know of much else besides Not only the Blacketts their friends & enemies but many individuals are caught up in the events Singapore at this historical watershed has never been so faithfully & passionately recreated ...

This unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest & a Mexican bandito from A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) director Roy Baker Father Keogh (John Mills) is a Catholic priest who arrives in the remote Mexican village of Quantano to build a congregation unaware that the town is terrorized by the ruthless criminal Anacleto (Dirk Bogarde) An atheist Anacleto has forbidden worship so when Keogh holds services Anacleto retaliates by murdering the locals in alphabetical order Keogh refuses to back down Impressed by his valor Anacleto calls his men off & makes the priest an offer -- he'll spare him if he determines which inspires greater good 'the singer' (the priest) or 'the song' (religion) ...

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- You Give Me &83;omething 2 Jame&115; Bay
- Hold Back The River

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The singing mermaid is tempted away from her home at Silversands to join the circus The audiences love her but the poor mermaid kept in a tank by the wicked circus owner Sam Sly soon longs to return to the freedom of the sea Will she ever escape? The Singing Mermaid is a beautiful lyrical picture book from the creators of the bestselling What the Ladybird Heard now available as a glittery board book -- perfect for younger readers ...

The Singing Mermaid Sticker Book is a must-have for fans of the bestselling picture book The Singing Mermaid Packed with games activities & hundreds of stickers Perfect for birthdays rainy days & school holidays
- a great gift for any child From Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks an unstoppable picture book pairing & creators of the modern classic What the Ladybird Heard
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On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger one Charles Martin has been found dead It looks like a case of misadventure
- but Grant is not so sure Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides & though it is the end of his holiday it is also the beginning of an intriguing investigation into the bizarre circumstances shrouding Charles Martin's death
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Recipe for disaster? Or second chance? Take one single dad working night & day to open his hot new restaurant Mix in his irresistible new employee
- a woman with a secret looking for a fresh start Simmer until a kiss leads to a clandestine affair that plunges Lachlan Mc Kinnel & Eliza Coleman from the frying pan right into the fire!
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Part of Alma Classics new series 101 Pages The Single Hound contains some of Dickinson's most original & poignant pieces 114 pages Dickinson Emily ...

Getting divorced is an utter bastard but Amanda Ali & Jacqui refuse to be defined by it as they slowly emerge from the wreckage like a trio of sequin-clad Gloria Gaynors singing 'I Will Survive' Anything is possible Even loving again 368 pages Hoggarth Janet ...

It is said that home is where the heart is but when war rips a young man from everything he knows & loves will he be able to find his way back to everything that matters? In war torn rural France amongst the devastation physical & emotional of German occupation a man decides to move his house using only a cow & a cart six kilometres to the other side of his village Where he painstakingly begins to re-build his home By hand Why would anyone do such a thing? The war was being won but would he ever find peace? History passion love secrets & painful truths collide in this astonishingly human warm & emotive debut from writer George Costigan ...