His father is dying He's stuck in the middle of a gang war And he has to solve a case with no clues Welcome to the world of Inspector John Carlyle Work goes on the backburner for Inspector Carlyle as he tries to manage his father's final days But when the drug dealer providing the old man's pain relief ends up dead London's least conventional copper finds himself in the middle of a vicious East London turf war Meantime he is supposed to be dealing with the case of a young woman found badly beaten in an alleyway With no idea who she is & no clues as to her attacker he has to get help from some unlikely sources ...

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music & to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born & explains why music can offer such an emotional experience Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature even more fundamental to our species than language In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it & its role in human life ...

In a desperate attempt to save their civilisation benevolent aliens kidnap an Earth scientist & enlist his help When they reach their embattled planet they discover that they have arrived too late & set about making plans to colonise Earth ...

Tender sad funny & riveting this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers A man builds a tree house by a river in anticipation of the coming flood A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen A boy sets fire to a barn These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you But sometimes they do Set in the flat & threatened fenland landscape where the sky is dominant & the sea lurks just beyond the horizon these delicate dangerous & sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried & unearthed of familiar places made strange & of lives where much is hidden much is at risk & tender moments are hard-won ...

Tracklist A1 Immigration Song Bass Backing Vocals
- Maxine Fleming Lyrics By
- P Jefferies Music By
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The exploits of Miles Anna Egg Milly & Warren became one of BBC2&s biggest hits when it was broadcast in 1996 Now for the first time This Life will be available on DVD for everyone to enjoy the fights sex & arguments all over again Follow the burgeoning careers of these five newly qualified solicitors & the house they share in South London Anna & Miles have some history & it&s obvious there is still some attraction The only problem is that neither of them can admit it & seem intent on winding the other up as much as they can Milly & Egg are deeply in love but their relationship is put under stress as Egg realises that he doesn&t want to be a solicitor & Milly begins an affair with her boss Warren is gay & in therapy to help him come to terms with his sexuality He is terrified of letting his family know as they wouldn&t understand When his ex-army brother finds out he has trouble understanding as well ...

Featuring a group of twenty-something lawyers living in London This Life broke new ground with its realistic portrayal of their lifestyle including drug-taking & ‘casual sex’ Starring Daniella Nardini Jack Davenport Andrew Lincoln Amita Dhiri Jason Hughes & Ramon Tikaram This Life The Complete Collection brings together Series 1 2 & This Life 10 for the first time SERIES 1 This multi-award-winning cult series eavesdrops on the lives of a group of young lawyers sharing a London house Wild child Anna has trouble with men Arrogant Miles is torn between two women Control-freak Milly is torn between two men Egg can&t decide what to do with his life Ferdy is bisexual & confused & Warren is proud to be gay as long as it doesn&t mean telling his family SERIES 2 Wild child Anna has trouble with men Arrogant Miles is torn between two women Control-freak Milly is torn between two men Egg can&t decide what to do with his life Ferdy is bisexual & confused & Warren is proud to be gay as long as it doesn&t mean telling his family Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

An essay with the reach & momentum of a novel Kate Briggs's THIS LITTLE ART is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation offering fresh fierce & timely thinking on reading writing & living with the works of others Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling complex & intensely relational activity She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann & their posthumous vilification She writes about the loving relationship between Andre Gide & his translator Dorothy Bussy She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table for him for the first time on an undeserted island With THIS LITTLE ART a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer distinctive wise frank funny & utterly original ...

The little bird is flying all about the garden Read to find out where the little bird goes 16 pages Gaffney Kelly ...

This Little Pebble begins with a child finding a small forgotten pebble in his pocket It uses this simple premise as a jumping-off point to explore what rocks are where they come from & how fundamental they are to life here on Earth For readers aged six & up This Little Pebble uses beautiful artwork to show the rich diversity of rocks all around us with friendly narrative text by award-winning children's writer Anna Claybourne making the book feel like a journey It explores topics as fascinating & as wide-ranging as Earth's formation the rock cycle volcanoes & earthquakes where precious stones come from & what fossils are It also provides great support for for the topic of rocks in both the geography & science curriculum ...