The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner & part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. With guidance from the working nurse`s manual, & some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn`t easy & on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist & loveable good Teddy Butt
- a ragtag law enforcement officer by night & a bodybuilder by day. Can Alice & Teddy live happily ever after? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse & this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary.
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A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms & villages of Britain. On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel & evacuee children by the thousand; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds & firing ranges, & whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers to close quarters, & as horses gave way to tractors & combines farmers were burdened with aggressive new restrictions on what they could & could not grow. Land Girls & Lumber Jills worked in fields & forests. Food
- or the lack of it
- was a major preoccupation & rationing strictly enforced. & although rabbits were poached, apples scrumped & mushrooms gathered, there was still not enough to eat. Drawing from diaries, letters, books, official records & interviews, Duff Hart Davis revisits rural Britain to describe how ordinary people survived the war years. He tells of houses turned over to military use such as Bletchley & RAF Medmenham as well as those that became schools, notably Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Combining both hardship & farce, the book examines the profound changes war brought to Britain`s countryside: from the Home Guard, struggling with the provision of ludicrous equipment, to the role of the XII Corps Observation Unit. whose task was to enlarge rabbit warrens & badger setts into bunkers for harassing the enemy in the event of a German invasion; to the unexpected tenderness shown by many to German & Italian prisoners-of-war at work on the l&. Fascinating, sad & at times hilarious, this warm-hearted book tells great stories
- & casts new light on Britain during the war.


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The First World War was a human catastrophe but it also saw a dynamic development of new weapons & a new kind of war; between the lions & the donkeys came the managers
- & the workers
- who transformed a nation into a war machine in 48 months. This book takes you on a journey to the key places that witnessed this war effort & those at all levels of society who brought about the change. The war created a new world of vast hutted camps & a new kind of transport system which even involved a lighted barrage across the Channel. From Aldershot
- the home of the British Army, to the War Office in Whitehall, from Aberdeen to Yarmouth, this is Britain`s war mapped for the first time. This book uncovers where this national revolution took place & shows how you can find the hidden world of the First World War at the end of your road.


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The long-term consequences & the personal stories of people around the world going green make up the focus of this beautiful new book for children. The scientific & technical advances of the last century have had major effects on the earth. How can humans, in todays world, continue to respect nature & avoid doing irreparable damage to the planet? From pollution to carbon dioxide emissions & endangered plants, from disappearing languages to glaciers, this book details the ways in which people affect their environment & how a more stable balance can be achieved, comprehensively informing readers about the reality of the earth`s ecosystem & inspiring them to do what they can to help save the planet. ...

One of Graham Greene’s most popular books, Our Man in Havana has all the usual trademarks of a Greene novel (foreign locale, one man, a higher power & the perversion thereof), except instead of being a taught thriller, Greene’s wit shines through & proves to be as blackly comic as one could imagine. Wormold, a vacuum salesman living in Havana, is short of money, at a time when being short of money was the worst possible time for Wormold: his daughter has reached an expensive age & Wormold’s impetuous need to deliver gets the better of him
- so he accepts Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month & becomes Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents & sends fake stories. Then the stories start coming disturbingly true... In August 1941, Graham Greene joined the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service or MI6), & became fascinated with the story of Garcia, a double agent stationed in Lisbon who fed the Nazis disinformation throughout the war, inventing maps, armed forces movements & even operation guides for military reference. Garcia was the most likely inspiration for Wormold & knowing this somehow makes the book even more enjoyable, that one man`s imagination could get the better of even the highest powers. Our Man in Havana offers a different flavour of Greene, & a Havana from decades past.
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If you think you know Irel&, this book will make you think again. Each year on St Patrick`s Day the eighty million people around the world claiming Irish ancestry celebrate their spiritual homel&. Millions more don leprechaun hats & swallow pints of Guinness in an annual global high-fiving of all things Irish. Charlie Connelly was one of them. As a Londoner claiming Irish roots he thought he knew what Ireland was all about. Then, when he was least expecting it, he went to live there. Our Man In Hibernia follows Charlie`s adventures living among the Irish. In an engaging & frequently hilarious tale
- we learn how a tree stump can draw legions of visitors from across the land & why being on a pig`s back is a desirable thing
- Charlie contrasts the cliched shamrock-strewn image with the reality of life in modern Irel&.

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2003: As Croatia lurches from socialism into globalized capitalism, Toni, a cocky journalist in Zagreb, struggles to balance his fragile career, pushy family, & hotheaded girlfriend. But in a moment of vulnerability he makes a mistake: volunteering his unhinged Arabic-speaking cousin Boris to report on the Iraq War. Boris begins filing Gonzo missives from the conflict zone & Toni decides it is better to secretly rewrite his cousin`s increasingly incoherent ramblings than face up to the truth. But when Boris goes missing, Toni`s own sense of reality
- & reliability
- begins to unravel. Our Man In Iraq, the first of Robert Perisic`s novels to be translated into English, serves as an unforgettable introduction to a vibrant voice from Croatia. With his characteristic humor & insight, Perisic gets to the heart of life made & remade by war.

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Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independents correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular Our Man in Paris series consists of essays on all things French. Sometimes serious, at other times light-hearted, they offer varied vignettes of life in the hexagone & trace the authors evolving relationship with his adopted country. ...

In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology & to discover the nature of reality. Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, across every possible scale
- from the sub-atomic to the intergalactic
- showing how mathematics provides the answers to our questions about the world. Where do we come from? What makes the universe the way it is? In essence, why are we here? With dazzling clarity, Max Tegmark ponders these deep mysteries & allows us to grasp the most cutting-edge & mind-boggling theories of physics. What he proposes is an elegant & fascinating idea: that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. ” Our Mathematical Universe is nothing if not impressive. Brilliantly argued & beautifully written, it is never less than thought-provoking about the greatest mysteries of our existence”. (New York Times). ” An amazing ride through the rich landscape of contemporary cosmology... Physics could do with more characters like Tegmark.. .an imaginative intellect & a charismatic presence”. (Clive Cookson, Financial Times Max). Tegmark is author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers, twelve of which have been cited more than 500 times. He has featured in dozens of science documentaries, & his work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine`s ” Breakthrough of the Year: 2003”. He holds a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley, & is a physics professor at MIT.

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Ancient & modern landmarks from across the world fill this original & creative design. The Elizabeth Tower (home to Big Ben) rubs shoulders with the Statue of Liberty, Sydney Opera House nestles in front of St Basil`s Cathedral, whilst The Sphinx crouches in front of Stonehenge. There are 50 famous sites to discover
- how many can you identify? Supplied with in-box leaflet listing all 50 landmarks, & additional puzzle picture for reference.
- High quality 1000 piece cardboard jigsaw puzzle.
- The finished puzzle measures 70 x 50cm when complete.
- Suitable for ages 12 years & up.
- Made from strong premium grade cardboard, with linen finish print to minimise glare on puzzle image.




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