A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, & a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in the cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close platonic relationship with her neighbour, a sickly young man who shares her interest in death & believes we can communicate with the dead. After coming to entirely depend on him for company & routine, Cecilia is left devastated by his decision to go to Sicily for his health, & is left alone in an unfriendly city once more. Claudio, meanwhile, lives in New York with the submissive, quiet, but very wealthy Ruth. She makes few demands of him, whilst acquiescing to all his desires & indulging his obsessive, misogynistic nature. He meets Cecilia by chance whilst visiting a friend in Paris & these two very different stories collide with transformative consequences. Translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey ...

In After They Killed Our Father, Loung Ung picks up where the bestselling First They Killed My Father left off, with the author escaping a devastated Cambodia in 1980 at the age of ten & flying to the US as a refugee. She & her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, & her book is alternately heart-wrenching & heart-warming, as it follows the parallel lives of Loung & her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. Their two worlds could not have been more different, & Loung's depiction of the contrast between her life in the affluent West & that of her sister, who navigated her way through landmine-strewn fields & survived raids by the Khmer Rouge, is laced with the guilt she feels about being the lucky one. This powerful story helps us to understand what happens when a family is torn apart by politics, adversity & war. It is also the compelling & inspirational tale of a remarkable woman. ...

***THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT IS LOVED AROUND THE WORLD, & IS NOW A FILM STARRING EMILIA CLARKE & SAM CLAFLIN*** ` Matches Me Before You. Funny, sad & wise, you`ll be using a hankie as a bookmark` Mail on Sunday ` Moyes totally delivers. With its twisty plot, characters you fall in love with, weepy bits & witty bits, this is pretty much perfect` Glamour Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she`s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she`s owned for a year still doesn`t feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. & will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for
- or just more questions? Close the door & life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it & she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. & if she`s going to keep it, she has to invite them in.. .` This beautiful story is perfect. Will have you brimming with tears & grinning in equal measure. L-O-V-E` Closer ` Wonderfully warm. Moyes manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love. Unputdownable` Sunday Express ` Classic Jojo
- fans will love it` Heat ` Satisfyingly brilliant` Sun `I read this in one sitting. It is impossible not to root for Lou` Stylist

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After you with the Pistol
- the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp.
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AFTER YOU`D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O` Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE & I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love & grief.A distraught young woman boards a train at King`s Cross to return to her family in Scotl&. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London.AFTER YOU`D GONE follows Alice`s mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, & of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family`s heart. ...

Explore a wonderful choice of quaint & cosy tea rooms, charming hotels & delightful tea shops, a perfect choice for afternoon tea. Each of the establishments has been approved by the Tea Guild, & has a great selection of teas, elegant sandwiches, delicious cakes & pastries to make afternoon tea a finest top quality experience. Also included are details of facilities, including eating outside, own blend tea & even if there's a pianist. ...

A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection & the power of a tomato. `I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit on a stool in my grandmother`s house. It is the height of summer in a seaside village in the south of Greece. We little Aussies devour `tomato sandwiches` as the family chats & laughs & swats flies.. .` From the first heady taste of tomatoes on home-baked bread in her mother`s village in Petalidi, to sitting at a taverna some 30 years later in Ithaka with her young family, Spiri Tsintziras goes on a culinary, creative & spiritual journey that propels her back & forth between Europe & Australia. These evocative, funny & poignant stories explore how food & culture, language & music, & people & their stories help to create a sense of meaning & identity. ...

Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five; the odds of dying on Everest are one in sixty. But just as he reaches Base Camp in April 2015, the giant earthquake in Nepal sets off an avalanche that will kill 21. Jules is within touching distance of his life`s ambition & is now faced with an agonising choice about his next move. Aftershock is a heart-stopping eyewitness account of the deadliest day in history on the world`s most iconic mountain. It is also an exploration of the choices we make in life, & throws up difficult questions about how logic & compassion can be affected by altitude & extreme stress. ...

Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends & killed their enemies, having seen & done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans` journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return. Through wide-ranging interviews with former combatants
- including a Royal Marine sniper & a veteran operator in the SAS
- as well as serving personnel & their families, physicians, therapists & psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the labels of shell shock & post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to get to the heart of today`s post-conflict experience. It pursues the question that the military are so reluctant to ask: why do people who are trained to thrive within the theatre of war so often find themselves ill-prepared for peace? As a new generation of battle-scarred troops begins to lay their weapons down, Aftershock offers an empathetic yet hard-hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma & survive.

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One of the titles in a series of topographic maps covering much of north-west Africa, produced as part of the IMW* project in 1960’s. Each map covers an area spanning 6° in longitude & 4° in latitude. There is some variation in colouring & the depiction of terrain, but hill-shading, spot heights & contours are used to show the general relief. Additional graphics show features such as dunes, rock outcrops, cliffs, sand areas, escarpments, marshes, seasonal lakes & watercourses, & areas liable to flooding. Bathymetric contours are also included. Communications detail

Includes:: roads, major trails & railways, although there is some inconsistency in colouring & the extent of classification, e.g. not all maps distinguish seasonal roads. On most maps intermediate road distances are indicated on main routes. Symbols show airports, mosques, mines, oil & gas fields, lighthouses, ruins & significant isolated buildings. Administrative boundaries are marked & latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals, with further margin ticks at 1’ intervals. The map legend is in French only on some sheets, & in English & French on others.* The International Map of the World was a project conceived in the early 20th century to compile a world map series at 1:1, 000, 000 through the efforts of participating nations. The value of the program has declined since 1970 & the IMW is no longer regarded as an active international series.

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