It is one of the simplest acts in our life, but some people are committed to it, others do their best to avoid it. This collection tries to cover all situations we can find ourselves walking in, bringing together fiction & non-fiction, early & contemporary walkers, ramblers in the countryside & strollers in cities, walking for the soul & marching for freedom. It is a most pleasant & interesting read & as many of these anthologies do, through the filter of a very simple theme, shows us the infinite variety of human nature. ...

Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth is the victim of a world-class wine heist
- & he is devastated. Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer,
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Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth is the proud
- & sometimes boastful
- owner of a fantastic collection of wines, the best vintages

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” It is hard not to be swept along by Adoree`s enthusiasm for the past...”
- Sunday Times Style Magazine This is a mini version
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” The Vintage Tea Party helps you plan not only stunning recipes for all sorts of delicious treats but also gives you countless ...

After his son Pablo dies before his second birthday from a rare & aggressive form of infant leukemia, the author writes this poignant account of unending love & hope. The foreword is its best description: ” This book is a dictionary with a single entry. It is the search for a word that does not exist in my language-the word for a parent who has watched his child die. Children who lose their parents are orphans, & those who have to close their spouse`s dead eyes are widows & widowers. But we, the parents who sign the documents authorizing our children`s funerals, we have no name, no civil status. We remain parents forever. Parents to a ghost who does not grow, a ghost whom we will never pick up from school, who will never fall for a girl, who will never go to college, who will never leave home. A child who will never upset us & whom we will never have to scold. A child who will never read the books we dedicate to him. The fact that there is no word to describe us means we are condemned to live always in a violet hour. Our watches have not stopped, but they display the same time again & again. Whenever it seems that the second hand will force the hour hand to make the leap forward, instead it slips back again to where it started. We are stuck in no-man`s time, stuck in our own redundancy, within which we call up this fantastic & unlikely story, this cheap tragedy filled with all the tricks of an inexperienced screenwriter, the story that trapped us here in the first place. I evoke it in writing. I recall this year of my life in the hope of fixing the story in place, of making sure it never shrinks into a cliche. My son Pablo was ten months old when he was first admitted to the hospital, & was nearly two when we scattered his ashes. It is this stretch of time that makes up our violet hour. It is this stretch of time that makes up this book, which contains all the words I need to give a name to my condition.” ...

` There`s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, & our duty is to unravel it, & isolate it, & expose every inch of it`. Arriving in the wilderness of London & in need of lodgings, Dr John Watson finds himself living at 221b Baker Street with one Sherlock Holmes. When a corpse is discovered in a derelict house Watston, fascinated by his brilliant, eccentric companion, is soon drawn into Holmes` investigations. There`s no sign of a struggle, no wounds on the body, yet scrawled in blood across the walls is the word RACHE
- revenge. Watson is baffled but for Holmes the game is afoot...
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This reference offers useful information & practical advice on everything you need to consider for your time out
- whether before
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In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress & an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her. From its subtle exploration of parochial politics to its horrific climax, The Visit shows a population willing to sacrifice loyalty & scruples in the pursuit of riches. It is a drama of the absurd that reduces human nature to its most ridiculous depths. Durrenmatt was one of the most important figures of modern European drama & The Visit remains both a powerful critique of twentieth century civilisation & an outstanding piece of experimental theatre. ...

The Visit is a sensitive & keenly observed portrait of a rural Australian town called Bangoree in the 1970s, centring on the social life of a group of `local intellectuals.` In The Visit
- Amy Witting`s debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty
- a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett & Brecht. But their literary pursuits, & their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is revealed that the late Roderick Fitzallan set some of his celebrated love poems in their small country town. Who is the local mystery woman who inspired Fitzallan`s verse all those years ago?

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