Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey & carols, presents & crackers
- they all start to feel a bit... samey.
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Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey & carols, presents & crackers
- they all start to feel a bit... samey.
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It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin`s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. &, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin`s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. &, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London. His father was dying. When the editor, writer, critic & academic Karl Miller died later that year, the obituaries spoke of his brilliance & influence, of how he founded the London Review of Books, & how he had shaped the careers of some of the finest writers & poets of the second half of the twentieth century. But they gave little sense of Karl Miller beyond the world of work: the warm, funny, football-loving family man so adored by his children & grandchildren. In the months after his death, Sam began to write about his father. He had been told, long ago, a family secret involving his parents & a close friend. Now, by reading his father`s papers & with the help of his mother, he was able to piece together a remarkable story. Fathers is the result: a tender, thoughtful exploration of childhood & parenthood, of friendship, love & loyalty. ...

Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of Engl&, Howard Cunnell`s sense of self was dominated by his father`s absence. Now, years later, he is a father, & his daughter is becoming his son. Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood & the escape he found in reading & the natural world. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him. Saved by love & responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, & a son. Most of all, this is a story about love
- its necessity & fragility, & its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we are. Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest & exquisitely lyrical, Fathers & Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity & family.
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It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius ` Fatty O` Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Betty, & likes nothing better than the company of good friends Tubby O` Rourke & Porky Flanagan. But when Fatty & Betty head off to Ireland on the trip of a lifetime, they find that they have left their comfort zone far behind. Calamity & mayhem ensue as one mishap after another befalls the beleaguered couple. Can Fatty`s broad shoulders take the strain or will he suffer one indignity too many? Will he get his just deserts, or just dessert? ...

Ever since ” Robinson Crusoe” in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters
- people in
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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

A little lie.. . a seismic secret.. . & the cracks are beginning to show... In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, in which a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, & where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to The Inch
- the new volcanic island
- to meet Tom, her lover & her boss, she finds his lifeless body, & makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, & her discovery of his corpse secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she`ll be exposed, Surtsey`s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact
- someone who claims to know what she`s done...


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