People go to Italy for love & gelato.. .but sometimes they discover much more. The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina`s mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany & get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. ” Howard is the best man I`ve ever known, ” her mother says, ”he`ll keep you safe.” Why did her mother wait so long to tell her about him? Lina has a happy life in Seattle & doesn`t want to leave. Shortly after she arrives at Howard`s home, Lina meets Sonya, who gives Lina a diary that belonged to Lina`s mother, the one she had kept while she was a photography student in Florence. While Lina is living her life & exploring Tuscany with her handsome neighbour, Ren, she follows in the footsteps of her mother & gets to know her as never before. She also finds out the truth about her father. Mostly she finds out about herself. ...

The fascinating memoir of Margarita Papandreou, First Lady of Greece in the 1980s, Love & Power tells the story of the private woman behind the public face. The book documents Margarita`s rise from waitress Margaret in America to the formidable Margarita, feminist campaigner & woman of style, power & influence. Papandreou`s wit & passion leaps from the pages even as she provides insider insight into the international politics of the time. An engaging behind-the-scenes look at the life & achievements of an exceptional woman. A dynamic political activist determined to fight for a world free from prejudice & war. Margarita Papandreou gave equal attention to her role as the mother of four children & the wife of a prime minister. Love & Power is her first book & explores her conflict between feminist & woman, love & power. ...

Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi`s acclaimed film Le Week-End, & an account of Kafka`s relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, & make his own: growing up & growing old; betrayal & loyalty; imagination & repression; marriage & fatherhood. The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi`s life savings
- a man who provoked both admiration & disgust, obsession & revulsion, love & hate.
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A joyful, inspirational book that celebrates love in its many forms. Whether quiet, loud, shy or proud, the lyrical yet simple text champions love for a faithful pet, a best friend or simply your most favourite person in the WHOLE world. Heart-warming & tender, with charming artwork from Sarah Massini, this follow-up to Books Always Everywhere is the perfect Valentine`s present to share & read aloud. ...

From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. In A Little Boy in Search of God, he remembers his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy & cabbala. Later, the pursuit of women came to obsess him almost as much as the pursuit of knowledge, & in A Young Man in Search of Love he chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs. When he emigrated to the United States from Poland on the eve of the Second World War loneliness & depression overwhelmed him, & he relives those dark years in Lost in America. From beginning to end, Love & Exile sheds new light on Singer`s own life & the fictional lives mirrored in it. ...

It is summer & a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long & warm days, Ellie & the stranger form an illicit attachment. & those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love & fate take their inevitable course. ...

Hailed as Newby`s `masterpiece`, Love & War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby`s imprisonment & escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he`d been held for a year. He evaded the German army by hiding in the caves & forests of Fontanellato, in Italy`s Po Valley. Against this picturesque backdrop, he was sheltered for three months by an informal network of Italian peasants, who fed, supported & nursed him, before his eventual recapture. Love & War in the Apennines is Newby`s tribute to the selfless & courageous people who were to be his saviours & companions during this troubled time & of their bleak & unchanging way of life. Of the cast of idiosyncratic characters, most notable was the beautiful local girl on a bike who would teach him the language, & eventually help him escape; two years later they were married & would spend the rest of their lives as co-adventurers. Part travelogue, part escape story & part romance, this is a mesmerising account of wisdom, courage, humour & adventure, & tells the story of the early life of a man who would become one of Britain`s best-loved literary adventurers. ...

Over the fifteen years Rosemary has been living in the region, the more she realised she didn`t know about the war; about the French during the Occupation, the real role of the Resistance, the level of collaboration, the concentration camps in the Pyrenees & the treatment of Jews & other refugees. It is still very much a veiled history & most of the archives remain firmly closed. Love & War in the Pyrenees is a portrait of human tragedy, heroism & cruelty that will create a picture of the period from a contemporary angle, the history linked to sights that can still be visited, & brought to life by letters, interviews & encounters with people today, including the historians currently trying to investigate what really happened. ...

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` Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs.. .` So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald Dahl would continue to write weekly letters to his mother, chronicling his adventures, frustrations & opinions, from the delights of childhood to the excitements of flying as a World War II fighter pilot & the thrill of meeting top politicians & movie stars during his time as a diplomat & spy in Washington. &, unbeknown to Roald, his mother lovingly kept every single one of them. Sofie was, in many ways, Roald`s first reader. It was she who encouraged him to tell stories & nourished his desire to fabricate, exaggerate & entertain. Reading these letters, you can see Roald practicing his craft, developing the dark sense of humour & fantastical imagination that would later produce such timeless tales as The BFG, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox & The Witches. The letters in Love from Boy are littered with jokes & madcap observations; sometimes serious, sometimes tender, & often outrageous. To eavesdrop on a son`s letters to his mother is to witness Roald Dahl turning from a boy to a man, & finally becoming a writer. ...