Growing up in a strict religious family between the wars, Annie Lang wasn t convinced that Jesus was such a great friend to little children. Or why would he have snatched away her lovely mother when she was only six? Witness to disturbing events that no one can explain, Annie is confused & sister Bea can t help. Six years on & student Annie returns from France to find her brother in the local mental hospital, her father rarely home & her friend & Sunday School teacher missing. With the help of her childhood diary Annie turns detective to try & understand the past. Her journey leads to a discovery that she believes will ruin all their lives, unless they can somehow atone for what has happened. Impulsive, brave & lovable, Annie Lang is formidable when she takes matters into her own hands. ...

The award-winning Number One bestseller & Queen of crime fiction Val Mc Dermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. ...

For 150 years, district nurses have been taking care of the sick in their own homes, providing health care, moral support, & wise advice to people of all ages & classes, in rural areas, towns & cities the length & breadth of the country. Begun in 1860s Liverpool by philanthropist William Rathbone, the District Nursing Movement was founded to care for the poor who had no access to medical care. This illuminating book shows how the role of the district nurse has moved on greatly since Queen Victoria`s Jubilee, expanding & developing to provide a broad range of invaluable health care services in the community. ...

” In Vendela Vida`s taut & mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet & passport-all of her money & identification. Though the police investigate, the woman senses an undercurrent of complicity between the hotel staff & the authorities-she knows she`ll never recover her possessions. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses. A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a st&-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, & soon she`s inhabiting the actress`s skin off set, too-going deeper into the Casablancan night & further from herself. & so continues a strange & breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further & further away from the person she once was. Told with vibrant, lush detail & a wicked sense of humor, The Diver`s Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological thriller-an unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, & a woman`s right to choose not her past, perhaps not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vida`s most assured & ambitious novel yet.” ...

In Vendela Vida`s taut & mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet & passport
- all of her money & identification. Though the police investigate, the woman senses an undercurrent of complicity between the hotel staff & the authorities
- she knows she`ll never recover her possessions. Stripped of her identity, she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses. A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a st&-in for a well-known film star. The star reels her in deeper, though, & soon she`s inhabiting the actress`s skin off set, too
- going deeper into the Casablancan night & further from herself. & so continues a strange & breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns, an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further & further away from the person she once was. Told with vibrant, lush detail & a wicked sense of humour, The Diver`s Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery, part psychological thriller
- an unforgettable novel that explores free will, power, & a woman`s right to choose not her past, perhaps not her present, but certainly her future. This is Vendela Vida`s most assured & ambitious novel yet.



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Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations
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The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece & a bestseller in France, it is now a major motion picture directed by Julian Schnabel. On 8 December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a massive stroke & slipped into a coma. When he regained consciousness three weeks later, the only muscle left functioning was in his left eyelid although his mind remained as active & alert as it had ever been. He spent most of 1996 writing this book, letter by letter, blinking as an alphabet was repeatedly read out to him. The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly was published in France on Thursday 6th March 1997. It was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. & then, three days later, he died. The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly, which records Bauby`s lonely existence, is probably the most remarkable book about the triumph of the human spirit, the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances, that you will ever read. It has now been made into a captivating film, directed by Julian Schnabel & starring Mathieu Amalric, which was the winner of the award for Best Director at Cannes & nominated for the Palm d` Or. ...

` Through the double clamour of Big Ben & the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.` A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary, takes on the role of amateur sleuth. Used to turning a blind eye to covert dealings, West must now uncover the shocking secret behind the man`s demise, amid distractions from the press & the dead man`s enigmatic daughter. Originally published in 1932, this was the only mystery novel to be written by Ellen Wilkinson, one of the first women to be elected to Parliament. Wilkinson offers a unique insider`s perspective of political scandal, replete with sharp satire. ...

Winner of the prestigious ` Best Emerging Illustrator Award` from Booktrust, Levi Pinfold has created a wonderfully moving story of a young boy dogged by the attentions of his imaginary friend ` Django` who keeps getting him into trouble. Finally, the young boy has to banish his friend, but he misses him terribly. When his father gives Jean a banjo, he rediscovers the infectious enthusiasm for music that was the Django`s special gift to him. ...

Envy, revenge & retribution in the thrilling new installment of the Mysteries of the Greek Detective series. A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard
- trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi, just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble there's Hermes Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always pristine & whose methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must solve a brutal crime, thwart the petty machinations of the town's ex-mayor & pour oil on the troubled waters of a sisters' relationship
- but how can he solve a mystery that not even the victim wants to be solved?

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