North Camp, a growing Hampshire village, has been briefly energised by the cessation of the Great War & the years of peace that followed. Now, however, with the beginning of the Second World War, the lives of the inhabitants are plunged once more into chaos. Tom Munday, carpenter of the village, is now seventy-two & grandfather to the children of his daughters Grace & Isabel. The stories of a new generation unravel as the girls move into womanhood, coping with family expectations & the budding of first loves, & as the young men are called to active duty, anxious to do their part in the fight. Those left behind on the home front must find ways to adapt to wartime challenges: the return of wounded soldiers, the loss of loved ones, & the arrival of newborns, child evacuees & prisoners of war. & meanwhile, amongst all the horrors & hardships, love both illicit & conventional blossoms. A rich tale of strength, courage & romance, A Family's Duty examines the complex interweaving of lives against the backdrop of World War II. ...

When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgement, & as a consequence, loses not one, but two much-sought-after jobs in publishing. Now, years older, successful, & happily a far cry from Kensington, she looks back over the dark days that followed, in which she was embroiled in a mystery involving anonymous letters, quack remedies, blackmail & suicide. ...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded & twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms.

In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers & the men & women he encounters along the way with conviction & brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama & uncompromising passion, A Farewell to Arms offers a unique & unflinching view of the world & people, by the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded & twice decorated.

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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front & his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry & Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivalled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto, of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, & demoralized, is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love & pain, of loyalty & desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway. Read by John Slattery ...

13 years ago Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for a violent robbery. But upon his release he sets in motion a chilling plan to get what he believes is owed to him. Leaving her old life in Battersea, Kevin's ex-wife Pearl has remarried & is determined to protect her son John from knowing the truth about his real father. But when her close friend Bessie dies, she is forced to return to the one place she'd rather forget. Pearl must plans to take over Bessie's shop & look after Nora, the young woman who was in Bessie's care. Meanwhile, Kevin is swindling his parents for money & once he gets what he wants, Kevin is going to find his son, whatever it takes... ...

A Feast for Crows is the fourth volume in George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A Song of Ice & Fire, an epic fantasy & inspiration for HBO’s hit series A Game of Thrones.  ‘ On the morning after battle, the crows had feasted on victors & vanquished alike. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?’ A Lannister sits upon the Iron Throne. But the days of betrayal & bloodshed are far from over. Among the ashes of war, new conflicts spark to life. Daring new plots & dangerous new alliances are formed which threaten to engulf Westeros. But in this game of thrones, victory will go to those with the sharpest steel & the coldest hearts. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780007447862 • Author: George R.R. Martin • Publisher: Harper Voyager • Format: Paperback • Pages: 864 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 4.8 cm ...

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Includes:: 3 great DVDs each focusing on a different part of British steam. Disc one looks at the

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Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a Private by asphyxiating him with a towel. Initially working out a quick & easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is ...

In 1996 Sarah Lyall, a New York Times reporter, left behind her American roots & moved to London for love. As that newspapers correspondent in London, she became known here for her witty & incisive dispatches from her adopted country, as she conjured with her new & eccentric countrymen. She also found herself with a ringside seat at a singular moment in British life: the roller-coaster years of Tony Blairs New Labour had inaugurated a battle between the old world of aristocratic privilege & a new world of modern meritocracy. In A Field Guide to the British, Lyall strides her way readably, eloquently & perceptively across the social, political & cultural landscape of contemporary Britain. In a narrative studded with memorable anecdote & rich in humour, she explores themes as diverse as peers, politics, the media, understatement, the weather, & Britains relationship with animals, alcohol & sex. She ponders such matters as the missing link between the famous British reserve & the famous British hooliganism (could it possibly be binge drinking?); how any parliamentary motion is ever passed when the Commons act like naughty schoolboys & the Lords spend two days debating UFOs; & the age-old question of how anyone could possibly enjoy a game as tedious as cricket? A Field Guide to the British is an impressively wide-ranging survey of contemporary British mores from a writer blessed with acute powers of observation & a fluent & readable writing style. Seeing ourselves through Lyalls eyes is sometimes embarrassing, often revelatory
- but always very funny. Wry, insightful & engaging, A Field Guide to the British is permeated with a deep affection for its authors adopted country & an unerring eye for its oddities & eccentricities. It is required reading for Anglophiles & Anglophobes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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