Meet feisty, fun-loving Ruby Ross thirty-four, mad red hair, mad (in general), adopted & searching for answers.. . like, precisely whose genes are responsible for the mad red hair.. . She's impulsive, compulsive & unaware of what she's about to unleash in her quest for the truth. Isobel Ross is larger than life (despite being a serial dieter) & lives in a picturesque cottage in Donegal in the grounds of a manor-house hotel but why are the new hotel-owners so keen to get rid of her? She's harbouring secrets from the past & fiercely protective of her adopted daughter Ruby. Can she stop the wilful Ruby from opening a nasty can of worms? Throw in Ruby's forthcoming nuptials to the lovely Luke, a bling-loving bridesmaid in the shape of her best friend Frankie, a wedding planner called Gabriel who wears more make-up than the bride-to-be & you have chaos. Add to the mix a dusty box found by chance which leaves many questions unanswered, & you have a bewildered & rather ferocious Ruby asking is there Anyone For Me? ...

Even a small town girl can have big dreams... Marcie Brooks has returned to her home town with a baby & a ring on her finger. But for all her grandmother's insistence that she's a young widow, the truth is the only boy Marcie has ever loved tragically died before he could make good his promise to wed her. Sometimes she still feels his presence near her, which is both a comfort & an unnerving sign that she's inherited her grandmother's psychic gifts... However defending herself from unwanted attention has devastating consequences
- Marcie has to leave Sheppey in a hurry. The offer of a job in a smart boutique on the Kings Road in London, arranged via her father's dodgy connections, seems to offer an ideal escape. But it doesn't take Marcie long to discover that her new Sicilian bosses have other business interests besides fashion...
...

The autobiography of one of the most significant & beloved of songwriters, writer of fifty-two UK Top 40 hits from Walk On By to Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated & legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Dietrich to Elvis Costello. Anyone Who Had a Heart is the story of one of the greatest song writers of all time. It traces for the first time in his own words, the life & times of the man who created the music that has become the sound track for the lives of his millions of devoted fans all over the world. Bacharachs songs include: Magic Moments
- Perry Como, Baby Its You
- The Shirelles / The Beatles, Please Stay
- The Drifters / Marc Almond, Wishin & Hopin
- Dionne Warwick / Dusty Springfield / Ani Di Franco, Walk On By
- Dionne Warwick / The Stranglers, I Just Dont Know What to Do with Myself
- Dusty Springfield / The White Stripes, (Theres) Always Something There to Remind Me
- Sandie Shaw, A Message to Martha
- Adam Faith, Whats New Pussycat?
- Tom Jones, Trains & Boats & Planes
- Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, Alfie
- Cilla Black / Cher / Rumer, I Say a Little Prayer
- Dionne Warwick / Aretha Franklin, Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
- Dionne Warwick, Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head
- B.J. Thomas / Sacha Distel / Johnny Mathis, Ill Never Fall in Love Again
- Bobby Gentry, Arthurs Theme (Best That You Can Do)
- Burt Bacharach / Barry Manilow / Shirley Bassey















...

Details: One of the greatest songwriters of all time offers a frank & riveting account of his life & the stories behind
...

You'd do anything for the one that got away... wouldn't you?

When Billy Orr returns home to spend time with his dying sister,

...

For any anywhere farm, here's all that you need: soil & sunshine, some water, a seed.

You might think a farm means

...

Screen greats Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk & Arthur Kennedy star in the riveting war drama Anzio, a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest WWII battles ever fought. After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy, in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis (M ...

Fired with her passion for life, food & challenge, Cowrie & her friends take on multinational corporations & the New Zealand government over the issue of genetically modified crops. As they grapple with concerns ranging from sick children to genetic engineering, they encounter corruption, politics & power. ...

The Man: Ed Macy
- Elite Pilot. The Machine: Apache Ah MK1
- The World's Deadliest Fighting Machine. The Mission: Impenetrable

...

Apes to look at them is to see ourselves in a mirror. Our close genetic relatives fascinate & unnerve us with their similar behaviour & social personalities. The author delves into our contradictory relationship with the ape, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves. ...