A gripping literary novel from a striking new voice in American fiction. New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of beers by the river, of working in his friend's father's garage, of studying to go to college. Then, one night, everything changed. ' August & then some' is a taut & gripping family drama, in which horrifying secrets kept between father & daughter, & mother & son, explode during one tragic night. Set over the course of two summers, it is a novel of revenge & the difficulty of repentance & forgiveness. Jaggedly beautiful & intensely realised, tightly plotted yet expansive, this debut novel is the coming-of-age of a striking new voice in American fiction. ...

New York City. JT Savage is labourer on the Upper East Side during the day, but at night he's an insomniac in an East Village tenement. He enjoyed a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; working in his friend's father's garage, beers by the river & studying to go to college. Then, one night, everything changed. ...

A biography of Augustine's life, as interpreted by the acclaimed church historian, the late Professor Henry Chadwick. Augustine's intellectual development is recounted with clarity & warmth, providing a characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic narrative of this central figure in the history of Christian thought. ...

According to a completely made up report, the average adult spends up to half an hour each day on the toilet. This time is often spent contemplating your diet, your toenails or the state of your underwear. This book deals with this smallest room of the ho ...

According to a completely made up report, the average adult spends up to half an hour each day on the toilet. This time is usually spent contemplating your diet, your toenails or the state of your underwear. This book

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Enjoy hours of fun piecing together all sorts of Crazy Shapes in this stunning Aurora Over Iceland!

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Shows how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history
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At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz.

In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science

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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew & a medical doctor, Dr Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates u ...

Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. ‘ My child, I have to go with her!’ I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. ‘ Maul halten, shut up!’ His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down. In 1943, as the Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanuel & their daughter, Judy, were forced into hiding. But after a year & a half of living a terrifying, day-by-day existence, they were betrayed. As they arrived in Auschwitz, Rosa was torn from her husband & her only daughter. Could she dare to hope she would see either of them again? Somehow, Rosa fought the horror & humiliation of the camp, on occasion coming dangerously close to death. In nursing the people trapped beside her, she helped others survive, but tragically she also watched them die – including a mother she had met before, with a similar story & a daughter the very same age. Her name was Edith Frank. Written immediately in the months after the war, Auschwitz... ...