Details: For twelve-year-old Mary Ann Clark life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk,
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London, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman.

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Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep turns her hand to action films in this white-water knuckle-biter. Having decided to heal some family rifts, expert rafter Gail (Streep) takes her husband & their young son for a day out on the river. But the pleasant f ...

When Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House, she never knows what to expect...

Tiger meets Lucky – an injured

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When Kate Swan's overbearing father demands that she obey him by marrying a man she despises, she refuses & is cast out of her comfortable home in Whitby. Fortunately, a kindly local widow is looking for a lady companion &, for the moment, Kate's future is assured. Meanwhile in Shetl&, Malcolm Mc Fadden, heir to the Garstan Estate, disagrees with his father's plan to clear the crofters from his land & turn it over to sheep. The fate of one crofter's daughter in particular greatly troubles him, & he proposes to defy convention by marrying Rowena Murray, but she hesitates, & Malcolm leaves Shetland on his own. When he & Kate meet, they are instantly attracted to one other, but while Kate fulfills one last obligation to her generous employer Mrs Jordan
- accompanying her on a Lakeland tour
- Malcolm receives the news he has long dreaded. The Highland Clearances have begun, & old loyalties draw Malcolm back to Shetland where he vanishes without trace. Will Kate's love & determination win through, enabling her to discover what has become of Malcolm? Or will his old ties to Rowena, his first love, prove too strong, & cause Kate to regret the road she has travelled?

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The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war



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Details: This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected
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The war has brought devastating changes to the people of Portobello, a seaside district in Edinburgh. But as VE day nears, Tess Gillespie & her mother are feeling hopeful. Tess is looking forward to being able to walk on her beloved beaches for the first time since war was declared. More importantly, her father & sister will soon be back home & they can all be a family once again. However, the war has changed Don Gillespie & he is no longer content to settle back in to his former life. The future will bring both betrayal & heartbreak for the Gillespie women. & it will take all their courage & resolution to rebuild their lives & find new happiness. ...

It is the late 1940s in rural Irel&, & Kathleen Steele has been prematurely thrust into adulthood by the death of her twin sister, Nuala. Debilitated by grief, their mother has descended into a state of near-catatonia, & it is left to Kathleen to care for her younger siblings, & her taciturn father. When a traumatised young man, Joseph Foley, mysteriously appears in the small farming community, a tentative love affair develops. But as Mrs Steele's illness deepens, Kathleen's relationship with her father grows ever more disturbing. When Kathleen agrees to marry Joseph, her mother begins to regain her health. But by then it has become clear that the events of the intervening years will cast a dark shadow over the new generation. Tender & unblinking, The Road to the Sea is a novel about faith & fidelity, about the heart's ability to break, & to heal. A paean to the lost landscapes & communities of Irel&, & a meditation on the responsibilities of parents, this is an exquisite debut from a young novelist of great promise. ...

In 1936, at the behest of his publisher, George Orwell set out for Wigan to observe what life was really like in some of the

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