Mark Billingham is an accomplished crime writer & the author of 11 best-selling novels. He has won prizes for novel of the year twice. From the Dead is another great addition to the Tom Thorne series of books. If you enjoy fast-paced crime action, but with a twist on the norm of the genre, From the Dead will have you gripped from the first page. The story of From the Dead unfolds a decade after the burned remains of Alan Langford are discovered inside what was left of his charred vehicle. At the time, his wife Donna was charged with conspiring to murder him. Donna was subsequently imprisoned for a period of ten years. Prior to walking free, she is receives an unpleasant surprise in the form of a package delivered to her cell. The package contains a photograph of her supposedly dead husb&, except in this picture he looks anything but dead. Is he still alive & if so where is he? From the Dead brings in DI Tom Thorne in to track down who sent the letter & unravel the mystery. The book is widely acclaimed as one of Billingham's best novels & is available in paperback format. ...

Books Contemporary Fiction Books Bree & Eason survive the fire that takes their partners
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KYM MARSH is one of our most-loved stars, but her life has been a rollercoaster ride through love, laughter & tears. Now Kym's ready to tell her full story for the first time, describing her difficult childhood growing up on a council estate in Wigan, & struggling at school with bullying & an eating disorder. She describes falling in love at 17 & finding herself pregnant while still a teenager. By the time she was 21, she was a single mum with two very young children, David & Emily, & it was a real struggle to make ends meet. But Kym had always dreamt of performing & even though the odds were stacked against her, she was determined to make her dream a reality. One day she auditioned for a new TV show called Popstars & her life changed forever. Kym now stars in the nation's favourite soap, Coronation Street. But her life off-screen hasn't been easy. She reflects on her marriage to Jack Ryder & how hard she tried to make it work. Kym found new love with Hollyoaks star Jamie Lomas & after tragically losing their first baby Archie in 2009, the couple were over the moon to welcome little Polly Lomas into the world earlier this year. Entertaining, funny & incredibly honest, From the Heart is a fantastic read all about how sometimes the best things happen in life when you refuse to give up hope. ...

A rich blend of history & spirituality, adventure & politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos & Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages & mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of Islam. Almost 1500 years later, using the writings of John Moschos as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps. Taking in a civil war in Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the tensions of the West Bank & a fundamentalist uprising in Egypt, William Dalrymple's account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity. ...

Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, & other contexts to describe how & why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences. ...

Charting Hawksmoor's career & the decline of his reputation, Owen Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works
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When a homeless man is found murdered in picturesque Lincoln the police are met by a wall of silence from those who may hold the

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A memoir of friendships, foreign places, the delights of the palate, & the enjoyment of life, this book takes you from the pungency of the Durban market to the beauties of Kashmir, from the Silver Palate gourmet shop in New York to the gardens of Engl&. ...

In 1933, at the age of 15, George Dunn left the small Welsh mining village of Blaina for St Albans in Hertfordshire as part of the government's Labour Exchange Scheme. This book covers the memories of his life in Hertfordshire & his wartime experiences. ...

It is 1934. Next-door neighbours Lizzie & Celia are the best of friends.

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