Many of the inventions that won both the First & Second World Wars including the first use of parachutes, Zeppelin-destroying ammunition, bouncing bombs, rockets, bombsights & missiles were created & tested at Orford Ness in Suffolk. This book uncovers the real military history behind its myths & legends. ...

Details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. This book talks about the 'battle of the beams'; detecting & defeating flying bombs; using chaff to confuse radar; &, many other ingenious ideas & devices. ...

When a woman & her husb&, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to conceive, they decide to take further steps.



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Margie Danielson, a divorcee & mother of three, had fantasies of finding the perfect man. Then one night, in a smoky country & western club, she found him. Sean Paul Lanier was charming, handsome, & kind
- everything Margie had dreamed of. Soon after, their whirlwind romance took flight. Sean showered Margie with flowers, jewellery, expensive gifts, & his intense
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At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her obsession is her room-mate, Lucy Blake, & Lucy's friendship with their new & disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious presence with pale skin. Around her swirl dark secrets & a series of ominous disasters. ...

Mother Knows Best: Precious words of wisdom from mothers to their children.

Our mothers shape us in so many different ways,

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One little girl.
Mirabelle’s mother loves her. She’s her ‘little doll’. Mother dresses her, paints her face, & plaits

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Mary, the mother of Jesus, is one of the most powerful, influential & complex of all religious figures. The focus for women, the inspiration of faith, the subject of innumerable paintings, sculptures, pieces of music & churches, Mary is so entangled in our world that it is impossible to conceive of the history of Western culture & religion without her. Miri Rubin's " Mother of God" is a major work of cultural imagination. Mary's role in the Gospels is a relatively minor one, & yet in the centuries during which Christianity established itself she emerged as a powerful, strange & ungovernable force, endlessly remade & reimagined by wave after wave of devotees, ultimately becoming 'a sort of God', in ways that have always made some Christians uneasy. Whether talking about the vast public festivals celebrating Mary that sweep up entire communities or the intense private agony of individual devotion, Rubin's book is a triumph of sympathy & intelligence. Throughout Christianity's journey from mysterious origins to global religion, the " Mother of God" has been a profound presence in countless lives
- " Mother of God" is the story of that presence & a book that raises profound questions about the human experience.
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1939. Amy was just eighteen when she met Barney & they fell deeply in love. Their romantic, passionate marriage was a match made in heaven- & then war came. Barney volunteered to fight, & when he returned to Liverpool after VE Day everything began to change. But what is it that made Amy kill her adored husband
- & what happened to their five-year-old daughter, Pearl?
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Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven
- but with the outbreak of war, Barney volunteered to fight, & the couple were separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person
- & neither was Amy. How could things have become so twisted that one day Amy would kill the husband she once so adored? & what happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at the time? In 1971 Amy is released from prison
- although her freedom will change the lives of others, not least that of her daughter. But Pearl has her own demons to exorcise in her quest for happiness. & the greatest question she must ask herself is this: can she ever love her mother after what she did?


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