Written in an even more vivid & direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty & a passionate zest for life. This intimate correspondence spanning thirty years covers her final years as an editor at Andre Deutsch, her retirement & immersion in her own writing, her growing fame & encroaching old age, & gives a fascinating insight into a life fully lived. Edited, selected & introduced by Diana Athill, & annotated with her own delightful notes, this funny, revealing & immensely readable collection will bring enormous pleasure to her many thousands of readers. ...

Dr Dylan Reinhart is an expert on criminal behaviour. But when his bestselling book is found at a gruesome murder scene, Dylan

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An investigation of post-apartheid South Africa, which is notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups & for an expectation that ethnic violence would follow the 1994 political transition that did not occur following democratization. ...

1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 & 1945 as part of America's strategy to defeat Japan. In the pithy prose of the soldier's pocketbook series, this guide captures the essence of Australians, their vocabulary; their attitude to the Yanks, the British, the War & the world with remarkable humour. ...

In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the ' British, their country, & their ways'. By turns hilarious & poignant, many observations remain quaintly relevant today. Reproduced in a style reminiscent of the era, this is a wonderfully evocative war-time memento. ...

This remarkable booklet, often unintentionally humorous & sometimes crudely stereotypical reads by turns like a travel guide & a crash course in psychological warfare. It is very much a document of the period, revealing as much about British wartime attitudes towards Germany as it does about British hopes & fears. ...

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January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies' & 'shirkers', subjected to hatred & verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of conscientious objectors, makes a rousing speech at a meeting of the No-Conscription Fellowship, refusing to be 'an instrument of slaughter in a khaki uniform'. When Cyril is brutally bludgeoned to death, Scotland Yard detectives Inspector Marmion & Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case. As the pair build up a portrait of Cyril, they unearth an intriguing private life behind the man's saintly facade. It soon becomes clear there are plenty of suspicious characters with motives for the killing. Meanwhile, public sympathy is lukewarm. Some people even claim that a conchie deserves to die if he won't fight for King & Country. & in the wake of the murder, three close friends of Ablatt fear that they may also be under threat. Marmion & Keedy will have to work fast to find the killer before any more deaths occur.. . ...

James Rhodes passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict & turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward
- such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons, &, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today.

This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken & surprisingly funny
- James prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works & about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why & how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.



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One choice can transform you ? or it can destroy you. Tris Prior's initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction; instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. Now unrest surges in the factions around her as conflict between their ideologies grows. War seems inevitable; & in times of war sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge & choices will become ever more irrevocable. Tris has already paid a terrible price for survival & is wracked by haunting grief & guilt. But radical new discoveries & shifting relationships mean that she must fully embrace her Divergence ? even though she cannot know what might be lost in doing so. ...