Manipuri, the classical dance from the eastern-most end of India, is marked by a delicacy that is steeped in tradition. This book takes one through the subtle nuances of the form of the supernatural to the mythological, concerned as it is with the lives of celestial beings, deities, demons & sages. ...

Eleanor Trewynn, recently widowed, returns home from years of working overseas to retire to the cozy village of Port Maybn in Cornwall, Engl&. Even in retirement though, she continues her charity work, leasing out the first floor of her house to a charity shop. One morning as she opens the shop, she finds both a particularly valuable donation & a corpse stuffed into the storeroom. The donation is linked to a violent robbery in London but the corpse looks nothing like the robbers being sought by the police. With the help of her niece, Detective Sergeant Megan Pencarrow, &, begrudgingly, Detective Inspector Scumble, Eleanor is determined to unscramble this confounding case of daring theft, double cross, & murder most foul. ...

Details: The follow up companion to the bestselling Manolo Blahnik Drawings, this book presents a brand new collection
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Manor House, Life in an Edwardian Country House is a lavishly illustrated, large-format companion book to the television series. The author Juliet Gardiner first sets the historic backdrop of the period & then explores the key events in the social calendar of the family
- a fancy dress ball, , a society dinner party, a village fete, a musical evening, a shooting party. She not only details the activities from the point of view of the family of the house, but as from that of the servants. This was the era when the privileges of the rich were only made possible by the labour of their servants, an age when the inequalities of wealth & poverty were starkly delineated & the conventions of class were still rigidly, if complexly, defined. Descriptions of the day-to-day activities involved in running a country house are told through diary extracts, letters, advice manuals, & recipes, while special craft features enable readers to create a range of authentic Edwardian delights for themselves.
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When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, twenty miles from Exeter, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner is called to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute
- but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges, but was strangled to death. In the ensuing murder investigation, Sir John is frustrated by what appears to be a conspiracy of silence among the seamen & townsfolk. Just what is the local population trying to hide? As Crowner John is to learn, there are those who would go to any length to ensure the shocking truth remains hidden. & the coroner must draw on all his resources of courage, cunning & determination if he is to escape from Axmouth with his life.
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Rock Hudson stars in this Howard Hawks comedy as angling expert Roger Willoughby, employed by a sporting goods company to help sell fishing equipment. But what no one knows is that Roger has never caught a fish in his life, & when his boss Abigail (Paul ...

" Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

With these words, Neil Armstrong marked the

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. Humble & reserved, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy aunt & uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up with her privileged & indulged cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamorous lives, but finds an ally in her kind cousin, Edmund. When the questionable Henry & Mary Crawford come to visit, the house is thrown into disarray as romance flourishes between the young people, forcing Fanny to finally confront the extent of her true feelings for Edmund. Considered Austen's most socially aware & complex novel, the timid & moral character of Fanny has inspired more debate among modern readers than any of Austen's other female protagonists. ...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident & much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference & priggish disapproval of those around her. ...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.

The diffident & much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference & priggish disapproval of those around her.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785995040
• Author: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Hardback
• Dimensions: 17 x 12 x 3cm








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