On a Wing & a Prayer by Helen Carey is a nostalgic & heart-warming novel of south London during the Second World War. The perfect read for fans of Ellie Dean, Kate Thompson & Donna Douglas.

October 1941. London has been ravaged by war for two years now & life couldnt be tougher for those living on Lavender Road. Many loved ones have been lost & sacrifices made, but Lady Helen de Burrel is about to take the biggest risk yet.

Inspired by the courage of her friends on this south London street, Helen volunteers to join the Special Operations Executive & puts her life in jeopardy for the sake of her country. But its hard to know who to trust, & when her heart is on the line even love becomes dangerous.

The war has changed everything, but one thing is certain; the women of Lavender Road will rally together, no matter what the future has in store...

This paperback book has 490 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3cm







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John Ruskins insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, & his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design & remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today. ...

On Ashover Hill travels across Europe, spanning generations of the Mc Teer family & the love, hurt, pain & redemption that follows. Primarily a story of true romance, it weaves together a tale of unending love & family relationships with an undercurr ...

Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? & should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? This title explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs & motives. It provides arguments, wordplay & more. ...

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly & London partly, this title deals with a pair of feuding families
- the Belseys & the Kipps
- & a clutch of doomed affairs.

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In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward & Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. ...

Conferences end with a bang; a gym instructor offers extremely personal training; illicit liaisons abound & flourish in the luxuriously appointed rooms. The daring sexual exploits of the staff & guests are often seen through the eyes of the Receptioni ...

The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industries & agriculture is leading to the Earth's sixth great extinction of species. Current estimates suggest that the rate of extinction is now thousands of times that counted in the fossil record before the emergence of modern man. At the same time, human societies themselves are in a cultural extinction crisis, with experts anticipating that of the world's nearly seven thousand languages as few as ten percent may survive into the next century. Melanie Challenger's extraordinary book is an exploration of how we might live to resist these extinctions & why such disappearances must be of concern to us. Adventurous, curious & passionate about her subject, Challenger takes us on a very personal journey as she tries to restore her own relationship with nature. The narrative unfolds through a series of landscapes haunted by extinction. From the ruined tin mines of Cornwall & the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia to the Inuit camps of the Arctic & the white heart of Antarctica, she probes the critical relationship between human activities & environmental collapse. This is the first book to weave together the strands of cultural, biological & industrial extinctions into a meditation on the way we live beside nature in the modern world. ...

Through twenty-two casts the author, one of the Britain's best-known freshwater fisherman, quits land in favour of the sea. There, he discovers the many pleasures of the coast: wild shores, unpredictable waves, &, of course, fish that glisten & dart beneath a never-still surface. This title focuses on the sea & its many wonders. ...

What is being on form? How does it relate to feeling in the zone? Are these states in the lap of the gods, a matter of which side of the bed we got out of that morning? Or is there anything we can do to make their arrival more likely?

In this fascinating book, former England cricket captain & psychoanalyst Mike Brearley draws on his own experiences, both on & off the field, & examines many of the elements of being in & out of form across a number of different disciplines
- not only in cricket & psychoanalysis but also in finance, music, philosophy, medicine, teaching, tree surgery & drama.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781472121806
• Author: Mike Brearley
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 408
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm










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