Books Contemporary Fiction Books Her new chapter starts now… Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes & browse colourful notebooks, distracts her from her bruised heart. When she meets Ruth, a vicar running from a secret, & Malcolm, a septuagenarian still finding himself, she suddenly realizes she isn’t alone. They each have a story that can transform Jo’s life… if only she can let them in. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008612870 •†Author: Sally Page  •†Publisher:†  Harper Collins •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 416 •†Dimensions:†12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm ...

The King James Bible has often been called 'the Book of Books' both in itself & in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, & many believe it has had the greatest impact. " The King James Bible" has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language & its literature. It has been the Bible of wars from the British Civil War in the 17th century to the American Civil War two centuries later, & it has been carried into battle in innumerable conflicts since then. Its influence on social movements
- particularly involving women in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries
- & politics was profound. It was crucial to the growth of democracy. It was integral to the abolition of slavery & it defined attitudes to modern science, education & sex. Fascinating & eye-opening, The Book of Books reveals the extraordinary & still-felt impact of a work created 400 years ago. Stephen Thorne reads Melvyn Bragg's definitive history of the " King James Bible". Read by Stephen Thorne

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A self-discovery guide that teaches women to banish guilt & find emotional sustenance is difficult times.

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Two brothers. The final showdown between good & evil. Psychotic killer Diogenes returns the priceless jewels he stole from the New York Museum of Natural History.. . Ground into dust. He has thrown down the gauntlet to both the city & to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is wrongfully rotting in a high-security prison. To quell the bad PR, the museum decides to reopen an Egyptian tool exhibit at a star-studded gala
- but deadly whispers of an ancient curse resurface. With Diogenes plotting a heinous crime, the stage is set for an epic clash of brother against brother
- from which only one will emerge alive...

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Magic runs through the veins of English history & culture from the earliest Arthurian legends to the novels of Tolkien & J. K. Rowling, & from the Druids to Queen Elizabeth's astrologer Dr Dee. Yet most people have no idea of the central role magic has played in England's past, & still plays today. Through experiments to try & places to visit, as well as an historical exploration of magic & interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. ...

This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him & now he may be dead. Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love & loss & peace & war, & it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection. A family from two nations, England & Greece, live a simple life on a tiny Greek island: Irini, Tasso & their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy. Their life goes up in flames in a single day when one man starts a fire out of greed & indifference. Many are killed, homes are destroyed, & the island's natural beauty wiped out. In the wake of the fire, Chara bears deep scars across her back & arms. Tasso is frozen in trauma, devastated that he wasn't there when his family most needed him. & Irini is crippled by guilt at her part in the fate of the man who started the fire. B... ...

At 43 years of age, & with a bit more time on his hands than usual, Freddie Flintoff has had a moment to reflect & he's noticed

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Join the best friends as they visit a mini festival, embark on a musical adventure & find a new furry friend! Inside you'll find amazing puzzles, fabulous fashion ideas, cool quizzes & day-dreaming doodles. This book has 144 pages & is 25.4cm x 21cm x 0.9cm ...

Ensuring the rights & opportunities of women & girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. 

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Midday, 13th May, 1784: An earthquake in Peru tears up the white streets of Arequipa. As the dust settles, a young girl with fanaticism already branded on her face arrives at the devastated convent of Santa Catalina. At the same moment, oceans away in Venice, the infant Minguillo Fasan tears his way out of his mother's womb. The great Palazzo Espagnol, built on Peruvian silver & New World drugs, has an heir. Twelve years later, Venice is in Napoleon's sights & Minguillo, who has already contrived to lose one sibling, is listening to the birth-cries of his new sister Marcella, a delicate, soft-skinned threat to his inheritance. Meanwhile, at Santa Catalina, the scarred young girl has become Sor Loreta, whose craving for sainthood is taking a decidedly sinister turn. Minguillo's livid jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman & a nun. But Marcella Fasan is not quite the soft target Minguillo imagines. Aided by a loyal servant, an irascible portrait-painter, a young doctor obsessed with skin, a warhorse of a Scottish merchant & a cigar-smoking pornographer nun, Marcella pits her sense of humour, her clever pencil & her fierce heart against Minguillo's pitiless machinations. Her journey takes her from Napoleon's shamed Venice to the last picaresque days of colonial Peru
- where the fanatical Sor Loreta has plans of her own for the young girl from Venice. Bewitching, daring, darkly humorous & alive with historical detail, The Book of Human Skin is a breathtaking story of unmitigated villainy, Holy Anorexia, quack medicine, murder, love & a very unusual form of bibliomania. The size of this book is 23.4cm in height & 15.2 cm wide with 500 pages
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