James Stewart stars in this biopic of American bandleader Glenn Miller. A talented young trombonist, Miller (Stewart) falls for Helen Burger (June Allyson) while studying at the University of Colorado. He gets his first big break after leaving college per ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful & the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions & marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 & took up residence in her new home
- Blenheim Palace. The 9th Duchess gives unique first-hand insight into life at the very pinnacle of English society in the Edwardian era. An unsnobbish, but often amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs & downstairs at Blenheim Palace, she is also a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties & major state occasions she attended or hosted. Here are her encounters with every important figure of the day
- from Queen Victoria, Edward V11 & Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas, Prince Metternich & the young Winston Churchill. This intimate, richly enjoyable memoir is a wonderfully revealing portrait of a golden age, 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.8, pages 290.

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Secrets, Scandals & Three Sparkling Sisters.

The Glorious Guinness Girls are the toast of London & Dublin society.

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The British Steam Locomotives series looks at the power & majesty of some of Britain's most famous steam locomotives. Each programme covers an individually named locomotive or class & looks into it's history, restoration & more recent workings. ...

Gardening writing goes to the heart of the iconic brand that is Country Life. Gertrude Jekyll, the doyenne of gardening art, was a driving force at the birth of Country Life in 1897, & set the standard for some of the best English gardening writing. The influence of this writing on twentieth century English garden design is hard to overestimate. Yet here all is presented in accessible articles & choice photos. Within the pages of The Glory of the Garden you can trace the influence of the Arts & Crafts movement, the Edwardian revolution in garden design, the Italianate obsessions & the eccentric longing for an Olde English style. Every article resonates with period charm, historical detail & still-relevant instruction. ...

Details: An indispensable everyday recipe book for people with coeliac disease & other gluten intolerances The Gluten-Free
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A powerful, heart-wrenching story of friendship & love ' This is a story about me, Clementine, & my friends: a panther called Levi, a pelican called Lola & a turtle called Jimmy. It is about dragons & goblins, my Daddy the King, my Mummy the Queen & Prince Pio my brother. At least that is the way I tell it sometimes when thoughts of the blood, the machetes, the swamp & the fear of Uncle Leonard become too hard to describe. But that was all before I met Ashley, wonderful Ashley. Not that he would ever call himself wonderful in a million years. When he tells you his story you will see what I mean...' Ashley Bolt
- A middle-aged, loner for whom teaching singing is the only escape from his London life. In an attempt to forget a violent past he turns to self-harming but this provides little comfort. Clementine Habimana
- A Rwandan child refugee who witnesses the 1994 genocide at first-hand & lives to tell her story. Delivered into the hands of an abusive uncle in the UK, Clementine remains undeterred in her hope for a brighter future. When their two worlds collide, nothing is ever the same again...

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Details: Each book in this fiendishly frightening collection will thrill, chill & thoroughly entertain young readers.
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Details: The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated
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Why do people have near-death experiences? Are there physical explanations for those out-of-body sensations & tunnels of light? & what about moments of spiritual ecstasy? If Buddha had been in an MRI machine & not under the Bodhi tree when he attained enlightenment, what would we have seen on the monitor? In THE GOD IMPULSE, Kevin Nelson, a neurologist with three decades' experience examining the biology behind human spirituality, deconstructs the spiritual self, uncovering its origin in the most primitive areas of our brain. Through his revolutionary studies on near-death experience, Nelson has discovered that spiritual experience is an incidental product of several different neurological processes acting independently. When we feel close to God or sense the presence of departed relatives, we may believe that we are standing at the border of this world & the next as individual, autonomous, rational creatures-touching God. The reality is far different: our brain function resembles a Cubist painting by Picasso or Braque, & the experiences we regard as the height of our humanity are in fact produced by primal reflexes. THE GOD IMPULSE takes us on a journey into what Nelson calls the borderlands of consciousness. The book offers the first comprehensive, empirically-tested, peer-reviewed examination of the reasons we are capable of near-death experience, out-of-body experience, & the mystical states produced by hallucinogenic drugs. ...