In May 2006, Billy Bragg saw his home town become the front line in the debate over who does & does not belong in twenty-first-century Britain. The anti-immigrant British National Party won a dozen seats on Barking & Dagenham council, placing a question mark over London's claim to be the most multicultural city in Europe. Their victory was, in part, a reaction to the terror attacks on London of 7 July 2005, when four British citizens from the immigrant community killed fifty-two innocent people & injured many more. This book is an urgent, eloquent & passionate response to these events. A firm believer in tolerance & diversity, Billy felt hemmed in by fascists on one side & religious fanatics on the other. the suicide bombers were all British born & appeared to be integrated into mainstream society. Yet they have no compunction in murdering & maiming their fellow citizens. Multiculturalism is important, but without a sense of belonging to accompany it, what chance social cohesion? ...

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San Francisco, 1904. Georgia Briscoe, a young woman from a good family, is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him, but when the couple are married, it soon transpires that Drew's charm is only skin-deep, & that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women, including Georgia's maid Maura & jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia & Maura fall pregnant, both women decide to escape to be with the men they love, providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew
- & much more besides. London, 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia, she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed, Prudence claims that Chrissie's mother Vanessa & her late father Aaran are brother & sister. As the truth unfurls, the passion, emotion & astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed, & three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
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They promised never to say goodbye. For Michael & Nancy, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end, bringing the hardest test of their love for each other. He was the handsome heir to the mighty Hillyard business empire. She was just twenty-one, beautiful
- & an orphan from nowhere. One fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for years to come
- a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy, doubt & despair

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War threatens to take all she has loved & lived for...

On the outbreak of war, Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists

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The Promise charts the crash & burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria.

The Swarts

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Alter, a native of Chicago who has known Obama & his circle for nearly a decade, provides a fast-paced inside account of the breakneck speed with which President-elect Obama, & then President Obama, began making critical decisions & assuming the burdens of office amid the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. With dozens of exclusive details about everything from the selection of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state to the president's secrets for running a good meeting, Alter paints a fresh & often surprising portrait of a highly disciplined & self-aware president & his colourful team. We see a young president of extraordinary temperament grappling with the task of stimulating the economy, bailing out large banks, taking over the American auto industry, making the crucial decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan, deciding whether to negotiate with Iran about its nuclear program, & fighting for a major reform of the country's health care system. Alter explains what Obama is like in private, how he operates, & why he is so insistent on leading the country & the world into a new era of wrenching change. This book has 475 pages & is 19.8cm x 13cm x 3.1cm ...

Marion Brookfield was just 18 years old when she promised her father, a journalist, murdered by a vagrant, to put aside her own dreams & care for her younger sister Annette. Orphaned & penniless, the girls think they have found refuge after charming businessman Victor Bateman proposes to Marion & moves them into his luxurious home. But Marion's friend Daniel Brady is conducting his own investigation into Henry Brookfield's death. Learning that the deceased journalist was closing in on the ruthless head of a child prostitution racket when he was killed. & now his precious daughters, may not be so safe after all. This book has 518 pages & is 17.7cm x 11.2cm x 3.3cm ...

In the far future man has spread out into the galaxy. & diversified.

Some have evolved physically into strange new forms,

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In 1998-99, Manchester United won the Premier League, the FA Cup & Champions League
- the only team to accomplish such a feat
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