It is an early spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail out over the East End of London. From every corner of Bethnal Green, people emerge from pubs, cinemas & houses & set off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the entrance steps, something goes badly wrong, the crowd panics, & 173 people are crushed to death. When an enquiry is called for, it falls to the local magistrate, Laurence Dunne, to find out what happened during those few, fatally confused minutes. But as Dunne gathers testimony from the guilt-stricken warden of the shelter, the priest struggling to bring comfort to his congregation, & the grieving mother who has lost her youngest daughter, the picture grows ever murkier. The more questions Dunne asks, the more difficult it becomes to disentangle truth from rumour
- & to decide just how much truth the damaged community can actually bear. It is only decades later, when the case is reopened by one of the children who survived, that the facts can finally be brought to light.. .
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Books Children's Fiction Books Bianca & Bernard, agents for The Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice, rescue prisoners & outwit villains in this enchanting story, made world-famous by the Walt Disney film. The Prisoners' Aid Society of Mice discusses the proposed rescue of a Norwegian poet from the terrible Black Castle. Miss Bianca, the pet white mouse belonging to the Ambassador's son, is sent to Norway on a mission to recruit the bravest Norwegian mouse she can find. She finds Nils, & brings him back triumphantly. Then she, Nils, & Bernard, a pantry mouse who falls in love with her, set off for the Black Castle. They set up home in a mousehole in the Chief Jailer's room, & narrowly avoid the jaws of Mamelouk the cruel Persian cat. Eventually they trick the cat & the jailer, & get into the prisoner's cell. A dramatic rescue via an underground river, & they are all free – & the Nils & Miss Bianca medal for bravery is struck in the mice's honour! Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780007364091 •†Author: Margery Sharp •†Publisher:†  Harper Collins Children’s Books •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 176 •†Dimensions:†12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm ...

Weather patterns are changing
- earlier springs, record summer temperatures & erratic rainfall. & even when it is raining, we
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Alex Fox knows there are lots of things she should be.

She should be the perfect wife to her chronically ill husband Sam,

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Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the

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When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He hopes that she will be accepted by the villagers, but one person
- Mary Lawson
- can never forgive what she sees as the ultimate betrayal. When Jean Lawson & Colin Harland fall in love, the match is opposed by both their families because of a rift that began a generation ago. But as World War II casts a shadow over Britain & its people, Jean & Colin strive towards their futures, as they volunteer to serve their country at war.

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There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know
- she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet
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Their days of death-defying adventure seemingly behind them, acclaimed archaeologist Nina Wilde & her husb&, ex-SAS soldier

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Wales were written off as no-hopers at the start of the 2008 Six Nations. They had failed to reach the World Cup quarter-finals the previous October & had reacted by appointing their 13th coach in 19 years, New Zealander Warren Gatl&. On the opening weekend, success appeared unlikely when they trailed World Cup finalists England at Twickenham by ten points at half-time. Their second-half comeback, to earn their first victory at the ground for 20 years, set them on their way, & there was no looking back. In a blistering campaign, they set a new Six Nations record by conceding just two tries in their five matches. The Resurrection Men looks back over the glorious 2008 tournament but also examines the reasons why the foundations laid by Gatland look more secure than those established by Mike Ruddock before his controversial departure from the role less than a year after the side's last Grand Slam triumph in 2005. Wales imploded after Ruddock left, winning only one match in each of the 2006 & 2007 campaigns. His successor Gareth Jenkins asked to be judged on the team's performance in the World Cup. & he was, sacked hours after the defeat to Fiji which meant that, for the third time in five tournaments, Wales failed to make the knock-out stage. Little more than a week later, Welsh Rugby Union officials boarded a plane to New Zealand to meet Gatland & other candidates for head coach. Just two minutes into the meeting, they were ready to offer him the job. He promised them that if Wales won at Twickenham on the opening weekend, the slam would be on. They did & it was. ...

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern Front. At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherl&, pushed back German forces steeled by the vision of the ubermensch, the iron-willed fighter. Many of Russia's 27 million military & civilian deaths occurred in this desperate struggle. In THE RETREAT, Michael Jones, acclaimed author of LENINGRAD, draws upon a mass of new eye-witness testimony from both sides of the conflict ...