It was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives & reconnect. But when Luke, the only man still single & living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. A shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, & surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, things couldn?t possibly get any worse. But then they stumble across an old habitation. Ancient artefacts decorate the walls & there are bones scattered upon the floors. The residue of old rites for something that still exists in the forest. Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step. & as the four friends stagger in the direction of salvation, they learn that death doesn?t come easy among these ancient trees... ...

Struggling East Tennessee farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) is forced to break a picket line to earn extra money as a scab labourer. Reviled by the striking workers, Tom has to rekindle a sense of community spirit when all their livelihoods are subjected to ...

Fish is fantastic food. For taste & for health it' pretty much unbeatable. But we can't just take it for granted. It's a precious resource that needs to be consumed thoughtfully. We reckon it helps to know as much as possible about a fish before you buy it
- that it's been caught sustainably & handled with respect. If it has, & you do your very best for it in the kitchen, then to sit down & eat that fish will always be a tremendous pleasure.'
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ï ½ Shopping seasonally is not a high-minded duty, or a restrictive chore, but a liberating pleasure. The downside of the modern food culture of infinite year-round choice is a kind of options paralysis ï ½ thereï ½s so much on offer that you donï ½t know where to start. Understanding the seasons frees you from this ball & chain. In a world where the production & marketing of food has gone mad, seasonally is sanity. It implies freshness, good taste & even good health. & it offers the best & quickest solution to the never ï ½ending question, what shall I cook today?ï ½ ...

Details: For twelve-year-old Mary Ann Clark life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk,
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Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep turns her hand to action films in this white-water knuckle-biter. Having decided to heal some family rifts, expert rafter Gail (Streep) takes her husband & their young son for a day out on the river. But the pleasant f ...

When Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House, she never knows what to expect...

Tiger meets Lucky – an injured

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When Kate Swan's overbearing father demands that she obey him by marrying a man she despises, she refuses & is cast out of her comfortable home in Whitby. Fortunately, a kindly local widow is looking for a lady companion &, for the moment, Kate's future is assured. Meanwhile in Shetl&, Malcolm Mc Fadden, heir to the Garstan Estate, disagrees with his father's plan to clear the crofters from his land & turn it over to sheep. The fate of one crofter's daughter in particular greatly troubles him, & he proposes to defy convention by marrying Rowena Murray, but she hesitates, & Malcolm leaves Shetland on his own. When he & Kate meet, they are instantly attracted to one other, but while Kate fulfills one last obligation to her generous employer Mrs Jordan
- accompanying her on a Lakeland tour
- Malcolm receives the news he has long dreaded. The Highland Clearances have begun, & old loyalties draw Malcolm back to Shetland where he vanishes without trace. Will Kate's love & determination win through, enabling her to discover what has become of Malcolm? Or will his old ties to Rowena, his first love, prove too strong, & cause Kate to regret the road she has travelled?

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11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over. After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives & mothers were reunited with loved ones they'd feared they'd never see again. Fathers met sons & daughters born during the war years for the very first time. It was a time of great joy
- but it was also a time of enormous change. The soldiers & nurses who survived life at the Front faced the reality of rebuilding their lives in a society that had changed beyond recognition. How did the veterans readjust to civilian life? How did they cope with their war wounds, work & memories of lost comrades? & what of the people they returned to
- the independent young women who were asked to give up the work they had been enjoying, the wives who had to readjust to life with men who seemed like strangers?

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The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war



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