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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Details: This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected
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It is the late 1940s in rural Irel&, & Kathleen Steele has been prematurely thrust into adulthood by the death of her twin sister, Nuala. Debilitated by grief, their mother has descended into a state of near-catatonia, & it is left to Kathleen to care for her younger siblings, & her taciturn father. When a traumatised young man, Joseph Foley, mysteriously appears in the small farming community, a tentative love affair develops. But as Mrs Steele's illness deepens, Kathleen's relationship with her father grows ever more disturbing. When Kathleen agrees to marry Joseph, her mother begins to regain her health. But by then it has become clear that the events of the intervening years will cast a dark shadow over the new generation. Tender & unblinking, The Road to the Sea is a novel about faith & fidelity, about the heart's ability to break, & to heal. A paean to the lost landscapes & communities of Irel&, & a meditation on the responsibilities of parents, this is an exquisite debut from a young novelist of great promise. ...

In 1936, at the behest of his publisher, George Orwell set out for Wigan to observe what life was really like in some of the

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Addie & her sister are on an epic road trip to a friend’s wedding in rural Scotl&. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into theirs. The driver is none other than Addie’s ex, who she hasn’t seen since their traumatic break-up two years earlier. Dylan & his best mate are heading to the wedding too, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. & with four hundred miles to go, they can’t avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship... Will they make it to the wedding? &, more importantly, is this really the end of the road for Addie & Dylan? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529438369 • Author: Beth O’ Leary • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 480 • Dimensions: 20 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm ...

Roald Dahl's Whizzpopping Joke Book is a collection of hundreds of great jokes would make even the Trunchbull laugh!

Inspired

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Pop your ingredients in a tin & let the oven do the work.

The Roasting Tin has recipes for 75 delicious one dish dinners

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