The war has brought devastating changes to the people of Portobello, a seaside district in Edinburgh. But as VE day nears, Tess Gillespie & her mother are feeling hopeful. Tess is looking forward to being able to walk on her beloved beaches for the first time since war was declared. More importantly, her father & sister will soon be back home & they can all be a family once again. However, the war has changed Don Gillespie & he is no longer content to settle back in to his former life. The future will bring both betrayal & heartbreak for the Gillespie women. & it will take all their courage & resolution to rebuild their lives & find new happiness. ...

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!

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Inspiring one-pan dishes that will not only save you time, but also help you create healthy food, from light meals to full-on family feasts.

Jenny Tschiesche reveals 101 recipes for simple & nutritious meals straight from the oven that are sure to satisfy even the toughest of critics.

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• ISBN: 9781788790604
• Author: Jenny Tschiesche
• Publisher: Ryland Peters
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 143
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All 21 episodes from the fourth season of the US television detective drama series starring James Garner as Jim Rockford, the laid-back ex-con turned private investigator. Episodes are: ' Beamer's Last Case', ' Trouble in Chapter 17', ' The Battle of Canoga ...

Living among the Sachakan rebels, Lorkin does his best to learn about their unique magic. But the Traitors are reluctant to trade their secrets for the Healing they so desperately want. Meanwhile, Snea searches for the rogue, knowing that Cery cannot avoid assassination for ever but the rogue's influence over the city's underworld is far greater than she first feared. & in the University, two female novices are about to remind the guild that sometimes their worst enemy is found within. ...

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke & to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnation's & playing blues guitar) & the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts, & the potential was obvious.

During the 1960s & 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity & salacious lifestyles, & reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies &, in 2012, will have been together for 50 years.

In The Rolling Stones, Christopher Sandford tells thehuman drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones, family members (including Mick's parents), the group's fans & contemporaries
- even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stoneswill make sense of the rich brew of clever invention & opportunism, of talent, good fortune, insecurity, self-destructiveness, & of drugs, sex & other excess, that made the Stones who they are.

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