Thursday, 13 August, 1914. Beautiful day. Very warm. We all went to Queen's park at night & heard the b&. Britain declares war on Austria. Germans getting slaughtered in Belgium. Brilliant Belgium victory. Britannia ruling the waves. In 1913, Thomas Cairns Livingstone begins keeping a diary. A Glaswegian shipping clerk, he spent his days working, visiting friends, complaining about the weather & worrying about the rent. He had no idea he would live through one of the most tumultuous periods in history: the First World War. But as the crisis in Europe worsened & new filtered back to an anxious home front, Livingstone's commentary on family life, Scottish weather & his culinary attempts were soon interwoven with accounts of soldiers wounded, prisoners taken & submarines sunk. Unique & utterly compelling, & illustrated throughout with Livingstone's wry, whimsical sketches, Tommy's War is beautiful written, touching & impossible to put down. ...

For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored & lonely & missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, & examines their relationship with a strange & unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs & cats to monkeys & birds
- even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots
- some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. & then there were the animals & insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice & larger animals such as deer & rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches & how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.

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Megan & her husband Jack have finally found stability in their lives. But the threat of Megan’s troubled son Billy is never far from their minds.

Billy’s release from the local asylum is imminent & it should be a time for celebration. Sadly, Megan & Jack know all too well what Billy is capable of...

Sarah & Billy were inseparable as children, before Billy committed a devastating crime. While Billy has been shut away from the world, he has fixated on one thing: Sarah. Sarah knows there’s only one way she can keep her family safe & it means forsaking true love.

Twins Theresa & Terrence Crompton are used to getting their own way. But with the threat of war looming, the tides of fortune are turning.

Forces are at work to unearth a secret that will shake the very roots of the tight-knit community...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781447267461
• Author: Mary Wood
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 423
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm















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Victor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion
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Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when
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Pierce Brosnan returns as the fearless, cunning & devastatingly cool Secret Agent 007 in this thrilling adventure. When a ruthless media tycoon (Jonathan Pryce) tries to destabilise the world economy by orchestrating a deadly standoff between world superpowers, in an atempt to achieve high ratings for his media conglomerate, Bond must step in to prevent World War III. Co-starring Teri Hatcher & Michelle Yeoh, this high-tech action-adventure will exhilarate Bond fans of all ages. ...

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