Beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness & loss. At eighteen she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Fairford, a soldier in Ambala, north India & his highly strung wife Susan. Lily is drawn into the emotional life of the Fairford family & adores her charge, two year old Cosmo. When, in 1907, Captain Fairford orders a new Daimler car, it is brought out by a young motor mechanic, Sam Ironside. Sam & Lily fall deeply in love, & it is only later that Lily learns that Sam is married & feels utterly betrayed. When Cosmo is later sent home to school, Lily finds another post with a Dr. Mc Bride & his invalid wife, in a beautiful Himalayan hill station. The place is idyllic, & Lily settles for a quiet life. However, she is unprepared for the pain & misunderstandings that follow & force her to run from everything she has known... Where Earth Meets Sky takes us from Edwardian England & the British Raj, through the darkness of the Great War to the glamour of Brooklands Race Track in the 1920s. Spanning two continents, it is a story of enduring friendships & two hearts which cannot be kept apart. ...

Details: ' It is in great simplicity that great beauty is revealed, & only then may we discover where God truly hides.'
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Where have all the men gone? Faced with 25, 000 more women than men in London, & gleeful media reports that it's statistically more likely for single women to be murdered than get married, Katie is reached an all-time low. But all is not lost! Another hilarious high-concept romantic comedy from Jenny Colgan. ...

When fashion designer Lauren Redstone gets drunk in Las Vegas, she does something very impulsive: she bumps into a tall, drawling cowboy called Grayson, sleeps with him & then marries him the same day. Sober the next morning, she flees the hotel room an ...

The Sad Demise of Ireland's Once Relevant Footballers is the hard-hitting, investigative story of how & why it has gone so wrong for Irish footballers at the elite level of the English game since the inception of the Premier League.

They were the kings of the English game, & that was reflected in the success of the Irish national team. But it all came crashing down, eventually leading to Irish players having little more than bit-part roles at the business end of the English game.

Where Have All the Irish Gone? carefully maps the grave decline & explains why the demise of Irish players has plunged to a new low
- leaving their followers to wonder if they can ever return to the pinnacle in the most popular football league in the world.

This paperback book has 222 pages & measures: 21.4 x 13.8 x 1.4cm






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Where Men Win Glory is a profoundly eloquent & affecting account of heroism
- a millionaire sports star who gave it all up after
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On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks
- an English doctor who has seen the best & the worst the twentieth
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Details: It's bedtime, but Huggle Buggle Bear is hiding, as usual! As we follow the hunt through every room of the house,
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September 1977. Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries & the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found.

Almost 25 years later, as the expiry date for the statute of limitations draws near, Mettes mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets, lies & shocking events that have been methodically concealed. When another brutal incident takes place, a pattern begins to emerge.. .

Chilling, shocking & full of extraordinary twists & turns, Where Roses Never Die reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the worlds foremost crime writers.



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TV journalist Melanie Black wakes up one morning next to a man she doesnt remember.

When his wife walks in he greets her

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