When Lady Slane was young she nurtured a secret burning ambition: to become an artist. She became instead the dutiful wife of a great statesman & mother to six children. In her widowhood she finally defies her family. Her children all over sixty have planned for her to spend her remaining days quietly as a paying guest of each of them in turn. Much to their dismay Lady Slane rents a small house in Hampstead & chooses to live independently free from her past. She revels in her new-found freedom living the life she forfeited seventy years earlier to the conventions of a Victorian marriage & attracts an odd assortment of companions. Among them is Mr Fitz George an eccentric millionaire who met her in India when she was very young & very lovely?.?.?. First published in 1931 All Passion Spent is the fictional companion to her friend Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. ...

The death of a pet is always a heart wrenching event. But in ALL PETS GO TO HEAVEN Sylvia Browne uses her special psychic gift to provide comfort for those grieving over the loss of a beloved animal by showing how pets continue to be with us even after their deaths. Sylvia uses four decades' worth of research & true stories from her extraordinary career to reveal the psychic abilities of cats dogs horses & other creatures that have shared our homes & our hearts. She describes the unique personalities quirks habits & emotions that provide them with a soul. She explains how animals live on beyond the grave & gives readers a unique peek into heartwarming tales of never-ending loyalty heroic deeds & comic behaviour that show that pets are true human companions on both sides of life. ...

All Points North" is part-memoir & part-excursion. Charting the rugged & uneven terrain of a writers formative years
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It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone & now the sun is abandoning the Lake Districts damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence & he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous out-of-season. ...

One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys fresh-faced & idealistic are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire & patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror & disillusionment of life in the trenches. ...

The 1970s
- the decade of tanktops & glamrock punks perms & powercuts. They call it the decade that taste forgot but people in
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Beautiful unspoilt deeply relaxing self governing -- & in many ways different from anywhere else in the British Isles. Here in this expanded & completely revised edition of this best-selling guide is the full story of what makes the Isle of Man such an interesting & memorable place to visit. Contents include: Attractions & Activities; Beaches & Resorts; Churches; Day Drives; Events; Extraordinary Facts; Fishing & Golf; Glens & Gardens; History & Heritage; Lighthouses; Myths & Legends; Queenies & Kippers; Railways & Trams; Street Plans & Maps; TT & Motorsport; Visitor Centres; Walks & Cycle Trails; Yachting & Sailing. ...

By replacing pens & pencils with needle & thread & paint with fabric applique Chloe Owens has applied artistic principles to sewing & created these unique projects showing her true passion for handcrafted things. Packed full of 35 crafty ideas Chloe uses a wide variety of techniques
- from embellishment & adornment to freehand embroidery
- that are forward thinking but still inspired by vintage style. Split into five chapters start by making something fun for a lunch with friends in Cooking Up A Storm. There are pretty placemats table decorations & even an apron for the hostess. In Cuddly Companions you will find a giraffe lion & bonkers bobtail bunnies to sew each one decorated with pretty stitches. Gifts comes next with tote bags & quilts that friends will love to receive. If you adore long lie-ins then Rest Your Weary Head has pillows with applique & embellishments plus a Holly Golightly inspired eyemask. Finally Room Decorations has wall murals & hangings to add a splash of colour to your home. Every project comes with step-by-step instructions & adorable artworks making everything so simple to stitch. There is also a handy techniques section & templates to help you along the way. So what are you waiting for? Grab a needle & thread & get down to some seriously creative crafting.

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Laugh out loud Marian Keyes Hugely Enjoyable Kathy Burke There are some things in life you can always rely on. Living in the shadow of your perfect brother Joey getting the flu over Christmas & your Mother showing you up in the supermarket. Then there are some things you really dont count on happening: a good dose of fame getting completely trashed at an awards ceremony & catching your fella doing something unmentionable on your wedding day. This is my story its dead tragic. You have been warned... Jodie Xx ...

All Souls" is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias whose highly-anticipated new novel " The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville author of " The Sea". The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done' in a story of lust loneliness vanity & memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces & pin-sharp observation " All Souls" is a masterpiece of black humour." ...