This is a classic murder-mystery set among the struggling upper classes of 1920s Perthshire as in the aftermath of the First World War their comfortable world begins to crumble. Dandy Gilver her husband back from the War her children off at school & her uniform growing musty in the attic is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 & a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. Before long though the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway. Society & the law seem ready to call it an accident but Dandy along with Cara Duffys fiance Alec is sure that there is more going on than meets the eye. What is being hidden by members of the Duffy family: the watchful Lena the cold & distant Clemence & old Gregory Duffy with his air of quiet sadness not to mention Cara herself whose secret always seems just tantalizingly out of view? Dandy must learn to trust her instincts & swallow most of her scruples if he is to uncover the truth & earn the right to call herself a sleuth. ...

In After the Coalition five new Conservative Members of Parliament tackle the challenges of contemporary Britain. They argue that Conservative principles adapted to the modern world are essential for national success. For Britain to prosper in todays global economy we need a new era of responsibility for governments as well as individuals. The Conservative Party last won a general election in 1992. The formation of the coalition in 2010 ushered in a politics of compromise for the important task of bringing the deficit under control. At the next election the Conservative Party may well fight for its own mandate. What that will be & the ideas supporting it need to be defined now. After the Coalition is an attempt to do precisely this. Contributors include: Kwasi Kwarteng MP Priti Patel MP Dominic Raab MP Chris Skidmore MP Elizabeth Truss MP ...

In the quiet of a New Zealand winters night a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. Hes fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse & his condition is critical. At first Finns fall looks like a horrible accident; after all hes prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother Martha Mc Namara knows how it happened. & she isnt telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever. Tragedy isnt what the Mc Namara family expected when they moved to New Zeal&. For Martha it was an escape. For her artist husband Kit it was a dream. For their small twin boys it was an adventure. For sixteen-year-old Sacha it was the start of a nightmare. They end up on the isolated east coast of the North Island seemingly in the middle of a New Zealand tourism campaign. But their peaceful idyll is soon shattered as the choices Sacha makes lead the family down a path which threatens to destroy them all. Martha finds herself facing a series of impossible decisions each with devastating consequences for her family. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of After the Fall See Charity Norman talk about her book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for After the Fall Judys Review After the Fall is a book about a family in crisis. If you enjoy reading family sagas involving current edgy dilemmas (such as the novels of Jodi Picoult) I really recommend it. Martha Mc Namaras family life in London is in ruins. Thanks to the recession her husband Kit has lost his job. The advertising agency hes been doing so well in has crashed & all Kits attempts to find another job have failed. Blaming himself Kit starts drinking heavily. Desperate for a second chance Martha & Kit decide to emigrate to N ew Zeal&. Kit is a talented artist & he dreams of fulfilling his potential out there. Working so hard in London to provide for his family hes had no time to paint & longs for a fresh start. Martha & her two small twin sons Finn & Charlie are thrilled with their new home in Hawks Bay
- a small town on the isolated east coast of New Zealands North Island (where the author herself lives). Kit stops drinking & happily begins to paint again. Only Marthas sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha has trouble settling in. In fact for her emigrating is the start of a nightmare. Desperate to believe that shes made the right decision for her family Martha tries to ignore her increasing worries about her daughter until one night the family is engulfed by tragedy. Their beautiful idle t"
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In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse & his condition is critical. At first Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after all he's prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother Martha Mc Namara knows how it happened. & she isn't telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever. Tragedy isn't what the Mc Namara family expected when they moved to New Zeal&. For Martha it was an escape. For her artist husband Kit it was a dream. For their small twin boys it was an adventure. For sixteen-year-old Sacha it was the start of a nightmare. They end up on the isolated east coast of the North Island seemingly in the middle of a New Zealand tourism campaign. But their peaceful idyll is soon shattered as the choices Sacha makes lead the family down a path which threatens to destroy them all. Martha finds herself facing a series of impossible decisions each with devastating consequences for her family. ...

The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly
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In this long-awaited volume Jeremy Shearmur & Piers Norris Turner bring to light Poppers most important unpublished & uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social & Political Writings reveals the development of Poppers political & philosophical thought during & after the Second World War from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection many of which are available here for the first time demonstrate the clarity & pertinence of Poppers thinking on such topics as religion history Plato & Aristotle while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth centurys greatest philosophers & is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy politics history & society. ...

Eleven years ago Jem Catterick & Ralph Mc Leary fell in love. They thought it would be for ever that they'd found their happy ending. Then two became four a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. & they soon found that life wasn't quite so simple any more. Now the unimaginable has happened. Two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart
- Ralph is standing on the sidelines & Jem is losing herself. Something has to change. As they try to find a way back to each other back to what they once had they both become dangerously distracted
- but maybe it's not too late to recapture happily ever after.. .

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How did Mandela's successor Thabo Mbeki repress debate within the party impose his AIDS denialism on government refuse to criticize Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe & stop an investigation of a GBP5 billion arms deal that was tainted by allegations of high-level corruption? Feinstein shows how this infamous deal epitomizes all that is rotten at the heart of the ANC. Investigating the payment of up to $200 million worth of bribes he reveals a web of concealment & corruption involving figures at the very highest level of South African politics. With an insider's account of the events surrounding the contentious trial of South Africa's colourful deputy president Jacob Zuma After the Party" is the most important book on South Africa since the end of apartheid." ...

In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing homeless bombed-out & on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West & soldiers made their way home often scarring the villages they passed through with parting shots of savagery. Politically the country was neutered carved into zones of occupation. While Britain & America were loathe to repeat the crippling reparations demands of the First World War Russia bayed for blood stripping their own zone of everything from rail tracks to lavatory bowls. After the Reich is the first history to give the full picture of Germany's bitter journey to reconstruction. Giles Macdonogh expertly charts the varied experiences of all who found themselves in the German melting pot. His people-focused narrative unveils shocking truths about how people continued to treat each other even outside the confines of war. It is a crucial lesson for our times. ...

The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia & its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates Kuwait Qatar Oman & Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic & seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps fast-growing populations & powerful modernising & globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies they have demonstrated remarkable resilience. Obituaries for these traditional monarchies have frequently been penned but even now these absolutist almost medieval entities still appear to pose the same conundrum as before: in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring & the fall of incumbent presidents in Egypt Tunisia & Libya the apparently steadfast Gulf monarchies have at first glance re-affirmed their status as the Middle Easts only real bastions of stability. In this book however noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of these kings emirs & sultans is going to happen & was always going to. While the revolutionary movements in North Africa Syria & Yemen will undeniably serve as important if indirect catalysts for the coming upheaval many of the same socio-economic pressures that were building up in the Arab republics are now also very much present in the Gulf monarchies. It is now no longer a matter of if but when the Wests steadfast allies fall. This is a bold claim to make but Davidson who accurately forecast the economic turmoil that afflicted Dubai in 2009 has an enviable record in diagnosing social & political changes afoot in the region. ...