Rose Mc Allister is waiting for her husband Steve to come home. He is a seaman often drunk & violent but Rose does her best to cope & sees that her daughters Daisy 8 & Petal 4 suffer as little as possible. Steve however realizes that war is coming & tries to reform but on his last night home her pawns the girls new dolls to go on a drinking binge. When war is declared Rose has a good job but agrees the children must be evacuated. Daisy & Petal are happy at first but circumstances change & they are put in the care of a woman who hates all scousers & taunts them with the destruction of their city. They run away arriving home on the worst night of the May Blitz. Rose is attending the birth of her friends baby & goes back to Bernard Terrace to find her home has received a direct hit & is told that the children were last seen entering the house the previous evening. Devastated she decides to join the WAAF encouraged by an RAF pilot Luke whom she has befriended.. . ...

Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) spent eighteen years as a prisoner in the Gulag Archipelago. Gradually travelling eastwards on long train journeys into Siberia she was first separated from her husband & later from her two children. Before being finally freed she entered into a state of eternal exile at Krasnoyarsk the Long Bridge of the title. Her book is rich in stories of other prisoners guards work on the steppe bandit molls escapees & their fate. In the course of these travels she learned the fate of those who had been left behind including her husb&. Her story has been translated & pieced together from the many fragments she left behind. It comes from a generous spirit who looked on the world with a uniquely accurate & unselfpitying eye. Urszulas is a unique voice speaking of terrible times that are still close to our own. ...

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two Heathrow Airport shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA then the PLO & the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control that it was a one in a million chance that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all & that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids & a picnic before finally having to admit that it wasnt actually anything to do with them at all. No rational cause could be found for the explosion
- it was simply designated an act of God. But thinks Dirk Gently which God? & why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 to Oslo?
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Packed with straightforward information The Long Distance Cyclists Handbook details the preparation & equipment needed to take a novice from the challenge of a 50-mile charity ride to gearing up & comfortably covering 66 km in a weekend randonnee. It also tackles marathon events such as 12-hour time trials & the ultimate test
- the 3000-mile Race Across America. Fully updated this is essential reading for anyone contemplating a cycling holiday or any challenge that takes you outside your usual comfort zone. It brings you the most up-to-date information on training technique nutrition health & travel & combines the latest in sports science research with many years of experience cycling beyond the horizon.
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It's 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong & the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud blood & blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive
- some said mad others dangerous
- scientist when she finds a curious gadget
- a box containing some wiring a three-way switch & a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. & that's an understatement if ever there was one... The Long Earth" is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett & the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter."


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1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong & the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud blood & blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget
- a box containing some wiring a three-way switch & a.. .potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. & that is an understatement if ever there was one...
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Peter G. Wallace adeptly interweaves the influential events of the early modern religious reformation with the transformations of political institutions socio-economic structures gender relations & cultural values throughout Europe. In this established study Wallace: * examines the European Reformation as a long-term process * reconnects the classic sixteenth-century religious struggles with the political & religious pressures confronting late medieval Christianity * argues that the resolutions proposed by reformers such as Luther were not fully realised for most Christians until the early eighteenth century. Incorporating the latest research the second edition of this essential text now features a new chapter on the Reformation & Islam expanded discussion of gender issues & a helpful glossary. ...

After his adventures under sun-drenched Neapolitan skies in Cosi Fan Tutti Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome sneezing in a damp wine cellar & being given another unorthodox assignment: to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family who is accused of a brutal murder. Zen travels north to an Italy as outwardly serene as Naples was manic. Amid the quiet fields autumnal skies & crumbling farmhouses of Piedmont Zen must try to penetrate a traditional culture in which family & soil are inextricably linked. Here secrets can last for generations & have a finish as long & lingering as that of a good Barbaresco. Zen must also face up to mysteries from his own past as well as grapple with the greed envy hatred & love that are the human components of any landscape. ...

The Long Good-bye is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler the master of hard-boiled crime. Down-&-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead & he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico & things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers & alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth? Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence". (Daily Telegraph). " One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain". (Sunday Times). " Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes". (Anthony Burgess). Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen & he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep The Little Sister Farewell My Lovely The Long Good-bye The Lady in the Lake Playback Killer in the Rain The High Window & Trouble is My Business." ...