P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading & writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre from the birth of the detective story through Wilkie Collins & Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime & the rise of Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh & Margery Allingham. There is a chapter on great American crime writers such as Raymond Chandler & Dashiel Hammett & P. D. James also discusses many of her favourite detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Kurt Wallender. ...

A London mum & Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now despite their differences they're the firmest of friends... Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" by Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit is a touching & poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut & blow dry? May's a tough-talking hard-smoking lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad dodging bullets before breakfast bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars & battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee on the other hand is a London mum of three busy fighting off PTA meetings & chicken pox dealing with dead cats & generally juggling work & family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture religion & age. " Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" is the story of two women who share laughter & tears & swap their confidences dreams & fears. & between the grenades the gossip the jokes & the secrets they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad... Bee Rowlatt is a former show-girl turned BBC World Service journalist. A mother of three & would-be do-gooder she can find keeping her career going while caring for her three daughters (and husband) pretty tough even in leafy North London. May Witwit is an Iraqi expert in Chaucer & sender of emails depicting kittens in fancy dress. She is prepared to face every hazard imaginable to make that all-important hairdresser's appointment." ...

This book has been written to clarify the strategies that are available to practitioners to enable them to plan effective child centred experiences. The book explores how to use Talking & Thinking Floorbooks & the ways in which we can consult children in all areas of play. Introduction by Claire Warden: All of the documents that we use in early education across the UK talk about the issues that are going to be explored in this book. Areas covered include childe centred planning autonomy citizenship building on what they know greater involvement in planning & motivation. It would appear from the training across the United Kingdom that people are aware of what they want to do but lack a clear methodology to achieve it. The Talking & Thinking Floorbook A has been adopted by many centre to support child initiated planning. They are being used in Primary one & two classrooms to develop thinking skills. ...

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic tragically poignant & wonderfully uplifting Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic. This new edition which contains the complete collection of Talking Heads as well as his earlier monologue A Woman of No Importance is a celebration of Alan Bennetts finest work. ...

This title features stories like Playing Sandwiches with David Haig" " The Hand of God with Eileen Atkins" " Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Penelope Wilton" " Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet with Patricia Routledge" " Waiting for the Telegram with Thora Hird" & " The Outside Dog with Julie Walters". A second collection of astutely observed monologues tales of loneliness & eccentricity are handled with the light touch which has made Alan Bennett one of our best-loved writers as well as a national institution." ...

Fear of Music the third album by Talking Heads was recorded & released in 1979. It is like each of their first four albums a masterpiece. Edgy paranoid funky addictive rhythmic repetitive spooky & fun
- with Brian Enos production its a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that birthed the band & hints at the directions (positive & negative) theyd take in the near future. Here Jonathan Lethem takes us back to the late 1970s in New York City & situates Talking Heads as one of the most remarkable & enigmatic American bands. Incorporating theory fiction & memoir & placing Fear of Music alongside Fritz Lang Edgar Allen Poe Patti Smith & David Foster Wallace. Lethems book is a virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers tackling one of his great obsessions.
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James Van Praagh enjoys an extraordinary gift
- he can communicate with the spirits of men women children & animals who have died.
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Safe houses & secret message drops double crosses & defections
- it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage but the agents
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Wanna be in our gang? We cause Peace Fighters fear us On de streets. This is the very first ground-breaking childrens poetry collection from street poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Playful clever & provocative this is performance poetry on the page at its very best. ...

It is often hard to know what to talk about with a bereaved person after you've offered your condolences & many avoid talking about the deceased for fear of upsetting the bereaved relative. With good active listening empathic exploration & a willingness to talk about the hard issues you can embark on sensitive communication with the bereaved. This user-friendly book offers a practical framework for conversing with bereaved people either with individuals or in a group setting. The author uses a table of six elements to give guidance to the listener about where they might be in the conversation & how to move forward with the bereaved person. For each element suggested techniques that include creative activities & possible open questions to help the bereaved person express & explore their grief are offered. The approach is underpinned throughout by theory with reflective exercises for the reader to do individually or in peer groups plus anecdotes & case vignettes. Talking with Bereaved People is an essential toolkit for anyone working with bereaved people outside of the formal counselling room such as social workers voluntary bereavement agencies church pastoral teams hospice & hospital visitors & staff. ...