Beautiful & moving poetry for the real world Jeanette Winterson Guardian Wonderful.. .a poet alert to every sound & shape of language Sunday Telegraph The Bees is Carol Ann Duffys first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs love poems poems of political anger; there are elegies too for beloved friends & -- most movingly -- the poets own mother. Woven & weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffys subject sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge. In the end Duffys point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world & what is most precious & necessary for us to protect. The Bees at once intimate & public is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets. Swooningly glorious The Times Indisputably her best volume Sunday Times Duffy is magnificent grounded heartfelt dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself Scotsman ...

An intriguing introduction to the fascinating world of bees & wasps with a specially written easy-to-read text amazing & extraordinary photographs & step-by-step visual explanations. A slim & unintimidating book which belies its contents
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From the Belgian coast across the fields of Flanders over the valley of the Somme & down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War
- Ypres Arras Cambrai Amiens St. Quentin Mons Le Cateau Reims Verdun & St. Mihiel
- are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes each clearly shown on a Michelin map. Every significant feature is described in detail. Indispensable for anyone contemplating a tour of the battlefields in Belgium & France this book combines the years of knowledge travel & research of its author Rose Coombs who worked at the Imperial War Museum in London for nearly forty years. Since her death in 1991 After the Battle's" editor Karel Margry has travelled every route checking & revising the text where necessary as well as re-photographing every memorial. Many new ones have been added including the new cemetery at Fromelles inaugurated in July 2010 yet we have striven to keep true to the flavour of Rose's original concept...before endeavours fade."

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Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits endless tests drugs with excruciating side-effects Tessa compiles a list. Its her To Do Before I Die list. & number one is sex. Released from the constraints of normal life Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessas feelings her relationships with her father & brother her estranged mother her best friend her new boyfriend all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessas time finally runs out. Before I Die" is a brilliantly-crafted novel heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming. It will take you to the very edge." ...

They say live every day as if its your last
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As I sleep my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking Im still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me.. . Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name your identity your past even the people you love
- all forgotten overnight. & the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christines life. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Before I Go To Sleep See S. J. Watson talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read an exclusive Q&A with S. J. Watson Write a Review for Before I Go To Sleep Judys Review Wow. What a creepy disturbing unsettling & thoroughly frightening novel this is. I loved it. So compelling is Before I Go To Sleep that I finished it in two straight readings before & after lunch. Only good manners & the presence of guests kept me from reading it during lunch. It is one of the most arresting debut novels I have read in years. SJ Watson creates from the first page a psychological thriller with which the reader completely identifies. It is impossible not to imagine how one would cope with the extreme stresses & challenges that Christine wakes up to each & every day. Although she has absolutely no memory of the past she is able to remember what happens during each new day as it unfolds. But when she goes to sleep everything is wiped clean. So Christine keeps a diary in which she records her daily re-births. Her husband Ben tells her about her past; she obsessively writes it all down. She sees a psychiatrist who is trying to restore her memory & she writes his comments down too. Gradually through the diary she dimly begins to reconstruct the person she once was & might still be. But one day she opens the pages to read a freshly-written sentence. Dont trust Ben. Christine is aghast. She has no comprehension what this warning to herself means. But she is determined to find out. Richards Review Weve all had those where am I? mo"
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Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name your identity your past even the people you love
- all forgotten overnight. & the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.
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As I sleep my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking Im still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me... Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name your identity your past even the people you love
- all forgotten overnight. & the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christines life.
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Having grown up on the quiet island of Guernsey Betty Dean cant wait to start her new life in London. On a mission to find Clara Pickle
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even death can't get you out of high school... Covering up her own murder was one thing but faking her life is much harder than ex-teen banshee Kaylee expected. Now she's fighting to stay visible to the human world & struggling to find time alone with her new reaper boyfriend Tod. To stay in the mortal realm Kaylee must reclaim stolen souls & when her first assignment brings her face-to-face with an old foe she knows the game has changed. Her immortal status won't keep her safe. & this time Kaylee isn't just gambling with her own life... ...