Fiona Phillips is one of our best-loved television presenters. Well-known for being warm chatty & down to earth she attended her local comprehensive in Southampton before studying English in Birmingham. For over twelve years she presented GMTV during which time she interviewed some of the most famous & influential people on the planet from film stars to royalty politicians to local heroes. But in August 2008 Fiona announced that she was to quit the job she loved revealing that her father Phil had been diagnosed with Alzheimers just a year after her mother had died of the same disease & that she had decided to devote more time to him & to her family. Before I Forget" is a wonderfully honest account of growing up in the 1960s & 70s within a complex family. During her childhood her father could sometimes be distant & demanding which both saddened her & drove her to succeed her mother always the devoted wife & the steady heart of the family. When Fiona lands the job at GMTV she revels in how proud they are of her achievement. When her mother & then her father succumb to Alzheimers we share in Fionas sadness as she movingly describes watching them fade away one moment interviewing George Clooney the next taking a call from Pembrokeshire Social Services to say that her mother had wandered away from her care home. " Before I Forget" is an extraordinary book which will resonate with Fionas millions of fans & the millions of people who day-by-day are going through or have gone through the same experiences." ...

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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Graham Hendrick an historian has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann & is more than pleased with his new life. Until that is the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers frequenting cinemas & poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met but history has always mattered to him... ...

Freya is torn between her two mothers. Liv her adoptive mother who nurtured & raised her is earthy no-nonsense. The total opposite to Melody: with her vibrant explosive personality & extensive brightly coloured wardrobe Freya's birth mother is still apt to find herself thrown out of Top Shop for bad behaviour. Hard as it has been for Freya to try to reconcile her two families it has been harder for her mothers. Proud of her mature & sensible adoptive daughter Liv fears Melody's restless influence. Meanwhile forced to give up her baby when she was just a teenager herself Melody now craves Freya's love & acceptance
- but only really knows how to have fun. Then tragedy strikes & the bonds of love that tie these three women together will be tested to the max. Can they finally let go of the past & pull together in order to withstand the toughest challenge life could throw them?
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President of Sinn Fein & Westminster MP for West Belfast Gerry Adams has been a published writer since 1982. His books have won critical acclaim in many quarters & have been widely translated. His writings range from local history & reminiscence to politics & short stories & they include the fullest & most authoritative exposition of modern Irish republicanism. Born in West Belfast in 1948 into a family with close ties to both the trade union & republican movements Gerry Adams is the eldest of ten children. His mother was an articulate & gentle woman his father a republican activist who had been jailed at the age of sixteen & he was partly reared by his grandmother who nurtured in him a love of reading. His childhood despite its material poverty he has described in glowing & humorous terms recollecting golden hours spent playing on the slopes of the mountain behind his home & celebrating the intimate sense of community in the tightly packed streets of working-class West Belfast. But even before leaving school to work as a barman he had become aware of the inequities & inequalities of life in the north of Irel&. Soon he was engaged in direct action on the issues of housing unemployment & civil rights. For many years his voice was banned from radio & television by both the British & Irish governments while commentators & politicians condemned him & all he stood for. But through those years Brandon published a succession of books which made an important contribution to an understanding of the true circumstances of life & politics in the north of Irel&. In his autobiography Before the Dawn Gerry Adams brings a unique perspective to the years of conflict insurrection & bitter struggle which ensued when peaceful political agitation was met with hysterical reaction & the sectarian tinderbox of Britains last colony erupted. From the pogroms of 1969 to the hunger strikes of 1981 from the streets of West Belfast to the cages of Long Kesh his powerful memoir is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Irel&. ...

In woodland outside Ystad the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head & hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victims side the pages marked with scribbled corrections. A string of macabre incidents including attacks on domestic animals have been taking place & Inspector Wallander fears that these disturbances could be the prelude to attacks on humans on an even more alarming scale. Linda Wallander in preparation to join the police force arrives at Ystad. Exhibiting some of the hallmarks of her father
- the maverick approach the flaring temper
- she becomes entangled in a case involving a group of religious extremists who are bent on punishing the worlds sinners. Following on from the enormous success of the Kurt Wallander mysteries Henning Mankell has begun an outstanding new chapter in crime writing.

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The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself & his whole flock of worshippers save one. In a wood outside Ystad the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head & hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victims side handwritten corrections & amendments on every page. A string of incidents including attacks on domestic animals has been taking place & Inspector Wallander fears that these events could be the prelude to attacks on humans on a much greater scale. Meanwhile Linda Wallander preparing to join the Ystad police force arrives at the station. Showing all the hallmarks of her father
- the maverick approach the flaring temper
- she becomes involved in the case & in the process is forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the worlds sinners.

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