Bellies & Bullseyes" is simply the greatest account there will ever be about the sport of darts
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When Joseph the Bellmaker is warned in a dream that his daughter Mariel is in danger his hopes of saving her are slim. For the evil Foxwolf & his horde of rats are coming to Southsward & Mariel is his prisoner. But Joseph & his four young warrior friends lead a crusade against Foxwolf & his invading grey rat army. & can the legendary Martin the Warrior return from the past to save them. Or is it too late.. .? ...

Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father & loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend Greta finds life hard at home & is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage but all too soon she discovers that life with her old class mate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom & happiness. She finds herself on the streets pregnant & homeless... She is taken in by her mother's old friends Edie & Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people & is desperately missing her son David & his family who have settled in Israel. But the love & security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy which affects all the chocolate girls & their children & changes life forever... Continuing the saga begun in Chocolate Girls & set in 1960s Birmingham this is a story of families whose lives are entwined of belonging & loss...and of a young woman's search for transforming love. ...

When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career she is alone in the world. Orphaned as child & brought up in a childrens home she was separated from her sister Muriel & has never been able to trace her. Stella is soon caught up in the life of the village & especially in the plans for celebrating the Festival of Britain. As headmistress Miss Kemp & vicar Basil Harvey try to keep the peace between villagers who all have their own ideas for the proposed pageant & fair Stella tries with the help of artist Luke Ferris to find her sister. But Luke has his own troubles...THE BELLS OF BURRACOMBE begins the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s & shows us a picture of Britain coming to terms with the aftermath of the Second World War & entering a new decade. ...

In 1930 Bridget O' Brien a young widow with two children fled her brutal & bigoted father & headed for Liverpool & an arranged marriage with a man she had never met. Her destination the famous Scotland Road was noisome & terrifying & a far cry from the clean air & flowing rivers of the only country she had known Irel&. When she met her middle-aged bridegroom Sam Bell whose twin sons were older than she was her sense of isolation only increased. Anthony one of her so-called stepsons also held out the strong hand of friendship but Liam the favourite of his father had the power to terrify her. Liam was cold compelling mysterious & antagonistic. He was also a priest. ...

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Respectable people... What bastards! Unjustly deported to Devils Island following Louis-Napoleons coup-detat in December 1851 Florent Quenu escapes & returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmanns grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles apocalyptic & destructive play an active role in Zolas picture of a world in which food & the injustice of society are inextricably linked. The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third volume in Zolas famous cycle of twenty novels Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter Claude Lantier & in its satirical representation of the bourgeoisie & capitalism complements Zolas other great novels of social conflict & urban poverty. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Abandoned by her parents Sameem Ali spent six & a half years growing up in a childrens home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back she couldnt wait to start her new life with them. Instead she returned to a dirty house where she was subjected to endless chores. Her mother began to beat her & her unhappiness drove her to self-harm. So Sameem was excited when she boarded a plane with her mother to visit Pakistan for the first time. It was only after they arrived in her familys village that she realised she wasnt there on holiday. Aged just thirteen Sameem was forced to marry a complete stranger. When pregnant two months later she was made to return to Glasgow where she suffered further abuse from her family. After finding true love Sameem fled the violence at home & escaped to Manchester with her young son. She believed she had put her horrific experiences behind her but was unprepared for the consequences of violating her familys honour.. . Belonging is the shocking true story of Sameems struggle to break free from her past & fight back against her upbringing. ...

Terrible unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby who died nameless & whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. ...

Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London fifteen-year-old Margarets life in service was about to begin... As a kitchen maid -- the lowest of the low -- she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked vegetables to be scrubbed mistresses to be appeased & even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5.30am & went on until after dark. It was a far cry from her childhood on the beaches of Hove where money & food were scarce but warmth & laughter never were. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids curlers to raucous tea-dances with errand boys to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlourmaid fired for being seduced by her mistresss nephew Margarets tales of her time in service are told with wit warmth & a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation. Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters & servants Below Stairs is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who though her position was lowly never stopped aiming high. Enormous gusto salty humour wisdom Evening Standard Shrewd unabashed wickedly funny a unique front-line report of her lifes experiences Jack De Manio BBC ...