On Saturday 26 April 2003 Aron Ralston a 27-year-old outdoorsman & adventurer set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck he found himself in the middle of a deep & remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted & snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped facing dehydration starvation hallucinations & hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five & a half days later Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm & get himself to safety. Miraculously he survived. BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave honest & above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive & is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as TOUCHING THE VOID. ...

' On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are.' Amos Oz's compelling new fiction offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets & frustrations of the human heart played out by a community of misfits united by political disagreement intense dissatisfaction & lifetimes of words left unspoken. Ariella unhappy in love confides in the woman whose husband she stole; Nahum a devoted father can't find the words to challenge his daughter's promiscuous lover; the old idealists deplore the apathy of the young while the young are so used to kibbutz life that they can't work out if they're impassioned or indifferent. Arguments about war government travel & children are feverishly taken up & quickly abandoned
- & amid this group of people unwilling & unable to say what they mean Martin attempts to teach Esperanto. At the heart of each drama is a desire to be better more principled & worthy of the community's respect. With his trademark compassion & sharp-eyed wit Amos Oz leaves us with the feeling that what matters most between friends is the invisible tie of our shared humanity. It is written by the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize previous winners of which include Philip Roth Ivan Klima Elfriede Jelinek Harold Pinter & John Banville.
...

Welcome to Too Much
- where the women are strong-willed & the men are handsome yet shiftless. Ever since Mary Dell Templeton &
...

The New York Times" bestseller " Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys is a harrowing story of a Lithuanian family who suffer unimaginable hardship & deportation during World War II pitched perfectly for children & adults alike. That morning my brothers life was worth a pocket watch... One night fifteen-year-old Lina her mother & young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards thrown into cattle cars & sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable & harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesnt know if shell ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family. For her country. For her future. For love
- first love with the boy she barely knows but knows she does not want to lose... Will hope keep Lina alive? Set in 1941 " Between Shades of Gray" is an extraordinary & haunting story based on first-hand family accounts & memories from survivors. " This superlative first novel by Ruta Sepetys demonstrates the strength of its unembellished language. A hefty emotional punch". (" New York Times"). " Her prose is restrained & powerful as unadorned as the landscape in which her characters struggle to survive... Few books are beautifully written fewer still are important; this novel is both". (" The Washington Post"). Born & raised in Michigan Ruta Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Ruta lives with her family in Tennessee. " Between Shades of Grey" is her first novel."
...

Delilah knows its weird but she cant stop reading her favourite fairy tale. Other girls her age are dating & cheerleading. But then other girls are popular. She loves the comfort of the happy ending & knowing there will be no surprises. Until she gets the biggest surprise of all when Prince Oliver looks out from the page & speaks to her. Now Delilah must decide: will she do as Oliver asks & help him to break out of the book? Or is this her chance to escape into happily ever after? Read between the lines for total enchantment.. . ...

The Golden Girl of British cycling opens up for the first time in searingly honest detail about what drives her to compete in a sport she no longer loves. Written with Donald Mc Rae 2 time winner of the William Hill Award Between the Lines" promises to be THE Olympic autobiography. Victoria Pendleton MBE is not your typical female athlete. Admired as much by the weekly glossies as she is the newspaper back pages she transcends her sport. In 2005 she became first British female to win Gold at the cycling World Championships in 40 years. She followed it up with gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 & another World Championship in 2007. Arriving in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games Pendleton was on top of the world. She didnt disappoint. In an enthralling example of track cycling Pendleton took Gold & joined the ranks of British Olympic heroes. & then it started to go wrong. Feted by the press & the public alike behind the scenes the cracks & strains started to show. Despite retaining her World Champion status in 2009 it was a close run thing & her shield of invincibility started to drop. Victoria was falling out of love with her sport. The sport that had made her was starting to tear her apart. " Between the Lines" documents the considerable lows as well as the well-known highs & reveals why Victoria almost turned her back on cycling before rediscovering her Championship winning form in 2011 the day after suffering one of her most humiliating days on the track. Hitting the shelves within a matter of weeks from the end of her Olympic programme & written with Donald Mc Rae two time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year " Between the Lines" promises to be the most honest & emotional book from an Olympian to date." ...

The Golden Girl of British cycling opens up for the first time in searingly honest detail about what drives her to compete in a sport she no longer loves. Written with Donald Mc Rae 2 time winner of the William Hill Award Between the Lines" is THE Olympic autobiography. Victoria Pendleton MBE is not your typical female athlete. Admired as much by the weekly glossies as she is the newspaper back pages she transcends her sport. In 2005 she became first British female to win Gold at the cycling World Championships in 40 years. She followed it up with gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 & another World Championship in 2007. Arriving in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games Pendleton was on top of the world. She didn't disappoint. In an enthralling example of track cycling Pendleton took Gold & joined the ranks of British Olympic heroes. & then it started to go wrong. Feted by the press & the public alike behind the scenes the cracks & strains started to show. Despite retaining her World Champion status in 2009 it was a close run thing & her shield of invincibility started to drop. Victoria was falling out of love with her sport. The sport that had made her was starting to tear her apart. " Between the Lines" documents the considerable lows as well as the well-known highs & reveals why Victoria almost turned her back on cycling before rediscovering her Championship winning form in 2011 the day after suffering one of her most humiliating days on the track. Hitting the shelves within a matter of weeks from the end of her Olympic programme & written with Donald Mc Rae two time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year " Between the Lines" promises to be the most honest & emotional book from an Olympian to date." ...

The Golden Girl of British cycling opens up for the first time in searingly honest detail about what drives her to compete in a sport she no longer loves. Written with Donald Mc Rae 2-time winner of the William Hill Award Between the Lines" is a gripping story of success against the odds. Victoria Pendleton MBE is not your typical female athlete. Admired as much by the weekly glossies as she is the newspaper back pages she transcends her sport. In 2005 she became first British female to win Gold at the cycling World Championships in 40 years. She followed it up with gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 & another World Championship in 2007. Arriving in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games Pendleton was on top of the world taking Gold & joining the ranks of British Olympic heroes. & then it started to go wrong. Feted by the press & the public alike behind the scenes the cracks & strains started to show. Despite retaining her World Champion status in 2009 it was a close run thing & her shield of invincibility started to drop. Victoria was falling out of love with her sport. The sport that had made her was starting to tear her apart. Between the Lines documents the considerable lows as well as the highs & reveals what it took to turn her life around & achieve glory at London 2012." ...

Dana De Lacey bestselling romance novelist has the world at her feet. The words on the page flow easily; an exciting new book deal beckons & life at home in Dublin is good. But Dana's self-confidence & success depend on one person: her gorgeous husband Gus. Without him she has no fall-back. No children no close family of her own to call upon. When Gus leaves her she is devastated. The words fail to come. The alcohol flows too freely. She cannot sleep. Then her estranged brother Ed arrives to take care of her out of the blue & memories which she has buried for many years begin to surface: startling recollections of a childhood & a little girl long-forgotten which inspire Dana at last to write from the heart. Which Dana was it that Gus walked out on -- the glamorous party girl whose romantic novels always have a happy ending? Or someone with a different name whose life tells a very different story? Forced to face up to the past can she find the real Dana recover her career & try to make Gus love her for the person she really is? ...

In 2013 Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing & coaching at clubs including Sheffield United Manchester United & Engl&. This is the story of his life
- & the life of the game
- in that time. In 2013 Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing & coaching at clubs including Sheffield United Manchester United & Engl&. In ' Between the Sticks' Alan tells the story of a life in football: from his days as a trainee at Worksopp Town in the 50s to his big-money move to Sheffield United (where his signing-on fee was a new suit for 'courting') to England duty as well as a glittering coaching career at Man United Rangers Villa among others. It is a story that features legends of the game such as Matthews Charlton Best & Pele all of whom Alan has played with or against. ' Between the Sticks' will transport the reader back to a golden age of football when pig skins were hoofed around with hobnail boots to the modern day where as a coach at Oxford United Alan sees the realities of 21st century football first-h&. It is a story that no football fan will want to miss.

...