Have you ever referred to your oldest & closest friend as ' Thingy'? Reached the top of the landing only to realize that you have no idea why you came upstairs in the first place? Congratulations
- or commiserations
- you've had your first senior moment! Fear not for help is at h&. The Book of Senior Moments" introduces the reader to a wonderful collection of these little passages drawn from the experiences of everyone from politicians to pundits. It

Includes:: exit strategies for when you've been ambushed by your memory as well as tips on how to avoid getting ambushed in the first place. Part guide part humorous overview & crammed with advice examples anecdotes confessions tips retorts & excuses this is an absolutely essential book for anyone growing long in the tooth & short of memory."



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After a noisy upbringing as one of six children & adulthood as a vocal feminist & mother Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert the Australian bush & the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence through fairy-tale & myth Western & Eastern religious traditions the Enlightenment & psychoanalysis up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated Scottish moor & the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. ...

Four students discover a manuscript The Book of Skulls which reveals the existence of a sect now living in the Arizona desert whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise they discover that the sect exists & is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite two must die in order for the others to succeed. ...

A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. & the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know
- however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be. & when a single volume missing from the original collection mysteriously surfaces at a London auction house they persuade former FBI agent Will Piper to help them obtain it & unlock the ultimate secret of the library once & for all. Travelling to England Will discovers the text contains a sonnet that holds a series of clues
- clues that reveal the book has had a profound effect on the history of mankind. But all the time he is being watched. & as he gets nearer to the final revelation he & his young family become a direct target for a deadly group of men whose duty it is to guard the librarys secret
- whatever it takes. However the truth is too powerful to keep hidden...


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The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series. Every year for ten years a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked throat slit body washed clean. Ten years ten women. The final victim Kirsty Summers was Detective Constable Tony Mc Lean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop Mc Lean found a torture chamber & put an end to the brutal killing spree. Twelve years later & a fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young woman: naked washed her throat cut. Is this a copycat killer? Was the wrong man behind bars all this time? Or is there a more sinister frightening explanation? Mc Lean must revisit the most disturbing case of his life & discover what he missed before the killer strikes again... The Book of Souls is the second in the Detective Inspector Mclean series. The first was Natural Causes & the upcoming third will be called The Hangman's Song. Fans of Ian Rankin Peter James & Stuart Mc Bride will love James Oswald's work. Praise for James Oswald: A star of Scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene". (Daily Record). " Crime fiction's next big thing". (The Sunday Telegraph). " Literary sensation... James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of EL James & her Fifty Shades of Grey series". (Daily Mail). " Fifty Shades of Hay". (The Times). " Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers". (Daily Mail). " The new Ian Rankin". (Daily Record). " The hallmarks of Val Mc Dermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark violent noirish". (The Herald). "A good read". (The Times). " An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series". (Guardian). James Oswald is the author of the Detective Inspector Mc Lean series of crime novels. The first two in the series Natural Causes & The Book of Souls are available from Penguin with the third title The Hangman's Song forthcoming for 2014. He has also written an epic fantasy series The Ballad of Sir Benfro as well as comic scripts & short stories. In his spare time James runs a 350 acre livestock farm in North East Fife where he raises pedigree Highland Cattle & New Zealand Romney Sheep." ...

Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died & a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers its stuffed with photographs & mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary. It was a time when she trod the tightrope between separated parents & two very different countries; her bewitching but imperfect Hungarian mother & her gentle reticent English father; the dazzling house of a Hungarian artist & an empty-feeling cottage in deepest Devon. & it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned sixteen. Since then Beth hasnt allowed herself to think about those years of her childhood. But the arrival of The Book of Summers brings the past tumbling back into the present; as vivid painful & vital as ever. ...

In this title around 350 incisive essays & almost 800 full-color images evoke the hidden

Dimensions of archetypal

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From the authors of the much-loved 1080 Recipes"
- the Spanish cooking bible by Simone & Ines Ortega
- " The Book of Tapas"

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A TELL IS AN ACTION THAT TELLS YOU WHAT SOMEONE IS THINKING EVEN IF THAT PERSON DOESNT KNOW IT THEMSELVES. & TELLS ARE HIGHLY INFORMATIVE... The way you stand when youre talking to others how you move your feet your hands your eyes
- even your eyebrows
- says a lot about your commitment to a conversation & your underlying attitude. Your actions & stance can also affect how long you get to talk & how often you get interrupted. Even when youre seated the position of your arms & legs provides a wealth of information about your mood & intentions showing whether you feel dominant or submissive preoccupied or bored. But Tells arent confined merely to conversations; when you are alone you are constantly shifting your body
- & each movement each gesture provides clues about your state of mind. In this illuminating book Peter Collett social psychologist former Oxford don & Big Brothers resident psychologist introduces us to the fascinating concept of Tells showing how they work where they come from & how to identify & iterpret them. Whilst sentizing readers to the motives & actions of other people this invaluable guide also focuses on the messages that we unwittingly send & the impact that these might have on those around us. Comprehensive & accessible in its approach & written in the tradition of the international bestseller Manwatching THE BOOK OF TELLS offers a new unifying vocabulary for understanding human communication & social influence
- & a unique opportunity to read yourself & others.



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The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log the ledger in which all cases are entered by h&. For Kay Scarpetta however it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston South Carolina she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice one in which she & her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation & autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation & modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation until the murders & other violent deaths begin. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A sixteen-year-old tennis star is found nude & mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal & unusual crimes before but never a string of them as baffling or as terrifying as the ones before her now. Before she is through that book of the dead will contain many names
- & the pen may be poised to write her own.
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