As a boy Charlie St Cloud narrowly survived a car crash that killed Sam his little brother. Years later still unable to recover from his loss Charlie has taken a job tending to the lawns & monuments in the New England cemetery where Sam is buried. When he meets Tess Carroll a captivating adventurous woman in training for a solo sailing trip around the globe they discover a beautiful & uncommon connection that after a violent storm at sea eventually forces them to choose between death & life past & present holding on & letting go. The Death & Life of Charlie St Cloud is a romantic & uplifting novel about second chances & the liberating power of love. ...

' Refreshingly romantic dangerously good fun hugely addictive' Joanne Harris author of Chocolat Charlie St. Cloud was a blessed boy destined to do good things in high places. But all that changed the night he survived the car crash that killed his little brother Sam. Years later Charlie is still trying to atone for his loss. He has stayed at home in his snug New England fishing village tending the lawns & monuments of the ancient cemetery where his brother is buried. You see Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: he can see talk to & even play catch with Sam's spirit. Theirs is a perfect magical world untroubled until Charlie meets Tess Carroll a captivating adventurous yachtswoman training for a solo trip around the world. Suddenly he is faced with a choice -- between death & life the past & the present holding on & letting go. The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud is a romantic & exhilarating novel about second chances & the liberating power of love. ' Heart-meltingly moving.' Glamour ' Sherwood makes you believe -- & that's miracle enough' Newsweek ...

In this classic text Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning & rebuilding & to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusiers Radiant City they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods super-blocks rigid scientific plans & endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities argues Jacobs lies in their diversity architectural variety teeming street life & human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe interesting & economically viable as well as places that people want to live in. ...

This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3 000 years of the iconography of death & resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence death is also one of the oldest & most common themes in art. From Egyptian tomb paintings & battles scenes on Greek vases by anonymous artists to depictions of the crucifixion of Christ by Renaissance masters to contemporary encounters with these subjects by artists such as Damien Hirst & Andres Serrano this new volume in the Guide to Imagery" series examines three-thousand years of the iconography of death & resurrection. While focusing on the Western artistic tradition this volume also looks at many works of art from Asia Africa & Oceania as it explores depictions of death & resurrection
- including violent death ceremonial tributes to the departed allegorical depictions & the journey to the afterlife."
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Find a murderer
- & save the Queens Jubilee! It is 1897 & the London is preparing for Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse
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The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house La Fenice has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific & violent as that of world-famous conductor Maestro Helmut Wellauer
- poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Even Commissario of Police Guido Brunetti used to the labyrinthine corruptions of the city is shocked at the number of enemies Wellauer has made on his way to the top
- but just how many have motive enough for murder? The beauty of Venice is crumbling
- & evil can seep through its decaying stones.. .


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The first man murdered was Abel Meredith a resident at the Jesus Hospital Almshouse near London. The second victim Roderick Gill was burser at the Allisons school in Norfolk. Victim number three Sir Rufus Walcott was slain in his own hall by the Thames. All had their throats cut. & all had strange markings on their chests carved there by the murderer but which neither doctor nor coroner could identify. Lord Francis Powers court brought in to solve this case of triple murder had no shortage of suspects or suspicions. Meredith had shadowy links with the civil service. Gill a man who seduced women at church during Harvest Festival or the Christmas carol service had been threatened by angry husbands & disinherited sons while Sir Rufus had wiped fifteen years out of his own past history. & all had ties to Sir Peregrine Fish bourne Prime Warden of the Guild of Silkworkers who had visited all three men shortly before their untimely deaths. Yet on one question Powers court never wavered & he knew that only when he had solved the mystery of the strange markings on the victims bodies would he then be able to solve the mystery of the death at the Jesus Hospital. Praise for David Dickinson: Splendid entertainment". (" Publishers Weekly"). "A leisurely period whodunit with Dickinsons customary historical tidbits & patches of local color swathed in an appealing Victorian narrative". (" Kirkus Reviews"). " Detective fiction in the grand style". (James Naughtie). "A cracking yarn beguilingly real from start to finish". (Peter Snow)." ...

No stranger to sprawling country estates well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country" magazine. But her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond. With evidence that his death was anything but accidental Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can't slip through their fingers like the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice. Praise for " The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries": ' Appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above... This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries'
- " Booklist"."

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Barbara Nadels new Turkish crime novel sees Inspector Ikmen tackling a complex case of organised crime in London. When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in front of them. In the process Istanbuls Inpsector Aaetin Ikmen is injured. Documents found in the factory lead the authorities in both Istanbul & London to believe that a terrorist attack in part orchestrated from the Tarlabasi factory is about to be enacted in the British capital. Ikmen goes undercover amongst the Turkish community of North London although what he uncovers there is certainly not what his British colleagues were expecting... ...

A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man. Thirty years after his death Marsden Hexcamps Art of the Final Moment remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamps portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes -- & half a dozen victims each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art. When tiny scraps of Hexcamps art begin appearing at murder scenes alongside gruesomely displayed corpses Detective Carson Ryder & his partner Harry Nautilus must go back three decades in search of answers. Meanwhile an auction has been announced & the death collectors are gathering. These wealthy connoisseurs of serial-killer memorabilia will pay millions to acquire Hexcamps art -- unless Carson & Harry can beat them in their quest for the anti-grail. ...