Ruth & Simon Pierces rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter Heather on holiday in Cornwall with a friends family has disappeared... The loss is more than they
- or their marriage
- can bear. But time does heal & slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself. A new husband Andrew
- even a second daughter Beatrice. The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible
- that is until years later a desperate phone call launches DI Will Grayson & his partner DS Helen Walker into an investigation which will test their professional & emotional resources to the very limit. Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently released child-abuser & Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague there is a real danger that their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands...



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The Far Eastern Fells of Lakeland rise to the east of Kirkstone Pass & the Patterdale valley. To the north & south they run down into low country & eastwards they merge into the high ground of the Pennines. many of the heights are relatively inaccessible & lonely but the scenery here & the excellence of the walks rank in Wainwrights view with the Lake Disctricts best. This second edition of The Far Eastern Fells has been brilliantly revised by Chris Jesty a trained cartographer who worked with Wainwright on some of the maps in his later large-format guides. All footpaths have been rewalked all routes checked all maps & text updated. Paths & routes have been picked out in red to make them easier to follow & parking information has been added. This new edition of the classic walking guide is Wainwright for the 21st century. ...

The Far Eastern Fells of Lakeland rise to the east of Kirkstone Pass & the Patterdale valley. To the north & south they run down towards low country & eastwards they merge into the high ground of the Pennines. Many of the heights are relatively inaccessible & lonely but the scenery here & the excellence of the walks rank in Wainwright's view with the Lake Disctrict's best. The Pictorial Guides by A. Wainwright written half a century ago have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Far Eastern Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright's original h&-drawn pages. ...

You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory & calling for their mothers. It's certainly a town & certainly grubby
- except for the squeaky clean parts
- but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh town resident & author of these tales. As Beardy Ardagh reports when the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness & a ship runs aground
- flattening The Rusty Dolphin
- it's hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown. But then there's a jail-break & the Police Department (all three of them) need all the help they can get from the (often bonkers) townsfolk. No wonder more trouble is waiting just around the corner.



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As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries & she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily theres work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool & soon Kitty has a job in a grocers where she also catches the eye of the owner. With Kittys input the business is soon thriving -- but tragedy lies ahead & she must endure many trials & tribulations before she can find true happiness! ...

A moving family drama of one young womans fight to survive & to find a place to call home 1938: Sixteen-year-old Kate Monroe is living in Birmingham far away from her family in Irel&. Her parents have always doted on her siblings Sally & James leaving no time for her. Kate harbours a dark secret a deep longing for her cousin. Feelings she must suppress in this deeply staunch Irish-Catholic community -- even if they are reciprocated. Crazed by her infatuation Kate is left with no option other than to up-roots once more & seek out a new life far away from the temptation of Tim Monroe. Will Kate find true love or will distance make the heart grow fonder? ...

When Georgiana Gregory & her maid Kitty make the long sea journey from their native Hull for New York they are expecting to begin a new life in the heady freedom of the newly-formed United States of America. Georgiana wants to escape from the confines of English life & to savour a land of emancipation & opportunity. But in New York she encounters a man passing himself off as her brother-in-law Edward Newmarch a local mill-owners son who has abandoned Georgianas sister & fled to America. Georgiana recognises the man standing before her as Edward Newmarchs valet Robert Allen
- Edward himself appears to have vanished. But Edward having escaped from a disastrous marriage in England is now in further trouble with women having agreed to marry the difficult daughter of a powerful landowner & businessman while pursuing his beautiful wife Sofia. As Georgiana & Kitty pursue the adventures of the frontier & Edward tries to flee his enemies the dangers of this new country seem too much to cope with.
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Saga magazine" ' Life Story' competition winner. From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far " From the East End". Born in 1938 under threat of looming war Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day & cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty & the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents' indifference. She prayed that just once her mother would hold her when the bombs rained down. But loneliness only intensified when she was evacuated. Finding the nurturing home she had always dreamt of in her adopted Welsh parents she wonders what when she returns to London after the war will be waiting for her. Will she ever be able to love her philandering father depressive mother & an angry bullying brother? Will her family even survive? Or will she have to look farther afield for the affection she so longs for? Prepare to be taken on a beautiful & emotional journey with Iris Simantel's nostalgic memoir " Far from the East End". Iris Simantel is the acclaimed winner of the " Saga Magazine" ' Life Story' competition telling of her evacuation from Dagenham to Wales & her family's post-War move to South Oxney. She now lives in Devon." ...

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Far from the Madding Crowd" was Thomas Hardys first major literary success & it edited with an introduction & notes by Rosemarie Morgan & Shannon Russell in " Penguin Classics". Independent & spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy & the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each in contrasting ways unsettles her decisions & complicates her life & tragedy ensues threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex Hardys novel of swift passion & slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life & landscapes & with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. This edition based on Hardys original 1874 manuscript is the complete novel he never saw published & restores its full candour & innovation. Rosemarie Morgans introduction discusses the history of its publication & the Biblical & Classical allusions that permeate the novel. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) born Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth centurys major novels: " The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886) " Tess of the DUrbervilles" (1891) " Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874) & " Jude the Obscure" (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by " Jude the Obscure" he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems & his epic drama in verse " The Dynasts". If you enjoyed " Far from the Madding Crowd" you might also like Elizabeth Gaskells " Mary Barton". " Wonderful...a landscape which satisfies every stir of the imagination & which ravishes the senses". (Ronald Blythe)." ...