In Forgotten Fruits" Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating
- often rather bizarre
- stories behind Britains rich heritage

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1913 On the eve of the First World War a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace. 1975 Now an old lady Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest leads her to Cornwall & to a beautiful estate called Blackhurst Manor which had been owned by the Mountrachet family. What has prompted Nell's journey after all these years? 2005 On Nell's death her granddaughter Cassandra comes into a surprise inheritance. Cliff Cottage in the grounds of Blackhurst Manor is notorious amongst the locals for the secrets it holds -- secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is at Cliff Cottage abandoned for years & in its forgotten garden that Cassandra will uncover the truth about the family & why the young Nell was abandoned all those decades before. ...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died & Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan & then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away.. . This is the extraordinary story of a young men conscripted at nineteen & whose father was a Somme Veteran survived not just one but three close encounters with death
- encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese hellships which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died & Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan & then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away.. . This is the extraordinary story of a young men conscripted at nineteen & whose father was a Somme Veteran survived not just one but three close encounters with death
- encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
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Romulus & Fabiola are twins born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold
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Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriends ten-year-old son Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life
- when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of newspaper articles about the past exploits of Elvis Cole
- & the fact that before the man died he said he was Elviss father... Joe Pike is the only person who can help Elvis navigate his past. As they investigate Elvis is haunted by the fact that at last he might have found his father. But with each clue they uncover a troubling picture emerges about the dead man. & as Elvis & Joe approach his true identity they unwittingly walk straight into a hornets nest.

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For more than 60 years hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel & the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank & the Gaza Strip the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem their experiences are often overlooked & forgotten. In this book historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule & what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities & Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival & interview material Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens finding discrimination in matters of housing education & civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable The Forgotten Palestinians" brings a new & much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate." ...

This is a personal eye-opening compassionate look at convalescent homes. The author shares his experience in placing his mother in a home & shares the humor joy & bitterness of the other residents in the same home during their last days weeks months or years on earth. He encourages readers to spend as much time as possible with the elderly because they may have little time left. We can learn a lot from these interesting talented & passionate people. ...

In this much-needed new book Darina reconnects you with the cooking skills that missed a generation or two. The book is divided into chapters such as Dairy Fish Bread & Preserving & forgotten processes such as smoking mackerel curing bacon & making yogurt & butter are explained in the simplest terms. The delicious recipes show you how to use your homemade produce to its best & include ideas for using forgotten cut of meat baking bread & cakes & even eating food from the wild. The Vegetables & Herbs chapter is stuffed with growing tips to satisfy even those with the smallest garden plot or window box & there are plenty of suggestions for using gluts of vegetables. Youll even discover how to keep a few chickens in the garden. With over 700 recipes this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills. ...

An international bestseller this is a German soldiers first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942 the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in Russia. However he quickly finds that for the foot soldier the glory of military success hides a much harsher reality of hunger fatigue & constant deprivation. Posted to the crack Grosse Deutchland division with its sadistic instructors who shoot down those who fail to make the grade he enters a violent & remorseless world where all youthful hope is gradually ground down & all that matters is the brute will to survive. As the biting cold of the Russian winter sets in & the tide begins to turn against the Germans life becomes an endless round of pounding artillery attacks & vicious combat against a relentless & merciless Red Army. A book of stunning force this is an unforgettable reminder of the horrors of war. ...