When he was twelve years old Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found & Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree & his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on Rob Ryan
- the child who came back
- is a detective in the Dublin police force. Hes changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girls body is found at the site of the old tragedy & Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

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After the Second World War nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa to parts of Latin America & the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference & the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement many of Europes former colonies banded together to form a common bloc aligned with neither the advanced capitalist First World nor with the socialist Second World. ...

Addy & Prue Fairweather live with Nell their widowed mother in a flat above her shop on the Scotland Road. The sisters however are very different. Addy is dark-haired plain & always in trouble whereas Prue is flaxen-haired blue-eyed & as angelic as her looks imply. To make matters worse Nell makes no secret of her preference for the younger girl increasing Addy's jealousy & resentment. On the other side of the coin Giles Frobisher & his twin sister Gillian live in a crumbling mansion near the sea in Devon. The family have lost most of their money in the Depression so Giles leaves university & joins the Fleet Air Arm. He meets the Fairweather girls briefly on a visit to Liverpool but they lose touch. When they meet again Addy & Prue are no longer children & Giles realises he is falling in love... ...

Utterly absorbing funny & humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe". (Anna Funder author of Stasiland). " Eugen Ruge is to the GDR what Hans Fallada was to the Third Reich. In Times of Fading Light may be a novel as important in the whole literature of the Cold War & its aftermath as anything written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn". (Philip Kerr). In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward & back in time creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the GDR to build the socialist state to his father's decade spent in a Gulag for criticising the Soviet regime to his son's desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past. With wisdom humour & great empathy & drawing on his own family history Eugen Ruge majestically traces the stories of both this particular family & the GDR while exploring the tragic intertwining of politics love & family under the East German regime." ...

While the near 1 500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties in some cases more than five times as many. In total these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of life at sea
- more than 96 000 in total 3 840 per ship. While the circumstances were different to Titanic the outcome in each case was no less tragic. Yet despite the fact that Titanic ranks behind so many other losses so powerful has her name become that it was the inevitable choice to describe some of these other events Germanys Titanic & The Titanic of Japan being two examples. Ships include the Lancastria Britains worst maritime disaster with 3 000 lost; the Ryusei Maru a Japanese Hellship loaded with 6 000 Allied POWs torpedoed by a US submarine; & the Wilhelm Gustloff a German liner packed with 7 800 civilians sunk by a Russian submarine. There were no survivors & this tragedy was the worst maritime disaster of all time.
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I just want a taste of you. Or a touch. My fantasies about you plague my every waking hour. My only comfort is imagining that similar fantasies might obsess you too. When young librarian Gwendolynne Price finds increasingly erotic love notes to her in the suggestion box at work she finds them both shocking & liberating. But who is her mystery admirer & how long will he be content to just admire her from afar...? A dark sensual romance to fuel your fantasies as recommended in Tracey Cox's ' Fifty Shades of Grey' steamy reading list in the Daily Mail. ...

Seven years ago there was a terrible fire. Dan & Amy Cahill were saved but both of their parents died. The fire was ruled accidental & Dan & Amy had no reason to believe otherwise.. .until now. What really happened that awful night? Was the fire a tragedy.. .or was it murder? Amy & Dan are about to learn some crushing truths & get help from an unexpected ally. ...

- The windows so small I cant see what happens next. But what I do know is that Kim is dead. & I know this too
- that I helped
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Its just not fair! Rubys family wont let her have a pet. Well any decent pets anyway. Her dads got this awful cat allergy & her mum thinks its cruel to leave a dog alone in the house all day. Ruby is furious
- but determined. Then she meets Horatio one of the kittens belonging to Yasmins neighbour. Its love at first sight & Ruby starts making plans for the arrival of the new secret family member.. .
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