Gordon Comstock loathes dull middle-class respectability & worship of money. He gives up a good job in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity & his spirit. Only Rosemary ever-faithful Rosemary has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced. ...

A moving & gripping drama as one family struggles to survive through the strains of the Second World War The year is 1940 & Bill & Marion Whittaker live happily with their five children in a terraced house on Albert Road in Birmingham. But when Bill enlists to fight in the Second World War the family are plunged into poverty. Marion is forced to pawn all her worldly possessions & decides to take in two lodgers Peggy Wagstaffe & violet Clooney. These two lively girls bring some light relief to the family & bring with them Peggys handsome brother Sam -- who catches the eye of Marions sixteen-year-old daughter Sarah. 1944 & the war grinds on. Disaster strikes with an explosion at the local munitions factory leaving Sarah badly disfigured. Then news arrives that Sam has been blinded in action. Can these two injured souls help each other to repair not only their physical but emotional scars? & will Bill return to the safety of family & home? ...

Whether you suffer from aches pains & creaky joints or you simply feel old beyond your years Keep Your Joints Young" will help you achieve a better body & a healthier life. Sarah Key a renowned physiotherapist & bestselling author shows you how to keep your skeleton young with a series of stretches designed to combat stiffness & pain. This practical & accessible guide shows you how to: spot the tell-tale warning signs of imminent joint problems; take immediate action to reverse the trend; & exercise to alleviate pain & restore full mobility. With stretches to suit all levels of ability & a 30-minute daily regime " Keep Your Joints Young" will help you break the bad habits that come with our increasingly sedentary lifestyle." ...

Can our personalities be taken away from us? Are memory & identity mutually dependent? What exactly is the soul? Three years ago Andrea Gillies a writer & mother of three took on the care of her mother-in-law Nancy who was in the middle stages of Alzheimers disease. This newly extended family moved to a big Victorian house on a headland in the far far north of Scotland where the author failed to write a novel & Nancy her disease accelerated by change began to move out of the rational world & into dementias alternative reality. This book is a journal of life in this wild location in which Gillies tracks Nancys unravelling grasp on everything that we think of as ordinary & interleaves her own brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimers works. For the family at the centre of this drama the learning curve was steeper & more interesting than anyone could have imagined. ...

This is an extraordinary debut novel winner of the Branford Boase Award & the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize. In a newspaper office Paul Faustino South America's top football writer sits opposite the man they call El Gato the Cat" the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup. In the hours that follow El Gato tells his incredible story
- how he a poor logger's son learns to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper so good he is almost unbeatable. & the most remarkable part of this story is the man who teaches him: the mysterious Keeper who haunts a football pitch at the heart of the claustrophobic rainforest..."
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Youve just been jilted at the alter. Your day is about to get a lot worse. If Nina Cormiers wedding had taken place she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasnt until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina realised someone actually wanted to kill her. But who? Thats what Nina has to find out
- & fast. As the nightmare unfolds all around her Nina must try to decipher the terrifying truth: she is at the mercy of a brilliant madman one who is playing for keeps.
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To her husband Annie O' Neill is the perfect wife & mother. To the man who adores her she's an unattainable ideal. To her rival she is an obsession. Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina's Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman's life Olivia realizes who she is-Annie O' Neill. The woman Olivia's husband Paul is in love with. When Annie dies on the operating table she leaves behind three other victims. Alec O' Neill who thought he had the perfect marriage. Paul whose fixation on Annie is unshakable. & Olivia who is desperate to understand the woman who destroyed her marriage. Now they are left with unanswered questions about who Annie really was. & about the secrets she kept hidden so well. ...

This is Book one in this new fantasy adventure series Keeper of the Realms". Ive just had a flesh-eating giant tearing around my house & now Im in this strange land I dont know anything about! Charlie Keeper has been forced from her home by a bloodthirsty & terrifying stranger. But in escaping she discovers her house holds the gateway to the Realm of Bellania
- a place of myth magic.. .and an evil Lord with a very bad attitude. Now its fate rests squarely upon Charlies shoulders. But before she can untangle the mystery that will save Bellania she needs the answer to a life-changing secret her guardian the dastardly Mr Crow has been keeping from her.. . Just who is Charlie Keeper?"
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Your abilities as a Keeper allow you to open doors that others can not. Imprisoned in the mythical world of Bellania Charlie Keeper is at the mercy of Lord Banes guards while her loyal friends have been sold into slavery. When the Terrifying Edge Darkmount breaks into her cell he promises to decipher the meaning of her mysterious pendant
- & unlock the secrets of Bellania
- if she will help him get revenge on Bane. But can she Trust him? The future of the realm relies on Charlies special powers. Even if she escapes it may take more than she can summon to overthrow the evil lord
- it may take an entire army... This book is a contemporary fantasy adventure for 10 plus with elements of The Wizard of Oz Lemony Snicket & The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe. Perfect for fans of Tolkiens The Hobbit" & Paul Stewart & Chris Riddells " The Edge Chronicles". "I would rather read Crows Revenge than Harry Potter!" (Michael B Year 7)."


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' Keepers is a tour guide to a fascinating part of our history. These ancient & often eccentric titles & appointment not only tell us about what our ancestors valued but they persuade us to value them too.' Julian Fellowes This glorious photographic celebration published to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Coronation of HM The Queen observes & records over a thousand years of living British history through titles ancient offices & appointments that are still in use. Some titles are inherited some retain a connection to something now irrelevant & others come with an important job. The earliest dating back to Saxon times & the most recent was created in 2008. Keepers features over 100 titles: we see Her Majesty The Queen photographed exclusively & for the first time as Chief of the Chiefs Prince William as a newly installed Knight of the Garter & the Duchess of Cornwall as Lady of the Isles; other titles include the Bearer of the Dog Whipper's Rod reenacting the once vital post of clearing Exeter Cathedral of wild dogs the Boy Bishop of Hereford the Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland; the Searcher of Sanctuary & High Bailiff of Westminster Abbey & the Keeper of the Great Clock all photographed in their robes
- if they have them
- & in places relevant & significant to each title.

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