On childhood holidays to the western coast Tim Wintons days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings the sun & surf kept him outside in the water. In the afternoons as the horizon wobbled with mirages & the wind came in from the ocean he was driven inside to books. In the simple peculiar shack that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books a world unto itself. In this beautifully delicate memoir Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore about diving dunes beachcombing & the sense of being on the precarious wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb & flow that became a way of life & that shaped one of our finest writers. Both a serial romantic & a truly gifted novelist Mariella Frostrup Mail on Sunday ...

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Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country fishing for pike Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall a nearby stately home is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning. At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions & is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder. Merely produces the finest tapestries in England but the threads that Gently must unravel in his investigation are more complex than any weavers design with everyone from the lord of the manor to his most lowly servant falling under suspicion. Praise for Alan Hunters Gently books: It is always a pleasure to look forward to another Gently book by Alan Hunter
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From the bestselling author of Headlong "and " Spies " "an unconditional triumph" (" The Washington Post Book World)" For fifteen years ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty there have been rumors. So Brian Jessel a young member of the Cabinet Office is diverted from his routine work & asked to prepare an internal report. Slowly from the archives in the Cabinet Office Registry Jessel begins to reconstruct Summerchilds last months. It begins to emerge that at a time when America had just put men on the moon the British were involved in an even bolder project & that Summerchild was investigating a phenomenon as common as sunlight but as powerful & dangerous as any of the forces that modern science has known. The secret world into which Brian Jessel stumbles turns out to be even more extraordinary than his department had feared." ...

Landlord & Tenant Law" is an easily accessible introductory text. The clear concise style allows the authors to cover the subject in admirable breadth & depth. Summaries exercises & workshops concluding each chapter help the reader to make sense of a complex area of Law. This is an extensively revised fifth edition of this popular text particularly in terms of its coverage of the effects of covenants in leases & also in an expanded section on business tenancies which deals fully with the important changes to the security of tenure of business tenants that took effect in 2004." ...

This new work a successor to the authors earlier book (co-written with Geoff Gilbert) Landlord & Tenant Law: The Nature of Tenancies (1995) though now the work of a single author & completely up-dated & rewritten shares the same aim of setting leases in their wider context by weaving together matters of law & policy. The book provides a clear understanding of the main principles of landlord & tenant law in each sector. The style of this book is distinctive. First of all it explains the law of landlord & tenant law by showing how the statutory & common law rules have been shaped by wider commercial social economic & policy considerations by the growth in human rights law & by changing concepts of community & justice. The other innovative feature of the book is that the law is explained by reference to the different stages of the relationship; entering a lease regulating leases managing leasehold property & so on. The stages of the relationship provide the structure for the book. Most landlord & tenant books set out the common law rules in the opening chapters & then deal with the legislative regime for each individual sector later in the book. By instead setting the law in the different stages of the relationship this book is able to show where the shared issues faced by landlord & tenant receive a common legal response & where the different context of the leasehold relationship has led to a variety in legal rules. Landlord & tenant law is now very different from the common law of 100 years ago. In describing the modern law (or laws) the unique style of this book enables the reader to see how the commonalities & the contrasts between the law in the different sectors can be explained by reference to the way that leases are differently used & regulated. ...

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From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides & The Landmark Herodotus here is a new edition of Xenophons Hellenika the primary source for the events of the final seven years & aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers the years between 411 & 362 B.C.E. a particularly dramatic period during which the alliances among Athens Sparta Thebes & Persia were in constant flux. Together with the volumes of Herodotus & Thucydides it completes an ancient narrative of the military & political history of classical Greece. Beautifully illustrated heavily annotated & filled with detailed clear maps this edition gives us a new authoritative & completely accessible translation by John Marincola a comprehensive introduction by David Thomas sixteen appendices written by leading classics scholars & an extensive timeline/chronology to clarify this otherwise confusing period. Unlike any other edition of the Hellenika it also

Includes:: the relevant texts of Diodorus Siculus & the Oxyrhynchus Historian with explanatory footnotes & a table that correlates passages of the three works which is perhaps crucial to an assessment of Xenophons reliability & quality as a historian. Like the two Landmark editions that precede it The Landmark Xenophons Hellenika is the most readable & comprehensive edition yet of an essential history.

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