1902: London Society is in a frenzy of anticipation for the coronation of the new king Edward VII. The Earl & Countess of Dilberne are caught up in the lavish preparations yet Lady Isobel still has ample time to fret. Her sixteen-year-old niece Adela tragically orphaned has run off with a troupe of fake spiritualists; her plain yet clever daughter Rosina is threatening to elope to Australia
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- & her new daughter-in-law is pregnant with a potential heir yet still completely untrained in the particular ways of the English aristocracy. With her trademark joie de vivre Fay Weldon once again draws her readers into the lives & loves of the aristocratic Dilberne family as they embrace not only a new century but a new generation
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One of the most vivid & realised characters of recent fiction Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barrys highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields & that festering at home waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Profoundly moving intimate & epic A Long Long Way" charts & evokes a terrible coming of age one too often written out of history." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This collection of warming recipes will help stave off winter's chill. On a cold day a steaming bowl of soup is always welcome
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Damug Warfang head of a thousand Rapscallions
- the deadliest horde of foebeasts ever to jump from ship to store
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A journey through & succesfully out of twenty years of anorexia. It wasnt just losing weight that mattered to Alison
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The plan is so complex the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert. Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesnt know who the target is. Or where the crack marksmen will strike. Former SAS sergeant Mike Cramer is also on the trail infiltrating the Irish community in New York as he tracks down Mary Hennessy the ruthless killer who tore his life apart. Unless Cramer & Howard agree to co-operate the world will witness the most spectacular terrorist coup of all time.. . ...

From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy Orange Prize winning author of SMALL ISLAND comes this breathtaking hauntingly beautiful heartbreaking & unputdownable novel shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & longlisted for the Orange Prize. You do not know me yet. My son Thomas who is publishing this book tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery & the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity & it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831 & she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of Julys mama Kitty of the negroes that worked the plantation land of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation & many more persons besides
- far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps my son suggests I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha I tell my son what fuss-fuss. Come let them just read it for themselves.
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What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? & when the combined value ...

Long Time No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche. In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver occasional worker full-time companion & Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe & his friend The Blackbird Psyche is a boy on the cusp of adulthood undone by a recent traumatic event. Hanging out with men some forty-plus years his senior proves hazardous for Mister Psyche when the appearance of a bullet-hole in Uncle Joe-Joes window draws him into a series of (mis)-adventures which unsettle & bemuse. Perhaps The Blackbird is losing it? Or perhaps The General has decided to act on a decades-old grudge? Whichever way as the paranoia grabs a creeping hold of Uncle Joe-Joe his fragile world threatens to collapse. & it is Mister Psyche who must digest this & acknowledge the new world taking shape in the old.. . An epic in miniature peopled by a cast of innocents & broken misfits Long Time No Sees lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell. ...