A vivid passionate & intensely moving novel from prize-winning author John Green. In the dark beside me she smelled of sweat & sunshine & vanilla & on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette but even in the dark I could see her eyes
- fierce emeralds. & not just beautiful but hot too." BEFORE. Miles Halter's whole life has been one big non-event until he starts at anything-but-boring Culver Creek Boarding School & meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous clever funny sexy screwed up & utterly fascinating she pulls Miles into her world launches him into a new life & steals his heart. But when tragedy strikes & Miles comes face-to-face with death he discovers the value of living & loving unconditionally. AFTER: Nothing will ever be the same. Poignant funny heartbreaking & compelling this novel will stay with you forever."
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The unmissable first novel from bestselling & award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. If people were rain I was drizzle & she was a hurricane." Miles Halter's whole life has been one big non-event until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous clever & undoubtedly screwed-up Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world & irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles nothing can ever be the same again. ' Looking for Alaska' brilliantly captures the exquisite painful joy of living & loving. Poignant funny heartbreaking & compelling this novel will stay with you forever." ...

When her father becomes ill single city girl Laney Barwell moves to the Cotswolds to look after him. Shes been looking for fireworks in her love life ever since she broke up with her predictable ex-boyfriend Giles but she has no thoughts of kindling the spark shes looking for here. If she cant find love in a big city like London -- with all its internet dating singles nights & socials -- how can she ever hope to meet the man of her dreams in the tiny village of St Pontian? But there are two prospects when she gets there: Martin who can always be depended on for a kind word of advice. & Toby who is distant but who sets her heart ablaze. When it comes to love should Laney trust the logic of her head or the racing of her heart? ...

A gripping & emotionally searing novel from a talented author Looking for JJ explores the circumstances & motives behind the murder of a child
- by her friend. Six years later JJ has now been released & has a new identity. But is there any way that she can lead a normal" life?"
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David Wilson is one of the UKs best-known & most innovative criminologists. This thought-provoking book stems from the authors parallel experiences in the public eye
- as a reporter for Sky News & contributor to BBC ITV & both national & local newspapers & magazines especially in relation to high profile cases & fast-moving events in the field of crime & punishment. Looking for Laura provides a window through which to appreciate the media pressures that this can create even for a professor in this field & former prison governor with considerable experience of working with offenders who hit the headlines. The book also looks at the way in which crime is packaged & presented for consumption by a news-hungry public. By considering a range of media situations in which the author has been involved it provides an absorbing context within which to understand the still relatively new field of public criminology. It has a Foreword by the award-winning investigative journalist Donal Mac Intyre
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This is the enthralling story of an extraordinary & courageous woman. Her bravery stoicism & African upbringing were critical to the early career of world-renowned explorer & missionary David Livingstone. In the history books Mary Livingstone is a shadow in the blaze of her husband's sun a whisper in the thunderclap of his reputation. Yet she played an important role in Livingstone's success & her own feats as an early traveller in uncharted Africa are unique. She was the first white woman to cross the Kalahari which she did twice
- pregnant
- giving birth in the bush on the second journey. She was much more rooted in southern Africa than her husband: he has a tomb in Westminster Abbey London; she has an obscure & crumbling grave on the banks of the Zambezi in a destitute region of Mozambique. In the thrall of Africa the author has travelled extensively over several years in the footsteps of Mary Livingstone from her birthplace in a remote district of South Africa to her grave on the Zambezi. She explores the places the Livingstones knew as a couple & above all explores the detail of the life & family of this little-known figure in British
- but not African
- history.



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Joy sorrow jealousy & awe
- these & other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to
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The book traces Conor Jamesons travels in search of the Goshawk a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience investigation & the unearthing of information from research exploration & conversations. The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain to Berlin
- where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why he wants to know is the bird so rarely seen in Britain? He explores the politics of birdwatching the sport of falconry & the impact of persecution on the recent history of the bird in Britain & travels the length of Britain through central Europe & the USA in search of answers to the goshawk mystery. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T H White who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book. Its a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious & charismatic bird.
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Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria
- a country she viewed as an annoying
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Life at The Keep changes forever when Fliss Mole & Susannah arrive in the summer of 1957. Their parents & elder brother have been killed in Kenya so the children are sent to their grandmother Freddy in Devon. Freddy is no stranger to grief but she would be lost without her devoted helpers Ellen & Fox who enable her to cope with this latest tragedy. & above all she looks to her brother-in-law Theo to guide her while the children heal their wounds & embark on the treacherous journey to adulthood ...