A family divided by war but united by love. Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer Neil Sheridan commander of a corvette. They have a daughter Libby & a beautiful home near Prince's Park in Liverpool. When war comes Marianne takes war work & moves into Crocus Street with her mother Mrs Wainwright & younger sister. Neil disapproves because the Wainwrights live so near the docks which are bound to be a bombing target but Marianne is firm. Meanwhile Libby is evacuated to the country to stay with Miss Williams who lives in an ancient house Tregarth at the head of a valley in North Wales & Libby the wheelchair-bound Matthew & Miss Williams assume they can settle down to see out the war in comparative safety. But Libby is forced to return to the city when her mother suffers an accident & her gran finds herself unable to cope.. . ...

What do you do when youre fat fourteen obsessed with the Catholic Church with Doing the Right Thing with scones & sweets with other boys & their private parts? Well if youre Benson you panic & flee hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas St Finbars monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school hed left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again & throw him back into the world from which hed tried to escape. Returned to school Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms & desires. Can he be both gay & Catholic? Gay & Happy? Sucking Sherbet Lemons recounts the coming out experience of a gay man at a time when homosexual acts were illegal. Written in the late Eighties in response to those who condemned gay men in the light of the AIDS epidemic
- & instated Clause 28 to end discussion of the subject
- this is a powerful & hilarious broadside aimed at the forces of intolerance ignorance & fear. The times have changed with legalization & now even Civil Partnerships in Britain
- but the difficulties silence bewilderment & embarrassment of coming out have not. Sucking Sherbet Lemons is a coming out novel for the ages. We are proud to re-release this gay classic to help entertain
- & console
- a new generation gay straight & all points in-between.




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Languedoc-Roussillion (not forgetting the Midi-Pyrenees & Aquitaine) are the regions of France most settled by English expatriate colonists. Caroline Conran has spent much time there since the early 1970s & her collection of recipes reflect years of travel conversation cooking eating & drinking. She has shared her knowledge with English readers in a previous book Under the Sun: Caroline Conrans French Country Cooking but here she concentrates upon this single region of Languedoc which curls up from the Spanish border along the Mediterranean coast as far as the Rhone valley. This is not polite France this is in your face France; its history buried amidst the Crusades & Cathars its towns & cities
- Nimes Toulouse Carcassonne Narbonne Perpignan Montpellier Beziers
- making up a fiecely independent region. Its people are passionate about rugby about hunting & foraging with a cuisine of their own more Southern simpler more earthy & less influence by the Michelin style of cooking than the rest of France. There will be information on the particular specialities such as chestnuts sweet onions Bouzigues mussels & oysters salt cod poufres (baby octopus) charcuterie salades sauvages (salads of wild plants) the rose-coloured garlic of Lautrec wild asparagus & local mushrooms. There are descriptions of places where oysters truffles chestnuts or calcots
- a giant spring onion eaten roasted on a fire of vine-prunings
- are the obsession of everyone in the community.



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The only guide dedicated solely to the new Republic of the Sudan. Explore entire pyramids & other ancient sites entirely free of tourist crowds. Drink in views over the Sudanese plains from the granite Taka Mountains. Dive the reef where Jacques Cousteau conducted his experiment in underwater living. Experience Sudan's cultural diversity among the 50 tribes of the Nuba Mountains. Read advice on where to stay/eat travelling safely & cultural etiquette As a staple of bleak news headlines Sudan has been slow to make its abundant attractions known to the outside world. Few foreigners have heard of the Kingdom of Kush walked among the isolated pyramids of Meroe or witnessed the whirling dervishes of Omdurman. Yet those who do make it here are invariably enchanted by its easy-going nature fascinating history & the warm welcome they receive from the Sudanese people. This the only st&-alone guide to post-partition Sudan leads you expertly from the labyrinthine souks of Khartoum to coral-bedecked wrecks off the Red Sea coast. Whether you're rushing through on the trans-Africa trail or whiling away weeks among rich archaeological sites this fully revised third edition is your indispensible companion. ...

This fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs portrays the history of the town & the people of Sudbury from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s. At the beginning of this period Sudbury was a small town of fewer than 6 000 people subsisting mainly on argiculture; by the 1960s it had trebled in size with much of the open agricultural land being built over. The first five chapters examine each area of Sudbury in turn centring on a major thoroughfare in each case. The second half of the book looks at a number of important aspects of life in the town including celebrations leisure sport & schooldays. The pictures for this compilation have come from the extensive collection of Mr H. Griffiths from the Sudbury Museum Trust's archives & from the author's personal files. They have been painstakingly accumulated from local people who have donated them & the majority have never been published before. This intriguing & informative book will doubtless appeal to all residents of Sudbury. Those with a nostalgic longing for a world long disappeared will be able to reminisce as they read its pages while newcomers will find an invaluable guide to the recent history of the town. ...

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. ...

A thrilling combination of top flight football & international espionage. Meet Jake Bastin
- talented teenage footballer son of
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In the first British publication of this classic thriller from Parkers highly acclaimed Spenser crime series things take an unnexpected & thrilling turn for this dashing detective. When Spenser comes to the aid of his long-time love Susan in her efforts to help her ex-husband Brad Sterling he finds himself caught up in a twisted battle against some very bad men shadowy mob connections & a woman tormented by her past. ...

Etgar Keret is an ingenious & original master of the short story. Hilarious witty & always unusual declared a genius by the New York Times" Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this his sixth bestselling collection. Long a household name in Israel where he has been declared the voice of his generation Keret has been acknowledged as one of the countrys most radical & extraordinary writers. Exuding a rare combination of depth & accessibility Kerets tales overflow with absurdity humour longing & compassion & though their circumstances are often strange & surreal his characters are defined by a familiar & fierce humanity. A man barges into a writers house & holding a gun to his head demands that he tell him a story something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriends mouth & when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. " Suddenly a Knock on the Door" is at once Kerets most mature & most playful work yet & establishes him as one of the great international writers of our time." ...

Presenting another tricky collection of 200 sudoku puzzles from the Daily Mail" this handy book will test your brain power & keep your mind alert wherever you are. Perfect for passing the time at home or making the most of your daily commute " Daily Mail Sudoku Volume 2" will prove both challenging & fun to all comers. With grids for all levels of ability everyone from beginners to experts can join in the fun & those new to sudokus will be surprised at how quickly they progress to expert puzzlers." ...