Faced with a choice between her harsh farming life & the seductive but distant world of books & learning Chris Guthrie eventually decides to remain in her rural community bound by her intense love of the l&. However the intervention of the First World War leaves her choice in tatters. Chris is now a widowed single mother: her farm & the land it occupies is altered beyond recognition
- trees torn down people displaced. But although the novel describes a way of life which is in decline it also presents a strong image of hope. Chris adapts to her new world displaying an intuitive strength which like the land which she loves endures despite everything. Sunset Song" is a testament to Scotlands agricultural past to the world of crofters & tradition which was destroyed in the First World War. It is a powerful description of life in the first few decades of the century through the evocation of change & the lyrical intensity of its prose. Renowned expert Ian Campbell has produced the first new scholarly text for fifteen years & has the blessing of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon estate."
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Sunset Surrender Sophia Montrose is no stranger. Not after the scorching kiss rugged cowboy Logan Slade once shared with the alluring Spanish beauty in school. Now shes back
- Logan wants to hate her but can he resist their unquenchable love-hate passion? Undeniable Demands When Wade Mitchell needs to buy something from Victoria Sullivan he has to reconsider his usual tactics. Since he & Tori have enough heat to melt ice it should be a done deal. But melting Toris resolve is a harder task. When proper negotiation fails seduction may be his only option.
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There are places in the world where darkness rules where its unwise to walk. But the lake had been quiet for years... She never heard them coming. Of course you dont when theyre vampires. They took her clothes & sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. & they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion
- within easy reach of her fellow prisoner. She knows he is a vampire. She knows that shes to be his dinner & that when he is finished with her she will be dead. Yet when dawn breaks she is still alive. & now he needs her to help him survive the day...
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Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them Daisy's Aunt Jane who is housekeeper to Dr & Mrs Venables offers to take Daisy back to Liverpool so that the child can be a companion to her employers' orphaned niece Cynthia. Daisy is a tomboy young for her age self-willed & hot-tempered. In Ireland she was seldom in school but often in trouble. Now however she tells herself that she must conform. She begins to work hard in school & though she & Cynthia don't get along she meets Jake the chauffeur's son & life in Liverpool becomes easier to bear. When Jake goes to university Daisy means to follow suit but war intervenes & instead she starts work at a munitions factory & falls in love for the very first time. ...

Love & happiness
- hatred & despair... Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old
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Molly Bennett & Nellie Mc Donough have been best mates for over twenty years with never a cross word between them. When times were bad & money scarce they kept their families together with love & laughter. & they were always there to help anyone in trouble. So when they hear about a mother who hasn't seen her son for years the two friends know they have a job to do... ...

In 2012 over 6.5 million viewers watched Shelina triumph in the Master Chef final: with her instinctive spicing & intense flavours she brought Mauritian food to TV for the first time inspiring legions of home cooks to try out her recipes at home. Mauritius is a melting pot of cultures & Shelina's food reflects that encompassing Creole French Indian African British & Chinese influences. From Gajaks street food such as chilli cakes & daal puri (flatbreads with split peas) to vegetarian chickpea & sweet potato curry & black lentil fricassee there is an emphasis on freshness & subtle spicing. The island's French heritage can be seen in classic Mauritian dishes such as Lamb ' La Daube' aubergine toufe & king prawn rougaille. Many of the curries pulses & rice dishes are vegetarian & gluten-free. Plus from the ' Mango Queen' there are enticing desserts including mango creme brulee & spiced tea rum baba. Sunshine on a Plate showcases the food of this beautiful island in Shelina's unique home cooking. With family-friendly time-saving recipes & beautiful photography on location in Mauritius this book will make Shelina a true star of the cookery world. ...

With customary charm & deftness Alexander Mc Call Smith gives us another installment in this popular series now running in its eighth season in The Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie & the gang especially with an invitation to one of Scotlands premier jazz festivals - ...

Do you ever wonder where your life is going? Do you worry that you might wake up in the morning & suddenly be old? You are not alone. Story (thats his name) can feel a middle-youth
- or is that middle-age?
- crisis coming on. Hes got a great job a great flat & great mates: Mac who is obsessed with biscuits; JP who never says anything if its nice; Cannie whose only admirer is the bird that lives outside her window; & Vincent who has finally proposed to his girlfriend after nineteen years. But alongside the drinks & the kicks what has any of them actually done? & why is time passing like sand in a sieve? Is it possible to turn life around? Life is just life right? & change is a gasping & slippery fish. Afsaneh Knights portrait of ageing Generation X-ers is funny compassionate & unsparing. Were under her microscope & while you might squirm shell have you laughing crying & caught.

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The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down & it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite & embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction at the La Grange point between the sun & the earth of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist an expert on the sun predicted the flare. One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end. She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the eyes. She knows who is responsible. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre ...