Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Marthas. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol from Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother. That Face" won the TMA Award 2007 for Best New Play. Polly Stenham received both the Charles Wintour Award 2007 & the Critics Circle Award 2008 for Most Promising Playwright." ...

The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth & tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity. The story surrounds Mark & Jane Studdock a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E. which aims to control all human life. His wife meanwhile has bizarre prophetic dreams about a decapitated scientist Alcasan. As Mark is drawn inextricably into the sinister organisation he discovers the truth of his wifes dreams when he meets the literal head of Alcasan which is being kept alive by infusions of blood. Jane seeks help concerning her dreams at a community called St Annes where she meets their leader
- Dr Ransom (the main character of the previous two titles in the trilogy). The story ends in a final spectacular scene at the N.I.C.E. headquarters where Merlin appears to confront the powers of Hell.
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Not even the bombs that destroyed their city could break their spirit... Three generations of strong determined women & the war that threatened to tear them apart. In the backstreets of Liverpool Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie daughter Mel & her three tear-away sons. Life isnt great but they have eachother & family can get you through anything. Or...can it? Then on the third day in September 1939 Britain declares war on Germany & their lives change forever. The children have to be evacuated but daughter Mel refuses to go & so Eileen says goodbye to het mother & sons moves away from the street they love & faces a future without most of the people in her precious family. Thus begins a journey for them all. A journey filled with forbidden love tragedy & the terrifying sounds of a city they love crumbling into craters left by the Luftwaffe. Their lives will never be the same again.. . ...

A wonderfully wise romantic comedy about the ones we love & the one that got away... Juliet Joyce has been happily married for twenty-five years. But with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel a seventy-year-old mother whos just moved in & a father whos announced hes gay its hardly surprising that her relationship with her husband Rick is beginning to suffer. Juliets resigned to the fact that the only romance shes going to get is from the pages of her library books so nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Aubrey. Last seen twenty-six years ago when he jilted Juliet on their wedding day he ignites a passion in her that she thought was long gone. But will Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling that theyve lost? Theres only one way to find out... ...

Juliet Joyce has been happily married to Rick for twenty-five years. But with two children who treat the house like a hotel a mother whos moved in with them & a father whos announced a radical life change Juliet & Rick have little time for themselves let alone romance. & then Steven Aubrey returns. The same Steven who jilted Juliet on their wedding day twenty-six years ago. He ignites a passion in Juliet that she thought was long gone. Will Steven sweep Juliet off her feet or can Rick revive their marriage before its too late? ...

THAT NEAR DEATH THING is a life-affirming journey to the heart of the world's most dangerous race. The Isle of Man TT is a throwback to a maverick era that existed before PR platitudes & PC attitudes. WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR-shortlisted author Rick Broadbent gets inside the helmets of four leading motorcycle racers as they battle fear fire & family tragedy for a gritty sort of glory. Guy Martin is a tea-drinking truck mechanic & TV eccentric who 'sucks the rabbits out of hedges' but must now deal with the flipside of fame; Conor Cummins is the local hero facing a race against time as he battles depression & a broken body after falling down the mountain; John Mc Guinness is the living legend fending off the ravages of middle-age for one last hurrah; Michael Dunlop is the wild child living with one of the most remarkable legacies in sport. They tell their astonishing stories in a book that provides the most rounded intimate behind-the-scences account yet of the last great race. Rick Broadbent has delivered the final word on the Isle of Man TT one that really gets to grips with an event that continually pulls unsung riders & fans back year after year to witness That Near Death Thing. ...

A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx author of ' The Shipping News' & ' Brokeback Mountain'. ' That Old Ace in the Hole' is a richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle told with razor-sharp wit & a masterly sense of place. Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar the newly hired hog site scout for Global Pork Rind intends to do his job. Bob must contend with tough men & women like ancient Freda Beautyrooms who controls a ranch he covets & Ace Crouch the windmiller who defies the hog farms. As Bob settles in at La Von Fronk's bunkhouse & lends a hand at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe he is forced to question everything. ...

Winner of the 2006 Nestle Gold Award chosen for the Richard & Judy Christmas book party a Bookaboo Book Club book as seen on CITV & read by Amanda Holden. When the Queen steals Emily Browns favourite toy & erstwhile companion a toy rabbit called Stanley Emily sets out to get him back & teach that naughty queen a valuable lesson. This first time pairing of two highly acclaimed talents has created a brilliant visual feast
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For fifteen-year-old Haven this is the summer where everything changes. Dad is remarrying. Her sister Ashley is planning a wedding of her own. Theyre both moving on but Haven is lost in memories of a time when life was happy & her family was whole. & then Ashleys ex the charming & funny Sumner Lee arrives in town. He reminds Haven of carefree days gone by & she cant help but wonder
- has fate brought this person from her past back to change her future?
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When schoolgirl Jodie Foot goes missing from a sleepy Dorset village the shockwaves that reverberate through her community are as far-reaching as they are devastating. When Rachel Turner finds out her husband has lied about his whereabouts that evening she is shattered. All she's ever wanted is a secure family life & now it's about to be torn apart. Henry Streeter Rachel's neighbour is overwhelmed by old feelings of misery & loneliness as he struggles to stifle painful memories of his own childhood. & Juliet Fairweather arriving in the village on the evening of the disappearance is involved in an unexpected personal drama while her mother Bobbie so often a bystander is drawn inexorably into other people's lives. For everyone involved one ordinary summer's day will bring extraordinary consequences & the need to examine their own sense of loss & longing. ...