Iain Banks is one of the most inventive writers in the UK today producing an extraordinary range of work from family sagas set in present-day Scotland to science fiction spanning vast gulfs of space & time. He enjoys breaking the arbitrary boundaries of genre & often creates narratives blending realistic" storylines with fantastical elements. Alan Mac Gillivrays Scotnote provides an overview of Iain Bankss fiction & focuses on three novels in particular: The Wasp Factory a darkly comic piece of Scottish Gothic fiction; The Crow Road a cross-generational family saga with elements of a detective story; & Whit following the adventures of an innocent thrust into modern society. Suitable for senior school pupils & students at all levels." ...

A guidebook by veteran walker Ronald Turnbull to walking a long-distance or challenge route in the UK
- with both serious & humorous
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At the Wings & Co. Fairy Detective Agency Emily Vole & her friends are beginning to worry. Its five months since their official opening & they still havent had one case. Then local landowner Sir Walter Cross dies suddenly & mysteriously. The detectives suspect fairy meddling. & when Mr Rollo the tailor mysteriously loses everything & Pan Smiths wedding plans are ruined the night before her big day theyre convinced there must be magic at play. Now they have not one but three pickled herrings to deal with! Can they solve the mystery of who is stealing peoples luck before the meddling fairy goes too far? ...

Three 30' Agatha Christie short story full-cast dramatisations: Philomel Cottage/ Magnolia Blossom/ Swan Song. Agatha Christie is the acknowledged ' Queen of Detective Fiction'. Nearly all of her Hercule Poirot & all of her Miss Marple novels have been adapted for BBC Radio & released by the Radio Collection. These releases are the first non-Marple/ Poirot novels to be adapted for radio cassette & CD release. ...

Three 30' Agatha Christie short story full-cast dramatisations: The Hound of Death/ Witness for the Prosecution/ The Gate of Baghdad. Agatha Christie is the acknowledged ' Queen of Detective Fiction'. Nearly all of her Hercule Poirot & all of her Miss Marple novels have been adapted for BBC Radio & released by the Radio Collection. These releases are the first non-Marple/ Poirot novels to be adapted for radio cassette & CD release. ...

Priya Sereena & Alexa Kauls family left Kashmir to live in the UK. The three girls grew up in Derbyshire & loved rushing home from school to watch their mother make delicious dahl korma & rogan josh with fresh spices from brought from Kashmir. When they had families of their own they longed for a spice box like the one their mother had
- full of all the spices needed to make the recipes they craved from their childhood. So they created a spice box with thirteen essential spices & collected 100 family recipes that can easily made at home
- just add ingredients from any supermarket or high street grocer. This book is the three sisters own collection of easy to make Indian dishes. Whether you are a traditional or a creative cook or you have a busy lifestyle you will enjoy making & creating these delicious recipes. There is detailed section on how to identify & use fresh spices & plenty of information about the medical & culinary uses of ginger cardamom turmeric & more. Nearly all the dishes can be made in advance & frozen so ditch the take away menu & make your own fresh versions of our favourite cuisine with real Indian flavours & spices.

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Three women who almost had it all... Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her loving husband
- now all she wants is a child. But family ties broken or reasserted will force each woman to face a journey from France to Africa or from Africa to France that will take the future out of their hands & change their lives forever. Domineering fathers weak lovers the perilous road of the refugee
- they will need all their courage & inner strength if they are to overcome. From Man Booker International Prize finalist Marie NDiaye.

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Antigone defending her integrity & ideals to the death Oedipus questing for his identity & achieving immortality
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This is a book for anyone who has ever thought What if?" A true story about a woman who dared to follow her dreams... Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood an ambitious 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night craving another life she was seized by a moment of inspiration & tapped "second hand bookshop Scotland" into Google. She clicked on the first link she saw. A month later she arrived 2 000 miles across the Atlantic in Wigtown on the west coast of Scotland & knocked on the door of the bookshop she would be living in for the next month... The rollercoaster journey that ensued
- taking in Scottish Hanukkah yoga on Galloway's West Coast & a waxing that she will never forget
- would both break & mend her heart. It would also teach her that sometimes we must have the courage to travel the path less taken. Only then can we truly become the writers of our own stories."

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Stephanie Plum's fast becoming the most unpopular woman in New Jersey. Even her own mother can't love her for taking on the job of tracking down Uncle Mo everybody's favorite candy store owner. Cursed with a disastrous new hair color & an increasing sense that it's time to get a new job the world's favorite bounty hunter sets off on her latest adventure with a little 'help' for her new sidekick hooker turned file clerk Lula who's just itching to get a felon in the back of her racy redfirebird... ...