Emilie Carles was born in 1900 in south eastern France. Against the odds she trained as a teacher & pursued this career alongside farming & bringing up a family. An ardent pacifist all her life in later years she became a fierce environmental campaigner & successfully protected her home the idyllic Claree valley from the hands of developers. Emilie Carles enchanting autobiography tells of a world that has largely disappeared. She captures the comedy & ferocious pride of rural life with an ebullience & wit which are quite irresistible. ...

Movie director Thomas Lyon came to Newmarket to rake the ashes of an old Jockey Club scandal for a new Hollywood film. Too late he found himself listening to a blacksmiths dying confession. Found himself watching as the past came violently back to life. Capturing the shockwaves over one womans macabre death nearly thirty years before is drama. But a frenzied knife attack on the set of Unstable Times is definitely attempted murder. Who stood to gain from the threats? Between truth & shadowy fiction Thomas Lyon already knew too much. Following the real story could mean the difference between life & death. His own.. . Still the best bet for a winning read Mail on Sunday A marvellous storyteller & an immaculate craftsman Daily Mail ...

In the wild windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards embittered angry & in danger. He is Guyon lord of Ledworth heir to threatened lands husb&-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands
- but they have yet to meet... For this is Wales at the turn of the twelfth century. Dynasties forge & fight & behind the precarious throne of William Rufus political intrigue is raging. Caught amidst the violence are Judith & Guyon bound together yet poles apart. But when a dark secret from the past is revealed & the full horror of war crashes over Guyon & Judith they are forced to face insurmountable odds. Together...
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Say the word Italy & a scene lights up in the mind: a cafe table in St Mark's Square perhaps a Renaissance fresco a Tuscan villa on a hilltop. There are many books about these things. In Wild Italy Tim Jepson takes a different tack leaving the well-worn tourist haunts behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover he works his way down thigh & shin following the line of the Apennines locating the pressure points between continental & peninsular Italy pinching to see where the prosperous north gives way to the Mediterranean south looking for those last innocent stretches of littoral down one side & up the other where the bathers have not set up their parasols. Having lived in Rome & trekked the entire peninsula he knows the secret places that are as oxygen to a suffocating man after the murderous drive through the suburbs of Milan or Naples. He has picked out the loveliest spots in Sicily & Sardinia & plotted the last few pinpricks of Italian territory the scattered islands off the Tunisian coast which are some of the most isolated & primitive places in Europe. As well as having an extensive knowledge of wild places he also has the ability to write about them with passion. ' One view of a cypress tree or stone farm-house & we are entranced ' he writes 'overcome by that longing for the warm south which Icelanders describe nicely as the need for figs".'" ...

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Walking around his Herefordshire farm one October John Lewis-Stempel saw a trout flash in the brook mushrooms sprinkle the fields a squirrel eat hazelnuts & thought: Wouldnt it be wonderful if one could live just on what Nature provided for free? The Wild Life" is Johns account of twelve months eating only food shot caught or foraged from the fields hedges copse & brook of his forty-acre farm. Nothing from a shop & nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done? John takes the reader on a Thoreau-esque journey through a landscape that is true England as he uncovers the ancient past of his five-hundred-year-old farm & the startling symmetries between his life now & that of the farms peasant founders. Lyrical observant & sometimes mordantly funny " The Wild Life" is an extraordinary celebration of our natural heritage. & a testament to the importance of getting back to ones roots
- spiritually & practically."
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Even as a young child Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Expressed in a variety of ways from keeping faintly rotting animal parts in his underwear drawer (as a 10-year-old) to making several hundred films about wildlife his enduring interest in all things wild & free has been a way of rather than a part of his life. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah charged at by rhinos & elephants & defecated upon by a long list of birds & other animals may sound like hell to some. But these along with countless other experiences alongside all things furry scaly slimy & feathery have provided him with an enormously rich bank of tales to relive & retell. With his professional life starting aged ten acting in a television drama called The Fox (for which he looked after an orphaned fox for two years at home) through projects such as Planet Earth Blue Planet Springwatch Autumnwatch & Big Cat Diary to name just a few Simon King has travelled to every continent & lived in extreme conditions from remote desert to Arctic & Antarctic wilderness. With characteristic honesty & charm Simon King weaves his animal stories amongst encounters with extraordinary people & astonishing places to give us a memoir that will delight readers. ...

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The Wild Places" is both an intellectual & a physical journey & Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks questers scientists philosophers poets & artists both living & dead he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath to the holloways of Dorset the storm-beaches of Norfolk the saltmarshes & estuaries of Essex & the moors of Rannoch & the Pennines his journeys become the conductors of people & cultures past & present who have had intense relationships with these places. Certain birds animals trees & objects
- snow-hares falcons beeches crows suns white stones
- recur & as it progresses this densely patterned book begins to bind tighter & tighter. At once a wonder voyage an adventure story an exercise in visionary cartography & a work of natural history it is written in a style & a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned. It also tells the story of a friendship & of a loss. It mixes history memory & landscape in a strange & beautiful evocation of wildness & its vital importance."

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It is whispered behind the fans of London's dowagers & in the corners of the fashionable ballrooms that scandal follows wilfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox wherever she goes. Three years earlier the debutante created a sensation by being found in a distinctly compromising position. Now the ton has branded her as unmarriageable her family has called her a vixen & Beatrix sees no reason not to go after what
- & who
- she wishes. & she wants Stephen Fairfax-Lacy the handsome Earl of Spade. Beatrix with her brazen suggestions & irresistibly sensuous allure couldn't be more different from the earl's ideal future bride. Yet Beatrix brings out a wildness in him that he has tried to deny for far too long. Still he's not about to play love's game by Lady Beatrix's rules. She may be used to being on top in affairs of the heart but that will soon change.

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