A magnificent epic of love war & Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY & ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces & avenues speak of a different age when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters Tatiana & Dasha share the same bed living in one room with their brother & parents. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family for Leningrad & particularly for Tatiana life will never be the same again. On that fateful day Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad & the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling & the city under siege Tatiana & Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart & at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine & on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit Tatiana & Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history at a turning point in the century that made the modern world. ...

Every child who grew up in the Fifties & Sixties remembers the Brooke Bond collecting cards that came with every packet of tea. Some were lucky enough to have the specially-produced albums in which to collect the cards that had either come with the latest packet of tea or been traded in the school playground. This beautifully printed nostalgic book presents the best 12 original albums reproduced slightly larger than they were forty years ago to bring out the best in the wonderfully detailed illustrations. Collecting original Brooke Bond tea cards is a hobby that has a huge following with serious collectors never daring actually to glue the cards into the albums as was originally intended
- that would mean losing the information on the back & devaluing the card. In this book however you can see how each album was intended to look with every card printed in its correct position making every page an enormously colourful feast for the eyes. The albums that have been included are: Out Into Space" " British Wild Life" " Wild Flowers series 2" " Freshwater Fish" " African Wild Life" " Asian Wild Life" " British Butterflies" " Wild Birds In Britain" " Transport Through The Ages" " Trees in Britain" " Flags & Emblems of the World" & " History of the Motor Car"."
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Kirsty & Rachel are excited to be entering a charity fashion show where children get to show off their own designs. Unfortunately Jack Frost thinks everyone in the world should dress like him & steals the Fashion Fairies' seven magical items to put his naughty plan into action! Kirsty & Rachel must find Brooke the Photographer Fairy's magic camera or every picture taken at tomorrow's charity fashion show will be an ugly blur! ...

It is Ireland in the early 1950s & for Eilis Lacey as for so many young Irish girls opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York Eilis knows she must go leaving behind her family & her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home
- & homesick. & just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship & perhaps something more Eilis receives news which sends her back to Irel&. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma
- a devastating choice between duty & one great love.

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I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain.. . So begins Paul Austers remarkable novel The Brooklyn Follies". Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000 it tells the story of Nathan & Tom an uncle & nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer divorced & estranged from his only daughter the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career & indeed from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood they discover a community teeming with life & passion. When Lucy a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption." ...

Scotlands longest-established & best loved family are celebrated in this calendar. Since 1936 the Broon family have entertained us weekly in The Sunday Post. A national institution the calendar is a must-have for every fan of The Broons. The Sunday Post circulation is 314 482 (ABC fi gures April 2011). Readership is estimated to be over one million. Canadian Australian & New Zealand key holiday dates are included this year in addition to those of the UK & Irel&. ...

A funny useful week-to-view diary from Scotlands favourite family. Full of Scots sayings favourite Broons pictures & moments captured from The Sunday Posts long-running (75 years) comic strip. Week-to-view diary grids Key 2013 Scottish dates Useful personal information space to record important & useful names & numbers including the Glebe Street Week (steamie coalman bucket day rag & bone windaes etc) & the Broons sizes (for claes an bunnets an the like) Scottish interest information (and Broons humour throughout) Full colour Clans & Tartans Appendix (including the Broons & Oor Wullie tartans) Full colour Map of Scotland World map with Scotland at the centre & relevant time zone information. A useful week-to-view working diary for Scots folk from Scotlands favourite family with illustrations sayings & moments captured from The Sunday Posts long-running (75 years) comic strip. Diary pages are printed pale cream with light blue lines. Left-hand page is the week right-hand page is ruled feint for notes. Monthly feature spreads include appropriate recipes & hints from the Broons & space for addresses & telephone numbers. The must-have item for every Broons fan. The Broons were launched in 1936 in The Sunday Post in Scotland & are still going strong. They are undoubtedly Scotlands First Family & the Nations Favourites with a readership covering all generations. ...

The Broons & Oor Wullie have appeared in the Sunday Post in Scotland since the 1930s & still have a huge following today with the annual selling over 100 000 copies every year. This is a slip-cased facsimile of the first ever Broons & Oor Wullie annuals. Collecting together the first few years of publication the annual shows the stylistic development of the characters during this formative period of the classic cartoons lives. Now over 70 years since their original publication this brilliant two-in-one annual has saved a small piece of Scottish heritage from obscurity. Appealing to all generations who have read the strips the book offers a great insight to the early days of the Broons & Oor Wullie as well as fulfilling the promise of all annuals: to make you laugh. ...

Nathalie & David have been good & dutiful children to their parents & now grown-up with their own families they are still close to one another as brother & sister. Except that they arent
- brother & sister that is. They were both adopted when their loving parents found that they couldnt have children themselves. & up until now its never mattered. But suddenly Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents & is insisting that David makes the same journey. & through this both learn one of the hardest lessons of all that sometimes the answers to who we are & where we come from can be more difficult than the questions...
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The cloistered walls of Shrewsbury Abbey have always protected Brother Cadfael from the raging Civil War. But when fighting escalates between Empress Maud & King Stephen the war takes a deadly step closer to him. Taken prisoner in the battle for Mauds land is Olivier de Bretagne Brother Cadfaels own son- born as a result of a brief encouter thirty years earlier. Now Brother Cadfael resolves to plead for his sons release at a peace conference scheduled to take place in Coventry; but there is no sign of Olivier there. After much soul searching Cadfael makes the difficult decision to break his monastic vows leaving Coventry without permission- because he knows he must do everything in his power to find his son. ...