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." ...

A visionary a craftsman a comedian & as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose & it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as modern fiction". Hes so modern hes in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him Zadie Smith The mysterious disappearance of her great- grandmother & twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert. But that is simply one problem of many for the hapless switchboard operator seriously compounded by her ongoing affair with boss Rick Vigorous; the TV stardom of her talking cockatiel Vlad the Impaler; & other minor catastrophes that threaten to elevate Lenores search for love & self-detemination to new heights of spasmodic weirdness." ...

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. ...

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. ...

Nearly 150 years ago Chief Seattle a respected & peaceful leader of one of the Northwest Indian Nations delivered a message to the government in Washington who wanted to buy his people's l&. He believed that all life on earth & the earth itself is sacred. This title offers a plea for an end to man's destruction of nature. ...

A girls body lies posed on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach a message concealed in her h&. I have been underground & now it is time for me to return home... Jan Fabel of the Hamburg murder squad struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark & brutal mind. Four days later a man & a woman are found deep in woodland their throats slashed deep & wide the names Hansel & Gretel in the same tiny obsessively neat writing rolled tight & pressed into their hands. As it becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected almost two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm the hunt is on for a serial killer who is exploring our darkest most fundamental fears
- a predator who kills & then disappears into the shadows. He is a monster we all learned to fear in childhood.
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This is an ' After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny one of the survivors
- one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley an ordinary
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