Vicar's daughter Izzy feels hugely guilty that she's having a very good war. Having learned to fly in a travelling circus before the war she's now joined the Air Transport Auxiliary as one of their few female pilots & is having the time of her life. The only cloud on the horizon is having to lie to her father about her exact role in the ATA. Her father is against the whole notion of women flying
- he certainly wouldn't approve of her becoming a 'spitfire girl'. Izzy also feels distinctly out of place among the more upper class ladies of the ATA. She would love to be as worldly as her flighty housemate Julia or as sophisticated as society wife Clare. But when Izzy finds herself falling for the charms of a dashing American doctor it is to Julia & Clare that she turns for help...
...

Written by a senior examiner the Study Guide provides essential revision coverage for students preparing to take the IB Diploma Programme examination in Psychology. The text contains all the information required for the course presented in a concise accessible format. The book exactly matches the structure of the new course &

Includes:: material for both Standard & Higher level. The Study Guide may be used by teachers or to support the students' learning outside the classroom. It is also suitable for students & teachers whose first language is not English with a clear & straightforward style.

...

The second edition of the Economics Study Guide covers the new 2011 IB Economics Diploma Programme & is suitable for both Higher & Standard level students. Concise coverage of all syllabus topics ensures that students' revision is comprehensive for the strongest exam potential. Particular focus is given to the construction & analysis of graphs as well as a brand new quantitative section which gives Higher Level students extra confidence for the new mathematical elements of their course. A thoroughly EAL friendly approach with straightforward language summary tables & an extended glossary covering all terms in the 2011 syllabus will help all students focus on mastering the theory. ...

This Revision Guide covers the Edexcel Level 1/ Level 2 Certificate in Biology & the Edexcel International GCSE in Biology. It contains concise study notes for every topic supported by clear diagrams & helpful tips for doing well in the Paper 1 & Paper 2 exams (material that's only needed for Paper 2 is clearly marked). A section of detailed advice on Experimental Techniques is also included. ...

This Revision Guide covers the Edexcel Level 1/ Level 2 Certificate in Chemistry & the Edexcel International GCSE in Chemistry. It contains concise study notes for every topic supported by clear diagrams & helpful tips for doing well in the Paper 1 & Paper 2 exams (material that's only needed for Paper 2 is clearly marked). A section of detailed advice on Experimental Techniques is also included. ...

Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration & given the awful news that his niece Caroline has been found brutally murdered. Cross vows to hunt down the killer & soon learns that Caroline was mixed up in one of Washingtons wildest scenes. & she was not this killers only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex & his girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone to a place where every fantasy is possible if you have the credentials to get in. Alex & Bree are soon facing down some very important very protected very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain
- they will do anything to keep their secrets safe. As Cross closes in on the killer he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable
- a revelation that could rock the entire world.

...

Bringing to life the subterfuge & double-dealing of Roman nobility Robert Graves' I Claudius" brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity & meticulous realism. This " Penguin Modern Classics" edition is a

Includes:: an introduction by Barry Unsworth. Despised for his weakness & regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues bloody purges & mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In "I Claudius" he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus & his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius & the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography this is the first part of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness & debauchery of ancient Rome & stands as one of the most celebrated gripping historical novels ever written. Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet novelist & critic. He is best known for the historical novel "I Claudius" & the critical study of myth & poetry " The White Goddess". His autobiography " Goodbye to All That" was published in 1929 quickly establishing itself as a modern classic. Graves also translated Apuleius Lucan & Suetonius for the " Penguin Classics" & compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology " The Greek Myths". His translation of " The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in " Penguin Classics". If you enjoyed "I Claudius" you might like Graves' sequel " Claudius the God" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " An imaginative & hugely readable account of the early decades of the Roman Empire.. .racy inventive often comic". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Still an acknowledged masterpiece & a model for historical fiction.. .sympathetic & intensely involving: a great feat of imagination". (Hilary Mantel author of " Wolf Hall")."

...

The story is told by Coriander daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies & her father goes away leaving Coriander with her stepmother a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest & left to die but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came & where time has no meaning. When she returns charged with a task that will transform her life she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes a fairy shadow a prince transformed into a fox
- that contrast with the heartbreaking loss & cruelty of Coriander's life in the real world. With its brilliantly realized setting of old London Bridge & underpinned by the conflict between Royalists & Puritans it is a terrific page turner involving kidnapping murder & romance & an abundance of vivid characters. Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children's writer of boundless imagination & originality.
...

Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest st&-up comedian
- even if he always seems
...

A brilliantly written portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the senses telling his version of the Bible & discovering what its like to be human
- in Clerkenwell. Now Your million questions. All in the end resolvable into one: Whats it like being me? What for heavens sake is it like being me? In a nutshell (which thanks to me is the way you like it in these hurrying & fragmented times) its hard. Finally the other side of the story. The Prince of Darkness has been given one last chance: he will be readmitted to the company of his fellow angels if he agrees to live out a human life. Highly sceptical (naturally) the Old Deal-maker negotiates a trial period
- a summer holiday in a human body with all the delights of the flesh. The body though turns out to be that of Declan Gunn a depressed writer living in Clerkenwell interrupted mid-suicide. Making the best of a bad situation Luce himself takes to writing
- to explain to strip back the Biblical spin to help us see the whole thing from his point of view. & to knock that Jesus off his perch. Beset by distractions miscalculations & all the natural shocks that flesh is heir to Lucifer slowly begins to learn what its like to be us. Glen Duncans brilliantly written new novel is an investigation of the world of the senses
- the seductiveness of evil & the affection which keeps us human.



...