Eight captivating monologues that offer a group-portrait of diverse characters. From high-class hookers to 7/7 survivors these monologues paint a revelatory picture of Britain as it is today. After rave reviews at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival & in New York Eight" opened in Londons West End in July 2009." ...

A simple introduction to Chanukah the Jewish festival of light. Follow a family as they light the menorah open presents & eat latkes to celebrate the great miracle that happened over 2 000 years ago. This pre-school series introduces young children to world religions & focuses on the way the festival is celebrated today. There is detailed historical & cultural information at the end for parents & teachers. ...

Before I used it the key had infinite possibilities. Eleven-year-old Elise feels stuck. Her school locker-buddy squashes her lunch & laughs at her every day. She doesn't want to go to school
- & her best friend Franklin just makes things worse. Now I was ready for something to be different. Anything really. One day Elise discovers an incredible secret. A secret that might just help her unlock her past & take a chance on the future. I decided that tomorrow I would see what that key opened up. It had my name on it after all...
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SEARING HEAT
- You have the most dangerous job in the worlds most dangerous place. You are responsible for bomb disposal in the
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From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner a prescient & haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade a maker of maps but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt & harsh the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers & her Muslim neighbours are secretive watchful. The streets are not a woman's territory; confined in her flat she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers sounds of distress from the 'empty' flat above her head. She has only rumours no facts to hang on to & no one with whom to share her creeping unease. As her days empty of certainty & purpose her life becomes a blank
- waiting to be filled by violence & disaster.
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This is the prequel to the Campbell family saga. Anna Campbell a Leith worthy in the full sense of the word never turns anyone away from her door. The condemned tenement is the home to many families in dire poverty & Anna known as a wise-woman hatches & dispatches & treats all minor ailments for her friends. She dedicates her life to raising six children four boys & two girls who are not her own. The girls Rachel & Bella remain with her into adulthood & despite her care she is horrified when fifteen-year-old Bella becomes pregnant by Gus someone she had given shelter to in his hour of need. Gus skips the country & is hotly pursued across the world & made to return to marry Bella. The bane of Annas life is the neer-do-weel Gabby Rachels father. Little does she realise that her continuing desire for revenge against him will have such a devastating effect on Rachel & also the rest of the family. The story covers an eighteen-year period from 1908. The families struggle to cope with daily life but there are bigger tragedies in store. The sinking of the Titanic the First World War the Gretna Rail Disaster the Spanish flu
- all have serious repercussions on the lives of the families involved & Anna as ever is there to help them come to terms with them. The story highlights the amazing Leith community spirit of all concerned who lived through this period.
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The second edition of this popular anthology reveals the rich variety of poetry produced in the period 1700-1800. It is the new edition of this popular anthology of eighteenth-century poetry. It reveals the rich variety of poetry produced in this period. Traditionally prominent authors such as Pope Swift Burns & Cowper are represented alongside lesser-known writers particularly women. For the second edition the political & satirical content of the anthology has been strengthened with the inclusion of poems such as Charles Churchills Night" Samuel Johnsons " London" & Swifts "A Satirical Elegy on a Late Famous General". The revised edition

Includes:: material by two new women poets Martha Sansom & Sarah Dixon. The editors continue to draw out interesting links between poems & especially between male & female poets."

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Eighth Army Britains most famous field army of the twentieth century landed in Italy in September 1943 & fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armour. It also compares the qualities of the commanders of Eighth Army in Italy: Montgomery; Leese & finally Mc Creery. The book uses official records at various levels personal accounts
- some never before published
- & published material to present a picture of an army that although defined as British was one of the wars most cosmopolitan formations. Its soldiers came from the UK Canada India Ireland Nepal New Zealand Poland & South Africa as well as from Palestine
- the Jewish Brigade
- & from Italy itself.



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Vladimir Tod has a secret. His mother was human but his father was a vampire... With no idea of the extent of his prowess & no one to teach him thirteen-year-old Vlad struggles daily with his blood cravings & enlarged fangs. & when a strange substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely Vlad worries that his cover is about to be blown. But then he realises he has a much bigger problem. Hes being hunted by a vampire killer who is closing in.. .fast! ...

I'd always liked bad boys. & as I grew up they became bad men.. . In her youth Russian dancer Luba fell for a bad man; a handsome but dangerous rare amber dealer who would disappear for months on end but expect Luba to drop everything when he called. Despite everything Luba could not deny her attraction to the seductive Chey but their passionate turbulent relationship came to an end when Luba fled Russia having discovered a shocking secret about her lover. From elite private clubs in New Orleans to the London mansion of an enigmatic rockstar Viggo Franck Luba embarks on a journey of self discovery & embraces the exciting enticing experiences her new life as a dancer brings. Her adventures introduce her to a fiery flame-haired violinist Summer & Lauralynn a woman with decidedly dark desires. But can this new life ever truly satisfy Luba or will she forever crave the one man she knows isn't good for her. ...