Sitting on a California beach at summers end Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotl&. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills & the lonesome loch but her grandmother.. .and of course Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair & settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmothers lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland.. . Where waiting for her is passion not gentle love & the chilling realisation that she may be ready to wed the wrong man. ...

This title is presented with an introduction by Monica Ali. The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. ...

Glossy television images of happy industrious & increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively researched book. Lemos conducted hundreds of interviews with Chinese men & women in non-westernized areas distant from such cities as Beijing & Shanghai. He reports that the lives his subjects describe belie the myth of a harmonious cohesive Chinese society. Much as the government promotes such a positive image everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social & community problems as well as personal family & financial anxieties. Lemos investigates a China beyond the tourist trail. He offers a revealing account of the thoughts & feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives from education to health care unemployment to old age politics to wealth. Taken together the stories of these men & women bring to light a broken society one whose people are frustrated angry sad & often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings & analyzes how Chinas community & social problems threaten the ambitious nations hopes for a cohesive future. ...

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate & soon discovers that there is more to Sarahs murder than it first seems. On the other side of town Thomas Anderson is called into the headmasters office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father
- a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession
- has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother & sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead yet their initial reaction is not that of grief but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work & home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.

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Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what shes reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) to popular (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) from fantastic (The Hobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn) with many in between. We hear their passion for reading & their love for each other in their intimate & searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between a child & parent & the power of reading in our lives. A wonderful book about wonderful books & mothers & sons & the enduring braid between them.
- Mitch Albom author of Tuesdays With Morrie a true meditation on what books can do.
- Edmund de Waal author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

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The Great Recession is more than four years old
- & counting. Yet as Nobel Prize winning author Paul Krugman argues in this powerful
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This handy pocket guidebook offers a detailed route description of an End to End cycle route from Land's End to John o' Groats with over 350 OS grid refs included for GPS navigation. It is divided into 14 stages & contains information on where to stay with full details of numerous B& Bs campsites cycle shops small hotels tourist information offices & hostels. The route has been designed to avoid the busier A roads as much as possible & follow minor roads & cycle paths. It also takes in some of the best landscapes of Britain from Dartmoor the Wye Valley & the Welsh Marches the Forest of Bowland the Lake District through to the glorious Strathnaver Trail & the rugged coast of Caithness. Descriptions of key landmarks along the route are also included from Tintern Abbey through to the Forth & Clyde Canal in Glasgow & beyond. ...

The remarkable story of Endal voted ' Dog of the Millennium' & how through his remarkable skills companionship & unstinting devotion he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again. Allen Parton was seriously injured while serving in the Gulf War. He lost the use of both of his legs plus all memories of his children & much of his marriage. He was left unable to walk talk or write
- isolated in his own world. After five years of intensive therapy & rehab he was still angry bitter & unable to talk. Until a chance encounter with a Labrador puppy
- Endal
- who had failed his training as an assistance dog on health grounds. They 'adopted' each other & Endal became Allen's reason to communicate with the outside world to come to terms with his injuries & to want to live again. Not content with learning over 200 commands to help Allen complete everyday tasks like getting dressed & going out to the shops in his wheelchair Endal gave Allen the ability to start living again & to become a husband & father again in his own special way. This is the incredible story of Allen his wife Sandra & his family. & of course Endal.


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At first Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now had been quiet for a year & it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all that he was much more useful as a name & a story than he would ever be as an inconveniently flesh-&-blood person. At the close of ENDERS GAME Andrew Wiggin
- called Ender by everyone
- knows that he cannot live on Earth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Saviour of Earth a hero a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemons control a pawn in his brother Peters political games. Or he can join the colony ships & go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war. The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told.. .until now.

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Orson Scott Card is one of the worlds bestselling SF authors & the award-winning Ender saga is one of the best-loved series in the genre. ENDERS SHADOW is the first volume in a new Ender series. Returning to the time of Enders Game ENDERS SHADOW follows the incredible story of one of Ender Wiggins fellow pupils at Battle School. Compelling compulsive reading ENDERS SHADOW is certain to thrill all fans of the original series & attract many new readers. Look out for more information on this book & others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk ...