Built as the London terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway in July 1837 Euston was London's first intercity railway station. Originally designed by Philip Hardwick the station entrance was through the world's largest Doric propylaeum which became known as the Euston Arch. In the 1840s the station was expanded greatly & by 1923 express trains left Euston regularly for Wales Scotland & the major cities of England including Birmingham Manchester & Liverpool. In 1961
- 2 the original station was demolished to a huge outcry & a new modernist station built in its place. In 2007 it was announced that the station would be rebuilt once more but these plans fell by the wayside & in 2011 a new plan was announced. Euston is one of London's busiest stations & may eventually be the terminus of the HS2 line. Join the author on a journey through time telling the story of Euston from 1837 to the present day.
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Rachel & Kirsty are thrilled to be spending the week at Golden Palace
- where real kings & queens once lived! Whilst they are settling
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Evacuation Stations is not only an acutely observed recollection of a child evacuee it is also about a boys growing into self-awareness during the 1940s beginning the journey that would take him from his Catholic working-class roots to a history scholarship at Christs College Cambridge. The centre of his world is his mother Dorrie. With evacuation in 1939 her values & the norms of life he has learned came to be set alongside the other adults who enter his life: the country stationmaster; Auntie Ethel who coolly controls him & his brothers as she does her husband; the piano-playing medical student Gilbert & his Spanish-born mother who gave him a love of music & a lifelong interest in Europe; Vincent Bywater the young Jesuit who teaches him to master a bicycle & map-reading sources of independence & adventure; & Father Delahunty the complete teacher who singlehandedly created a miniature Jesuit grammar school with a rump of evacuee boys. His mother Dorrie sometimes near & sometimes far away remains a constant influence but as he grows up Peter awakens gradually to her experience of the war as something quite different from his own. The end of the war leaves him something of a displaced person seeking a rebirth of pre-war life but aware he was attempting the impossible. ...

The Evacuee is for those who know ALL about the 1939-45 war
- & for those who should know about it September 1939: five year old
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Can an orthodox Christian committed to the historic faith of the Church & the authority of the Bible be a universalist? Is it possible to believe that salvation is found only by grace through faith in Christ & yet to maintain that in the end all people will be saved? Can one believe passionately in mission if one does not think that anyone will be lost forever? Could universalism be consistent with the teachings of the Bible? Gregory Mac Donald argues that the answer is yes to all of these questions. Weaving together philosophical theological & biblical considerations Mac Donald seeks to show that being a committed universalist is consistent with the central teachings of the biblical texts & of historic Christian theology. ...

A man wakes trapped inside a cloning vat. He has no idea how he got there no idea where he is & no idea who he is. But someone is trying to kill him & theyre about to succeed.. .A disgraced Foreign ambassador leaves his post humiliated & ignored by his superiors only to meet Ameline
- a woman who seems to know everything about him & an alarming amount about a conspiracy to overthrow the government. & on a back-water world during an economic crisis a worker called Tibus Heth leads a revolt against the corporation which earns him an unexpected & mysterious ally with astounding influence & an inclination to aid his revolutionary ideas.. .
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An exceptional page-turner. Escapism doesn't get more thrilling than this. Love has never had much of a place in the life of 16-year-old Evening Spiker but being the daughter of a billionaire genetic scientist has other perks. Like a private hospital where you can recover from near-fatal road accidents. & a hot surfer boy to push your wheelchair. While Eve is healing her mother sets her an unexpected challenge: to use a cutting-edge virtual reality system to design the perfect boy; everything from the colour of his eyes to the level of his IQ. It's the chance of a lifetime. The chance to play God. But what Eve doesn't realise is that she isn't just playing. Because her mother's research is about more than just saving human lives.. . It's about creating them. ...

With the death of a mother & the abduction of a young girl Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence & terror of childhood. Following the loss of her mother eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life in rural Wales
- a dripping place where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps & people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her familys dark secret
- unaware that there is yet more darkness to come with the sinister disappearance of local girl Rosemary Hughes. Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child & when she revisits her past something clicks in her mind & her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosies abductor is revealed...A truly beautiful & hypnotic first novel this is both an engaging puzzle & an enchanting work of literature.

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January 1928 the Isle of Dogs. Following the mysterious disappearance of her sailor husband (missing presumed drowned) young widow Eve Kumar struggles to provide for herself & her twin sons. But her flower-selling business is destroyed overnight when the Thames floods its banks wrecking Eve's ramshackle riverside cottage & forcing her to take refuge with the lecherous Harold Slygo & his drunken wife. As Eve's home life turns from bad to worse she is befriended by a young police constable Charlie Merritt who shares Eve's growing suspicions that her husband's death was no accident. But Eve & Charlie's investigations are attracting unwelcome attention
- & when Eve herself disappears Charlie realizes there are those who would go to any lengths to ensure the truth remains buried. Will he be able to save the woman he has grown to love?
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