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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Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned personal critique of the British legal system. Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts
- at the prejudices of judges the misconceptions of jurors the labyrinths of court procedures & the influence of the media. But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group
- to those whose cases are subtly affected by race class poverty or politics or who are burdened even before they appear in court by misleading stereotypes.

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The technology to download the consciousnesses of pilots into multiple clones the Capsuleers has finally delivered the dream of immortal soldiers. Train a soldier just once & then however many times he dies he will keep on getting more experienced more battle toughened as his brain is downloaded into a ready supply of cloned bodies. But no-one anticpated the effects of the multiple traumas the multiple stresses of multiple lives & deaths on the battle field. War is hell. & now it can last forever for everyone. A fast-moving action-packed novel of interstellar war & high-tech combat backed by massive cross promotion. ...

' Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!' Frances Burney's first & most enduringly popular novel is a vivid satirical & seductive account of the pleasures & dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society womanhood & inevitably love Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious & often cruel world where social snobbery & sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens theatre visits & balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses & absurdities of manners & social ambitions
- as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina comic & shrewd is at once a guide to fashionable London a satirical attack on the new consumerism an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century & a love story. The new introduction & full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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This is one of those special novels
- a piece of working magic warm funny & sane
- that you just want to ride off into the sunset

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Royal Ascots first day & bookmaker Ned Talbot watches helplessly as a string of favourites come in. With the punters totting up their winnings he counts his losses. Then an old man steps forward with a very different claim. The father Ned never knew
- long ago believed killed in a car crash
- is standing before him. Barely an hour later Neds newly-found father is dying in Ascots car park. Stabbed by an unknown assailant he warns Ned be very careful. But of whom? Of what? Ned races to discover the truth behind his fathers disappearance & sudden reappearance. Its not just money on the line now. Its lives.

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Even More Rock Family Trees is the eagerly awaited new collection by rock's premier draughtsman & archivist Pete Frame. A legend in his own lunchtime Frame is justly celebrated for his unique contributions to the literature of the music he loves. This latest set

Includes:: newly drawn family trees of Elton John the Allman Brothers Band 1 ELP Fleetwood Mac Steve Winwood The Drifters Roxy Music Roger Mc Guinn Beach Boys Martin Carthy Shirley Collilns Yes Asia Eric Clapton the Yardbirds Miles Davis the Creation label & many more.

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A winner from the childrens laureate popular poet & performer Michael Rosen
- a must for all football fans. A hilarious full colour
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WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold quiet day between Christmas & the New Year a mans body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on but theyre dead too. Their bodies found in squats & sheds & alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin theyre in the shadows a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass paying their own particular homage as their friends body is taken away examined investigated & cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert the deceased the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny just back from uncomfortable holidays with family who discovers the body & futiley searches for his other friends to share the news of Roberts death; Laura Roberts daughter who stumbles into the junkys life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather who has her own place for the first time since she was a teenager; Mike the Falklands War vet; & all the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks hopes flaring & dying love overwhelmed by a stronger need & the havoc wrought by drugs distress & the disregard of the wider world. These invisible people live in a parallel reality out of reach of basic creature comforts like food & shelter. In their sudden deaths it becomes clear they are treated with more respect than they ever were in their short lives. Intense exhilarating & shot through with hope & fury Even the Dogs is an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society--littered with love loss despair & a half-glimpse of redemption. ...