Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life & how being a father has changed since the time of his father & grandfather. In Fathers & Sons Richard looks back at his own family to illustrate just how far British men's relationships with their sons have moved. Richard's grandfather had a childhood of almost unimaginable betrayal & sadness. His family abandoned him as a child to older relatives & emigrated without telling him. He grew up in a miserable situation & without any positive parenting role models yet managed to marry & have a son of his own. Richard's father was aware of his own father's discomfort & occasional frustration & anger & grew to understand that this was due to his upbringing. He remembers no affection or endearments from his dad & was packed off to a desolate boarding school in an echo of his own father's betrayal. In a bucking of the family trend Richard's mother a Canadian introduced more loving & demonstrative relationships which Richard has continued with his own son & step-sons. Both a family story & a wide-ranging look at Britain's evolving social character Fathers & Sons is a uniquely honest & touching exploration of how our families operate. ...

Celia Reynolds is the youngest in a set of triplets & the one with the least valuable power. Anne can see the future & Jane can see the present but all Celia can see is the past. & the past seems so insignificant
- until Celia meets Lo. Lo doesn't know who she is. Or who she was. Once a human she is now almost entirely a creature of the sea
- a nymph an ocean girl a mermaid
- all terms too pretty for the soul-less monster she knows she's becoming. Lo clings to shreds of her former self fighting to remember her past even as she's tempted to embrace her dark immortality. When a handsome boy named Jude falls off a pier & into the ocean Celia & Lo work together to rescue him from the waves. The two form a friendship but soon they find themselves competing for Jude's affection. Lo wants more than that though. According to the ocean girls there's only one way for Lo to earn back her humanity. She must persuade a mortal to love her...and steal his soul.


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This is the thrilling sequel to The Shadow of Malabron" & Book Two in the fantasy trilogy " The Perilous Realm". When Will learns that his friends in the Perilous Realm are in danger he realizes that he must go back to Fable their world of Story where Malabron the Night King threatens all who live there. But Wills friend Rowen has journeyed further than the rest of his companions into the Weaving an ever-changing place of mystery & untold dangers from which none return... The " Fathomless Fire" is the second in " The Perilous Realms" trilogy. The author is an award-winning writer of adult literary fantasy whose work has been translated into several languages." ...

A fat boy with a passion for sweets & a loathing for games the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter & a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates Fatty Batter is the bestselling & hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket. ...

This new fatwa from the renowned authority of Islamic world Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri leader of the overwhelming majority of Muslims deals a devstating blow to al-Qaeda & its affiliates by removing decisively any remnant of theological justifications for terrorism. In what is the most comprehensive edict on this topic in the history of Islam Dr. Qadri has explicated how suicide bombings & terrorism is unequivocally un-Islamic & has condemned terrorism unconditionally without any ifs & buts." Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a globally recognised authority on the Islamic & International law & Islamic scholarship. Drawing on his deep erudite insight into the life & teaching of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) & fourteen centuries of Islamic scholarship Dr Qadri's 512-page detailed fatwa demolishes the theological arguements advanced by terrorists in prisons on websites videos & their literature which are root causes of today's home grown terrorists which the west is trying to tackle. For the first time available in the United States this contains a foreword by the Washington D.C. based expert on Islam Prof John Esposito of Georgetown University & Introduction by Dr. Joel Hayward (Royal Air Force College UK) & a validation by Al-Azhar University Egypt who have supported this fatwa. " ...

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly then all at once." Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years Hazel has never been anything but terminal her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful bold irreverent & raw The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious & heartbreaking work yet brilliantly exploring the funny thrilling & tragic business of being alive & in love. A thought-provoking love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska An Abundance of Katherines Paper Towns &
- with David Levithan
- Will Grayson Will Grayson. John Green has over 1.2 million Twitter followers & almost 700 000 subscribers to Vlogbrothers the You Tube channel he created with his brother Hank. The Fault in Our Stars will capture a crossover audience in the same vein as Zadie Smith David Nicholls' One Day & Before I Die by Jenny Downham. " Electric... Filled with staccato bursts of humor & tragedy". (Jodi Picoult). "A novel of life & death & the people caught in between The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh you cry & then you come back for more". (Markus Zusak author of The Book Thief). John Green is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author whose many accolades include the Printz Medal a Printz Honor & the Edgar Award. With his brother Hank John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers) one of the most popular online video projects in the world. It lets you can join John's 1.2 million followers on Twitter (@realjohngreen) or visit him online at website. John lives with his wife & son in Indianapolis Indiana."

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A search for missing documents in an international mining company becomes a voyage into dangerous waters. A dead friend a lost lover & a clutch of mysteries from Jonathan Kellaways youth in Cornwall & Italy in the late 1960s come back to haunt him when he is tasked with discovering why there is a gaping hole in his employers records
- & to tempt him with the hope that he may at last learn the truth about the tragedies of those years. It is a truth that has claimed several victims before. If he pursues it hard & long enough he may only add himself to the list. But pursue it he will. Because the truth he comes to realize is the secret that has consumed his life. This time he will not stop.. .until he has found it.
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It could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car engine running parked at the end of a lonely track a tube feeding deadly fumes from the exhaust through the window. Except for the seven-year-old boy still breathing in the boot... For Jonathan Kellaway the past is somewhere he chooses not to go. Dead friends lost lovers & a family dynasty hell-bent on self- destruction lie buried there. But if he is to uncover the truth he must confront all the secrets which have consumed his life & which may yet consume him... ...

A search for missing documents in an international mining company becomes a voyage into dangerous waters. A dead friend a lost lover & a clutch of mysteries from Jonathan Kellaways youth in Cornwall & Italy in the late 1960s come back to haunt him when he is tasked with discovering why there is a gaping hole in his employers records
- & to tempt him with the hope that he may at last learn the truth about the tragedies of those years. It is a truth that has claimed several victims before. If he pursues it hard & long enough he may only add himself to the list. But pursue it he will. Because the truth he comes to realize is the secret that has consumed his life. This time he will not stop.. .until he has found it. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Fault Line Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Fault Line Judys Review Loved this book. An amazing thriller full of completely unexpected & clever twists consistently dramatic & unpredictable. The protagonist Jonathan is a delight. Upright moral yet imaginative enough to understand what makes people behave badly under pressure. The murderous family secrets are beautifully played out to the extent that often you dont know if a death is suspicious or not & I especially loved Jonathans teenage love affair with the beautiful Vivien who is so obviously out of his league & so damaged by what has happened to her brother. The scenes on Capri where Viviens great-uncle Francis owns a villa are dreamily beautiful. & I adored the innocent but brave way Jonathan gets involved with every new horrific twist; every nasty surprise (including a brush with the Neapolitan Mafia) that this rich toxic family throw at him. Poor Jonathan is about to lose his innocence forever. & yet in a way he never does. In 2010 as a 60-year-old he finally solves the fraudulent murderous family secrets of the Wren clan. Yet he is just as loveable & instinctively wise as he was when he was 18. Richards Review This is a terrific thriller full of astonishing twists & dramatic turns. Th"
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Scotland boasts a huge & diverse range of wildlife. This informative & beautifully illustrated book is the most complete companion to Scottish animals & birds available. Themed around various habitats (mountain; bog & moor; woods; lochs & rivers; croft & farm; sea & seashore; urban) & including material on mythical beasts it features a wealth of information on hundreds of species. As well as descriptions & biological information the text is interspersed with much detail
- historical folklore anecdotal & even culinary
- which offers fascinating insights into the role of animals in our cultural life & the way man has interacted with them over a period of thousands of years.

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