A classic tale from Doris Lessing Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007 of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben their feral fifth child. Listening to the laughter the sounds of children playing Harriet & David would reach for each others hand & smile & breathe happiness. Four children a beautiful old house the love of relatives & friends Harriet & David Lovatts life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss & old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born a sickly & implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large & ugly violent & uncontrollable the infant Ben full of cold dislike tears at Harriets breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child faced with a darkness & a strange defiance she has never known before Harriet is deeply afraid of what exactly she has brought into the world... ...

Peter Senge founder & director of the Society for Organisational Learning & senior lecturer at MIT has found the means of creating a learning organisation. In The Fifth Discipline he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire where new & expansive patterns of thinking are nutured where collective aspiration is set free & where people are contually learning together. The Fifth Discipline fuses these features together into a coherent body of theory & practice making the whole of an organisation more effective than the sum of its parts. Mastering the disciplines will: * Reignite the spark of learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them. * Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity. * Free you from confining assumptions & mind-sets. * Teach you to see the forest & the trees. * End the struggle between work & family time. The Fifth Discipline is a remarkable book that draws on science spiritual values psychology the cutting edge of management thought & Senges work with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind. This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material about how companies are actually using & benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices as well as a new foreword from Peter Senge about his work with the Fifth Discipline over the last 15 years. ...

They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle sophisticated individuals for whom nuance & subtext are meat & drink. & that mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job. Which is a shame if you find yourself dropped unaccountably into a position of some significant diplomatic responsibility. If you don't really do diplomacy or haven't been to school with the right foreign bigwigs or aren't even sure whether a nod is as good as a wink to anyone sighted or otherwise then things are likely to go wrong. It's just a question of how badly... ...

Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke a chief of police & the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit & the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (dont ask). Its snowing. Its freezing. & if he cant make it through the forest to civilization theres going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. Theyre bright. Theyre fast. Theyre werewolves
- & theyre catching up. The Fifth Elephant" is Terry Pratchetts latest installment in the " Discworld" cycle this time starring dwarfs diplomacy intrigue & big lumps of fat."
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School life has never been so splendid as in these br&-new editions of the classic Blyton series St Clare's. The O' Sullivan twins & their friends are among the oldest girls at St Clare's now with their own studies! & soon there will be a decision about who is to be head girl next year. But in the meantime there is the poet Anne-Marie & the musician Felicity to contend with. Will they ever get along or will this term be just one long caterwaul? ...

A DAY FOR DYING: A young man with everything to live for is tragically drowned in a swimming pool during his own engagement party. What began as a day for rejoicing ends as a day for dying. When Inspector Thanet of Kent CID arrives at the scene of the death he soon realises that not everyone regards it as a tragedy
- what seemed at first to be a terrible accident now looks like a callous murder...ONCE TOO OFTEN: When the husband of well-known Kent journalist Jessica Dander is found crouching over his wife's body Inspector Thanet's suspicions are naturally aroused. But almost at once doubts creep in. Who for instance was the anonymous caller who rang for an ambulance some time earlier & who was the mysterious prowler Jessica had reported to the police...DEAD & GONE: When the wife of a prominent QC is found dead at the bottom of a well Inspector Thanet discounts accidental death. Virginia Mintar was no angel
- her outrageous flirting knew no bounds & made her many enemies. But which one took that final step? Who wanted her dead & gone?

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In tough times crime is one of the few things that still pays but even criminals are having to make cut-backs. So for defence lawyer Mickey Haller most of his new business is not about keeping people out of jail; it's about keeping a roof over their heads as the foreclosure business is booming. Lisa Trammel has been a client of Mickey's for eight months & so far he's stopped the bank from taking her house. But now the bank's CEO has been found beaten to death
- & Lisa is about to be indicted for murder...
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Four nuns & a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later Inspector Kurt Wallander invesigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher & discovers a gruesome & meticulously planned murder
- a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he & his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked.
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Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome full of energy & plans for the future. Autumn settles in & Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher he discovers a gruesome & meticulously planned murder
- a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. & once again Wallanders life is on hold as he & his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders.
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For more than four years Martin Mc Gartland lived the astonishing double life of a secret agent. To the IRA he was a trusted Intelligence Office & an integral member of an active service unit. To the British Government however he was known only as ' Agent Carol'. Martin Mc Gartland is credited by British Intelligence with saving the lives of at least fifty people. Every time he tipped off the authorities he risjed detection & yet heroically & fearlessly he continued to pass on life-saving information. Finally his cover was blown. Martin was taken from Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast to an IRA safehouse for questioning & almost certain execution. Though guarded by armed men in a desperate bid for freedom he dived from a third floor window... This breathtaking story is now a major film starring Sir Ben Kingsley & Jim Sturgess. ...