NOW A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME. In the winter of 1952 Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call Isabel finds herself isolated & lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life. Woken by intense cold one night she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth she starts to dream. & not long afterwards while her husband is out she is startled by a knock at her window. Outside is a young RAF pilot waiting to come in. His name is Alec & his powerful presence both disturbs & excites her. Her initial alarm soon fades & they begin an intense affair. But nothing has prepared her for the truth about Alecs life nor the impact it will have on hers.. . ...

In the winter of 1952 Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call Isabel finds herself isolated & lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life. Woken by intense cold one night she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth she starts to dream. & not long afterwards while her husband is out she is startled by a knock at her window. Outside is a young RAF pilot waiting to come in. His name is Alec & his powerful presence both disturbs & excites her. Her initial alarm soon fades & they begin an intense affair. But nothing has prepared her for the truth about Alecs life nor the impact it will have on hers... See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of The Greatcoat Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for The Greatcoat Judys Review I love ghost stories & this one is hugely atmospheric. It exists in a haze of smoky cold gloom. Isabel is a young newlywed married to Philip a GP embarking on his first practice in a small East Riding town in Yorkshire. But what defines this story is the period in which it takes place
- 1952. The second world war is over but for most of the UK life is still extremely hard. Food is still rationed; so is coal. Isabel & Philip rent a two-roomed flat in an old house where the only other resident is the landlady Mrs Atkinson who lives alone on the top floor. She is aloof & remote hostile to young Isabel who tries desperately to make her dinghy freezing flat into a home. The dark & cold of the house & surrounding town is oppressive. Isabel tries to get to grips with being a housewife buying rationed food at local shops but she feels an outsider gauche & inexperienced. Freezing at night in the bed she shares with her husband she searches the flat for extra blankets. At the back of a cupboard she finds an old greatcoat
- the kind an RAF officer would have worn during the war. She puts it on the bed for warmth & is pulled into another reality. The owner of the greatcoat Alec an RAF pilot once based at the local airfield comes tapping at her window. The only problem is that Alec is dead. Richards Review

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In the winter of 1952 Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call Isabel finds herself isolated & lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life. Woken by intense cold one night she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth she starts to dream. & not long afterwards while her husband is out she is startled by a knock at her window. Outside is a young RAF pilot waiting to come in. His name is Alec & his powerful presence both disturbs & excites her. Her initial alarm soon fades & they begin an intense affair. But nothing has prepared her for the truth about Alec's life nor the impact it will have on hers... ...

Amongst the many thousands of lives tragically cut short in the First World War were hundreds of young men who had athletic & sporting promise. This book studies fourteen professional sportsmen who gave their lives in that most vicious of conflicts. It also looks deeper into the impact that the War had on professional sport in Britain & the raising of sportsman-specific Pals units that enabled a number of these men to serve side-by-side in the trenches of France & Flanders. Their intriguing yet tragic stories are drawn from the ranks of professional footballers international rugby stars Wimbledon champions Olympic gold medallists cricketing heroes golfing professionals a member of the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame & a Tour de France winner of the countries fighting for the Allied cause. Once in uniform they became soldiers sailors & airmen & as vulnerable & mortal as any of their comrades-in-arms. Whilst some were awarded Britain's highest military accolade the Victoria Cross many others lay in unmarked graves & are today listed on memorials to the missing. All left their lives of fame wealth & security to play 'the Greater Game' overseas & pay the ultimate price on the field of battle. In addition to detailing the sporting achievements of these men this book delves into their military experiences their battles are studied & footsteps are followed across the old front line. The Greater Game
- Sporting Icons who Fell in The Great War will appeal to sporting & military enthusiasts alike whilst providing a fascinating & long overdue tribute to our true sporting heroes of ninety years ago.
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When the world of Quadravidia comes under attack by the insidious tau only one man can defeat the aliens & save the planet in the Emperors name: the legendary Hero of the Imperium Commissar Ciaphas Cain. When the aliens call for a ceasefire Cain expects the worst & his fears are answered in the form of the dread menace of the tyranids. As a hive fleet approaches Quadravidia Cain must try to forge an alliance between the Imperium & the tau
- but can he truly trust the inscrutable xenos?
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London's suburbs may stretch for well over 600 square miles but in historical accounts of the capital they tend to take something of a back seat. In Greater London" historian Nick Barratt places them firmly centre stage tracing their journey from hamlets & villages far out in the open countryside to fully fledged urban enclaves simultaneously demonstrating the crucial role they have played in the creation of today's metropolis. Starting in the first century AD he shows how the tiny settlements that grew up in the Thames Valley gradually developed & how they were shaped by their proximity to the city. He describes the spread of the first suburbs beyond the city walls & traces the ebb & flow of population as people moved in to find jobs or away to escape London's noise & bustle. He charts the transformation wrought by the coming of the railways the fight to preserve Hampstead Heath Epping Forest & other green spaces & the struggle to create a London-wide form of government. He gives an account of wartime destruction & peacetime reconstruction & then brings the story to the present with a description of the very varied nature of today's suburbs & their inhabitants. In the process he evokes Tudor Hackney & Georgian Hampton explains why Victorian Battersea & Finchley were so different from one another & follows Islington's fall from grace & subsequent recovery. Magnificently illustrated throughout with contemporary engravings & photographs this is the essential history for anyone who has ever lived in London." ...

Scale: 1:10 000 Central area 1:20 000 Main area 1:63 360 Urban maps 1:260 000 Route Planning maps. Incredibly detailed street level maps with over 40 categories of information covering 1660 square miles in & around London. This is the ultimate street atlas of London. It contains a huge amount of detail & exhibits a high level of clarity with land use clearly colour coded to aid use. First published in 1976 under the Geographia imprint the Greater London Street Atlas has gone from strength to strength with improvements made to the contents & the map quality over the years. For 2009 the atlas has undergone a full revision involving exhaustive research using a variety of sources (including extensive ground surveys) resulting in thousands of updates being made to the map detail. Key

Features: / Extra large scale central London maps at 6.3 inches to 1 mile make for ease of use in the more congested areas. / Area of over 4 300 square km (1660 sq miles) covered by main street maps at 3.2 inches to 1 mile. / Four main map scales; ranging from route planning maps of south east England to large scale central area maps -- ideal for navigation./ Underground map & London connections rail map showing travel zones. / Theatres cinemas & shopping maps. / Full index to street names & places of interest also hospitals schools colleges & stations. AREA OF COVERAGE: 3.2 inches to 1 mile scale extends from Welwyn Garden City in the north to Gatwick Airport in the south & from Windsor in the west to Gravesend in the east. 6.3 inches to 1 mile scale extends from Highbury in the north to Clapham in the south & from Shepherds Bush in the west to Beckton in the east. This is the definitive reference atlas for London & the surrounding area. Ideal for both businesses & residents. Also available as a hardback edition.

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Scale: 1:10 000 Central area 1:20 000 Main area 1:63 360 Urban maps. Incredibly detailed street level map with over 40 categories of information covering 1660 square miles in & around London. This is the ultimate street atlas of London. It contains a huge amount of detail & exhibits a high level of clarity with land use clearly colour coded to aid use. First published in 1976 under the Geographia imprint the Greater London Street Atlas has gone from strength to strength with improvements made to the contents & the map quality over the years. For 2009 the atlas has undergone a full revision involving exhaustive research using a variety of sources (including extensive ground surveys) resulting in thousands of updates being made to the map detail. Key

Features: / Extra large scale central London maps at 6.3 inches to 1 mile make for ease of use in the more congested areas. / Area of over 4 300 square km (1660 sq miles) covered by main street maps at 3.2 inches to 1 mile. / Three main map scales; ranging from urban planning maps to large scale central area maps -- ideal for navigation. / London Underground map. / Airport plans. / Full index to street names & places of interest also hospitals schools colleges & stations. AREA OF COVERAGE: 3.2 inches to 1 mile scale extends from Welwyn Garden City in the north to Gatwick Airport in the south & from Windsor in the west to Gravesend in the east. 6.3 inches to 1 mile scale extends from Highbury in the north to Clapham in the south & from Shepherds Bush in the west to Beckton in the east. This is the definitive reference atlas for London & the surrounding area. Ideal for both businesses & residents. Also available as a paperback edition.

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The true story of a womans incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepfs fiance she is determined to find him & sets off on an extraordinary 2 000-mile search across Nazi-occupied Europe risking betrayal arrest & death. As the Second World War heads towards its bloody climax she refuses to give up
- even when her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau & Buchenwald concentration camps... Now 88 & living in London Olga tells with remarkable clarity of the courage & determination that drove her across war-torn Europe to find the man she loved. The greatest untold true love story of World War Two.
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Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in the history of Greater Manchester. They include the case of notorious cat burglar Charlie Peace who killed 20-year-old PC Nicholas Cook in Seymour Grove & only confessed when he had already been sentenced to death for another murder; the sad tale of William Robert Taylor whose young daughter was killed in a boiler explosion & whom later desperate & in debt murdered a bailiff as well as his three remaining children; John Jackson who escaped from Strangeways Gaol by killing a prison warder while mending a gas pipe for the prison matron; & the death of Police Sergeant Charles Brett who stuck bravely to his post despite an armed attack on his prison van by the Manchester Martyrs. ...