From Lucy Wadham the bestselling author of The Secret Life of France Heads & Straights is an autobiographical tale of bohemians punk the Kings Road in the 1970s & family
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. A rich vital family saga & a feat of narrative compression". (The Times). " Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). " Exquisitely diverse". (The Times). " Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). " The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw". (Londonist). "A series of short sharp city-based vignettes
- some personal some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit & just the right amount of grit". (Fabric Magazine). "A collection of beautiful books". (Grazia). [ Praise for Lucy Wadham]: " Penetrating insight & dry observation". (Independent). " Beautifully clever & intellectually challenging". (Good Housekeeping). " Effortless wit & keen intelligence". (New Statesman). Lucy Wadham was born in London & has lived in France for the past twenty years. She is the author of Lost shortlisted for the Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction. Her most recent book is The Secret Life of France."

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Headwaters visits the sources of more than fifty rivers in Great Britain from the longest & best known to some of the shortest & most eccentric. Phil Clayton describes a series of walks ranging from long treks over Scottish mountains & through wilderness glens to afternoon strolls in pastoral English parkland moorland marches to forest forays with the occasional bit of urban exploration thrown in. There is more variety of landscape & scenery around our river sources than might at first be expected & they all have a tale to tell. Three years in the making this comprehensively illustrated book also draws on a rich range of literary sources to explore the geography geology etymology history & folklore of these fundamental features of the British landscape from Trent to Severn Tay to Piddle. ...

Exploring the straightforward theory that there must be a reason why people arent enjoying the life they want this perceptive examination allows readers to uncover their personal stumbling blocks. Using the five steps to Sandy Newbiggings Mind Detox Method unhealthy beliefs that cause physical & emotional problems can be rooted out & eradicated. These powerful techniques can simplify therapy & provide useful tools for letting go of emotional baggage clearing the path towards achieving ones goals. More than just a tool for emotional betterment this insightful guide demonstrates that dealing with inner conflicts can improve chronic pain digestive issues problem skin & other physical maladies thereby allowing for more effective life enjoyment. ...

World-renowned teacher Louise L. Hay has helped to heal & inspire millions of people worldwide. She was diagnosed with cancer more than 20 years ago & used the methods she describes in Heal Your Body" to cure herself. Louise L. Hay simply explains how our attitude to life & the language we use cause our ailments. Using her simple & practical techniques you will be surprised to discover patterns in your own ailments that reveal a lot about yourself. Just look up your illness or health challenge & then find the right affirmation to break the pattern. Use this book to get on the path to being healthy today." ...

This is a fresh & easy step-by-step guide set up in an A-Z format. Just look up your specific health challenge & you will find the probable cause for this health issue as well as the information you need to overcome it by creating a new thought pattern. ...

After twenty fruitless years on a frustrating spiritual search Dawn Paul was faced with no other option but to give up. Disheartened & exhausted she went on holiday to Peru & this changed her life forever. During a visit to Machu Picchu she received a mystical experience a vision of the Inca who instructed her to follow the path of the shaman. Feeling she had finally been given the direction she had been looking for all her life Dawn promptly resigned from her six figure career in a bank & stepped onto the shamanic path. Over the following years Dawn worked worldwide as a shamanic healer & spiritual teacher assisting many people of all ages from all races & religions. A Healer of Souls is Dawn s gift to the general public & to the wider community without which a shaman cannot exist. ...

A woman with buried secrets a man whose past threatens to overwhelm him... Making peace with the past can be the hardest thing to do... Madeline seems to be a woman in control
- of her work her relationships her whole calm clockwork life. But beneath the surface she is haunted by a tragedy which she locked away long ago. When she meets Flynn a troubled war photographer she is thrown into turmoil. He too has a traumatic past a history which he cannot contain. Disturbing memories have begun to overwhelm him threatening his marriage his relationship with his children & his career in the process. Thrown together in their struggle to cope they connect in a way that is as terrifying as it is exhilarating. But to move on with their lives they must face up to
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- not only the present & their powerful feelings for one another but the ghosts that have haunted them for so long...


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This text explains what healing means how it works & how it can work in the context of animals. Margrit Coates provides practical guidance on learning the skill when & where to do it along with the dos & donts. She explains what chakras are how energy runs through a living being & how healing can be a benefit. There are many case histories included histories of horses who have been sick depresses injured or terminally ill & how healing has helped them. This book is intended for those who work with horses or around them orthose who just have an interest in horses. ...

In HEALING GRIEF James Van Praagh draws on his unique access to the world of spirit to show you how to move on from pain & grief to achieve inner peace. Sensitive & inspiring HEALING GRIEF shows you how to cope with losing a loved one & rebuilding your life. The book explains that by confronting repressed feelings of grief & anger you can bring about self-healing. Through James Van Praagh's advice & guidance you may begin to recognise your loss beyond the pain & sadness it brings as an opportunity to involve yourself fully in life. HEALING GRIEF also explores other kinds of loss including divorce losing your home or job & ageing. ...

Arriving at their idyllic & newly renovated Highland home worthy of TV's Grand Designs wealthy thirty-somethings John & Laura Payne hope they are leaving their problems behind in the city. But the couple's presence disturbs neighbour & local eccentric Luther Grove forcing him to confront long buried secrets; secrets that draw him inextricably to Laura & trigger an instant conflict with John. The arrival of John's brother Frank proves to be the spark that ignites this highly combustible triangular relationship ultimately threatening the safety & sanity of all four as they are propelled towards a bloody & tragic denouement. In a stunning debut Barry Gornell graduate of the University of Glasgow's renowned & highly successful Creative Writing Masters course
- which launched the careers of John Creasey Dagger winner Louise Welsh Orange Prize nominee Anne Donovan Somerset Maugham winner Rodge Glass & Man Booker nominee Rachel Seiffert amongst many others
- builds the tension flawlessly showing genuine sympathy for his principle characters in this elegant claustrophobic & acutely observed psychological thriller.

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