How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment your TV set & computer your watch & rings? A house gun like a house cat; that is a fact of ordinary life in many cities of the world as we come to the end of the twentieth century especially in South Africa. At this time the successful respected executive director of an insurance company Harold & his doctor wife Claudia for whom violence could never be a means of solving personal conflict are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother & a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror? What have they done in influencing his character; more ominously where is it they have failed him? The House Gun" is a passionate narrative of love being particularly complex between parents & their children. It moves with the restless pace of living itself from the intimate to the general condition; if it is a parable of present violence it is also an affirmation of the will to human reconciliation that starts where it must between individuals." ...

Warm rich & funny
- a beautifully illustrated title from acclaimed picture-book maker Inga Moore. When two Little Pigs leave their
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Now fully updated Ideal for owners of pet lurchers & domestic greyhounds including rescue greyhounds With the tips & training techniques in this book owners of pet lurchers & domestic greyhounds can learn how to live happily with their dogs at home & in public. In particular they will learn how to establish a sound recall so that their lurcher can be exercised with complete confidence off the lead. All aspects of owning & training lurchers are covered in detail. ...

The Lake District 1908. It seems as though Livia Ella & Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large country estate. But since the death of their mother their family home has been far from a quiet haven as their bullying father is determined to marry off the girls to his greatest advantage. When the sisters discover their father had an affair many years ago which resulted in the birth of a baby girl they determine to find their half-sister & their search begins in the local workhouse. Mercy had been unaware of her connection to the rich Angel family until her mothers death-bed confession & once she knows shes not at all sure that she wants to be part of the family. ...

Bernarda Alba is a widow & her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom with tragic consequences. Lorcas tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war. The House of Bernarda Alba is Lorcas last & possibly finest play completed shortly before he was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Inspired by real characters & described by the author as a true record of village life it is a tragic tale of frustration & explosive passions in a household of women rulled by a tyrannical mother. Edited with invaluable student notes
- a must for students of Spanish drama
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In The House of Bernarda Alba" a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house & five daughters cruelly crushing their hopes & needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically & violently frustrated: a womans longing for a child in " Yerma" & a brides yearning for her lover in " Blood Wedding". All appeal for freedom & sexual & social equality & are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurers words poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time." ...

In Northern Genabackis just before the events recounted in GARDENS OF THE MOON a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flat lands. Their intention is to wreak havoc among the despised lowlanders but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove an extraordinary destiny. Some years later it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Coltaine revered commander of the Malazan 7th Army is dead. & now Tavore elder sister of Ganoes Paran & Adjunct to the Empress has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold of the Seven Cities to take charge. Untested & new to command she must hone a small army of twelve thousand soldiers mostly raw recruits into a viable fighting force & lead them into battle against the massed hordes of Shaiks Whirlwind. Her only hope lies in resurrecting the shattered faith of the few remaining survivors from Coltaines legendary march veterans one & all. In distant Raraku in the heart of the Holy Desert the seer Shaik waits with her rebel army. But waiting is never easy. Her disparate collection of warlords
- tribal chiefs High Mages a renegade Malazan Fist & his sorceror
- is locked in a vicious power struggle that threatens to tear the rebellion apart from within. & Shaik herself suffers haunted by the private knowledge of her nemesis Tavore...her own sister. So begins the awesome new chapter in Steven Eriksons MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN
- an epic novel of war intrigue magic & betrayal from a writer regarded as one of the most original imaginative & exciting storytellers in fantasy today.


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You've devoured the Fifty Shades Trilogy. Now experience a place like no other in the... House of Decadence At twenty-three Megan Stewart feels that there should be more to life than working in a library so she answers an advert for a post in a country house
- & discover what she has been missing. Handsome Fabrizio Balocchi is far from this Tuscan home & feeling bored. But he instinctively knows that Megan will be a natural player in his games of domination & step by step he leads her into a darker world a world where pleasure is mixed with pain. Now Megan must decide how far she is willing to go in order to stay in Fabrizio's house of decadence.. . This title has also been published under the pseudonym Lucia Cubelli.
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Greece 1936. A young British diplomat & his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited & unconventional wife Evadne finds it hard to fit in with the whirl of endless parties & socialising. When Hugh is sent to Crete to sort out a problem they stay in a rundown house owned by his family. His wife falls in love with the place & the people & stays on when Hugh returns to his duties. As she tries to rebuild the ramshackle home Evadne
- known as Heavenly by the locals
- makes firm friends with Anthi a young woman from the village & Christo the handsome & charismatic young builder. But the dark clouds of war are gathering & the island will become a crucible of violence & bloodshed in the days to come. For Heavenly her friends & family it will be the greatest test they have ever known.

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Newly discovered & with an introduction by Johnny Depp this is legendary American folk singer Woody Guthries only finished novel: a compelling portrait of two hardscrabble farmers struggling during the Dust Bowl. Filled with the homespun lyricism that made Guthries songs unforgettable this is the story of an ordinary couples dream of a better life in a corrupt world. Living in a precarious wooden shack Texan farmers Tike & Ella May yearn for a sturdy house to protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a government pamphlet Tike knows how to build a simple adobe dwelling from the land itself- a house of earth. But while the land on which Tike & Ella May live & work is not theirs their dream remains painfully out of reach. A rural tale of progressive activism HOUSE OF EARTH is a searing portrait of hardship & hope set against a ravaged landscape. Combining the moral urgency & narrative drive of John Steinbeck with the erotic frankness of D.H. Lawrence it is a powerful tale of America from a great artist. ...