Donnerville librarian Jane Kerry receives an envelope containing a 50-dollar bill & a note instructing her to look homeward angel" & signed "MOG (Master of Games)." So begins The Game--pushing Jane into crazy immoral & criminal actions. When she tries to quit MOG has other ideas." ...

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son Ralph & their maid Winnie. Struggling to keep herself her lodgers & her son going as every day life vanishes in the face of war Eithne's world is transformed by the arrival of Mr Turk the virile carnal carnivorous local butcher who falls passionately in love with her. As the house bursts to life with the electricity
- metaphorical & real
- he brings dark secrets come to light.

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Here is a lively retelling of the traditional rhyme packed with surprises. Lift-up flaps on each spread reveal spooky creatures peeping through windows & out of cupboards & the story reaches a climax on the last spread as a great white ghost pops out! In the dark dark wood There was a dark dark house HOO-HOO-HOO! HAA-HAA-HAA! A truly interactive book that children will return to time & again. ...

When Rose Browns husband is killed at Dunkirk in 1940 she feels as though shes lost a part of herself. Rose cant imagine the future without Ray but shes certain he would have wanted her to start again. She decides to volunteer as a postwoman in West London & when she courageously rescues a young boy from a bombed-out house & takes him home she finds a new sense of purpose. Traumatised from losing his mother in the ruins seven-year-old Alfie is also rebellious & withdrawn. However he touches the hearts of Roses family & with kindness patience & love they eventually win his trust. But then a handsome stranger Johnny Beech turns up on the doorstep looking for his son & everything changes... ...

An amusing & erudite account of Harry Bucknalls 183-day journey through the Greek islands from Venice in the West to Istanbul in the East In the summer of 2006 Harry Bucknall traveled from Venice to Istanbul--a journey across the Aegean of more than 5 500 miles that included the glories of Mount Athos 36 islands & every island chain in the Greek Archipelago. It also involved 57 sea passages on 35 ferries four landing craft three hydrofoils a fishing caique a sea plane 11 buses two trains an open-top Land Rover & a duck egg blue 1961 Morris Oxford. Recounted with humor pathos & at times drama this is not only a journey through the Greek islands but also a journey through Greek history mythology custom & folklore--a Greek island companion loaded with adventure mishap & laughter offering a contemporary image of Aegean life today. ...

Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

The Fifth Form is putting on a pantomime & Darrells writing it! But Cinderella doesnt always go smoothly. Which girl will get to play the lead? & who on earth is writing the producer anonymous letters?n New girl Amanda doesnt really fit in at Malory Towers. Shes headstrong & arrogant
- but is fantastic at games! Amandas destined to swim for the Olympic team
- but will she make it?

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Dancer Chloe Dubois is a heady combination of innocence & sultry seduction & Japanese-American businessman David Imakita will risk everything he has to keep her: his career his friends even his integrity
- such is her power over him. But who is this temptress & what does she want? Is it money prestige or just love? Davids ex-Sumo bodyguard Sato believes Chloe will cause havoc in their ordered lives & turns up information on her that is far from pretty. The warning signs are there but it is already too late for David who is under her spell & besotted. Will this unrepentant temptress overturn her wild ways & accept the opportunity to change her life for the better or will the dark family secrets of her past resurface & destroy them both?
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Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders is both a study in character & the story of an extraordinary career. Much has been written about Churchills role as British prime minister during the crisis years of the Second World War but in this book Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his troubled schooldays his flamboyant politician father Randolph & his famously attractive American mother Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The same recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War arguably cost thousands of Allied lives during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 & may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942. In the Footsteps of Churchill" takes us on an exhilarating journey through Harrow School the North-West Frontier the Sudan South Africa 10 Downing Street & his beloved Chartwell; a journey that begins in the aristocratic splendour of Blenheim Palace & ends in the quiet of a country churchyard not far away the compass of an extraordinary life in a few Oxfordshire acres. Richard Holmes provides a truly fresh interpretation of the great man Holmess mature & wise portrait is studded with facts about the period & episodes in Churchills life that amuse engage & entice. The authors eye for the telling detail as well as his deep immersion in all the relevant archives raises this book far above the common ruck of Churchilliana. Andrew Roberts. This supremely skilful military historian achieves a freshness of approach that makes Churchill hard to put down. Max Hastings " Mail on Sunday"." ...

Its Berlin 1933. William E. Dodd a mild-mannered academic from Chicago has to his own & everyone elses surprise become Americas first ambassador to Hitlers Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd & his family notably his vivacious daughter Martha observe at first-hand the many changes
- some subtle some disturbing & some horrifically violent
- that signal Hitlers consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent U.S. State Department while Martha is drawn to the Nazis & their vision of a New Germany & has a succession of affairs with senior party players including first chief of the Gestapo Rudolf Diels. But as the year darkens Dodd & his daughter find their lives transformed & any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the Night of the Long Knives in the summer of 1934 that established him as supreme dictator. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times & with brilliant portraits of Hitler Goebbels Goering & Himmler amongst others Erik Larsons new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold resulting in an unforgettable addictively readable work of narrative history.

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