In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean OCallaghan walked into a police station & gave himself up. Sentenced to 539 years imprisonment for IRA crimes including two murders & many terrorist attacks OCallaghan served six of those years before being released by royal prerogative. The reason? For the previous sixteen years OCallaghan had been the most highly placed informer within the ranks of the IRA & had fed the Irish Garda with countless pieces of invaluable information. He prevented the assassination of the Prince & Princess of Wales at a London theatre; he sabotaged operations explained strategy & caused the arrests of many IRA members. He has done more than any individual to unlock the code of silence which governs the IRAs members & in effect made it possible to fight the war against the terrorists. The Informer is the story of a courageous life lived under the constant threat of discovery & its fatal consequences. It is the story of a very modern hero who is not without sin but who has done & is doing everything in his power & at whatever personal cost to atone for the past. From the Hardcover edition."" ...

An increased emphasis on an early start in group day care & educational settings for young children means that by the time children enter statutory education they may already have had several transitional experiences: each will have an impact. This book explores early transitions from a variety of international perspectives. Each chapter is informed by rigorous research & makes recommendations on how education professionals can better understand & support transitions in the early years. Contributors examine issues such as: Parental involvement in the transition to school Childrens voices on the transition to primary school The construction of identity in the early years Readers will be able to draw support guidance & inspiration from the different writers to scaffold their own thinking & development in relation to childrens transitions. Ample opportunities are offered for readers to gain confidence & competence in dealing with the range of people involved in transitions & to the benefit of everyone not least the children whose transitions capital will grow. Informing Transitions in the Early Years is essential reading for early years students practitioners policy makers & researchers. ...

Ingmar Bergman (Sweden 1918-2007) is in the world of cinema a giant whose stature is comparable to that of Beethoven or Dostoyevsky. He made around fifty feature films that caught the spirit of his times while endlessly reworking his private obsessions & anguish in the face of a silent God. In Summer with Monika (1953) Harriet Andersson plays a scandalously unconventional & sensual young woman a breath of freedom epitomizing a new modernity in film. The 1960s saw Bergman in experimental mode with Persona (1966) one of the most powerful depictions of the ambiguity of evil. Later in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) he offers a lucid examination of a couple whose mutual attraction turns to destruction while Fanny & Alexander (1982) is a joyful & nostalgic evocation of childhood memories. Bergmans last film Saraband (2003) is a spare masterpiece at once an object lesson in how to make a film & an existential exploration. ...

Stunning reissue in beautiful new cover-look of this magical & award-winning novel
- the first of the spellbinding Ingo Chronicles...
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An atmospheric & beautifully written adventure from the award-winning author of the Ingo series. Morveren lives with her parents & twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall. As Morveren & Jenna's relationship shifts & changes like driftwood on the tide Morveren finds a beautiful teenage boy in a rock pool after a storm. Going to his rescue she is shocked to see that he is not human but a Mer boy. With Jenna refusing to face the truth Morveren finds herself alone at the worst possible time. Because when the worlds of Air & Mer meet the consequences can be terrible... ...

Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this third novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air & Ingo & now deep in the ocean a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood
- half Mer half human
- can overcome the Kraken. Sapphy must return to the Deep with the help of her friend the whale & face this terrifying creature
- & her brother Conor & Mer friend Faro will not let her go alone...


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Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this second novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles I can't go back in the house. I'm restless prickling all over. The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. But it's not the wind that worries me. It's something else beyond the storm..." Sapphire & Conor can't forget their adventures in Ingo the mysterious world beneath the sea. They long to see their Mer friends Faro & Elvira & swim with the dolphins once more. But a crisis is brewing far below the ocean's surface where the wisest of the Mer guards the Tide Knot. & soon both Sapphire & Conor will be drawn into Ingo's troubled waters..." ...

Part noir part psychedelic romp all Thomas Pynchon
- private eye Doc Sportello comes occasionally out of a marijuana haze to watch
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It began with Eragon.. . It ends with Inheritance. Not so very long ago Eragon
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A collection of novellas & stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the fantasy genre Robin Hobb. Including work written under her pseudonym Megan Lindholm. Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires & alien musicians tramps & feral cats. In The Homecoming Lady Carillion Carrock & a number of other Jamaillian nobles are sailing to the Cursed Shores. Their journey is not by choice: for plotting against the Satrap their wealth has been confiscated & they have been exiled. Until now Carillion has done nothing but lead a life of privilege. She believes they are bound for wondrous cities cities where ancient kings & queens dusted their skin with gold & wore jewels above their eyes. But when she is marooned by the ship s unscrupulous captain she will soon discover the grim reality of what survival in the Rain Wilds entails. The Silver Lady is a would-be writer eking out a dull existence by working in a Sears store. The one day a man comes in: forty-ish pleasant-looking. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except he says his name is Merlin & he s about to change her life. Rosemary got involved with the wrong man. Pell is lazy good for nothing a bully. Her best friend Hilia knew it & so did her tom cat Marmalade. But love is blind: Rosemary had Pell s baby renovated the cottage his grandfather left in his will turned its land to good use; & then he left her for another woman. Now he s back & something must be done... ...