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. ...

Do you envy the suicide bombers their firm faith in life after death? Probably not: you think they are deluded. People in the west have quite recently lost all their old ideas about a Better World Hereafter. We now accept that we are already in the Last World the world with no further reality beyond it & that wed better live our life to the full while we have it. If so then what happens to the traditional problem of Christian origins? Jesus preached the arrival of the Last World & urged us to begin a new solar kind of living. His message was one of secular fulfilment. But the Apostolic Faith by raising him to the supernatural world took us all a whole dispensation back to the Penultimate World a world dominated by supernatural fears & hopes a world of watching & waiting under strict discipline. The new era announced by Jesus was thus aborted probably during the late 40s. But today we need not the New Testament message but a Last Testament for the Last World which is our world. Don Cupitt attempts some midwifery. It is time for the faith to be born properly & to become public property not a clerical monopoly. ...

What did Jesus & the early Christians believe about death resurrection heaven & hell human destiny & Gods ultimate purpose for creation? & what are the implications for Christian doctrine today? Thiselton shows how methods & insights from the philosophy of language can clarify our perception of the New Testament data. ...

Similar in style to Rebecca Elliotts highly acclaimed Zoo Girl (nominated for the 2012 Kate Greenaway Medal) this story warns of what the future might hold if we neglect our duty of care to our environment. In a world that has been destroyed by human carelessness a little boy discovers the last tiger. But where did he come from? Through their adventure together they rediscover a natural way of living & lead the world to a sustainable future. With striking illustrations crafted in ink line & collage this thoughtful yet uplifting picture book leaves a lasting impact. ...

When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her best friend from university has been killed in a car crash in New York her life is turned upside down. Her relationship with Sally was an exhilarating roller coaster until a shocking betrayal drove them apart. But if Sally really had turned her back why is her little girl named after Olivia? As questions mount about the fatal accident Olivia is forced to go back & unravel their tangled history. But as Sally's secrets start to spill out Olivia's left asking herself if the past is best kept buried. ...

Imagine you are an RAF torpedo pilot in World War Two sent on missions so dangerous that you're later likened to the Kamikaze. Suicide wasn't a recognised part of the objective for British airmen yet some pilots felt they had accepted certain death just by climbing into their cockpits. There were times in 1942 when Arthur Aldridge felt like this. At the age of 19 this courageous young man had quit his studies at Oxford to volunteer for the RAF. He flew his Bristol Beaufort like there was no tomorrow
- a realistic assumption after seeing his best friend die in flames at the end of 1941. Aldridge was awarded a DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross) for his bravery on the same strike on a German cargo ship during which he lost a wing tip by flying too close to the deck. He was equally lucky to survive his squadron's chaotic torpedo attack on the giants of Hitler's maritime fleet during the notorious Channel Dash. As 1942 wore on & the stress became intolerable Aldridge & his Cockney gunner Bill Carroll held their nerve & ' Arty' was awarded a Bar to his DFC for sinking two enemy ships off Malta & rescuing a fellow pilot while wounded. Malta was saved by the skin of its teeth Rommel denied vital supplies in North Africa & the course of the war was turned. Aldridge was still only 21 years old. Now both 91 but firm friends as ever Aldridge & Carroll are two of the last torpedo airmen who deserve their place in history alongside our heroic Spitfire pilots. Their story vividly captures the comradeship that existed between men pushed by war to their very limit.
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From the bestselling Irish novelist here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. Last Train from Liguria" takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin & the tense formality of London to the heat & bustle of the pre-war Italian Riviera. This is a must-read for fans of books by Rose Tremain & Helen Dunmore. In 1933 Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress & an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the familys summer home Bellas reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge & find friendship with Maestro Edward his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end & fascism tightens its grip on Europe the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella & Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy
- one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive..."
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With a glorious colour picture on each page Last Train to Haulage Heaven illustrates the changes & inevitable decline of diesel locomotive-worked passenger trains on Britains rail network from the start of the 1970s when they were at their peak to the present day when they operate on just seven routes. ...

LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid dramatic terms the life & career of this outstanding artistic & cultural phenomenon it draws together a plethora of documentary & interview material to create a superbly coherent & plausible narrative. The first of two volumes covering Presley's rise to prominence up to his departure for Germany in 1958 LAST TRAIN to MEMPHIS will undoubtedly become the benchmark by which other biographies of him are judged. ...

Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" & " The Great Railway Bazaar" " The Last Train to Zona Verde" is an ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer Paul Theroux. ' Happy again back in the kingdom of light ' writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey though the continent he knows & loves best. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari he sets out this time from Cape Town heading northwards in a new direction up the left-hand side through South Africa & Namibia to Botswana then on into Angola heading for the Congo in search of the end of the line. Journeying alone through the greenest continent in what he feels will be his last African journey Theroux encounters a world increasingly removed from both the intineraries of tourists & the hopes of post-colonial independence movements. Leaving the Cape Town townships traversing the Namibian bush passing the browsing cattle of the great sunbaked heartland of the savannah Theroux crosses "the Red Line" into a different Africa: "the improvised slapped-together Africa of tumbled fences & cooking fires of mud & thatch" of heat & poverty & of roadblocks mobs & anarchy. A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye & effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers " The Last Train to Zona Verde" is Paul Theroux's ultimate safari. Praise for Paul Theroux: " Always a terrific teller of tales & conjurer of exotic locales he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace". (" Sunday Times"). " One needs energy to keep up with the extraordinary productive restlessness of Paul Theroux...[ He is] the most gifted most prodigal writer of his generation". (Jonathan Raban). " His ability to sum up a city or a people in a few lines is undiminished". (" Daily Telegraph"). Paul Theroux's books include " Dark Star Safari" " Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" " Riding the Iron Rooster" " The Great Railway Bazaar" " The Elephanta Suite" "A Dead Hand" " The Tao of Travel" & " The Lower River". " The Mosquito Coast" & " Dr Slaughter" have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod & the Hawaiian islands." ...