In one of the most remarkable memoirs of recent years the acclaimed writer respected thinker & outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway takes us back through a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? & what is God? At the tender age of fourteen Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven north of Glasgow & travelled hundreds of miles to be educated & trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. It was an intense cloistered education for an impressionable young man. By twenty-five he had been ordained & was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the forty years that followed Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church & in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless unquiet heart & a constantly searching mind. How can anyone claim a complete understanding of the mystery of existence? Why is the Church which claims to be the instrument of Gods love so prone to cruelty & condemnation? & how can a man live with the tension between public faith & private doubt? In his long-awaited memoir Richard seeks to answer these questions & to explain how after many crises of faith he finally & painfully left the Church. It is a wise poetic & fiercely honest book. As a portrait of an inner life plagued by doubt it is unsurpassed. ...

This book is the winner of the PEN/ Ackerley Prize 2013. At the tender age of fourteen Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria north of Glasgow & travelled hundreds of miles to be educated & trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained & was working in the slums of Glasgow. Through the forty years that followed Richard touched the lives of many people as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Anglican Church. But behind his confident public faith lay a restless heart & an inquisitive mind. Poignant wise & fiercely honest Leaving Alexandria is a remarkable memoir of a life defined by faith but plagued by doubt. ...

London 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman Usha Pramal is found murdered in a South London canal her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full & thorough investigation. Before her death Usha was staying at an ayahs hostel a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out. As Maisie learns Usha was different from the hostels other lodgers. But with this discovery comes new danger
- soon another Indian woman who was close to Usha is found murdered before she can speak out. As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet alluring subculture her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case. & at the same time her lover James Compton gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore.. .
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It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters
- Mollie & Annemarie
- escape from their home in a tiny Irish village.

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Working as a ladys maid to Miss Olivia Mercer in Liverpool in 1919 Phoebe-Ann Parkinson dreams of a grander future. But when a tragic attack threatens her sister Emilys life Phoebe-Ann is driven from the Mercer household & into the arms of Jake one of the notorious drunken Malone clan. Phoebe-Ann is abandoned by her family & her dreams are turning into a nightmare. But as Emily begins to recover Phoebe-Ann is able to look forward to leaving Liverpool & her past behind her. ...

In his first book Hussien Dekmak opens the door to his country's food & traditions with over 100 delicious authentic recipes ...

Following on from Phaidon's classic home-cooking bibles of national cuisines which started with The Silver Spoon in 2005 & has continued with 1080 Recipes Vefa's Kitchen I Know How to Cook & India Cookbook The Lebanese Kitchen is the definitive guide to traditional cuisine from Lebanon. The Lebanese Kitchen brings together more than 500 recipes ranging from light tempting mezes to rich & hearty main courses. On the shores of the eastern Mediterranean & a gateway to the Middle East the food of Lebanon blends textures colours scents & flavours from both & has long been regarded as one of the most refined cuisines in the Middle East. The diversity of Lebanese food reflects the variety inherent in the country's landscape & climate from the fertile Beqaa Valley to the snow-covered tops of the Danniyeh mountains. This means that fresh & inspiring vegetable dishes such as the classic tabbouleh (bulgur wheat & parsley salad) are as numerous as the meat specialities like lamb kofte or traditional desserts such as muhallabieh (a milk & rose water pudding topped with pistachios). Many areas produce a range of home-grown fruit & vegetables such as tomatoes apples figs beans grapes & citrus fruits & there are many traditional recipes that show the uses that resourceful home cooks have developed to make the most of seasonal produce. Lebanese food has become increasingly popular in the last few years & is nutritious & healthy (based on vegetables oil & pulses & a balanced use of meat) as well as aromatic & tempting. Salma Hage a Lebanese housewife from Mazarat Tiffah (Apple Hamlet) in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in north Lebanon has over 50 years experience of family cooking. In The Lebanese Kitchen she presents a comprehensive list of her own recipes for family favourites along with classic dishes handed from generation to generation. A combination of old favourites & some inspiring surprises The Lebanese Kitchen is a must for everyone with an interest in this wholesome & delicious cuisine. ...

DJ any party anytime anywhere with the portable MP3 Mixing Deck from Lecci. Simply plug in two MP3 players a pair of headphones & youre ready to go. This mixing deck will allow you to flip between tracks hear the next one youve selected & mix them in as you please. Works with all MP3 players. Requires 4 AAA 1.5V batteries (not included). ...

The SPCK Lectionary provides a streamlined & clearly laid-out presentation of the Common Worship calendar & lectionary with BCP readings on the same page. Sundays & major festivals are covered as well as weekday services. An essential purchase for any church using the Common Worship or Book of Common Prayer services & most churches using a formal lectionary use both. Combines the Common Worship Lectionary & the Book of Common Prayer Lectionary in one volume Now including the Additional Weekday Lectionary ...

An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister first published in 1955. The previous English translation by J. Sibree first appeared in 1857 & was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously unknown to English readers derived from earlier editors. In the introduction to his lectures Hegel lays down the principles & aims which underlie his philosophy of history & provides an outline of the philosophy of history itself. The comprehensive & voluminous survey of world history which followed the introduction in the original lectures is of less interest to students of Hegel's thought than the introduction & is therefore not included in this volume. ...