This is a study of more than 100 people who have experienced clinical death" & survived. Dr Moody reveals their testimonies & their descriptions of "death" & the "beyond" & shows how the way life death & the spiritual hereafter are viewed have changed." ...

What if you had the chance to live your life again & again until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910 a baby is born & dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910 the same baby is born & lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? & third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? & would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again & again. With wit & compassion Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments & shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound & inventive in a novel that celebrates the best & worst of ourselves. ...

Norman Parker has spent over half his life in prison. A double murderer he mixed at close quarters with some of Britain's most hardened criminals: the Krays the Richardsons & the Great Train Robbers. After 24 continuous years in prison he was finally released into a world that had changed more than he could have imagined. But life on the outside was tough as Norman re-established himself not only as a bestselling author but also as a face on the underworld crime scene. Then the one thing happened that he had been waiting for in all the years he had been inside
- he fell hopelessly desperately in love. The relationship was a fiery & tempestuous one & one destined to end in disaster. Her life was fuelled by an overpowering drug habit that led them to associate with the dark underbelly of London life. Then in a cruel twist of fate she became victim to suicide pact serial-killer. What happened next almost defies belief...
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Kimberlee's dead. Has been for a while actually. Stuck haunting the halls of her high school she's doomed to an afterlife of boredom. That is until the new kid shows up. The first thing Jeff spots is Kimberlee lying on the floor as other students walk right through her. Pretty soon she's harangued him into helping her escape to the afterlife. Kimberlee guesses that once Jeff rights her mean girl wrongs she'll be able to move on. But nothing is simple in life after death... Clash meets sass in this uproarious modern-day retelling of Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel by 1 New York Times bestselling author. ...

Life Along the Line" takes a nostalgic look at the world of British railways through the eyes of bestselling author & antiques expert Paul Atterbury. Focusing on the human experience of the railways
- the drivers firemen guards station staff signalmen engineers caterers & of course passengers
- the book is a visual feast filled with fascinating archive photographs of steam trains other locomotives memorabilia & evocative railway ephemera. Built from archive photographs old postcards badges & other railwayana the book is filled with fascinating material that Atterbury has himself collected from tireless searching at postcard & antique fares & auction sites. Many of the illustrations are therefore original & previously unpublished. This title covers railway life across the network as well as showcasing local differences in a series of regional sections."

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This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii & Herculaneum the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous but who were these men women & children so cruelly frozen in time? Exploring striking new discoveries & over 200 sensational artefacts the author brings the inhabitants of Pompeii & Herculaneum back to life from the ashes & ruins of their own homes. ...

This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance & influence in her own right. It is a full biography of Anne Boleyn based on the latest scholarly research. It focusses on Anne's life & legacy & establishes Anne as a figure of considerable importance & influence in her own right. Adulteress or innocent victim? This title looks afresh at the issues at the heart of Anne's downfall. It pays attention to her importance as a patron of the arts particularly in relation to Hans Holbein. It presents evidence about Anne's spirituality & her interest in the intellectual debates of the period. It takes account of significant advances in knowledge in recent years. ...

The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling & spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom the spectacularly beautiful but utterly bleak island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland it is hard to believe that for over two thousand years men & women lived here cut off from the rest of the world. With a population never exceeding two hundred in its history the St Kildans were fiercely self-sufficient. An intensely religious people they climbed cliffs from childhood & caught birds for food. Their sense of community was unparalleled & isolation enveloped their day-to-day existence. With the onset of the First World War things changed. For the very first time in St Kilda's history daily communication was established between the islanders & the mainl&. Slowly but surely this marked the beginning of the end of St Kilda & in August 1930 the island's remaining 36 inhabitants were evacuated. Newly updated to include the historic appointment of St Kilda as the United Kingdom's only UNESCO Dual Heritage site the ongoing search for information about the island & the threats that it continues to face this is the moving story of a vanished community & how twentieth century civilization ultimately brought an entire way of life to its knees. ...

In 1940 Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book stored in a warehouse in London were destroyed during the Blitz & only a handful of copies of his unique chronicle were saved. Now seventy years after its first publication this exceptional eyewitness account of the war is republished with a new introduction by Paul Preston. The Life & Death of the Spanish Republic is a unique account of Spanish politics throughout the entire life of the Second Republic from its foundation of 14 April 1931 to its defeat at the end of March 1939 combining personal recollections of meetings with the great politicians of the day with eyewitness accounts of dramatic events. Buckley arrived in Spain prior to the outbreak of the war & was one of the few correspondents reporting on the conflict who had an in-depth knowledge & understanding of Spain
- its people politics & culture. Well acquainted with the major protagonists from the conflict he particularly admired Dr Juan Negrin the wartime Socialist premier but was utterly bowled over by ' La Pasionaria' the Communist orator Dolores Ibarruri. He was also a good friend of Ernest Hemingway & the renowned photographer Robert Capa. This important book is one fo the most enduring records of the Spanish Republic & the civil war & a monumental testimony to Buckley's work as a correspondent. Providing a fascinating portrait of a crucial decade of contemporary Spanish history & based on an abundance of the eyewitness material that only a really assiduous resident journalist could collect this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Spanish Civil War.
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This Orange Inheritance Edition of Life & Fate" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives & transform the way we see ourselves & each other. The best books are timeless & continue to be relevant generation after generation. " Vintage Classics" asked the winners of The Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation & why. Linda Grant chose " Life & Fate". This is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms Grossmans characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny & war. "I have urged all my friends to read it...I want others to feel as I have done
- that they are entering the heart of the twentieth century touching its pulse". (Linda Grant)."
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