The English Electric Lightning entered RAF squadron service in 1960 & continued flying in the interceptor role until 1988. It had a stunning world-beating performance with a top speed in excess of Mach 2 & a climb rate that would take it to 40 000 feet in a little over 3 minutes. The aircraft's safety record however left much to be desired. During a period in the early 1970s the attrition rate was the loss of a Lightning every month. There was a six per cent chance of a pilot experiencing an engine fire & a one in four chance that he would not survive. This book looks at Lightning accidents & incidents in chronological order using the official accident reports Board of Enquirey findings & first-hand accounts from pilots. It puts the reader very much 'in the cockpit'. ...

All I want is to be a success. Thats all I ask. Failing salesman Joe has a dream
- or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed
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The O' Neils who have lost brothers & sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over their one remaining young male a boy named Seamus. Hardworking & good-hearted they cling together & help each other & a whole community. Meanwhile Rosh Allen mourns the loss of Phil her dearly-beloved husb&. Aided & impeded by her mother Anna she struggles to raise three fatherless children. With the help of a kind-hearted neighbour her wounds begin to heal & she begins to take the first faltering steps into 'normality'. Tess & Don Compton are on the verge of separation. An apparently greedy & selfish woman Tess wants a semi-detached house & all her own way. But what really lies behind her desire to live on the posh side of the street. Behind the three families two men are at work. One will do serious damage; the other will reunite a clan that goes all the way back to Ireland & to ancestors thrown ashore from the ships of the Spanish Armada. ...

As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship & heartbreak with courage & humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson a widow it means never-ending worry when her twin boys are called up & sent to France; Sheila Reillys husband Cal faces the terror of U-Boat attacks; Eileen Costello is liberated from a bitter loveless marriage when her husband is sent to Egypt & she goes to work in a munitions factory
- & falls in love. & Jessica Fleming down on her luck is forced to return to the street shed hoped never to see again.
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Before World War II has even been officially declared ten-year-old Hazel Morgan & her eight-year-old brother Peter are evacuated leaving London for the safety of the Sussex countryside. With her children gone & her husband John in the army Rene Morgan misses her family terribly. When she learns that John has become a prisoner of war she has to take on the highly dangerous job of firewatcher. Meanwhile Hazel & Peter are desperate to go back home. Returning to the city they are overjoyed to be reunited with their mother & Gran. But their father is still far away & the worst of the war is yet to come. As the air raids increase the Morgans must face the terror of the Blitz together... ...

The only in-depth guide to Liguria a mountainous region of dizzy passes & breath-taking views where mountains plunge down into the sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean. Liguria will leave you awestruck by its beauty. The narrow strip of coast

Includes:: the gems of the world famous Italian Riviera the great port city of Genoa the glitzy resort of Portofino & the charms of the Cinque Terre. Yet in the hinterland there are many beautiful villages & mountain walks that have yet to be discovered by tourists. The walks vary in difficulty so are accessible to all. Many of the walks & cycle routes featured in the book are through beautiful wilderness. Unlike other guides to the region Liguria

Includes:: a detailed description of the mountains & their hilltop villages. With a strong regional identity all of its own Liguria is almost a country within a country. The spectacular scenery the mediaeval towns quaint fishing ports & the wonderful food have attracted some of the world's most famous writers among them Byron Mary & Percy Shelley Henry James Dickens Maupassant D H Lawrence Virginia Woolf & Dylan Thomas. Tourists flock to the Cinque Terre & Portofino but many of the other resorts have few foreign visitors so Liguria has the best of both world's to offer the visitor the big names on the Mediterranean destination list & mountain villages & small fishing ports which are almost exclusively Italian.



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In Like A Charm" Karin Slaughter brings together some of the best selling Crime writers in the World today to create a collection of thrilling short stories of murder betrayal & intrigue. Each story in " Like A Charm" is interlinked by a charm bracelet which makes its way into each tale bringing bad luck wherever it is found. The authors tales are set in their usual city & era of choice Val Mc Dermid in 1980s Manchester Denise Mina in Glasgow Karin Slaughter in Atlanta & all are original to this collection. " Like A Charm" is the first collection of Crime writing to have one specific item the charm bracelet as the focus for each story." ...

Rebelling against the domineering man she believes to be her father Elin Jones runs away from her Welsh home to find a job on Merseyside as a maid in the wealthy Oxley household. Seduced & left pregnant by the son of the family she feels forced to marry the butler but finds herself condemned to a life of abuse & poverty. Only her love for her daughter Laura keeps Elin going. Laura grows up with her natural fathers intelligence & drive as well as his talent for business & when she seizes the chance to buy an ailing company it is the start of a meteoric career. But Lauras personal life is less of a success & it will take a twist of fate to enable Laura & her mother to find love & happiness. ...

Chely Wright singer songwriter & country music star writes in this moving telling memoir about her life & her career; about growing up in Americas heartland & about barely remembering a time when she didnt know she was different. The youngest of three children Wright would ascend the ladder to the top of the country-music world only to find herself trapped in a place she hadnt foreseen but had to face. From high-school homecoming queen to successful recording artist with her first hit single Shut Up & Drive " Wrights journey was dictated by keeping the truth of who she was closeted in a world in which country music stars had never been
- & could not be
- openly gay. Working with the biggest names in Nashville she navigated these treacherous waters until the charade took too great a toll. Ultimately as she reveals in this candid & outspoken work Wright found the courage to untangle herself from the image of the country music star shed become an image steeped in long-standing ideals & notions about who
- & what
- a country artist is & what fans expect that artist to be."



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Rachel Smedling is not like the other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller stronger & weaves cloth like a man. Without her the household would fall apart for her mother is ailing & her vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much he would happily offer money to any man who would wed her. When her mother dies Rachel is at the mercy of her increasingly violent father. Her only escape is by marrying a kindly man with whom she finds happiness if not passion & her life begins to seem complete. Rachels growing prosperity infuriates her father & his cronies however & they will stop at nothing to see her destroyed. ...