Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status & well aware of his role in society. Modest & generally conformist he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive whom he encounters at Cambridge & through Alec the gamekeeper on Clives country estate Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional & sexual awakening. A tale of passion bravery & defiance this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forsters death in 1970. Compellingly honest & beautifully written it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society & is at once a moving love story & an intimate tale of one mans erotic & political self-discovery. ...

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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourth book in the series. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command
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For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders
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A strong novel about the trauma of the Clydebank Blitz during the Second World War told through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl Lenny Gillespie. Lenny survives the bombing but in the chaos of that night she cannot find her mum & her wee sister Mavis. Told in an urgent true-grit voice the story describes the devastation of the blitz as seen through Lennys eyes. During her desperate search for her mum & sister Lenny finds a shoe she thinks belongs to Mavis & it becomes her talisman in the days that follow. Lenny is forced to flee over the hills to the hut community of Carbeth in the company of a scary neighbour Mr Tait her old school teacher Miss Weatherbeaten & little Rosie a girl who is oddly like Mavis. With Mr Taits help she finds her mother but still no Mavis. It is left to Lenny herself to return to the terrifying scenes of devastation & search amongst the rubble for her wee sister a desperate act that ultimately leads to the arrival of Mavis at Carbeth & a joyful reunion. Written by Glasgow writer Sue Reid Sexton who has worked with war veterans & as a counsellor specialising in trauma this book is extensively researched & covers what went on in Clydebank Glasgow & Carbeth during this harrowing time in Scotlands history. The book

Includes:: additional notes & pictures on the Clydebank Blitz & the Carbeth huts which provided shelter for some of those who escaped from the ruins of the Clydebank Blitz. The novel contains some disturbing scenes. A sample from the novel: Most of the tenement building over the road had gone & what was left was burning. Id never seen flames the size of these leaping & gobbling everything up. This made no sense to me. I searched my memory for something I could compare this to but there was nothing just like there was almost nothing left of this building only a hole where something indestructible had been.. . Behind me behind the houses beyond there were flames bigger even than the flames over the road reaching right into the sky so much flame it was like there wasnt room for it all down below. It lit up the whole sky & all the buildings. There was nothing hidden. The Gerries had found us & we were laid bare naked & I had lost Mavis. Some facts & figures: The Clydebank Blitz took place on the nights of the 13th & 14th March 1941. The Luftwaffe chose to target the shipbuilding town of Clydebank in Scotland during those nights because of the full moon. During the bombing raids most of Clydebank was destroyed suffering the worst destruction & loss of civilian life in all of Scotl&. While there is still some discrepancy over the number of casualties we know more than 500 people died over 600 people were seriously injured & hundreds were injured by the blast debris. Only 7 houses remained undamaged out of 12 000; 4 000 houses were completely destroyed & 4 500 seriously damaged; over 35 000 people were made homeless; 439 bombers dropped over 1 000 bombs; only two enemy aircraft were shot down by the RAF; the Singer factory was destroyed but the landmark Singer tower survived. It was the use of bombs on parachutes known at the time as landmines & designed to maim & kill at ground level which made the attack so devastating.

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