It's an early autumn day like any other as Miles Avery drives his wife Jacqueline to the station. Nothing remarkable crops up in conversation nor do either of them appear anything other than their normal selves. At the station Jacqueline gets out takes an overnight bag from the back seat then turns towards the platforms. This is the last anyone sees of her. Three weeks later Miles calls the police. Enquiries are made but there is no evidence of her boarding a train or even entering the station. Very soon the finger of suspicion starts to turn towards Miles & as dark secrets from the past begin to merge with those of the present the great love he has been trying to protect is not only revealed but thrown into terrible jeopardy. ...

This play based on the true story of Dan Nolan a teenage boy who went missing on the 1st January 2002 is written in the same documentary style as Too Much Punch for Judy. During 2003 it has been shown at various Drama Festivals & has won awards & commendations at every one. ...

The wisest & wittiest argument imaginable for the preservation of handwriting. I have learnt so much & by it have been so happily entertained that I am compelled to recommend it to everyone. Diana Athill The simple pleasure of picking up a pen & writing is a skill that has existed for thousands of years
- but that skill is slowly dying. Where once we would have reached for a pen & paper to commit our innermost thoughts to a diary to send a letter home or to slip a note to a loved one instead we now stare at tiny screens typing with our thumbs. & all that typing looks the same. The Missing Ink is a book about the characters who shaped our handwriting & how it in turn shaped us. From Victorian idealists preaching the moral worth of italic copperplate to great modern educational reformists such as Marion Richardson throughout history the style in which we write has influence the way we learn behave & communicate. But this is also a book about the physical act itself: about the pots of ink treasured pens & chewable Biros that we used to take for granted & whether the style of our writing really does reveal anything about our true selves. Hugely entertaining witty & thought-provoking The Missing Ink is itself a love letter to the warmest of technologies & the place it still has in our lives.
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When Deborah St James hears of the unexpected death of Reverend Sage her sadness has a very personal tinge. For their paths had crossed some months earlier at a particularly vulnerable time for Deborah & she had found herself confessing her intimate anguish to this sympathetic stranger. When she realizes that his death is far from accidental Deborah with her husband Simon enlists the help of Inspector Lynley & the trio embark upon an investigation that hinges upon the overriding
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A brand new tale in the Animal Stories series from best-selling author Holly Webb. The Missing Kitten is the 24th book in Holly Webb's Animal Stories series a must for any kitten loving Holly Webb fan. Scarlett is excited to be moving to the countryside especially as it means she will finally get a pet. She chooses Bootle a ginger kitten with four white socks & the two of them become inseparable. Then Scarlett has to start at her new school... Bootle tries following Scarlett to school each day. But when there's a downpour he gets lost. How will Scarlett ever be able to find him when she has no idea where he could be? Holly Webb's Animal Stories have sold over a million copies in the UK. From stolen kittens to lost puppies & runaways Holly's tales of puppies & kittens have won her legions of fans. The perfect series for little girls. ...

Im torn between throttling you & kissing you. Lana Kelley never imagined the magical night she shared with a stranger would result in pregnancy. But when shes kidnapped Lana is shocked to discover one of her captors is none other than the father of her unborn child. Mercenary Deacon Holt cant understand Lana. She should hate him. Instead she refuses to believe hes cold-hearted. Though Deacon tries to remain detached he cant deny he still wants Lana. & when Lanas life is threatened Deacon will risk all to help her escape. ...

Head bowed rifle on his back a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun looking at the grave of a dead comrade remembering him. A photograph from the war is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future of the futures view of the past. Geoff Dyers classic book is an original & personal meditation upon war & remembrance. It weaves a network of myth & memory photos & films poetry & sculptures graveyards & ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of & relationship to the Great War. ...

Her story adds to the growing literature related to individual life stories of Holocaust survivors. There is much we can learn from her book."
- Benjamin Schlesinger Professor Emeritus University of Toronto Until age seven Olga Barsony Verrall lived an idyllic life in Szarvas a small town in Hungary surrounded by her doting observant Jewish family. After the Nazi invasion in 1944 Olga found herself along with most of her family interned in the Auspitz (Hustopece) labour camp. Eventually reunited after the war the family returned to Szarvas only to face a different kind of oppression at the hands of the new Communist government. After immigrating to Winnipeg in 1957 Olga met & married Orland Verrall the cantor at Rosh Pina synagogue. Together they built a new life in Canada & soon welcomed two daughters Judy & Lesley. Yet Olga continued to be haunted by her past. Though she was very young during her time in the camp Olga had vivid & painful memories of the horrifying things she had seen & experienced there. A nagging sense of emptiness & anger stayed with her all her life. After her beloved husband Orland passed away her emotional state became increasingly fragile & she became dependent on prescription drugs to numb her pain. A long journey of physical & mental healing along with the support of her family helped Olga piece her life back together. For Olga writing her memoir was a catharsis. For her readers it will be an inspiration."
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At absolutely no point in Swallows & Amazons does Susan cry John look out theres a patch of shit-eating jellyfish ahead! Yacht racing
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The so-called missing years of Jesus constitute the 18 years that are unaccounted for in the Bible from when Jesus was a boy of 12 to his sudden reappearance at the age of 30. Archaeologist & classical scholar Dennis Price has investigated the clues in Blakes evocative poem Jerusalem" & has paid meticulous attention to the accounts in the ancient Aramaic & Greek versions of the Bible & hes also conducted an exhaustive & unprecedented study into the myths & legends of Christ in Britain. With the assistance of specialists in their own fields & by viewing this enthralling subject as a modern missing persons investigation Dennis Price has pieced together the various pieces of the jigsaw & now presents compelling & highly original evidence that Christ did indeed visit Britain in the company of Joseph of Arimathea in ancient times. The weight of new material suggests that Christ remained in Britain for several years before eventually returning to his homeland in the east & this truly extraordinary book now provides a wealth of new information for all those who are intensely curious about this otherwise undocumented period in the life of the most famous person the worlds ever known. The implications are astonishing & they are presented here in the greatest story never told." ...