Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud & colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mothers beauty parlour black mamba bicycle bells mechanics in Nairobi the music of Michael Jackson
- all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother & sister. He could fall in with their patterns but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid & compelling debut Wainaina takes us through his school days his failed attempt to study in South Africa a moving family reunion in Uganda & his travels around Kenya. The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family tribe & nationhood. Throughout reading is his refuge & his solace. & when in 2002 a writing prize comes through the door is opened for him to pursue the career that perhaps had been beckoning all along. Resolutely avoiding stereotype & cliche Wainaina paints every scene in One Day I Will Write About This Place with a highly distinctive & hugely memorable brush.
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From Catherine Alliott bestselling author of A Crowded Marriage" & " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" "comes One Day in May" a gorgeous rural romantic comedy about facing up to your past. " One day in May" Hatties life changes for ever... Hattie Carrington has good reason to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing her teenage son is settled at school & shes enjoying a fling with a sexy younger man. But when work takes her back to the village of Little Crandon heartbreaking memories of her first love surface. It seems that the secret affair with married politician Dominic Forbes which changed the course of her life just wont go away. So when Hatties bumps into Dominic??i??i's widow & his gorgeous younger brother Hal her world are turned upside down. Though shes still trying to hide from her mistakes she knows that if shes ever to fall in love again she needs to be honest with others & herself. Can she admit what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? & if so is she ready for the consequences? Step into Alliott country with " One Day in May". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " Another charming tale of love & heartbreak from this wonderfully warm & witty author". (" Woman"). " Shes getting better & better. A complete pleasure to read". (" Daily Mail"). "A fun fast-paced page-turner". ("OK"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" & "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire." ...

One day in May Hatties life changes for ever.. . Hattie Carrington has good reason to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing her teenage son is settled at school & shes enjoying a fling with a sexy younger man. But when work takes her back to the village of Little Crandon heartbreaking memories of her first love surface. It seems that the secret affair with married politician Dominic Forbes which changed the course of her life just wont go away. So when Hatties bumps into Dominics widow & his gorgeous younger brother Hal her world is turned upside down. Though shes still trying to hide from her mistakes she knows that if shes ever to fall in love again she needs to be honest with others & herself. Can she admit what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? & if so is she ready for the consequences? ...

On a hot summer afternoon in 1944 SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men women & children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour & imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre & the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful moving & almost unbearably tense this book weaves the truth about what happened to the people in Oradour into a powerful fictional story centred on two characters: the plucky inspirational seven-year-old Alfred Fournier refugee & resident of Oradour & the hot-headed power-hungry SS commander who shattered his world & changed his life for ever Major Gustav Dietrich. As their two worlds collide we gain a fascinating insight into the extremes & contradictions of human behaviour & emotion. With a twist in the tale this is a story which leaves the reader surprised inspired & profoundly moved. ...

This brutal shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia & shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup the incredible luxury of a book the ingenious possibilities of a nail a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety warmth & food are the first objectives. Reading it you enter a world of incarceration brutality hard manual labour & freezing cold
- & participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature & the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life.
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Where have all the interesting women gone? If the contemporary portrayal of womankind were to be believed contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags a vibrator a job a flat & a man. Of course no one has to believe the TV shows the magazines & adverts & many dont. But how has it come to this? Did the desires of twentieth-century womens liberation achieve their fulfilment in the shoppers paradise of naughty self-pampering playboy bunny pendants & bikini waxes? That the height of supposed female emancipation coincides so perfectly with consumerism is a miserable index of a politically desolate time. Much contemporary feminism particularly in its American formulation doesnt seem too concerned about this coincidence. This short book is partly an attack on the apparent abdication of any systematic political thought on the part of todays positive up-beat feminists. It suggests alternative ways of thinking about transformations in work sexuality & culture that while seemingly far-fetched in the current ideological climate may provide more serious material for future feminism. ...

It is an awesome fun-packed quiz book on X-Factor" favourites " One Direction". Brimming with puzzles quizzes & games fanatical followers of the band will enjoy testing their knowledge of the fab five & find out if they are true super-fans. Activities include cool fill-in stories wordsearches spot-the-difference games & much more! Including 8 pages of gorgeous glossy photos this is the one & only activity book for any fan of the hottest hippest boy-band around!" ...

One Direction: One & Only an unofficial biography. From X-Factor to wow-factor: adored at home & provoking a Beatlemania-style reaction in the US & Canada
- the boys have conquered the world! Who would have known that after placing third on the talent show they would go on to inspire such crazed devotion in millions of adoring fans? With a global breakthrough undeniably helped by social media & phenomenally successful debut single What Makes You Beautiful the five lads fulfil a still-present need for cute clean cut wholesome pop. Awesome pics & inspirational text chart their extraordinary rise to fame.
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Meet Louis Liam Zayn Niall & Harry
- five lads who are taking the pop world by storm. Travel back to when they got their big break
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Like the boys this pencil case is full of surprises one zip opens up to 2 pockets & another zip which opens yet another pocket! With a colour picture of the boys on the front against a red background you can take them with you everywhere. Approximate measurements 22.5 x 11 cm. ...