A redemptive & captivating novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of PS. I Love You. Ever wondered where lost things go? Ever since the day her classmate vanished Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something -- or someone -- disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother who vanished into thin air a year ago. He spots an ad for Sandys missing persons agency & is certain that she will answer his prayers & find his brother. But then Sandy disappears too stumbling upon a place that is a world away from the only one she has ever known. Now all she wants more than anything is to find her way home. ...

Joseph Tallantire has hope & ambition
- like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself & improve his
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This book is all about a sense of place about our fascination with the fact that wherever we are in the world were living breathing feeling & thinking where thousands of other people have done so before us. That fascination is heightened when the location in question has been the scene of great events
- sometimes joyous sometimes calamitous
- a place where history was made. Colin Philpott Director of the National Media Museum takes us on a personal journey around Great Britain to visit destinations such as sports stadiums that were built to stage great events or places made famous by a single event such as a disaster or an event of social political or cultural significance. It also examines what has happened to those places touched by history how changing uses reflect changes in society particularly in economic circumstances & in leisure time. Above all it is a journey to inspire further exploration & discovery & an enduring sense of place.

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From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz" & " Across the Land & Water comes". "A Place in the Country" the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When W. G. Sebald the prize-winning author of " Austerlitz" travelled to Manchester in 1966 he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life & during the years when he was settled in Engl&. In "A Place in the Country" he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person & as a writer from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography & essay & finding as ever inspiration in place
- as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre the tiny lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace & inspiration
- Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive inimitable voice. A " Place in the Country" is a window into the mind of this much loved & much missed writer. Praise for W.G. Sebald: "A new kind of writing combining fiction memoir travelogue philosophy & much else besides...greatness in literature is still possible". (John Banville " Irish Times"). " When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience". (" Literary Review"). " Is literary greatness still possible? One of the few answers available to English-Language readers is the work of W.G. Sebald". (Susan Sontag). W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau Germany in 1944. He studied German language & literature in Freiburg Switzerland & Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & the author of " Austerlitz"; " The Emmigrants" which won a series of major awards including the Berlin Literature Prize the Heinrich Boll Prize the Heinrich Heine Prize & the Joseph Breitbach Prize."

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Dido Kent's sister-in-law Margaret is attempting to marry her off to the ghastly clergyman Doctor Prowdlee with his abominable side-whiskers. Dido however is determined to refuse him. As punishment she is sent on a journey as companion to her rich hypochondriac Aunt Manners
- whom the family wants to keep on the right side of. When they arrive at Charcombe Manor Aunt Manners' childhood home they find a mystery lying in wait for them. The rich heiress Letitia Verney has disappeared while visiting the house & Mr Tom Lomax is suspected of abducting her. Dido upon hearing his story is inclined to believe in his innocence
- but how is she to explain the impossibility of Miss Verney vanishing into thin air? & there is also the abandoned wing of Charcombe Manor to be considered. Why do lights appear there at night? The house is full of enigmas with its memories of old family quarrels & its crying ghost that keeps visitors awake. As the mystery intensifies Miss Dido Kent embarks on her most intriguing investigation yet.. .

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From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination
- this is Hilary Mantels epic novel
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24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met & fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana Caitlin joined him in Maun the Place of Reeds & the two began their lives together. Eager to absorb all that Setswana culture had to offer Caitlin found herself becoming part of Rons extended family falling in love with both the country & its people. Eventually with the birth of their daughter Caitlins happiness seemed complete. But the Botswana of the 1990s was changing. AIDS & urbanization had taken their toll violence was on the increase. When with her child in her arms Caitlin was brutally attacked Rons family closed ranks & Caitlin found herself ostracized by the very people she had grown to love. Passionate hilarious dramatic & heartbreaking in turn Place of Reeds" is a story of the clash of cultures the inflexibility of belief & traditions. Its a story about women
- about Caitlin & her daughter about Eliah & Madintwa Rons formidable mother & grandmother. Most of all its a story about one womans courage resilience
- & ultimately survival."

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Ex-vicar Lionel Lawrence believes that everyone deserves a second chance which is why he decides to open the old rectory to a stream of young offenders. All Lionel wants is to help these poor lost souls to find the right path
- he has no idea that the consequences of his good deed will include blackmail murder & a missing teenager. But Chief Inspector Barnaby is sure he knows whos behind the worrying disappearance of Lionels latest young charge -- a defiantly elusive suspect hes convinced is the incarnation of evil.
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When the world has failed you you need a place of safety... Hard-hitting crime from the author of Damaged Goods. The rape of a young asylum seeker plunges family care lawyer Lilly Valentine into the toughest case of her life. 14-year-old Anna lives in Hounds Place a hostel in Bedfordshire for youngsters seeking refuge from the atrocities being carried out in their homelands. A chance meeting with three public schoolboys ends in her being horrifically assaulted. When Artan Anna's friend & a fellow asylum seeker approaches Lilly about seeking justice through the courts she warns him that the law may not be on their side. Who will believe the words of an asylum seeker over the account of three privileged English boys? Despite this Lilly is loath to get involved. After all she is supposed to be putting her family & work commitments first. But Lilly quickly lives to regret that decision when Artan & Anna turn up at a school armed with guns determined to take matters into their own hands. The day turns to tragedy & Anna is arrested. Wracked with guilt Lilly is compelled to take on Anna's case despite the objections of her boyfriend Jack boss & most importantly her own son Sam
- a pupil at the school. Her decision to defend Anna attracts a huge backlash from the press & the community. & when local racist groups pick up on the story Lilly's family & friends become a target. Can Lilly follow her conscience & defend Anna
- or is this case just too close to home?

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The night before it all begins Jude has the dream again.. . Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark forest crying for her mother. Now her six-year-old niece Summer is having the same dream & Jude is frightened for her. A successful auctioneer Jude is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husb&. When shes asked to value a collection of scientific instruments & manuscripts belonging to Anthony Wickham a lonely 18th century astronomer she leaps at the chance to escape London for the untamed beauty of Norfolk where she grew up. As Jude untangles Wickhams tragic story she discovers threatening links to the present. What have Summers nightmares to do with Starbrough folly the eerie crumbling tower in the forest from which Wickham & his adopted daughter Esther once viewed the night sky? With the help of Euan a local naturalist Jude searches for answers in the wild haunting splendour of the Norfolk woods. Dare she leave behind the sadness in her own life & learn to love again? ...