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? ...

Are you unsure about your medical nursing placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for individual patients? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement? This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on what to expect from the placement what you can learn how to link theory & practice & how to make the most of your learning opportunities & meet your competencies. ...

Rory Stewarts moving sparsely poetic account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations warring factions & competing ideologies at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot & following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the Mohgul Emperor Babur the Great Stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme hostile conditions. Only due to the help of an unexpected companion & the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war. This is traveling at its hardest & travel-writing at its best
- David Gilmour an astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage
- Colin Thubron wise funny & marvelously humane
- Michael Ignatieff [this] evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration -- Guardian His encounters with Afghans are tragic touching & terrifying.
- Daily Telegraph



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One of the most inspiring spiritual teachers of our time offers simple practical advice for living with less fear less anxiety & a more open heart. Bought in a hotly contested auction The Places That Scare You is now available in massmarket taking Pema Chodron s spiritual teachings to a wider audience. We always have a choice Pema Chodron teaches: we can either let the circumstances of our lives harden us & make us increasingly resentful & afraid or we can let them soften us & make us kind. This unique book shows us how to awaken our basic goodness & connect to others. In her lively contemporary voice Chodron translates the wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for the layperson. Her wisdom cuts across all traditions & religions
- appealing to everyone from the Dalai Lamas followers to ordinary people trying to make sense of their lives. This title has gone straight onto the bestseller lists in the USA where it has just been published. Recently profiled in Oprahs O magazine Pema Chodron is a spiritual teacher for anyone
- whether they have a spiritual path or not. Her heartfelt advice & wisdom (developed in her 20 years of practice as a Tibetan Buddhist nun as well as her years previously as a normal housewife & mother) give her a wide appeal. Particularly in these difficult times this advice strikes just the right note offering us comfort & challenging us to live deeply & contribute to creating a more loving world.

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With the city of Exeter ravaged by an outbreak of the yellow plague Sir John de Wolfe the county coroner must divide his time between visiting his sick brother William who has been struck down by the disease & dealing with a series of brutal murders which appears to be linked to a revival of heresy in the city. When some of the cathedral canons begin a crusade against this danger to the Church Sir John finds himself accused of being too sympathetic to the heretics bringing him into conflict with the ecclesiastic authorities. As the situation worsens the coroner must seek sanctuary in order to save his skin. Can he survive long enough to unmask the real killer? ...

Clive Cusslers fifth Oregon Files" novel " Plague Ship" pits Juan Cabrillo against a deadly adversary. In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery
- the most legendary ship of all time... Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo & the crew of the Oregon
- a top secret state of the art military vessel disguised as a heap of junk
- reap the terrible rewards of this find. In the Persian Gulf they encounter a cruise ship full of the dead & the dying. While attempting a rescue the stricken liner erupts into a fireball. Cabrillo escapes with his life & one survivor. When Cabrillo decides to probe deeper into this mystery he finds a powerful cult obsessed with the end of the world. It is a discovery that sees the Oregon & her crew racing against time to prevent a sinister madman from using the secrets of the past to to destroy the future..." Plague Ship" is a high-stakes high-seas adventure you wont be able to put down. The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler author of the thrilling " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " Valhalla Rising" & co-author Jack Du Brul are back with their most exciting Juan Cabrillo assignment yet in the fifth novel of adventure series " The Oregon Files" " Plague Ship". Praise for Clive Cussler: " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). " The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea exotic locations cutting-edge science & page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Sacred Stone" " Dark Watch" " Skeleton Coast" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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Like comfy jeans on the weekends The Moleskine Cahier" is casual yet durable. A journal for all occasions
- it's soft light & fits
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It's up to the servants of No. 67 Clarges Street to hatch a scheme.. .and arrange a match! ' Oh to be as beautiful as Euphemia!' sighs plain Jane Hart when she joins her sister at No. 67 for the Season as then Lord Tregarthan might notice her.. .as she has noticed him & forever lost her heart. & while it is Euphemia's fate to flit her way through balls & into the arms of a marquis Jane's is to stay at home.. .until the Downstairs staff transform the plain Miss into the Season's sensation & send her waltzing into a daring liaison with the man of her dreams! ...

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway a disillusioned big city attorney comes to Paradise Pennsylvania to defend Katie two cultures collide & for the first time in her high profile career Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain' Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case Ellie also looks deep within to confront her own fears & desires when a man from her past comes back into her life. ...