He was a survivor: a wanderer who traded tales for food & shelter in the dark & savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker his life changes for ever. As he journeys from one isolated community to the next the old worn uniform becomes far more than a protection against the unrelenting cold: its a reminder of how things were before the world collapsed
- & a symbol for how things might be again. His story is one of a lie becoming the most important kind of truth. Translated into 25 languages around the world The Postman is a powerful & affecting novel about survival of the human spirit from the award-winning author of EXISTENCE & The Uplift novels.
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* This unique range of colouring books features two engaging activities young children love to do! First they find the colour stickers that match the black-&-white pictures on each page. Then they use the stickers as a guide to colour in the pictures of their favourite characters! ...

Collected together in this hardback jacketed book are nine delightful stories with bright & colourful illustrations from the Postman Pat Special Delivery Service" Library. The titles included in the " Postman Pat Pocket Treasury" are: " Postman Pat's Bouncy Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Chilly Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Runaway Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Precious Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Musical Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Colourful Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Speedy Special Delivery"; " Postman Pat's Secret Special Delivery"; & " Postman Pat's Snowy Special Delivery"." ...

Join Postman Pat & Jess the Cat" in these two delightful adventures featuring music from the hit TV series " Postman Pat & the Tuba"
- Theres an awful lot of noise in Greendale as Postman Pat tries to play the tuba. Will he ever be able to play a proper tune? " Postman Pat & the Barometer"
- On a sunny spring day Pats old barometer points to snow
- & Pats the only person who is prepared for the blizzard."


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This completes Ed Sojaa s trilogy on urban studies which began with Postmodern Geographies & continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world--wide over the last half of the twentieth--century. ...

It is 1940 & bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters & later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners the war is far from home. Listening to Frankie are Iris James a Cape Cod postmistress & Emma Fitch a doctors wife. Iris hears the winds stirring & knows that soon the letters she delivers will bear messages of hope or tragedy. Emma is desperate for news of London where her husband is working
- she counts the days until his return. But one night in London the fates of all three women entwine when Frankie finds a letter
- a letter she vows to deliver... See Judys Review See Richards Review See Sarah Blake talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Sarah Blake Write a Review for The Postmistress Judys Review Novels about the Second World War have a tendency to leave me cold: Sarah Blakes The Postmistress proved to be a glorious shining exception; a mesmerising story of bravery passion & diabolical evil. The story opens in 1940 & simultaneously traces the lives of three American women: Iris postmistress of a small town at the tip of Cape Cod; Emma the local doctors new wife & Frankie a glamorous radio reporter broadcasting bulletins to the US from London now being heavily bombed nightly in the Nazi blitzkrieg. As postmistress almost everything affecting the lives of the people back in Franklin passes through Iriss hands. She takes her responsibilities so seriously that now aged 40 she remains unmarried & a virgin. But she is gradually drawn to an older man Harry who runs the town garage. Their gentle tender romance unfolds against the heart-stopping backdrop of Frankies nightly live dispatches into their cosy homes describing the hellish scenes in London. Emma & her husband Will listen to them too appalled at Frankies vivid portraits of suffering & death. Eventually the doctor decides he must go to London & do what he can to help. A devastated Emma cannot stop him. Meanwhile Frankie is agitating to be sent to Nazi-occupied Europe
- America is still neutral & its journalists can travel there
- because she is convinced Hitler has moved beyond herding Jews into ghettos & has embarked on a covert policy of genocide. Her subsequent interviews with Jewish families fleeing the pogrom are among the most moving passages I can remember reading. Richards Review



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A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond Virginia. Three women have died brutalised & strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random
- but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta chief medical officer is awakened at 2.33 am she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. & she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police. But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career & reputation.. .
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Postnatal" is the fourth title in the " Midwifery Essentials" series & explores contemporary postnatal care for women & their families exploring the role of the midwife as a member of the multi-professional team. This book thoroughly prepares the reader to provide safe evidence-based woman-centred postnatal care for mothers & their babies. It

Includes:: the postnatal examination of the woman & the baby check; care of the baby in the immediate postnatal period; the features of the normal neonate; the newborn clinical examination; hospital postnatal care & caesarean section; the role of the community midwife & emotional wellbeing; postnatal fertility control; & issues involved in supporting the woman to feed her baby."

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Kate OHare is more interested in discussing the merits of Darwins The Origin of Species" than the latest fashion in gowns. Kate admits to making a few mistakes along the way
- mistakes that may have catastrophic consequences for her & pose grave risks for her friends. But in her very difference lies her charm especially for young Darcy Gardiner. The original Austen characters
- Darcy Elizabeth Bingley & Jan
- provide the framework of commentary on new characters & unfolding events set against a backdrop of the social issues of the time & the next generation proves as lively & complex as Darcy & Elizabeths own."


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The instructions were simple but the results were extraordinary. You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret fear betrayal desire confession or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything
- as long as it is true & you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative. It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He handed out postcards asking people to write down a secret & post it to him anonymously. The response was overwhelming. In under a year Frank had over 10 000 cards which he posted on the website. The confessions were thought-provoking funny & weird touching on every aspect of human experience & revealing much about the state of modern life & catapulting Post Secret to the status of global phenomenon. Superbly illustrated throughout this book is a great conversation piece fascinating to flick through & almost unputdownable once you have.
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