The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes &

Includes:: the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings a fascinating study of Tolkiens great masterpiece from its inception to the end of the first volume The Fellowship of the Ring. In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbos magic ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord; & the precise & astonishingly unforeseen moment when a Black Rider first rode in to the Shire. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed & Frodos companions undergo many changes of name & personality. The book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps & facsimile pages from the earliest manuscripts. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive & classic style of the black cover A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion & Unfinished Tales.

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The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife Kitty with her cold moonlight beauty & his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington his first & long-forgotten love is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked & can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before when he was a young man & she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice
- to leave him where he wishes to be or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice.
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Although characters & stories like Sam Spade & The Maltese Falcon are famous the world over Dashiel Hammett wrote only five full-length novels in his career. Now two new stories have been discovered in his papers. Following the enormous success of The Thin Man movie in 1934 Hammett wrote two novellas starring the same retired private investigator Nick Charles & his former debutante wife Nora. Written with classic barbed Hammett dialogue these two novellas have finally come to light. Together they make The Return of the Thin Man the first new Dashiell Hammett book in nearly half a century. Dashiell Hammett died in 1961. His influence inspired writers as diverse as Raymond Chandler & William Burroughs & changed the face of crime writing forever. ...

Someone is trying to destroy David Eliots school. A year ago hed have been happy to see the end of Groosham Grange & its ghoulish teachers. Now hes on course to win the Unholy Grail a cup of magical power presented to the star pupil. But a series of suspicious mishaps sees the gap between David & new boy Vincent King narrow alarmingly. Someone it seems is trying to stop David winning
- & worse threatening Groosham Grange itself!
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First published in 1946 in Return to Jalna the Whiteoak family reunites after a year of separation. Piers Renny & Wakefield return in 1943 during the Second World War. Finch has been off on a concert tour & Maurice has come home from Irel&. Fifteen-year-old Adeline returns from school & is now the stunning reflection of her namesake. Its a time of change & strain but the family remains united against all others. This is book 13 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Rennys Daughter. ...

People are taught to be separate from one another & to compete to get ahead that they are not good enough the way they are. This work provides a spiritual travel guide back to the truth people were born with & and shows how to accept back into their hearts the love that has been denied. ...

Keith Brockie's ' One Man's Island: Paintings & Sketches from the Isle of May' (1984) immediately became one of the bestselling Scottish natural history books of all time. The combination of breathtaking wildlife images with notes & background information captured unforgettably the beauty of nature & in particular that of the Isle of May a little gem of an island in the Firth of Forth. Since then Brockie has constantly returned to the Isle of May. From April through to October of 2010 he stayed on the island working intensively to produce an entirely new set of drawings & paintings. With his eye for colour & characteristic attention to detail he has produced a huge number of artworks mixing depictions of the majestic peregrine & white-tailed eagle with sketches of fluffy eider ducklings & kittiwake chicks. All the natural history of the island is represented from its delicate maritime flowers to fish crabs & lobsters. Return to One Man's Island will be the publishing event of the year for those who loved Brockie's original Isle of May book as well as a whole new generation of readers & lovers of wildlife painting. ...

Its a new term at Ribblestrop & the headmaster is hoping for a bit more organisation. But secrets remain under the ground the new Chaplain is not all that he seems & a truck load of circus animals has taken refuge in the school grounds. Amongst the new intake are a footballing protegee & a trainee psychopath...not to mention a pregnant panther & an escaped crocodile. Things are about to go from bad to worse at Ribblestrop...can Millie Sanchez & the gang help save the day once more? ...

Over eighty years since Winnie-the-Pooh first delighted readers David Benedictus takes us back to the Hundred Acre Wood for more adventures. This authorized sequel to A. A. Milne's original Winnie-the-Pooh stories by David Benedictus & illustrated by Mark Burgess in the style of the original E. H. Shepard illustrations is now available in paperback following the massive success of the hardback edition which published in autumn 2009. The paperback edition is the same format as the existing Milne & Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh The House At Pooh Corner Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young so fans can collect the range to create their very own complete Winnie-the-Pooh library. ...

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France to her husband Michel & his burgeoning family. However the homecoming celebrations are overshadowed by disturbing discoveries. The plight of the honey bee has become an international crisis & Carol is faced with unsettling news about the hives on her own olive farm. While the multinational companies are pushing for 'bigger better bumper' crops a small band of farmers & ecologists are calling for a halt to many of the modern farming malpractices that are endangering the planet. Carol is amongst them. But it puts her own farm her idyll under threat. At what point do you turn your back on all that you believe in & all that you have been fighting for? This is the story of how Carol & Michel struggle with some difficult choices & how they decide to deal with the unavoidable disappointments & inevitable responsibilities that come with running an organic farm. ...