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. ...

Catherine (Kitty) Mc Mullen is seventeen restless & rebellious. Resentful of her mother Kate's new husband she yearns for stories of the father she never knew & when her gossipy aunt divulges that he was a wealthy gentleman Catherine's discontent with grimy impoverished Jarrow grows. Taking a job at the workhouse laundry her young eyes are further confronted with the horrors & indignities of poverty & she becomes even more determined to rise above her wretched surroundings by educating herself. Braving the ridicule of fellow staff Catherine embarks on a quest for knowledge. Soon the ill-educated & streetwise Kitty Mc Mullen is a ghost of the past & the well-spoken well-read Catherine leaves the north-east to follow her dreams. But hardship & heartbreak are not far behind & there are battles to be fought & won for this plucky & romantic heroine. RETURN TO JARROW concludes the bestselling trilogy that began with THE JARROW LASS & continued with A CHILD OF JARROW. ...

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. ...

The sequel to the bestselling THE SUMMERHOUSE tells the story of three women who are given the chance to go back in time & recreate their history. Amy is perfectionist with a wonderful husband & two young boys but when she suffers a miscarriage she suddenly realizes her life isnt as ideal as it seems on the outside. Faith is in her 30s but looks years older. Her husband died a year ago but she is really mourning another man
- one she let go years ago. & Zoe a painter who dresses in black & has multiple piercings suffered a brain injury & cant recall anything after her high school prom. All she knows is that she did something so horrible that her entire hometown hates her. These three women with nothing in common except for shared pain are united one weekend in a summerhouse in Maine. There they meet Madame Zoya & her sister Primrose who have mystical powers & give them the opportunity to alter their own histories. When Amy decides to return to 18th century Georgian England to see if she can change her husbands ancestor the other women elect to go with her & all three are given a chance to create their own happily ever after.
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