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. ...

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? ...

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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Its Spring again in the village of Thrush Green & with the changing season comes change for many of the villagers. An unexpected arrival at the local railway station is sure to disrupt more than one life; Joan Youngs father has come to Thrush Green in the hope that the country air will restore him to health; Miss Fogerty welcomes an old friend & Harold Shoosmith is hoping that at last his bachelor days are over. Meanwhile Molly & Ben Curdle have a very difficult decision to make... ...

Will Hodges' life is a mess! His mother is dead he has no friends & he thinks he is being followed by a strange group of people who tell him they know him. But Will can't remember them.. .at first. & when he does he doesn't like what he can remember. While Will is struggling with unsettling memories he learns that his past is a lot deeper than many people's & he has to find out if he is strong enough to break links with the powerful hold that history has on him. This compelling novel set in an alternate future challenges readers to consider the role we all have to play in making our society & asks how much we are prepared to stand up for what's right. ...

Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga & his family again in their village Barsaloi. Nervous as she was & uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her
- by Lketinga who still thought of her as his 'wife number one' by his brother James now a schoolteacher & especially by Lketinga's mother who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away & once again bringing to life the atmosphere & characters in the Masai village.
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