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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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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Murder was work. Some went about the job devotedly others carelessly. & for some murder was a labour of love. On the day of his sixtieth birthday Walter C. Pettibone is blissfully unaware of his impending death. His final act in life is to accept a glass of champagne by a woman with startling green eyes. A big mistake. Homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas knows she faces a deadly foe
- one with a frightening vendetta. & as the chase draws Eve dangerously close to her own dark past her focus slips. But then Eve's billionaire husband's name is put on Julianna's fatal list
- & Eve ups her game. Luring Julianna into a dangerous trap which puts everyone at risk Eve finds herself fighting for more than justice.

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The secret is out
- cheerleader Olivia & vampire Ivy are twins! Now that Ivy & Olivia have told their friends that they're twins
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Spring 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer & the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake meanwhile is working on the case of a teenage boy who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum before his terrifying religious mania leads to him being burned as a heretic. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake vows to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to Cranmer & Catherine Parr -- & to the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake together with his assistant Jack Barak & his friend Guy Malton investigate a series of horrific murders which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft & demonic possession -- for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer.. .? ...