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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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.. .? ...

Writing in an accessible & anecdotal style Tom Wright helps us to negotiate the final book of the Bible regarded by many as the hardest to underst&. He encourages us to see how the Revelation of John offers one of the clearest sharpest visions of Gods ultimate purpose for the whole of creation: the overthrow of evil & the victory of God. ...

Nine hundred thousand years ago something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam its of little more than academic interest even after the discovery of a long-hidden almost perfect Amarantin city & a colossal statue of a wingest Amarantin. For brilliant but ruthloess scientist Dan Sylveste its more than merelty intellectual curiosity
- & he will stop at nothing to get at the truth. Even if the truth costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason & that danger is closer & greater than even Syveste imagines.. .REVELATION SPACE: a huge magnificent space opera that ranges acrioss the known & unknown universe.. .towards the most terrifying of destinations.
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And all shall be well & all manner of things shall be well... In 1373 when she was thirty years old Julian of Norwich received a series of sixteen visions. Pondering in prayer their meaning for twenty years she gradually came to realise their full significance. Written from the heart & borne from experience Julian's REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE is inspiring reading for all who seek to live their lives in close union with God. Her reflections are steeped in the Bible contain many profound insights into contemplative prayer & are as relevant today as when they were originally written. The greatest of the female mystics & a spiritual guide for today Julian in addition holds the distinction of being the first woman to write a book in the English language. This new edition

Includes:: an introduction that sets Julian in the context of her time & a foreword by Jeremy Begbie.

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