A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolsons own national treasure his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm & beauty a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be? The story of this piece of land an estate in the Weald of Kent is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson who now lives there has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor & great sixteenth-century house from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm & on to the creation by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again to become the landscape of orchards cattle fruit & sheep he remembered from his boyhood. Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat & oilseed rape? Against the odds he was going to try. This paperback edition will be fully updated to cover the first year of Adam Nicolsons endeavour to revive the estate & return it to the glories of its past. More than just a personal biography of a place this book is the story of taking an inheritance & steering it in a new direction just as an entrepreneur might take hold of a company or just as all of us might want to take our dreams & make them real. ...

Nothing can break the bond between sisters.. . When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister Tess is missing she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life
- & unprepared for the terrifying truths she must now face. The police Beatrice's fiance & even their mother accept they have lost Tess but Beatrice refuses to give up on her. So she embarks on a dangerous journey to discover the truth no matter the cost.
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Its two years after the events of Girl Missing & life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren as exam pressure & a recent family tragedy take their toll. Laurens birth mother takes Lauren & her two sisters on holiday in the hope that some time together will help but a few days into the holiday one of the sisters disappears under circumstances very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. Can Lauren save her sister & stop the nightmare happening all over again? ...

It's two years after the events of Girl Missing & life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren as exam pressure & a recent family tragedy take their toll. Lauren's birth mother takes Lauren & her two sisters on holiday in the hope that some time together will help but a few days into the holiday one of the sisters disappears under circumstances very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. Can Lauren save her sister & stop the nightmare happening all over again? ...

Daughters of the formidable Isabella & Ferdinand of Spain Katherine & Juana were born in to a world of privilege & luxury that ...

We all have a dark side... Elizabeth Greene is devastated when her boyfriend of ten years leaves her for someone else. After a night of drowning her sorrows leads to an unexpected one-night stand Elizabeth finds herself pregnant alone & vulnerable. Helen has just discovered she has a sister she didn't know she had. Bored with her privileged life in France & driven by a need to gain her parents' approval Helen sets out to find her sister & reunite her with her long-lost mother. When her search leads her to Elizabeth the two women become closely linked. But their connection to one another is founded on a dark deception with the truth having extreme consequences... ...

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen convicted of cowardice was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil & his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport & Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly spacefolder ships". Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so decades after the defeat of the thinking machines anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges..." ...

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen convicted of cowardice was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil & his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport & Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly spacefolder ships". Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so decades after the defeat of the thinking machines anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges…" ...

Following the success of The Shell House Linda Newbery again demonstrates her brilliance at weaving thought-provoking subjects into a wholly satisfying & sensitively drawn novel. Hilly's German grandmother Heidi Gran comes to live with her family after she gets Alzheimer's disease; but as her mind becomes more muddled secrets buried in her past start to emerge. Why does Heidi Gran keep talking about a girl called Rachel? & why does she make racist remarks about Hilly's friend Reuben? As Hilly struggles to cope with revelations about her family's past she encounters racism & prejudice for herself when a friend becomes the victim of a mindless attack; she also falls in love for the first time. This is a wonderfully evocative novel exploring the recurring prejudices that affect every generation. ...

On 3 September 1939 the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Germany. Thousands of young women many of them barely out of school were sent headlong into grueling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. Sisters" features over 150 previously unpublished interviews from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. From the bombed-out wards of the Blitz to the harsh conditions of army field hospitals & from the nurses' pioneering work in the treatment of burns to the challenges of delivering a baby in a blackout these courageous individuals relate with candour wit & compassion their memories of the war. The members of this sisterhood found reserves of inner strength & made friendships that carried them through episodes of unrelieved horror. For many wartime nursing was a life-changing experience & in telling their vivid poignant & riveting stories " Sisters" captures their pride grief & joy. It is a fitting tribute to their spirit & bravery." ...