As haunting as Susan Hill's The Woman in Black & as dark as James Herbert's The Secret of Crickley Hall F. R. Tallis's The Sleep Room is where your nightmares begin.. . When promising psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk Richardson doesn't look back. One of his tasks is to manage a controversial project -- a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. As Richardson settles into his new life he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients -- six women forsaken by society. Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? & what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? It's not long before Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of The Sleep Room.. ...

One issue dominates the lives of many new parents
- sleep. Why wont their baby sleep? What is the best position to put him down
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This is a gentle heart-warming bedtime tale featuring the popular Big & Little Bear. Little Bear has found a little-bear-sized cave to play in...and when night falls he decides to sleep there too. But as he looks out of his cave at the moon shining through the dark trees Little Bear starts to wonder whether Big Bear might not be lonely without him... This is the fifth book in the award-winning Big & Little Bear" series that has sold over six million copies worldwide." ...

Sleep
- or lack of it
- is one of the most common 21st century health complaints. Only 1 in 10 of us say we always sleep well;

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Daisy is the new girl at school. She is finding her feet with a new group of friends & has become part of the alphabet club
- A
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A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber however investments are made that make him the richest & most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor & more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed & uneducated the masses cling desperately to one dream that the sleeper will awake & lead them all to freedom. ...

Sleeper is the critically acclaimed graphic novel series written Ed Brubaker & illustrated by Sean Philips the Eisner Award-winning creative team of Criminal which tells the story of agent Holden Carver a reluctant double agent without hope of rescue. Tao
- the criminal mastermind whose organization Carver has infultraited
- had Carvers only lifeline spymaster John Lynch shot leaving him in a coma. Taos cut off every means of escape & hes persuaded Carver to join him...for real this time.

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The true story of a group of four boys brought up in New Yorks notorious Mafia-run Hells Kitchen" during the 1960s. After nearly causing a mans death they were sent to a reformatory where guards routinely brutalized them leaving them with nothing but an undying loyalty to one another." ...

I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good the bad the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands. Catherine Townsend describes herself as part slut part hopeless romantic. Her quest is to have her cake & eat it
- an intelligent dinner date followed by a passionate one-night stand; to combine sleeping around with finding a soul mate. Sex in the City meets Girl With a One Track Mind in this candid sexy funny take on looking for love in unexpected places & how to find Mr Right
- or at least Mr Right Now.

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Chloe needs a holiday. Shes sick of making wedding dresses & her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain
- perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him & he works so hard to pay for it all he barely has time to see their children. But his old schoolfriend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain
- perfect. Both families arrive at the villa & get a shock: Gerard has double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins & tensions soon mount in the soaring heat. But theres also a secret history between the families
- & as tempers fray an old passion begins to resurface...


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