Harris Anwar is a British Pakistani proud of his Eastern heritage. In fact its fair to say hes proud full stop: proud he installed his own central heating; proud of his swanky blue Citroen; even proud hes owned the same Hoover for over twenty years. The only thing rivalling his pride is his Muslim sense of responsibility & obligation. He longs to do well by those dearest to him. Whether its his nineteen-year-old daughter Alia in London his cousin Nawaz & his family living on top of their burgeoning takeaway in Yorkshire or his friends & family back in Pakistan Harris feels compelled to put himself second in order to help. But theres a problem: Harris best intentions always seem to breed the worst results. & so its no surprise that when he decides to use his divorce settlement for selfless ends this small fortune brings a huge cost of its own. ...

From initial inspiration to final layout create your own small garden with the help of gardening design expert John Brookes. Whether you want a room outside for leisure & entertainment or simply a space to call your own inspiring photographs & detailed diagrams show what you can achieve whatever space you have from grassy lawn to balcony roof terrace window or passageway. Britains most talented & esteemed garden designer
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Its widely accepted in business that great companies grow their revenues & profits year after year
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Just because you can't explain it doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion & indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes & sizes. In such a competitive environment there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. & it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances you need an acolyte & fast. Preferably one who won't ask too many questions... ...

Just because you cant explain it doesnt mean its a miracle. In the beginning was the Word. & the Word was: Hey you!" This is the Discworld after all & religion is a controversial business. Everyone has their own opinion & indeed their own gods of every shape & size & all elbowing for space at the top. In such a competitive environment shape & size can be pretty crucial to make ones presence felt. So its certainly not helpful to be reduced to appearing in the form of a tortoise a manifestation far below god-like status in anyones book. In such instances you need an acolyte & fast: for the Great God Om Brutha the novice is the Chosen One
- or at least the only One available. He wants peace & justice & brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now please..."
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Harriet Mansfield brave wry & handsome is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt & a new large inheritance it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve. So she decides to open the school of her dreams. To her precious little girls rich in everything but care she vows to provide the happiest childhoods in the world. For everyone knows that early years passed in delightful ways can set you up for life. But can this ambitious new departure spill some retrospective sweetness onto Harriets own harsh beginnings or better still cancel them out altogether? Will the family shes estranged from ever grant her the recognition she craves? Written with deep psychological insight & coal-black humour The Small Hours is a stunning meditation on love self-love & forgiveness & their shadowy opposites. ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Small House at Allington" by Anthony Trollope. " What a villain you are.. .a villain & a poor weak silly fool. She was too good for you." Engaged to the ambitious & self-serving Adolphus Crosbie Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life & therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. & when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity " The Small House at Allington" contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale
- a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved
- & is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures. " The Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."


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Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumachers stimulating & controversial study of economics & its purpose. This remarkable book examines our modern economic system
- its use of resources & impact on how we live
- questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about. The revolutionary ideas are as pertinent inspirational & thought-provoking today as when they were first published in 1973.

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Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction as well as many other awards Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought & profoundly moving novel of empire prejudice war & love. It has now been adapted into a major BBC TV drama. It is 1948 & England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street London the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie & knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense too had longed to leave Jamaica & start a better life in Engl&. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby decrepit & far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was... ...

Small Knight & George the Dragon are off on quest
- to rescue the worlds biggest chocolate cake thats been stolen in the night
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