This is the chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small invisible h&...an exceptional & bestselling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black" & " The Man in the Picture". Late one summers evening antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house & compelled by curiosity approaches the door. Standing before the entrance he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own as if a child had taken hold of it. At first he is merely puzzled by the odd incident but then begins to suffer attacks of fear & panic & is visited by nightmares. He is determined to learn more about the house & its once-magnificent now overgrown garden but when he does so he receives further increasingly sinister visits from the small h&." ...

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... ...

Rob Brydon
- star of Gavin & Stacey" Steve Coogans partner in " The Trip" & one of Britains favourite comedians
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Good bread warm towels crisp mornings girls nights out eating the froth on the cappuccino: these are the ordinary pleasures that make life worth living. Yet sometimes other things in our lives can be so overwhelming that we forget their healing power. In this inspiring book bestselling author Maeve Haran describes how the little things in life can prove to be the most satisfying. Swapping jokes with a shopkeeper or getting a smile from another driver when you let them into the traffic makes you feel better about yourself than any self-help book. Small Pleasures to Save Your Life" celebrates hundreds of everyday delights all designed to remind us how joyous life is." ...

Somebody just shot my kids! Diane Downs brought her car to a halt in front of a Springfield Oregon hospital her three gravely wounded children beside her. Thus begins the shocking tale of a truly unthinkable crime that shattered the tranquility of a tight-knit community. As police searched for the shaggy-haried stranger Diane accused of shooting 8-year-old Christie 7-year-old Cheryl & 3-year-old Danny in cold blood a suspicion grew that was even more horrifying than the crime itself: Did Diane shoot her own children? A dedicated district attorney haunted by this question searched for the destructive forces that seemed to possess this beautiful young mother & uncovered a chronology of incest psychological wounding desperate affairs & surrogate motherhood. ...

Armpit & X-Ray are living in Austin Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre & Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes he is going to school & he is enjoying his first proper romance but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him? In this exciting novel Armpit is joined by many vibrant new characters & is learning what it takes to stay on course & that doing the right thing is never the wrong choice. ...

A brilliant companion volume to the mega-bestselling Holes. Armpit & X-Ray are living in Austin Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre & Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes he is going to school & he is enjoying his first proper romance but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him? ...