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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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. ...

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? ...

A wonderful gift set of Laurence Anholt's classic artists series now featuring five miniature hardback editions in a beautiful slipcase. All the stories are told through the eyes of children who knew the artists: Camille & the Sunflowers
- A Story about Vincent van Gogh Degas & the Little Dancer Leonardo & the Flying Boy Picasso & the Girl with a Ponytail The Magical Garden of Claude Monet.
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The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills & clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggles. He takes us on a historical journey from Palestine to Pakistan from Cuba to Indo-China & reframes mid-20th century history by forcing us to look away from the Cold War to the hot wars that continue to afflict us. The result is a dazzling work of history which examines the death of colonialism with passion insight & genuine understanding of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of realpolitik. ...

The body of a prostitute is found at Glasgow s Queen Street Station her hands pointing towards her feet placed as if in prayer a small flower pressed between the palms. Psychologist Solomon Brightman is called to assist DCI Lorimer in the murder hunt with the hope that his lateral thinking will shine a light on the case from a different angle. But before any conclusions can be drawn the body of a nurse is discovered at The Grange a private clinic. Aside from the careful arrangement of the corpses there is no obvious connection between the victims; Lorimer & Solomon are still very much in the dark. Then a third body turns up & it seems increasingly clear that they have a serial killer on their hands. ...

' On my desk sits a beautiful engraving published in another century that promises me: Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony & beauty." Promises & prayers contain their own kinds of answer as consecrated aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection written in the aftermath of September 11th the author of High Tide In Tucson & The Poisonwood Bible brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way the book moves on to consider a world of surprising & hopeful prospects ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter" ...