A land of summer...A human child...A dangerous test. Fer is the Lady of the Summerlands
- a magical realm on the other side of
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A warm June evening a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy when Penny Alistair's car crashes leaving her dead & her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers Penny's boyfriend Jake & her friend Demeter are physically unhurt
- but the emotional damage is overwhelming. As summer unfolds details of that devastating night continue to surface. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel & startling truths emerge about the survivors & their parents: revelations of secrets kept promises broken.. .and hearts betrayed.
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Carmen Tibby Lena & Bridget have been best friends all their lives. They live in the same small American town & usually spend every moment of their long summer holidays together. The year they turn 16 is the first time they have separate plans for the summer but the girls are determined to keep in touch. Tibby buys a pair of jeans in a second-hand shop & the girls discover that the trousers magically fit each of them perfectly despite their different figures & heights. They hit upon a wonderful plan of sharing the jeans throughout the vacation
- sending them on to the next friend when they feel the time is right. From Baja California to Greece from film-making to football the girls
- & the travelling pants
- encounter first love family upset & fatal illness. Secure in the knowledge that their friendship is constant
- & the symbol of it need never be more than a parcel-delivery away
- the girls survive their summer & return home with a wealth of new experiences to share. This is a perfect teen-chick summer read; a quirky humorous & memorable cut above the rest.




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Lena immerses herself in her painting & an intoxicating summer fling fearing that the moment she forgets about Kostos will be the moment she sees him again. Carmen falls under the spell of a sophisticated college friend for whom a theatrical role means everything & the heritage of the Pants means nothing. Bridget joins a dig for an ancient city on the coast of Turkey & discovers that her archaeology professor is available in every way except one. Tibby leaves behind someone she loves wrongly believing he will stay where she has left him. Join Ann Brashares' beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling fearless novel. It's a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena Carmen Bee & Tibby here & now past & future together & apart. ...

Summer is always a special time for the four teenage best friends: Bee Tibby Carmen & Lena. They have the time to hang out get jobs share secrets discuss boys
- & wear the amazing jeans they call the travelling pants. This year there's an added poignancy as the girls know this is their last summer together before going off to different universities. With Lena defying her father Carmen resenting her mother Bee rediscovering her first love & Tibby trying to escape her family the air is fraught with tension. Can the strength of their friendship overpower the feuds in their families & leave the girls with happy memories of the third summer of the sisterhood?
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee in his thirties is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This the biographer senses is the period when he was finding his feet as a writer. Never having met Coetzee he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him
- a married woman with whom he had an affair his favourite cousin Margot a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him former friends & colleagues. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider someone who tried to flee the tribe & has now returned chastened. His insistence on doing manual work his long hair & beard rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. Sometimes heartbreaking often very funny Summertime" shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with " Boyhood" & " Youth"."
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Cartwheel into this sparkling new series about the exciting energetic & inspirational world of gymnastics! Tara loves doing cartwheels & handstands in her garden spending every spare moment practising! But with so many other things to learn like backflips & somersaults Tara is desperate to join a gym club. When her mum finally relents Tara signs up for a summer course at Silverdale Gymnastics Club. With a real sprung floor bars beams & a big foam pit the gym club is everything that Tara has ever dreamed of. After a whirlwind week Tara can't believe her luck when she's asked to join the acrobatics squad & is partnered up with another girl ready to learn all sorts of new balances & moves! Girls will love this fantastic new series filled with fun friendship & backflips. ...

Winter was chilling. Summer will be brutal. Every season is perfect for murder. As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45? forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Link?ping for the summer take shelter indoors shocked & paralysed by the heat. However when a teenage girl is discovered naked & bleeding in the local park it is clear that the raging heat is not the only plague affecting the town. Then a second girl is found dead. Alarmed by the fact that the victims are the same age as her daughter Tove detective Malin Fors will work round-the-clock to capture the perpetrator. But as every lead comes to nothing it is as though the oppressive heat is clogging up the wheels of her investigation. & time is not on Malin's side.. . ...

Autobiographical without being an autobiography confessional without disclosing his private self The Summing Up" written when Maugham was sixty-four is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style literature art drama & philosophy but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft." ...

The late Poet Laureate John Betjeman reads his own poetic autobiography. In the much-loved tones of Sir John himself this magnificent autobiography in verse captures the voice of the late Poet Laureate. From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate & Archibald his old stuffed bear through to his undergraduate years at Oxford & his early career John Betjemans unique narrative style poignantly describes the pains & pleasures of growing up. Summoned by Bells can hardly help being a landmark...one seems to be living his childhood & boyhood with him
- Stephen Spender.
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