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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All Chloe Saunders wants is a life like any normal teenager
- the chance to get through school make friends & maybe meet a boy.
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All Chloe Saunders wants is a life like any normal teenager
- the chance to get through school make friends & maybe meet a boy.
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Ray Atlee a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia is forty-three & newly single. His father a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton Mississippi was once a beloved & powerful official who towered over local law & politics for many years. With the end in sight Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton to discuss the details of the family estate. Ray reluctantly heads south but the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon & in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret which Ray believes only he knows. Until it becomes clear that someone else knows too... John Grisham is a copper-bottomed promise of reliable storytelling...the legal trappings are as persuasive as ever". (" Independent"). " Smooth tough & addictive". (" Mirror"). " Almost no one tells a story better than Grisham: theres ann Ancient Mariner implacability about the way the story grips one...and doesnt let up". (" Evening Standard"). " Compelling". (" Times Literary Supplement")." ...

When it comes to relationships reality rules. Wed all like to think of ourselves as everyones best friend but whats the truth? Are you a hero or a zero to other people? Do you see yourself as others really see you? Do you need to make a fresh deposit into your relationship account before you go overdrawn? S.U.M.O. Your Relationships will help you manage maintain grow & move on in your key relationships with others & yourself. At some point in your life you are going to have to deal with difficult relationships whether its with a colleague parent friend or partner. Isnt it time you did a stock take of your relationships & started making the best of them? S.U.M.O. Your Relationships has pit stops pearls of wisdom & all the humour & inspiration you need to make the key changes in your life. You will discover the seven S.U.M.O. realities followed by seven insights to help light the way to a brighter future. PRAISE FOR S.U.M.O. YOUR RELATIONSHIPS This book is full of wisdom common sense & practical ideas on improving relationships. An essential read." -ALLAN PEASE Co-author of THE DEFINITIVE BOOK OF BODY LANGUAGE & WHY MEN DONT LISTEN & WOMEN CANT READ MAPS" ...

This simple non-fiction book introduces facts about the sun & the moon & compares them. * Yellow / Band 3
- A simple non-fiction
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