Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics
- which addresses such questions as Truth telling in sexual relationships
- & she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the citys Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed dishonesty & murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didnt fall. He was pushed. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander Mc Call Smith introduces a new & pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder mayhem
- & the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective as an agent of God can return to us. But then Isabel being a philosopher has a thing or two to say about God as well.


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Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics
- which addresses such questions as ' Truth telling in sexual relationships'
- & she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed dishonesty & murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander Mc Call Smith introduces a new & pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder mayhem
- & the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective as an agent of God can return to us. But then Isabel being a philosopher has a thing or two to say about God as well.


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Sunday lunch is synonymous with relaxing & eating with friends & family & this book ensures that the cook has an enjoyable time too. Clarissa gives you classic & imaginative ways to cook all types of meat (and theres a chapter on fish too) broadening your repertoire & inspiring you to try new creations. She also

Includes:: all-important sauces ideas for accompanying vegetable dishes & an invaluable chapter on how to use up your leftovers. Johnny provides essential information on carving so that a beautiful roast isnt turned into a hacked-up travesty. Basic Stuffed Roast Chicken Beef Wellington & Pheasant with Figs are just a few of the tasty dishes that will have you cooking up a storm every Sunday.

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The Sunday Sessions" consists of twenty-six poems the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980
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Jane was a sweet funny chubby seven-year-old desperately seeking love from her self-obsessed mother Vivienne & a father who was wrapped up in a new life with his beautiful young girlfriend. Janes only friend was handsome funny thirty-something Michael. Michael was different; no one else could see him nor did they believe he existed beyond the realms of Janes very creative imagination. They would talk from morning until night. As Jane grew older though the time came for Michael to leave Janes side. Jane couldnt forget him though. Over twenty years since Michael said goodbye Jane catches a glimpse of that unforgotten face her heart pounding she cant believe it is true
- could it really be Michael? This time though Michael isnt just a figment of her imagination. But will the path of true love be a smooth one? & will Jane get her happy ever after? Sundays at Tiffanys" is a heart-warming romance about a girl who until now has lived her life on the sidelines about what it feels like to fall in love a tale of soulmates."
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Sunderland Match of My Life sees a dozen all-time greats re-live the game that stands out for them in their Sunderland careers. Jim Montgomery chooses the 1973 FA Cup final where he made the greatest save ever seen at Wembley while Niall Quinn also selects a great game from beneath the old twin towers the sensational 1998 play-off final where Sunderland scored 10 times & still somehow lost. Player of the Century Charlie Hurleys choice is a promotion winning game from 1964 record outfield appearance maker Len Ashurst goes for a cup quarter final that went to two replays with Manchester United in the same season while Stan Anderson picks a game where he scored twice to knock Arsenal out of the cup. Gary Rowell & Marco Gabbiadini select famous derby wins in which they scored at Newcastle while Tony Norman & Gary Bennett join Niall Quinn in re-visiting play-off games that ended in tears rather than joy. A famous Premier League win over Chelsea is Kevin Balls selection while as the only man alive to score five goals in a game Nick Sharkeys choice was an easy one. One of only three other players to score five in a match is SAFCs all-time record goalscorer Bobby Gurney. He passed away in 1994 Match of My Life reveals a previously unpublished 1992 interview with the England international who scored Sunderlands first ever goal at Wembley as the cup was won in 1937 a year after Gurney had netted 31 times as Sunderland won their sixth league title. Gurneys choice is a 10 goal thriller at Everton where he reckons he scored the most impossible of the impossible goals he was famed for. ...

This is the first book to give a detailed first-hand account of post-World War II RAF Short Sunderland operations in the Far East. The author was a navigator with 88 Squadron & later 205 Squadron flying operations during the Korean War the Malayan Emergency & many other operations. He was based at Seletar in Singapore Kaitak in Hong Kong Iwakuni near Hiroshima & various other operational bases throughout his two & a half year tour. The Sunderland flying boat was a unique aircraft in that each crew was allotted an aircraft which became their floating & airborne home. The author describes the Sunderland's performance & flying boat operating techniques including taking-off from & landing on the open sea. It

Includes:: a tour of the aircraft's interior & the equipment used by the ten-man crew all well illustrated by photographs. The task of long distance navigation in the Far East during the early 1950s relied on the conventional methods of astro navigation & dead reckoning a difficult task when crossing hundreds of miles of open ocean & encountering monsoon & tropical storm conditions. Amongst the noteworthy events included is a return flight from Singapore to Hong Kong across 1 400 miles of ocean with a VIP passenger his first operational flight as a 21 year old Pilot Officer navigator. He then undertakes an operation involving a return trip to Scotland which took three months. On moving to Kaitak the Sunderlands provided air cover for search & rescue operations taking off & landing amongst the port's many small & erratically steered shipping craft. He flew sixty-one missions in support of the United Nations forces fighting in & around Korea enduring the threat of Chinese fighters over the Yellow Sea. In one operation an engine fire caused the crew to ditch in the Tsushima Strait with serious structural failure & they were rescued by the USS De Haven a US destroyer. This is a worthy record of some of the legendary Short Sunderland's final roles in the RAF.

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The Roman Club a school group interested in the occult to which hes practically enslaved has become boring for one Hideo Aiba. In fact he finds his entire existence pretty tiresome until one day when a girl named Kurumi Sahana shows up & wants to join up. When the two are left alone in the club classroom Kurumi makes a special request of Hideo which makes him (understandably) freak out. Though he doesnt know what to think one things for sure Hideos life just became anything but boring. ...

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's new novel poignantly tells of a daughter's attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother's haunted past. Warm melancholy & evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness. A haunting tale of a family who can't escape the consequences of their mother's tormented childhood. Hayden a master storyteller again turns her talent to fiction in this novel that combines a psychological thriller with a nuanced family drama. Lesley's Hungarian mother Mara -- charming childlike lovable -- is traumatized by her adolescent Holocaust experiences. Though her American husband & daughters try to live a normal life Mara holds them thrall to her moods & quirks. Lesley struggles to understand but dealing with Mara is a severe strain which sets her apart from her peers. But when Mara's psychosis results in tragedy Lesley goes to Wales in search of her mother's remembered joy. ...

The little knight wants a sword to whoosh & swoosh in the air. His mother gives him a sunflower instead. The sunflower sword whooshes & swooshes very well. But says the little knight it wont be any good for fighting dragons. Or will it? ...