The fountain was not working. Nothing unusual in that... Marcus Didius Falco & his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked- by a gruesomely severed human h&. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts & sewers. Public panic overcomes official indifference & the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are bing abducted during festivals with the next Games only days away. As the heat rises in the Circus Maximus they face a race agaisnt time & a strong test of their friendship. They know the sadistic killer lurks somewhere on the festive streets of Rome- perparing to strike again. ...

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. ' There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days & wake up & dream' In this beautifully nostalgic memoir eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up. Focusing first on ' The Grange' where her grandfather the celebrated painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones set the cultivated tone Thirkell also reminisces about her parents' home in Kensington Square & the Burne-Jones' seaside retreat where Angela's cousin Rudyard Kipling lived across the green. A tale of forbidden explorations Punch & Judy shows & adventures in the garden Three Houses is beautifully evocative of the innocent quality of childhood. From the busy literary centre of London to the English coast this stunning memoir is both reminiscent of the golden days of youth & an interesting vision of a writer & the early influences that informed her later work. ...

A major achievement". (Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield). A Cotswold vicarage. A former girls' boarding school in Surrey. A Jacobean house now buried in inner London. Three Houses Many Lives tells the stories not only of the houses themselves but of the lives of the many people who lived in them. From Eugenia Stanhope who sold Lord Chesterfield's scandalous letters to the autocratic vicar who held the same parish from age 28 to 82 from the just-literate wife of a parish clerk who wrote riddles in his registers to the cow-keeper who farmed 226 acres in Hornsey till he sold them profitably when the railways came through. Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history making a particular place person or situation stand for a much larger picture." ...

Only since Victorian times has it been standard practice for mothers & fathers to send their babies to sleep alone away from the parental bed
- often in another room. This book reveals how babies who sleep with their parents benefit by getting virtually a full nights sleep. The author explains the advantages of this radical form of baby care including its benefits for breastfeeding mothers reviews the history of babies in the bed & through interviews with parents explores attitudes to the idea. The book also contains a fresh perspective on the tragedy of cot death as well as practical advice on how to sustain your sex life hints on safety in the bed answers to all the common objections & dealing with the moment when the baby leaves its parents bed.
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In this part historical part biographical volume eminent author Byron Rogers looks back over his life as a Welshman. He divides his memories into a series of three journeys taking in the experience of growing up in & leaving Wales. The first is into the old Welsh-speaking countryside of which his family were briefly a part of the second is their move from Bancyfelin to Carmarthen into an English-speaking part of the town where he was raised & the third is moving from Wales
- to Oxford & later Fleet Street
- & into the Welsh past which exile prompted. Part personal reminiscence part picture gallery part gazetteer Three Journeys sees Byron Rogers explore Wales past prompted by his own personal journeys.

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Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense & continuing interest to historians poets & dramatists. Writing some 1 200 years later the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage to fashion a sophisticated compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. Luos novel offers a startling & unsparing view of how power is wielded how diplomacy is conducted & how wars are planned & fought; it has influenced the ways the Chinese think about power diplomacy & war even to this day. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China Japan Korea & Vietnam & remains a great work of world literature. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete & unabridged translation available again. ...

Three Kingdoms" tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense & continuing interest to historians poets & dramatists. Writing some 1 200 years later the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage to fashion a sophisticated compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. Luos novel offers a startling & unsparing view of how power is wielded how diplomacy is conducted & how wars are planned & fought; it has influenced the ways the Chinese think about power diplomacy & war even to this day. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China Japan Korea & Vietnam & remains a great work of world literature. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete & unabridged translation available again." ...

A proven system for rallying all of an organizations employees around a new vision & ideas for making the vision stick When something at work isnt going smoothly managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first. Do they start with cost reduction? Or should they go for process improvements first? The authors--who have helped hundreds of companies & individuals change & improve--say spend time & money adjusting the systems in which people operate rather than targeting people & their performance directly. The authors show that its in fact possible to change everything at once--with a focus on making such transformations permanent & repeatable.* Br&-new Introduction written for the paperback edition* Filled with illustrative examples from Northrup Grumman BHP-Billiton Reebok Harvard Business School & many others* Two experts in the field show how to make major transformations happen The book outlines a process for engaging all employees to buy-in to an enhanced vision of an organizations new & enhanced future. ...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father s love a little boy s journey & the desperate search for a place to call home from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox. Eight-year-old Casey s mother Ruth is a cruel woman with a weakness for other women s husbands. Casey s father is gentle & hard-working & though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs he has chosen to turn a blind eye to keep the peace. But then out of the blue Tom s world is cruelly shattered when he receives two bits of devastating news. Because of this Tom realises that from now on their lives must change forever. A broken man Tom is made to fight for his son determined to keep him safe. But when fate takes a hand life can be unbearably cruel & Casey is made to remember his father s prophetic words... It s done. The dice is thrown & nobody wins. But unbeknown to Casey there are three letters penned by his father that may just change his destiny forever. ...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father's love a little boy's journey & the desperate search for a place to call home from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox. Eight-year-old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman with a weakness for other women's husbands. Casey's father is gentle & hard-working & though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs he has chosen to turn a blind eye to keep the peace. But then out of the blue Tom's world is cruelly shattered when he receives two bits of devastating news. Because of this Tom realises that from now on their lives must change forever. A broken man Tom is made to fight for his son determined to keep him safe. But when fate takes a hand life can be unbearably cruel & Casey is made to remember his father's prophetic words...' It's done. The dice is thrown & nobody wins.' But unbeknown to Casey there are three letters penned by his father that may just change his destiny forever. ...