White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers & daughters their ambiguous alliances their selfish love & cruel behaviour & the search for love & identity. Astrid has been raised by her mother a beautiful headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover & is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination to survive & be loved makes her an unforgettable figure. 'LIQUID POETRY'
- Oprah Winfrey ' Tangled Complex & extraordinarily moving'
- Observer

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This is a mountain bike guide to the White Peak area of the southern Peak District from the most successful UK publisher of MTB guides. The White Peak covers the area around Chesterfield Hope Valley Matlock Buxton Macclesfield Bakewell & Dove Valley with 26 routes of varying difficulty & length. Combining the finest trails in the southern half of the Peak District with new some new routes from the Dark Peak this guide leads the rider to the sweetest trails in this fantastic region; along its twisting singletrack down its grin-inducing descents & with luck up its exhausting climbs. Complementing the best-selling Dark Peak Mountain Biking" the rides are designed by local riders with many years experience. Each route has been ridden enjoyed & then accurately described with easy-to-follow directions & clear specially designed mapping. Featuring a special bonus section it

Includes:: 26 great routes & Andy Heading photography."

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Malaya 1941. As the glamorous wife of a plantation owner Connie Hadley appears to lead a pampered & comfortable life. But she is hiding devastating secrets that could destroy her marriage. Life is changed for ever on the day of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. As Japanese Zero aircraft attack the town of Palur Connie takes the decision to flee to Singapore on the familys boat The White Pearl. She sails with her husband & son three friends & the enigmatic boat dealer Fitzpayne who is the only one who can navigate the islands of the South China Sea. In desperation short of food & constantly in danger fear strips away good manners; tensions arise on the yacht & anger causes deadly divisions between friends.. . ...

When Tom Headley enlists underage in the Great War he & his childhood friends head straight to the front line as tunnellers. In tragic circumstances Tom is blamed for the deaths of his comrades. His family & sweetheart back home are shunned by the community. Eighty years later a young schoolgirl sets out to research her great grandparents as part of a Poppy Day project. She uncovers shocking truths & in doing so rights a wrong that has lasted for generations & rewrites history...* Engaging accessible dialogue * Many cross-curricular links * Perfect for exploring the relevance of history today. ...

Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the tumult & intrigue of The Wars of the Roses to vivid life through the women of the House of Lancaster & the House of York beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville the White Queen. A woman who won the love of a king & ascended to royalty by virtue of her beauty Elizabeth fought tenaciously for the success of her family -- her daughter who would one day unite the warring dynasties & her two sons whose eventual fate has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower. An active player in the power struggles that surrounded her she made hard & courageous choices always trying to protect those whom she loved. Informed by impeccable research & framed by her inimitable storytelling skills Philippa Gregory gives an unforgettable voice to an extraordinary woman at the heart of a devastating conflict. ...

In South Carolina a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape & murder of Marianne Larousse daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch a case with its roots in old evil & old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover his unborn child even his soul... For in a prison cell a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting & a strange hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps & northern forests in distant locations linked by a single thread a place where the paths of the living & the dead converge. A place known only as the White Road. ...

A classic of mountaineering literature this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger the most legendary & terrifying climb in history. Heinrich Harrer author of ' Seven Years in Tibet' & one of the twentieth century's greatest mountaineers was part of the team that finally conquered the Eiger's fearsome North Face in 1938. It was a landmark expedition that pitted the explorers against treacherous conditions & the limits of human endurance & which many have since tried
- & failed
- to emulate. Armed with an intimate knowledge that comes only from first-hand experience of climbing the Eiger Harrer gives a gripping account of physical daring & mental resilience. A new introduction by Joe Simpson author of ' Touching the Void' confirms the lasting relevance of this true adventure classic.

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Zadie Smiths White Teeth" is a classic international bestseller & an unforgettable portrait of London. One of the most talked about fictional debuts of ever " White Teeth" is a funny generous big-hearted novel adored by critics & readers alike. Dealing
- among many other things
- with friendship love war three cultures & three families over three generations one brown mouse & the tricky way the past has of coming back & biting you on the ankle it is a life-affirming riotous must-read of a book. " Funny clever.. .and a rollicking good read". (" Independent"). " An astonishingly assured debut funny & serious.. .I was delighted". (Salman Rushdie). " The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages". (Julian Barnes " Guardian"). " Quirky sassy & wise.. .a big splashy populous production reminiscent of books by Dickens & Salman Rushdie.. .demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent & a fully fashioned voice thats street-smart & learned sassy & philosophical all at the same time". (" New York Times"). " Smith writes like an old hand & sometimes like a dream". (" New Yorker"). " Outstanding.. .A strikingly clever & funny book with a passion for ideas for language & for the rich tragic-comedy of life". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Do believe the hype". (" The Times"). " Relentlessly funny.. .idiosyncratic & deeply felt". (" Guardian"). Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel " White Teeth" won the Whitbread First Novel Award the Guardian First Book Award the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction & the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize & was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel " On Beauty" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels " The Autograph Man" & "NW" a collection of essays " Changing My Mind" & also edited a short-story anthology " The Book of Other People"."

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Meet Balram Halwai the White Tiger: servant philosopher entrepreneur murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop crushing coal & wiping tables but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur he takes his opportunity & is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid todays Indias cockroaches & call-centres its 36 000 004 gods slums shopping malls & crippling traffic jams Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. Driven by desire to better himself he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage.. .through murder. ...

White Water Nepal" is probably the most iconic & famous rivers guidebook in the world of international kayaking & rafting & it is the book that you will find on every international river runners bookshelf or wish list. This new & thoroughly updated third edition opens the doors to the exhilarating joys of Himalayan river running. Nepal has become one of the worlds top destinations for white water kayaking & rafting & this new edition reflects this with updates from many Nepali top river runners & also contributions from celebrity international river runners. The new edition has detailed & updated descriptions of all the major rivers of Nepal & over 2300km of paddling. There are over 100 maps hydrographs river profiles photos & drawings by some of Nepals best artists. There is extensive travel & logistics advice & the medical sections have been widely acclaimed by Expedition Doctors." ...