When George & Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life but Sabine feels isolated heat-fatigued & ill at ease with the racial segregation & the imminent dawning of a new era. Her only solace is her growing fixation with Eric Williams the charismatic leader of Trinidads new national party to whom she pours out all her hopes & fears for the future in letters that she never brings herself to send. As the years progress George & Sabines marriage endures for better or worse. When George discovers Sabines cache of letters he realises just how many secrets shes kept from him
- & he from her
- over the decades. & he is seized by an urgent desperate need to prove his love for her with tragic consequences...

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Young Killian Melville is arguably the most brilliant architect of the age; passionate about his art he is liked by everyone. So when he visits Sir Oliver Rathbone in need of a lawyer to represent him over his alleged breach of promise to marry the daughter of his patron Rathbone agrees despite his misgvings. The case is not an easy one. Zillah is beautiful & even-tempered heiress to a fortune & a good friend. What more could any man want? & why would Melville risk losing the professional reputation he has worked all his life to build? Frustrated by his clients refusal to divulge any further information & convined he is keeping something from him Rathbone his own professional integrity at stake decides to ask his close friend Hester Latterly for an objective opinion about the case. She meanwhile has contacted William Monk to investigate a mysterious family matter from twenty years ago. Little do they realise that the three of them are about to tackle the most baffling & complex case with which they have ever been faced... ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

First published as Whiteoaks in 1929 in Whiteoaks of Jalna the saga of the Whiteoak family continues with more rivalries tangled relationships & secret love affairs. The colourful matriarch Adeline Whiteoak dies at 101. Each book is a complete & satisfying story in its own right but the Jalna series has proven itself to be addictive to generations of readers around the world. This is book 8 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Finchs Fortune. ...

The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard & is well respected all over the world. It not only upholds the traditions of English embroidery that go back many hundreds of years but is constantly taking embroidery forward in new & innovative ways. This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques. All of the authors were chosen by the RSN & all are graduate apprentices of the Royal School. Whitework begins with the history of this wide-ranging type of embroidery then explains the materials needed & the issues of designing & ordering your work for stitching in white on white fabric. The Stitches section covers pulled thread core surface decorative & drawn thread stitches as well as eyelets & cutwork. Two beautiful whitework pieces are then analysed to show how all the stitches & techniques were used & a traditional piece is reworked with a contemporary twist. Finally the further techniques of using layers net darning & trailing are shown. Step by step photography full instructions & diagrams make this a clear & user-friendly guide to whitework & Lizzy's skills & talent make it an inspirational book. ...

6 Of The Best: Whitney Houston comprises the sheet music to six of her greatest hits including I Will Always Love You & The Greatest Love Of All all arranged for piano voice & guitar. 6 Of The Best simply does what it says
- 6 of the best hits from leading artists available in a new & competitively priced format.
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Rachel & Kirsty are visiting Kirstys grandmother by the sea for their spring break. One morning they spot a very sparkly shell on the beach & it whisks them away to Fairyland! Its the occasion of the yearly Ocean Gala where Shannon the Ocean Fairy plays her Magical Golden Conch Shell to ensure that the seas & oceans remain peaceful & ordered for the year ahead. But Jack Frost is there to ruin things for everyone! His pesky goblins break the Magical Golden Conch Shell into seven pieces as they try to steal it & the pieces are whisked away into the oceans of the human world. Queen Titania uses her magic to send seven magical sea creatures to guard the pieces of the shell but the Ocean Fairies & Rachel & Kirsty must get the pieces back before chaos takes over the oceans! Can they outwit Jack Frost & his goblins & make the oceans a safe & happy place for everyone once again...? In this book Rachel & Kirsty must help Whitney search for her beloved whale & track down the sixth piece of the shell before the pesky goblins get it! ...

A collection of poems from a tenderly observant" poet who writes about what all of us can underst&. The title poem describes the poet's journey by train from Hull to London using the tones & rhythms of ordinary speech & focusing on the urban landscape of the industrial north." ...

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet
- a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land & of touching
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My granny is quite...different of that there is no doubt. In a world jam-packed with grannies youd always pick her out! Granny just loves to help & a little bit of magic always speeds things along. Sometimes though all her granddaughter wants to do is spend some normal (ish) time with her beloved granny. But will her birthday party go with a POP without any magic? ...