A powerful & moving chronicle of the different ways in which members of a small Trinidadian community Bonasse hold on to their identity as they find themselves caught up in change & corruption. Bolo is a champion stick fighter tall good looking & the fastest strongest & bravest of al the young men in Bonasse. When time & time again he sees his people humiliated by American troops his instincts as a leader prevail. But the stand he makes takes on bizarre & tragic forms. Introduction by Marjorie Thorpe. ...

Helene is a troubled young girl. Neglected by her self-absorbed mother & her adored but distant father she longs for love & for freedom. As first the Great War & then the Russian Revolution rage in the background she grows from a lonely melancholy child to an angry young woman intent on destruction. The Wine of Solitude is a powerful tale of an unhappy family in difficult times & a woman prepared to wreak a shattering revenge. ...

Anyone with an interest in wine will know that there&8217;s nothing better than enjoying a glass in stunning surroundings with ...

Patrick OBrians Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the sixteenth book in the series. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster & delight Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephens objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young & uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock & barbarity of h&-to-hand fighting are sharpened by OBrians exact sense of period his eye for landscape & his feel for a ship under sail. ...

This is the book for the winemaker who likes the ease & convenience of making wine from concentrates. Particularly invaluable to the town- & city-dweller who enjoys wine but lacks the facilities to make it from grapes & other fruits the recipes are formulated from concentrates which are readily available to make 1-2 gallon batches of wine. Peter Duncans vast experience & knowledge of the way wine can be made with concentrates is all here in these pages
- this is the book that every winemaker who uses them will want to keep for ready reference.
...

In this fast paced narrative ex-SAS surgeon Richard Villar provides 'a very personal insight into the difficulties dangers & occasional virtual impossibility of providing medical aid to disaster areas & war zones. He shares his remarkable experiences in the aftermath of three major earthquakes
- Kashmir (2005) Java (2006) & Haiti (2010)
- as well as in the Libyan civil war (2011). Readers are given a no-holds-barred introduction to a world which the vast majority will have only scant knowledge of. The author describes what happens on the ground before a full aid programme swings into action. Arriving in a stricken area with the infrastructure destroyed his small dedicated team can take nothing for granted; water power shelter & the rule of law are likely to be non-existent & disease & shortages of food & water ever present. They meet challenges that the rest of us can only imagine & are under intense pressure to help comfort & sustain overwhelming numbers of trauma struck men women & children whose worlds have been turned upside down. Winged Scalpel is not only a riveting read but highly instructional & informative. From his own point of view the author's experiences prove that 'you can take a man out of the SAS but you cannot take the SAS out of the man'.

...

There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918 based very largely on the authors experiences. Combat loneliness fatigue fear comradeship women excitement--all are built into a vigorous & authentic structure by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps. ...

Winged Warriors is an open & honest account of one mans perceptions & fears his actions & mistakes from a career that spanned four decades. The author spent fourteen years overseas & at the height of the Cold War served on two Tornado tactical nuclear squadrons in West Germany only fifteen minutes from responding in full measure to an anticipated Soviet onslaught. Earlier he had flown reconnaissance aircraft on NATOs vulnerable southern flank. He was decorated for gallantry in 1980 & appointed OBE in 1995. Later as the senior RAF adviser in Kuwait he witnessed the air war against Iraq in 1998. Winged Warriors touches on many aspects of military service but it is not about war or war-fighting; it is about real people & their highs & lows ordinary people who found themselves in extraordinary circumstances. & it is about the training & tragedy that affected a generation of aircrew many of whom gave their lives in preserving peace. It is those crews who stand out in Winged Warriors: true warriors in every sense of the word blessed with an irrepressible sense of humour regardless of circumstance a humour that was typically British & very typically RAF. Paul Mc Donald is a retired RAF group captain & a former fast-jet pilot & flying instructor. In his youth he was an Air Cadet & he is a current Air Cadet Gliding Instructor. ...

. .. It is remarkable that one man should have been involved in so much action in so few years...I commend his biography to the reader.. .by any standard he was a hero & he tells his life's story with modesty & humour. Extract from the Foreword by Admiral Lord Boyce Captain Mervyn Wingfield was one of the last of his generation of submariners who made their reputation in the Second World War. Pre-war he had served on the China station & lived the riotous life of a young officer; in the war he commanded three submarines Umpire Sturgeon & Taurus survived a collision in the North Sea spent a winter in the Arctic penetrated the Norwegian fjords submerged through a minefield surfaced off St Nazaire in view of German guns to act as a navigation marker for the raiding force fought cavalry in the northern Aegean & later off Penang was the first British submariner to sink a Japanese submarine
- & barely survived the subsequent vicious counterattack after Taurus was severely damaged & became stuck in the mud at the bottom. Any one of these incidents would have merited a place for Wingfield in the history of naval warfare & the pantheon of submarine heroes. The Royal Navy's most senior submariner Admiral Lord Boyce notes in his Foreword that the diesel-powered submarines in which both men served were not so different but the risks which Wingfield took in wartime were greater & Lord Boyce admired the way in which Wingfield led his crew & was loved by them. Many men were burned-out by the war but in the postwar years Wingfield enjoyed a successful peacetime career in the Royal Navy where finally his personal qualities & his diplomacy were put to the test as a naval attache. In retirement Wingfield was well-known for hosting lively beef & Stilton lunches at the London Boat Show! He was also one of the last of the generations of Anglo-Irish families who served the Crown & provided officers & men for the Army & the Navy & his story in addition gives some insights into his early days especially with regard to being a young officer in the Royal Navy in the 1930s.
...

Zoe Sorensson yearns to come into her powers as the only female dragon shifter. But being part of two worlds is more complicated than she expected. Its bad enough that shes the target of the Mages plan to eliminate all shifters
- she also has to hide her true nature from her best friend Meagan a human. For her sixteenth birthday all Zoe wants is one normal day including a tattoo & a chance to see hot rocker Jared. Instead the Pyr throw her a birthday party but ban Meagan from attendance putting Zoe in a tight spot. Things get even worse when Zoe is invited to the popular kids Halloween party & Meagans left out. Zoe knows the party is a trap laid by the host an apprentice Mage. When Meagan gets a last-minute invite Zoe must save the day
- & her best friend
- without revealing her fire-breathing secrets -


...