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Maureen Duffy / Illuminations

Hetty Dearden has taken early retirement after an unhappy affair with the male head of the history department at the college at which she lectured. She is asked to attend a conference in German, where the subject is to be Europe: Past and Present. Whilst...

Paula Astridge / In The Way Of The Reich

Hermann Goering, one of the most senior members of the Third Reich, was one of those responsible for murdering millions. His brother Albert risked his own life to rescue hundreds of Jews from the nazi death machine. Ernst Udet won the Blue Max for...

Rob Temple / More Very British Problems

DO YOU SUFFER FROM VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS ABROAD?If you...*Carry emergency teabags in your money belt*Quietly tut at badly formed 'queues'*Cleverly avoid blisters by wearing socks with your sandals...then you may have a serious problem for which...

John B. Keane / Dan Paddy Andy: The Matchmaker

At a time when priests patrolled the narrow country lanes at night, searching with sticks and even with dogs, for courting couples, Dan Paddy Andy came in for ringing denunciations from the Church. Archdeacon Browne intoned from the There is a wild...

Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan

This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently...

Joseph A. Enzweiler / Curb in Eden

A Curb in Eden is a poem about youth and love, a poem about a father's old age and death and how both are braided into one life, unfolding each other's story. It is a poem as well about work, passion, dreams, memory, and in the end, about...

John Hildebidle / Defining Absence

Absence is one of those commonplace words that can prove oddly resistant to definition. The poems in this collection undertake the work of defining absence in a number of contexts, most painfully that of the premature death of a child...

James Simmons / The Company of Children

James Simmons has published many works of poetry, including Poems 1956-1986 and Mainstream (available from Dufour). He is a member of Aosdana.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Martin Sixsmith / An Unquiet Heart

1917. Russia is dying amid war, revolution and terror. The birth pains of the new world are a foretaste of the cruellest century. At their heart is Sergei Yesenin, 22, a poet, lover, wounded veteran, beautiful and afraid. Damaged by childhood...

Earnie Larsen / Believing In Myself

A solid sense of self-worth is the single most important factor in determining our happiness in life and our success in work and relationships. With it, virtually all things are possible. Without it, even victories can feel like defeats. That's why...

Stephen Leather / Nightshade

Jack Nightingale #4   In Jack Nightingale's world - where reality and the occult collide - sometimes the only way to fight evil is with evilA farmer walks into a school and shoots eight children dead before turning the gun on...

L.J. Ross / Penshaw

DCI Ryan Mysteries #13   When you sell your soul, the devil gives no refunds... When an old man is burned alive in a sleepy ex-mining village, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is called in to investigate. He soon discovers that, beneath the...

Stacey Gregg / Shibboleth

Development. Hotels, spas, Nando’s, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers.A group of construction workers is building an extension to the Peace Wall that separates Them-ens from Us-ens. When Polish worker...

Eugene O'Brien / Heaven

I am getting nearer to something. The answer to the question. Who am I? A woman who leaves her husband very suddenly for an old lover and heads to a cottage in Kerry?I needed someone strong. Someone who would sweep me along. Keep me here. In this world...

Darren Murphy / X’ntigone: after Sophocles

Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken.The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent. Things...

Breda Sullivan / After the Ball

Breda Sullivan's poetry is much praised for its quality of delving deeply into human experience with a spare, exacting grace. Hers is a quiet, unobtrusive voice, clear and direct. Her poems are honest and accessible. In the opening section she...

Teun Toebes / The Housemates

Nursing student Teun Toebes decided to rent a room in a care home to find out what it's like to live with dementia. He watched his new housemates dance and they helped him celebrate his graduation, but Teun was devastated at how society views people...

Thomas Moore / Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life

Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates , draws on the twelve years he lived as a monk in this insightful book of a hundred one-page meditations. Interspersed with glimpses of the beauty and humor of the monk's life, each...

R.T. Smith / Split the Lark: Selected Poems

The poems of Split the Lark record one man's mission to find the mythic in the social, the crucial in the casual, the supernatural in the natural. R. T. Smith's precise images and quietly modulated music cast a wide net, engaging Native American...

Angela Patten / Still Listening

These poems depend on memory and dreams as their inexhaustible source. They describe the romantic America of childhood and the folklore of the remembered Irish past. They come out of an oral tradition in which family troubles are turned into familiar...

Jerah Chadwick / Story Hunger

Here are poems crossing seascapes and land, about the wild absences of the Aleutian landscape, the deep absences of those who have vanished, and our own groping efforts to understand ourselves, our place, and our history...

Matt Thorne / Dreaming of Strangers

Becca Coles is a cinema buff in her late twenties. So is Chris Paley. Becca sees herself as a femme fatale (more Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction than Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction ). Chris, a movie reviewer, has recently given up action...

Paul Ferguson / Thomas Cook Travellers Brittany

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John Kavanagh / Half-Day Warriors

John Kavanagh brings to his readers a maturing and developing talent, with which he continues to explore his favorite the energies and impulses, the gains and losses of love; a highly developed awareness of a sense of place in the post-modern world;...

Geographers' A-Z Map Company / A-Z Mini London Street Atlas

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Kate Manning / My Notorious Life

‘In the end, they celebrated. They bragged. They got me finally, was their feeling. They said I would take my secrets to the grave.They should be so lucky.’Defiant and daring, Axie Muldoon claws her way from the streets up to the dizzying...

Nigel West / The Secret War for the Falklands

First published on the 15th anniversary of the 1982 Falklands War THE SECRET WAR FOR THE FALKLANDS is nothing less than the secret history of the conflict, the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged by an enemy since 1945. In terms of hardware it...

Michael Hastings / Tom And Viv

One of the great plays of the eighties, Tom and Viv uncovers life of T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh Wood. For years Vivienne's extraordinary influence was "Stalinized" out of literary history. Throughout their 17-year marriage she suffered a...

Jon Winokur / Writers on Writing

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Elisabeth Smith / Traveller's: Spanish

Looking for a Spanish course that works quickly? Learn all the language you need for travelling, shopping, ordering food, staying in a hotel and more. This is your essential guide to getting out and really speaking.In just 35 minutes a day for six weeks...

Phillip McMahon / Town Is Dead

Ellen thought she’d end her life where it began – in a rundown flat in Dublin’s north inner city. Now her building is sold, and she’s being moved into a box room in her snooty sister’s house in the suburbs. When an...

John Fiske / Introduction to Communication Studies

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell...

Robert E. Webber / Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail

Why do so many evangelicals flock to liturgical traditions today? Robert Webber first explored the question in this thoughtful and engaging classic in 1989; now evangelical scholar and pastor Lester Ruth updates the conversation. Much remains of...

Nathan Burley / Get Preaching: All–Age Services

The church is an all–age family, and the whole family can grow through hearing the word of God preached. With the Bible at the centre of every service, Nathan Burley, Julian Milson and Nigel Styles give helpful foundations and suggestions for...

Glen Scrivener / 3 2 1: The Story of God, the World and You

‘You made it, well done! Let me take your coat and offer you a drink…’If Christianity is a house, consider 321 ‘the grand tour’. You’re invited to step inside and have a look at the Christian faith from within...

A.E. Housman / A Shropshire Lad

This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in "A Shropshire Lad" the fields and hills are also...

William Bunting / Reception To Gods Assembly

The guidance offered in this book will be appreciated by all who have a care for godly order in the assembly.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Anna Minton / Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City

When the figures say crime is falling, why are we more frightened than ever? Could our towns and cities be creating fear and mistrust? More property is being built in Britain than at any time since the Second World War - but it's owned by private...

Douglas Dales / This is My Faith

This guide to the Christian faith is ideal for those preparing for confirmation. Arranged in three "Becoming a Christian", "Belonging to God" and "Belonging to the Church", it is appropriate for personal reading and as a basis for a confirmation...

Roger E. Bruner / Found in Translation

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Colin Buchanan / Open to Others

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Paul Williams / If You Could Ask God One Question

If you could ask God one question, and you knew it would be answered, what would it be?Paul Williams and Barry Cooper have spent several years asking people that question. And inside this book, they reveal the results: the 12 most frequently asked...

Carol Smyth / Why Infant Reflux Matters

Many babies are fussy and spit up milk, and in recent years it has become common for them to be diagnosed with reflux and medicated with antacids, thickeners and acid suppressants. However, research tells us that reflux is normal in young babies and that...

Lorraine Kelly / The Island Swimmer

Escape with this feel-good and big-hearted debut novel from broadcaster Lorraine Kelly. If you love Maeve Binchy, you'll love The Island Swimmer.Once the tide turns, you can't hold it back...When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally...

Jennie Godfrey / The List of Suspicious Things

Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South.Because of the murders.Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn’t an option. So, Miv and Sharon decide...

Roger McGough / The State of Poetry

Roger McGough made his name in The Mersey Sound, published in 1967 and a bestseller ever since. Over the years, McGough has continued to delight readers with his short, playful and comic verses, and in The State of Poetry he displays...

Nicholas Perricone / Dr Nicholas Perricone's Programme : Grow Young, Get Slim, in Days

The No 1 New York Times Bestseller is a revolutionary diet plan that keeps wrinkles at bay, helps you lose weight and have gorgeous skin. Now you can use the power of food to follow the diet many celebrities have been mad about, reportedly including...

Dan Streib / California Shakedown

Hawk #5   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we...

Valerie Wood / The Doorstep Girls

Ruby and Grace had grown up in the slums of Middle Court, the poorest place in Hull. Friends since early childhood, they had supported each other in bad times and good. But their two families were bound together by more than friendship, and secrets...

Charles Royster / The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company

From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the...

H.W. Brands / The Age of Gold

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War —the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough,...

Victoria Glendinning / Raffles and the Golden Opportunity

Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved...