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Fourteen people, fourteen phone calls, one morning, infinite fates. Through fourteen personal stories connected by a phone call or text, The Call explores the effect of modern life's most ubiquitous object, and its power as a bringer of joy, stasis or bitter disappointment.
An unhappy young man, desperate to leave the village that is stifling him. A mum, desperate to re-connect with her child. A mysterious woman, whose arrival throws everyone's lives into chaos. Who, or what is Mary? Ad what does she want with Niall Costello and his family?
A psychological thriller with a touch of magic realism set in Brighton and Italy. It's been the worst year of Maddie's life, but the offer of a gardening job in Italy gives her a new lease of life. Back in Brighton, Maddie's beloved brother disappears, and she must play a dangerous game if she is to find him and solve a childhood mystery.
A psychological thriller with a touch of magic realism set in Brighton and Italy. It's been the worst year of Maddie's life, but the offer of a gardening job in Italy gives her a new lease of life. Back i Brighton, Maddie's beloved brother disappears, and she must play a dangerous game if she is to find him and solve a childhood mystery.
France 1944, and the retreating Nazis leave a trail of horror in their wake. 75 years later young widow, Michelle, and student, Paul, meet in the village of Argemourt and the ghosts of past and present are awakened. Can Michelle and Paul help the dead rest; and themselves live and love; in a world that never seems to learn the lessons of history?
Once upon a time, a husband watches as his wife opens a Door. He tries to follow her, waking instead to find his beloved dead beside him. Days later, The Door appears again. He doesn't know where it will take him. All he knows is that he's desperate to see his wife again. This is a story about a husband's sorrow, and where it takes him. This is a story about grief. This is a story about what we do when faced with the loss of those we love. Stepping between the fantastical and the real, this modern fairy tale crystalises hope and mourning into a reflection on life itself. Bound in hardback and richly illustrated with evocative artwork by Becky Gough.
Essays; medieval romance; Arthurian Iiterature; Elizabeth Archibald.
The Brightonians focuses upon the bitter rivalry and social one-upmanship that fuels the lives of a group of socialites who live in this far-from-quintessential seaside town. Already vying for supremacy of their circle, the chance discovery of a 50-year-old letter belonging to a local drag queen takes their sparring to hilarious new heights. Initially leading to them back to the saucier side of Brighton in the swinging 60s – what they ultimately discover is even more shocking – connecting one of them to the past in ways that no-one could have imagined.
Dumped by her hotshot boyfriend and boss, Layla Lewis quits her job and heads to Trecastle in North Cornwall to house-sit for a friend-of-a-friend. Trecastle isn't new to her; it's a place where she holidayed regularly with her now-estranged mother. It's also the home of Hannah McKenzie, her childhood friend. Hannah has tempted her with a place to live and a job in the local pub. Needing time to nurse her battered heart and escape her "real life" for a year, Layla accepts. Hannah is a talented artist as well as a barmaid. She lives in the village center with her boyfriend Jim, a singer in a local band. They are happy together, or as happy as they can be, considering. Hannah loves Jim, but th...
The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge makes a compelling case for a more inclusive definition of success. It argues that in order to recognise, reward and realise the talents of both women and men, a more meaningful definition of success is needed. Practical ways of achieving this are explored through interviews with female role models at the University of Cambridge. First-person stories bring alive the achievements and challenges women experience in their working lives, and the effect gender has on careers. The book stimulates a debate about how to bring about a more inclusive working environment.