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The Road to Harmony |
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 The Road to Harmony by John Ballam
Cider with Rosie meets Tom Sawyer… an evocative memoir of a childhood spent at the foot of Catocin Mountain in the Appalachians. J.D. Ballam’s story of growing up in a place where life had not changed for hundreds of years is both a celebration and a lament.
‘The voice of the book is lovely, fresh, affectionate and lyrical…
you realise that you are in the company of someone who knows exactly where he has come from. And how many of us can truthfully
say that?’ joanna trollope
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The Amazing ABC Adventure |
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 The Amazing ABC Adventure by Lorna Maxwell
An absolutely wonderful and most original book. Lorna Maxwell has taken the alphabet and played wonderful games with it. On every page there are dozens of objects beginning with that letter. Younger children can seek-and-find with an adult, older ones by themselves.
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The Glass Angels |
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 The Glass Angels by Susan Hill
New edition of this favourite first published in 1990 and set in an English seaside town just after the war, about a Christmas that nearly goes horribly wrong and an old lady who gives Tilly a beautiful ornament to keep for life - The Glass Angels.
Illustrated in line by Valerie Littlewood.
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The Man in the Picture (audio book) |
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 The Man in the Picture (audio book) Read by Paul Ansdell
The chilling tale of a painting so terrifying; its secrets will haunt those who see it. It is a ghost story by the author of "The Woman in Black", to be listened to by the fire on a cold winter's night. A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty...
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The Woman in Black (audio book) |
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 The Woman in Black (audio book)
Proud and solitary, El Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arther Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose.
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Lanterns Across the Snow |
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 Lanterns Across the Snow by Susan Hill
Fanny, now an old lady, looks back to one magical Christmas when she was a small girl in a country Vicarage. She remembers visiting a new born baby, decorating the house with the holly and the mistletoe bough, going to church through the snow on Christmas morning and much more. That Christmas seems to be lit for her by the lanterns carried by the carol singers, down through the years.
Special limited edition. Cloth bound in purple cotton cloth and in a scarlet slip case. With illustrations by John Lawrence. £15
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The Magic Apple Tree |
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 The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill
A COUNTRY YEAR was first published 25 years ago by Hamish Hamilton. It sold over 35,000 copies in hardback, was a Penguin paperback, and when the rights reverted in 1998, became a special edition from Long Barn Books. It was cloth bound with gold-blocking, in slip case, at £25 and I sold 13,000 copies.
It describes one year in an Oxfordshire village – a real one, to which Susan and her family moved in 1980, blended with ingredients from other country villages she had known.
It is a year in the countryside, the garden, the kitchen, the life of the village.
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In the Springtime of the Year |
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 In the Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill
The story of Ruth, a young woman living in a village in the beautiful English countryside, who is widowed after an accident in which her new husband, Ben, a woodman, is killed by a falling tree and of how she struggles to survive the first terrible year of being alone, as the seasons change, moving her away from the Springtime of the Year.
The various members of Ben's mourning family react in their different ways but their attitudes towards the realities of life and death exclude Ruth.
Long Barn Books edition. Paperback. Isbn 978 0 14 004110 1
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Twisted Wing |
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 Twisted Wing by Ruth Newman
The claustrophobic environment of Ariel College, Cambridge, has become the hunting ground of a serial killer. For the students, a siege mentality has developed following weeks of media interest in the 'Cambridge Butcher'. College life has become not about surviving their exams, but surviving full stop. Forensic psychiatrist Matthew Denison is sure that his traumatised patient, student Olivia Coscadden, has the killer's identity locked up in her memory. That within the little clique she belonged to lurks someone with a grudge. Someone who thought 'what's a little decapitation between friends?' And that someone is just getting started. But in order to get to the truth, Denison must delve into the secrets hidden within Olivia's subconscious. Secrets that are about to take him to some very dark places indeed.
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Heroines |
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 Heroines by Jessica Ruston
Did you know that champagne saucers were modelled on the perfect breast of Madame de Pompadour ? That Hugh Hefner paid GBP85,000 for the tomb adjoining that of Playboy's first cover girl, Marilyn Monroe ? That 17 people were crushed to death when Eva Peron's coffin was paraded through the streets of Buenos Aires ? Or that Condoleezza Rice is a concert-level pianist and accomplished ice-skater? With contributions from a range of celebrities talking about their own heroines, including Cherie Blair, P.D. James, and Jilly Cooper, this book is packed full of information about and quotes from hundreds of Bold, Bad and Beautiful women. They are from every walk of life, in history, from the pages of literature and alive today.
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Counting my chickens |
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 Counting my chickens by Duchess of Devonshire Deborah Cavendish
The Duchess of Devonshire is the sister of Nancy, Pamela, Tom, Diana, Unity and Jessica Mitford. Her books include The House: A Portrait of Chatsworth, The Estate: A View from Chatsworth, Treasures of Chatsworth, Farm Animals (for children) The Garden at Chatsworth. She is Past President of the Royal Agricultural Association of England and of The Royal Smithfield Club.
In 1999 the Duchess was appointed a D.C.V.O. by Her Majesty the Queen. Sir Tom Stoppard O.M. is one of the world’s greatest contemporary playwrights.
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