What would it take to change your life? Jocelyne is 47. She lives in a small provincial French town, runs her own dressmaking shop, has been married to the same man for what seems like an eternity, has had two children & lives a very ordinary existence. In fact so ordinary that she is beginning to wonder what happened to her, to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Then comes the chance to change her life completely
- but should she? For when Jocelyne begins to look at her life & its small pleasures
- her friendship with the twins who run the hairdresser next door, her weekends away, her sewing blog
- she realises that maybe ordinary isn't so bad. Until the decision is taken out of her hands... The List of my Desires is a wonderfully heart-warming novel about what we value in life & the search for happiness.


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Money can buy you freedom. But what about happiness? When Jocelyne looks at herself in the mirror, she sees a middle-aged, married woman who runs a dressmaking shop in a small provincial French town & lives a very ordinary existence. But what happened to all those dreams she had when she was 17? Then she wins millions on the lottery & has the chance to change her life for ever. So why does she find herself reluctant to accept the money? To help her decide what to do, she begins to compile a list of her heart`s desires, never suspecting for one moment that the decision might be taken out of her hands.. . ...

In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision & light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets confided to her, to vignettes of a city storm or the slow halting of spring, these stories are gifts of originality & depth. ...

Mama Liszt, Papa Liszt, Winifred, Edward, Frederick & Grandpa Liszt make lists all day long. So does their cat. Then one day a visitor arrives. He`s not on anyone`s list. Will the Liszts be able to make room on their lists for this new visitor? What will they do when something unexpected happens? Kyo Maclear`s quirky, whimsical story is perfectly brought to life with the witty, stunning illustrations of debut picture book artist Júlia Sardà. Discover this humorous, poignant & unforgettable celebration of spontaneity. ...

For centuries, Edinburgh has been home, inspiration & muse to writers. Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Sir Walter Scott & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were born in the city. John Buchan, J.M. Barrie & Robert Burns lived there. Visiting literati who praised & condemned it include Dickens, Defoe, Tennyson, Thackeray, Dr Johnson & George Eliot, while poets Robert Garioch, Sorley Maclean, Norman Mac Caig, Alan Bold & Hugh Mac Diarmid drank Edinburgh pubs dry in the 1950s, '60s & '70s. The city has inspired classic & controversial works of literature such as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Regeneration & the novels of Irvine Welsh & Ian Rankin. Edinburgh's main railway terminus, Waverley, was named after the novel by Sir Walter Scott, & how many other cities can boast a memorial to a native author that dominates its skyline as does the Scott Monument on Princes Street? Added to this, the Edinburgh International Book Festival is now the largest book festival in the world. Exploring Edinburgh's literary past & present is synonymous with exploring & traversing the great city itself
- a city which truly deserves the accolade World City of Literature.
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The story of western literature is the story of two Wests, the one immediately & deeply persuasive, the second more complex in its intentions & effects. This anthology, gathered & introduced by distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, offers a panoramic literary range of the American west, from the romance of the mythic Wild West to the present-day creative explosion of the real, diverse west. The regional expanse of this authoritative & adventuresome selection of short stories, essays, plays, & novel excerpts stretches from the Great Plains, Texas & the Southwest, the Rocky Mountains & the Great Basin interior, to California & the Northwest. Including selections from Pedro Font, Meriweather Lewis, Willa Cather, James Fenimore Cooper, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, John Muir, Tillie Olsen, Rick Bass, Amy Tan, Sarah Winnemucca, & N. Scott Momaday, among others, the volume is organized in five main sections: Discovery & Exploration, Pioneering & Settlement, The Mythic West, Modernism & the Realistic West, Recent & Contemporary Currents, & The Native West. From the projective ” Great Frontier” of dime-store novels to the real west brought to light by sixteenth century explorers, mid-nineteenth century realists & naturalists, & todays environmentalists & ethnic writers, The Literary West offers students a comprehensive overview of the vital field of Western American literature. ...

From Fitzgerald`s The Great Gatsby to Shelley`s Frankenstein, the Literature Book documents the greatest literature ever written. Featuring over 100 best-selling books, plays & poetry from all over the world, including Latin American & African fiction, the Literature Book encompasses celebrated masterpieces from the most renowned authors to have ever lived. stunning images & inspirational"es jump out from the pages, as detailed plot summaries & helpful context bring the timeless works of literature to life. The book also offers a deeper look into the famed fiction of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde & more, as in-depth literary criticism & interesting authorial biographies give each work of literature a new meaning. In the Literature Book, the world`s most iconic literature & greatest writers come together for a fascinating journey through time that is a must-have for any literature student or fan of fiction. ...

The Litten Path is a sweeping debut that provides an intimate view of the miners` strike of 1984 as it unfolds through the eyes of two families on either side of the struggle. The Litten Path is a novel of the strike as much as about the strike, knitting the intense emotional & political terrain of the famous dispute with the stark landscape of a small town in South Yorkshire. Written in a tough yet lyrical northern vernacular, The Litten Path is grimly honest & tender, comic & painful, a story of the clash between the urban & the rural, class frictions & the pressures of family. It is about what happens when a decision is made, when one cannot turn back. ...

Bacon
- that perennial favourite, known even to sway hardened vegetarians
- is the star of this little piggy book. Sure, we

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If you want to move forward, sometimes you have to go back.. . Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge. Growing up in a Yorkshire village, Roxanne Cartwright couldn`t wait to escape & make her place in the world. Now, thirty years later, she`s a fashion editor living a glamorous life of perennial singlehood in London
- or so it seems to her sister Della. But when Roxanne finds her career under threat, she feels herself pulled back to the quiet village she`d been so desperate to leave. As Roxanne reacquaints herself with life on Rosemary Lane, she slowly makes a surprising discovery: the people who live in Burley Bridge are, well, just people
- different from the fashion set she`s used to, but kind & even interesting. Michael, a single dad trying to make a go of a small bakery, particularly so. Little by little, cupcake by cupcake, Roxanne & Michael fall into an unexpected friendship. Could there be a life for Roxanne after all, in the place she`s spent years trying to escape?

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