As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains & the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency. Not only is Mr J. L. B. Matekoni attempting to reform himself into a modern husb&, but after her marriage to Phuti Radiphuti, Mma Ramotswe`s challenging but irreplaceable associate Mma Makutsi has joyful news. With the arrival of an heir to the Double Comfort furniture empire & Mma Makutsi busy with motherhood, Mma Ramotswe must tackle tea-making & detective work alone. Well-known troublemaker violet Sephotho may or not be behind a smear campaign against the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, & a dispute over the will of a local dignitary points to a shocking family secret. But the No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency is resilient & adaptable, & change brings salutary lessons: that our enemies are not always obvious, that a snake under the bed may be an ally, & that a mother`s love conquers all. ...

A love story for the VICE generation Ed & Taylor, both aspiring young writers, fall in love during a summer of aimless drinking & partying in their university town of Missoula, Montana. Lonely & looking for love, they connect despite their profound differences: Ed is brooding, ambitious & self-destructive, living in denial of a mysterious tumour spreading from his limbs to his brain. Beautiful Taylor is a pure soul, positive, full of hope & emotional generosity. Their difficult relationship is intense, exciting yet doomed from the start, complicated further when Taylor falls pregnant. As Ed resists the harmony she brings to his life, Taylor`s need to protect herself & their child also grows, until a dramatic finale. Ted Mc Dermott`s stark writing speaks truthfully & with a touch of dark humour for & to today`s generation of young people trying to find hope in what feels to many like an existential void. The Minor Outsider will be read as the young literary voice of our dark times. ...

When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year`s Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even his notoriously robust stomach is turned. A young girl
- & suspected spy
- who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant`s teeth. Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S.S., Gestapo & police, Mock is partially relieved to be assigned to liaise with officers in Lvov, Pol&, where a series of similar crimes
- as yet unsolved
- cast a long shadow over the town.



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Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink on the planet, but few who enjoy it know much about how its four ingredients
- malted
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The Incredible Journey meets The Mouse & His Child, an enchanting tale that begs to be read aloud. The magical story of the adventures of a lost toy rabbit from a New York Times bestselling author, twice winner of the Newbery Medal. Abilene loves her blue china rabbit, but Edward Tulane is extremely vain & only loves himself. On a voyage from New York to London, Edward falls overboard & from there finds himself on an amazing journey. He travels with tramps, works as a scarecrow, comforts a dying child.. . & finally learns what it is to truly love. ...

The Mirror dinghy was a significant factor in the boom of dinghy sailing in the 1960s, introducing thousands to the delights of sailing. While sailing has come a long way since then & there have been a lot of far more exotic craft launched, the Mirror remains a fantastic boat in which to learn to sail & to compete at the highest levels. With this second edition, The Mirror Book has been bought into the Start to Finish series format alongside such revered books as The Laser Book & The Topper Book, The Catamaran Book & The Foiling Dinghy Book. Like these titles, this book tells you everything you need to know about sailing the Mirror (whether it be the original gaff-rigged boat or has the newer Bermuda rig). Written for both those starting out through to those striving to win a championship, the book is packed with practical advice & illustrated with step-by-step photographs. It covers: setting up the Mirror & early sailing experiences; developing skills on all points of sailing & with the spinnaker; racing & masterclasses to become a championship winner. Over 180 photographs show you exactly how it`s done, & 72 diagrams illustrate key boat parts, the different points of sailing & complex on-the-water scenarios with clarity. It is written by Peter Aitken, formerly the UK National Mirror Coach, who has coached teams to win world championships in the Mirror, Cadet & 420 classes, & Tim Davison, a successful racer & author of countless books on sailing. The UK Mirror Class Association have contributed to this update & it is endorsed by Dave Wade, double Mirror National Champion, who says: ” Armed with this book, your understanding of Mirror sailing techniques will grow, & your results will improve. I thoroughly recommend it.” ...

When Joseph Conrad was discharged from the clipper Torrens in London during the summer of 1893, his seafaring career was over. He had travelled the world by then, risen in rank from apprentice to captain, survived shipwreck & turbulent seas. But after nineteen years afloat he longed for the l&, & wrote to his cousin of the `uniform grey of my existence`. Once ashore, however, vivid memories of his past life began to surface. While steam & internal combustion were changing maritime travel forever, Conrad started to reflect on the voyages he had made in the Golden Age of Sail, the people & ships he had known, the extraordinary communities whose lives, language & very nature were shaped by the swells & silences of the open ocean. The Mirror of the Sea is a personal meditation on the sea & its meanings by one of the twentieth century`s most important novelists. Our new edition is illustrated with the seascapes & deck scenes of the artist-sailor John Everett, who Conrad wanted to work with on an illustrated edition of The Mirror & the Sea in the 1920s.` The great thing, ` Conrad wrote in 1923, `is to make the book like art-production
- atmospheric
- not a shop article.` Nothing came of the project with John Everett at the time; Little Toller has resurrected this lost notion of a collaboration between the writer & the artist.

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It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. & now she can`t shake the feeling that if she hadn`t gone into Simon`s flat, if she`d had her normal Wednesday night instead, then none of what happened next would have happened. & she would never have met Melody Black.. . Wild & witty, searing & true, THE MIRROR WORLD OF MELODY BLACK is about the fine line that separates normal from not
- & how life can spin, very swiftly, out of control.
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It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. & now she can`t shake the feeling that if she hadn`t gone into Simon`s flat, if she`d had her normal Wednesday night instead, then none of what happened next would have happened. & she would never have met Melody Black.. . Wild & witty, searing & true, THE MIRROR WORLD OF MELODY BLACK is about the fine line that separates normal from not
- & how life can spin, very swiftly, out of control.
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Louisiana is the setting for this riveting tale of a kidnapped child & the man on her trail
- Sam Simoneaux, who feels honour-bound
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