For readers of Schindler`s List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz & The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances.I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival
- scratching numbers into his fellow victims` arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified & shaking, was a young girl. For Lale
- a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer
- it was love at first sight. & he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too. So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable & human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.-----` Extraordinary
- moving, confronting & uplifting... I recommend it unreservedly` Greame Simsion`A moving & ultimately uplifting story of love, loyalties & friendship amidst the horrors of war... It`s a triumph.` Jill Mansell



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The enthralling new Sunday Times bestselling gothic novel from the author of THE WINTER GHOSTS, CITADEL & LABYRINTH. The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind & the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream.. .1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. & in the shadows, a woman lies dead. As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years.. . ...

As well as being Scotland`s longest river, the Tay also carries the largest volume of water of any river in the UK more than the Thames & Severn combined when it reaches the Firth of Tay. From its source high up the slopes of Ben Lui near Tyndrum, the Tay makes its way through Stirlingshire & Perthshire to meet the North Sea near Dundee. As one of the best salmon rivers in Europe, every year it lures anglers from around the world & countless more come to explore the glorious hills & glens it passes. There is no better way to discover the wildlife, architecture & history of this area of Scotland than to walk. Whatever your ability walking at high or low level, following tough terrain or level paths the 25 routes in this guide offer something for everyone. ...

This book helps to experience the world`s finest tea. The Tea Book guides you through the best ways to choose, prepare & taste the many different varieties of tea available around the world, with everything you need to know to bring the fragrance & allure of the tea shop into your home. The essential companion for all tea aficionados, this detailed tea book features over one hundred international tea recipes, including chai tea, matcha, the increasingly popular bubble tea, & herbal tisanes such as Yerba Mate. Tasting notes help you to identify key characteristics, so that you can tell your green tea from your pu`er. With information on growing & harvest seasons, & maps of the most important tea-producing regions. This practical, fully illustrated guide is perfect for tea lovers. ...

In the seventh century, during the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Tibetans began drinking fermented black tea, a valuable addition to their restricted diet of meat & milk. Beginning as an aristocratic delicacy, it quickly became a staple, but it had to be imported, first from southern Yunnan, with a secondary route from Ya'an in Sichuan. The Chinese on the other h&, had a need for war horses & the sturdy Tibetan horses were ideal. As a result a two-way trade route arose during the Song Dynasty & became known as the Cha Ma Dao, the Tea-Horse Road, a 2, 300 kilometre journey from southern Yunnan to Lhasa at its core. ...

Dinah Jefferies` unforgettable new novel, The Tea Planter`s Wife is a haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choose between her duty as a wife & her instinct as a mother... Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husb&. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London. Distant & brooding, Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work, leaving his young bride to explore the plantation alone. It`s a place filled with clues to the past
- locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, an overgrown grave hidden in the grounds, far too small for an adult... Gwen soon falls pregnant & her husband is overjoyed, but she has little time to celebrate. In the delivery room the new mother is faced with a terrible choice, one she knows no one in her upper class set will understand
- least of all Laurence. Forced to bury a secret at the heart of her marriage, Gwen is more isolated than ever. When the time comes, how will her husband ever understand what she has done? The Tea Planter`s Wife is a story of guilt, betrayal & untold secrets vividly & entrancingly set in colonial era Ceylon. ” Captivating, powerful & passionate.” (Deborah Rodriguez on The Separation). ”A richly detailed story...as intimate as a kiss & as sharp as the blade of a knife.” (David Gilham on The Separation). ”I simply didn`t want to put it down. Vivid & atmospheric
- you can smell the tropics, feel the drenching heat...” (Isabel Wolff on The Separation).


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The Teacher`s Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic education, this concise & accessible book provides the necessary background knowledge required in the classroom context. There are detailed chapters on the nuts & bolts of language: words, morphology, sentences, phrases, verbs, & clauses. Other important educational issues concerned in the teaching of English are discussed: the grammatical variation that differentiates standard & non-standard English; how grammar varies in relation to the purpose & audience of a text; & the different grammatical characteristics of different languages. Throughout, illustrations are given using examples from the real spoken & written language produced by learners. Here are the essentials every English & literacy teacher needs to know about grammar in one practical & relevant guide. ...

From the no.1 team in cycling, this is the ultimate guide for enthusiasts & sports people of all stripes
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Mr Fernando led me into a dark room that was lined with book-cases & smelled of leather & damp. The polished, concrete floor of the library was covered with white jasmine flowers that had blown through the windows during the storm. He began to select from the shelves a collection of disintegrating books. ` If you are going to read any of them, it should really be this one, ` he said as he passed me two thick volumes, embossed with gold lettering & spotted with damp. The work was simply called Ceylon & was written by an Irishman named Sir James Emerson Tennent, who had been sent to the island in 1845 by Her Majesty`s Government. ” The Teardrop Island” follows in the footsteps of the eccentric Victorian James Emerson Tennent, along a route which takes Cherry to pilgrimage trails, into tea estates & rural regions inhabited by indigenous tribes, as well as through restricted areas of the former warzone, delving under the surface of the contemporary culture via cricket matches & fortune tellers. ...

The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt & disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities & retaliated with some of their own. Each of their lives, remarkable in itself, contributes to the story of the whole fragile & imperilled, often shockingly oppressive & devious but now & then heroic & poignant enterprise. On the surface, John & Augusta Low & their relations may seem imperturbable, but in their letters & diaries they often reveal their loneliness & desperation & their doubts about what they are doing in India. The Lows are the family of the author`s grandmother, & a recurring theme of the book is his own discovery of them & of those parts of the history of the British in India which posterity has preferred to forget. The book brings to life not only the most dramatic incidents of their careers
- the massacre at Vellore, the conquest of Java, the deposition of the boy-king of Oudh, the disasters in Afghanistan, the Reliefs of Lucknow & Chitral
- but also their personal ordeals: the bankruptcies in Scotland & Calcutta, the plagues & fevers, the deaths of children & deaths in childbirth. & it brings to life too the unrepeatable strangeness of their lives: the camps & the palaces they lived in, the balls & the flirtations in the hill stations, & the hot slow rides through the dust. An epic saga of love, war, intrigue & treachery, The Tears of the Rajas is surely destined to become a classic of its kind.

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