The Colefaxes are an unconventional family. When you think you understand them their behaviour startles you. The story tells us about Rosemary, a traditional wife whose discovery of her husband’s deceit changes her into a renegade and fierce rival. David, a well-meaning but self-doubting husband contained in his safe, middle class world who believes his secret is safe and Sean, their complex and insightful son, just discovering his adult persona. Their fates are interwoven by Alice, a designer whose commune childhood has given her a liberal and free-thinking attitude to love, sex and childbirth. 1960s London is exploding with liberated sex, fashion and music and morals break down rapidly into the summer of love. Alice’s family leaves David stunned with confusion. Sean’s discovery of free love grows during his adventures in Rome on holiday with his parents, where he meets Gina, a stunning Roman beauty. Each has a secret passion only expressed in the heady atmosphere of a Roman hot-bed. After they return to London and recognise their individual desires all are focussed on Alice and an intricate and hilarious farce ensues between the four that ends in an unexpected drama on New Year’s Eve.
Have you ever wandered along a path and started to think about who was walking there millennia ago? Whose works reside under every field or hill and whose bodies lie under our steps? Beneath our feet the world laboured on only metres from our grasp and, ignorant, we pass by. For Colin, gripped in emotional turmoil, nothing could have been further from his thoughts until he is dragged back into his own past there to toil, to explore and to love. Deep in the past of iron-age river dwellers he sees the pagan rites of his forbears and the Roman incursion that will change them for ever.
The inhabitants of a small rural town were oblivious to an imminent horror that was thrust upon them when a local man was struck with bubonic plague. In a race to discover the source of the outbreak, police and forensic scientists attempt to piece together fragments of crucial information teased out of a reluctant population of errant teenagers, struggling single parents, and drug dealers. Meanwhile, far back in the seventeenth century, the fate of a young girl is corrupted by a single man who is degrading and oppressive to his family and servants alike, and her strength and determination culminate in his demise and her redemption. The two tales are linked by one fatal artifact that resists the passing years and traverses time and corruption to bring terror to the community. How long will it take to identify the link, and how many will die before it is revealed?
This is a tale of the dark places of the soul, where unrequited passion and desire lead the unprotected into the deep roots of our psyche and myth and magic become one with our minds. A young woman stumbles upon an ancient manor house and becomes entangled with a handsome but cold man. Her obsession begins a journey that leads her into a murder mystery when she discovers the previous elderly owner of the house was found naked and dead in the woods under mysterious circumstances. She then starts a chilling descent into the dark places of the mind that eventually costs her her very soul. Her love unrequited, she is driven by lust to search deeper into the past to discover that only the ultimate conquest can satisfy her needs. Is she psychic or is the house truly controlling her behaviour? Or is she becoming mentally unstable, being increasingly solitary and separated from her previous mundane lifestyle? Dare you follow her fearful path into the unknown?
Exam board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: History First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Target success in AQA GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes every student can: br” Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic plannerbrbr” Enjoy an interactive approach to revision, with clear topic summaries that consolidate knowledge and related activities that put the content into contextbrbr” Build, practise and enhance exam skills by progressing through revision tasks and Test Yourself activitiesbrbr” Improve exam technique through exam-style questions and sample answers with commentary from expert authors and teachersbrbr” Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the activities available onlinebrbrbThis revision guide covers the following options:/bbrbbrPeriod studies/bbr” America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidationbr” Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorshipbr” America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequalitybrbrbWider world depth studies/bbr” Conflict and tension, 1894-1918
Updated Edition for students taking their exams in 2021 onwards. Exam board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: History First teaching: September 2019 First exams: Summer 2021 Target success in OCR GCSE (9-1) History A with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes every student can: - Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Enjoy an interactive approach to revision, with clear topic summaries that consolidate knowledge and related activities that put the content into context - Build, practise and enhance exam skills by progressing through revision tasks and Test Yourself activities - Improve exam technique through exam-style questions and sample answers with commentary from expert authors and teachers - Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the activities available online This title covers the following options: Period study - International Relations: the changing international order 1918-c.1975 Non-British depth studies - Germany 1925-1955 - The USA 1919-1948 - The USA 1945-1974 British thematic studies - Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014 - War and British Society c.790 to c.2010 - Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010 British depth studies - The English Reformation c.1520-c.1550 - Personal Rule to Restoration 1629-1660 - The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-c.1730
The fourteen interviews in this book form an unprecedented wealth of material on authors’ responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They comprise a valuable archive which documents and contextualises the variety of views and opinions of different authors on their often ground-breaking choices in writing about HIV/AIDS. Each author ranks among the first to publish fiction on HIV/AIDS in their respective countries. These interviews are of particular merit as these issues have not been discussed at length with any of the authors before. Collectively they offer a unique range of approaches and opinions in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa. Their significance lies in their specific literary, as well as their broader social, cultural and political perspectives on a disease which continues to spread despite extensive NGO, medical and government intervention. In both South Africa and Zimbabwe, government responses have failed to address the urgent need for new political and economic solutions to the challenge of HIV infection. Responses among the population have varied from widespread silence, shame and fear to political activism and outspoken critiques of government inaction. Writers give voice to this silence and contextualise the disparate reactions amongst diverse peoples. Globally, AIDS killed approximately 2 million in 2008. In 1998, AIDS was the largest killer in southern Africa, nearly double the one million deaths from malaria and eight times the 209,000 deaths from tuberculosis. It has long been the case that of those dying globally of AIDS, the majority live in southern Africa. When the associated social and cultural implications of infection with HIV are considered, fictional representations contribute significantly to our understanding of the impact of HIV/AIDS on communities and individuals, and provide a much-needed basis for ‘humanising’ an epidemic which is unimaginable statistically. It has been said that the feelings and reactions that HIV/AIDS inspires are often ‘too unreal for words,’ and it is this very notion, that certain diseases are taboo, unmentionable, and hardly even named as such, that makes verbalisation of this epidemic a modern imperative.
On the fifteenth anniversary of her sister’s disappearance, a young woman launches her own investigation in this “page-turning” thriller debut (Kirkus Reviews). Raised in a quiet rural community, Anna has always been taught that her mamma’s rules are the only path to follow. But, on her eighteenth birthday, she defies her mamma for the first time in her life and goes to Astroland. She’s never been allowed to visit Florida’s biggest theme park, so why, when she arrives, does everything about it seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives that same day—a letter addressing her by a different name? Rosie has grown up in the shadow of the missing sister she barely remembers, her family fractured by years of searching without leads. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of her sister’s disappearance, the media circus resumes as the funds dedicated to the search dry up, and Rosie vows to uncover the truth herself. But can she find the answer before it tears her family apart? . . . Winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition, A Girl Named Anna is a psychologically riveting read that introduces Lizzy Barber as an outstanding new voice in suspense fiction. Praise for A Girl Named Anna A Woman’s World Best New Book “A dark, addictive read, with a real heart at its core. I loved it.” —Amy Lloyd, bestselling author of The Innocent Wife “As convincing as it was gripping, a fabulous debut thriller.” —Sunday Mirror (UK) “Barber creates a fast-moving tale of good and evil, obsession and sacrifice—all in the name of love. This gifted storyteller is a writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly
There are summers that will change your life. There are summers that may end it. In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici—a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can’t believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she’s drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates, including her glamorous coworker Diana, who promises to help Rachel win the affections of handsome, confident Sebastian. But as champagne flows and rivalries fester in the Tuscan countryside, Rachel realizes that Diana has motivations of her own. Adrift in a world of backstabbing and bed-hopping, lavish parties and easy betrayal, Rachel feels the stakes rising along with the temperature until, one night, something snaps. Someone dies. And nothing will ever be the same… In this atmospheric thriller set in sun-drenched Tuscany, Lizzy Barber weaves a deadly web of manipulation and desire that will keep readers enthralled until the breathtaking last page.
The inhabitants of a small rural town were oblivious to an imminent horror that was thrust upon them when a local man was struck with bubonic plague. In a race to discover the source of the outbreak, police and forensic scientists attempt to piece together fragments of crucial information teased out of a reluctant population of errant teenagers, struggling single parents, and drug dealers. Meanwhile, far back in the seventeenth century, the fate of a young girl is corrupted by a single man who is degrading and oppressive to his family and servants alike, and her strength and determination culminate in his demise and her redemption. The two tales are linked by one fatal artifact that resists the passing years and traverses time and corruption to bring terror to the community. How long will it take to identify the link, and how many will die before it is revealed?
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