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Richard Gough was just 23 years old when the Falklands conflict took place in 1982. He was the youngest weapons director to take part in the conflict, seeing combat onboard the Type 21 frigate, HMS Ardent. Six years later as a Chief Petty Officer he protected British shipping in the Iran and Iraq tanker wars that disrupted the Gulf region for nearly ten years. His final work with the Royal Navy was to direct the acceptance firings of the fleets latest missile system, Vertical Launch SeaWolf, onboard the Type 23 frigate HMS Norfolk. His book explores the role of the weapon director in the fleet as well as revealing what it's really like to be a sailor in the modern Royal Navy.
Spiral patterns in a book, a strange tape of music from Russia and an oddly carved walking stick all have a profound effect on a group of friends in England.Ellen is thirty-something and alone, until a chance meeting with a young widower, Adam Thomas, starts a chain of uncanny events which enthrall and endanger them both. Choice and contingency, happenstance and coincidence all blend to bring the two together, and lift the pall of loss covering their lives.A rich backdrop of music, archaeology, books and plant lore enables the author of 'Beyond the Veil' to touch deeper issues of bereavement, friendship, illness, recovery and the impact of objects from the past on our lives. Altered states, heightened sensitivities and unseen communications are also explored, as is the nature of spiritual ecstasy, in a thoughtful novel that gives seperate paths an unusual and satisfying convergence.
All is not well in the treetop village of Boughville...When the PS Fernald drifts mysteriously into port, half-destroyed and apparently abandoned, it is down to Greg (a not-so-ordinary young boy) and his bizarre friends to discover the fate of Captain Freshwater and his crew.Excitement, adventure and colourful characters (such as Tidus Tiddywoffin, the lawyer who never uses one word when half a dozen will suffice), abound in this, the second of Mark Hazell's enchanting and humorous tales about Greg and the imaginative fantasy world he lives in.
Greg may live in a tree house outside his parents' home in Melbourne, but he thinks he is just a normal boy.Until, that is, the day he has to go on a mission to find his uncle Bart, the 'black sheep' of the family.This takes him down a strange river to a threatening and even stranger land of swamps, Jumping Belts and tree-top cities, in which he must use his special powers to defeat the tyrannical new mayor...Weird creatures abound in this new tale from Mark Hazell.
What would you like to be when you grow up? How about a circus clown with,'Huge green shoes and funny clothes,Curly hair and a red round nose'?Or a policeman?'Keeping people out of harm's way;Defending good to save the day'?Or perhaps a nurse?'Patch his wound and mend his sore,Use the bandage - he needs more!'Whatever you'd like to do, you'll find a poem about it in 'Let's Go To... Work!''Let's Go To... Work!' is a charmingly illustrated volume of poetry, perfect for both reading to young children - with its soothing rhythms and predictable rhyme schemes - and for older children to read by themselves, taking full advantage of the comprehensive glossary.
The minute we are born, we begin to die.Tina Ronk's poetry consists of this and other such insights- often uncomfortable, yet illuminating - into the transience of life, the constancy of pain and the utter futility of living the past. In a language that is simple and communicates directly with the reader, she speaks of the agony of battling personal demons in a manner that cannot but move the reader.Be it a plea to God, or an affirmation to the self, it is the aguish of a sensitive soul that comes accross constantly in this collection of poems.
In 1976, while attending a short course in Jakarta, a Bangladeshi youth gets to know the course instructor - Emil J Burcik, an American Professor. The brief meeting leads to an unprecedented journey that continues to run deep four and a half decades later.While military might, economic strength and democracy make a country powerful, it is people's kindness and generosity that make a nation great. Burcik is one of many who, for generations to come, will continue to symbolize America's greatness.
Matt Morgan loves being fourteen years old. Care-free, doing everything for the first time. He worships his pig-headed elder brother Karl, despite the fact punk fan Karl treats him like shit. His Mum and Dad aren't perfect but life in 1980 scruffy suburban England suits Matt Morgan fine.Until Karl messes up with tumultuous consequences. He doesn't want to, but Matt must step up.Luckily, he has plenty of distractions. And thank god for music.A tale of kitchen-sink family drama, dreams and nightmares.
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