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Roderick Craig Low takes us on a nostalgic and often amusing ramble through his memories of travel at a time when moving from one place to another was largely undertaken using public transport.He introduces us to a world of bashful newlyweds, characterful tramcar crews, incredulous parents, impeccable Pullman car attendants, impatient fellow-travellers, self-educated tube-train guards, suspicious station buffet ladies, celebrity footplate heroes, risk-taking school-friends, influential ancestors, wild sea-coal gatherers, shy girlfriends, courageous quarrymen, patient railwaymen, and indulgent land-ladies. In their company, we meet the conveyances that provided tens of thousands with forms of employment that are now largely a thing of the past.
What happens when you find out your entire adult life is based on a lie? David and Deborah have a seemingly idyllic life; successful careers, a beautiful apartment in Portugal and unconditional love for one another. But you never know what goes on behind closed doors.David is desperately trying to hide his desperation for a child his wife doesn't seem able to provide, while Deborah is harbouring a secret.A secret that will rock the foundations of their marriage… as well as everything David thought he knew about love. Their only hope rests in a long lost passion for dancing. Will Kizomba bring them closer together or will it be the catalyst for their doom?
Written over a period of thirty or so years, from 1985 to 2015, the poems, prose, photographs, philosophy and more: the coming together of many diverse 'flavours and fillings', seek to focus on the myriad events, trials, tribulations, terrors and triumphs, minor and major, that we all experience in our daily lives and which mould our character and personality. From 'dark to light', from war, hurt, loss, despair, and death, to beauty, humour, nature, hope and love: all facets of human existence are explored in this bittersweet and moving miscellany.
Celebrating the Psalms is written for theological students, for working ministers and for those leading Bible studies. The depths and variety of the psalms reflect every conceivable situation: success, anger, patience, frustration, joy, acceptance, revolt, holiness, submission. The psalms are as relevant today as they when they were written.Celebrating the Psalms offers a heuristic approach to reading and understanding the Book of Psalms, to both their original significance and their place in the world of today.The author has been theological student, parish minister and theological teacher and would have treasured this book 50 years ago! He is now a retired minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
When the young state of Czechoslovakia is betrayed by Britain and France in 1938, two newlyweds, Tomas and Anna Kovarik, flee to France to escape Nazi tyranny. Believing themselves safe in France the young couple build a new life. But Hitler cannot be stopped and soon France too is in danger.Tomas struggles to keep his Jewish wife and their young child safe. He does not know this struggle will last a lifetime, as he encounters French collaboration, the Communist takeover of his country after World War Two, and fresh betrayal during the Cold War.Where is My Home? is a story of love and human resilience; the story of two ordinary people who show extraordinary courage in their fight to survive both the Fascist and the Communist tyrannies that dominated the lives of millions.
From the devastation of the First World War rises the new nation state of Czechoslovakia.But the fledgling state contains within it the seed of its own destruction - three and a half million ethnic Germans who feel little or no loyalty to the country.Two friends, Ernst and Pavel, return from the war to their families in the area of Czechoslovakia known to Germans as the Sudetenland. One is an Austrian from the old Hapsburg Empire, the other a Czech Legionnaire.Their children, Tomas and Anna, are childhood sweathearts growing up happily in the country Tomas' father helped create, until the rise of Fascism in Germany threatens the peace and security of the two families.When their country falls victim to a devastating act of political betrayal, how will the two young lovers and their families survive?
Piano restorer Russell Tompkinson is a strong man, toughened by life's hard knocks. Most of his life he has dealt with his own problems and is slow to appreciate the feelings of the disadvantaged and vulnerable.That is until he embarks on a quest for provenance connected with an antique piano owned by Julie's Club, a self-help organisation for families of chronically-ill children.Gradually, a new attitude begins to emerge, as acquaintances appeal to his long-forgotten sensitivity and help him make sense of man's eternal brain-teaser, the female psyche.One of them is destined to join him in a lasting relationship, but he has no way of knowing which, and is even less certain that he will find the vital evidence that the piano was once a gift to the greatest pianist of all time.
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