Illumination

IlluminationA powerful story of revolution, love and intense rivalry set in 1870 during the four month siege of Paris. 1870. All over Paris the lights are going out. The Prussians are encircling the city and Europe's capital of decadent pleasure and luxury is becoming a prison, its citizens caught between defiance and despair. Desperate times lie ahead as the worst winter for decades sets in and starvation looms. One man seems to shine like a beacon in the

unnerving and compelling in equal measure

apart from non-established introductions

Easy - or so she thinks

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature

the pad is perfect for keeping children entertained on long journeys or rainy

from a hippo on a jet-ski to a cheetah on a bicycle

TIME explores the work of virus hunters in the field

lies the idyllic community of Greengage - where the residents wear simple clothes

In this groundbreaking book

Helen Merrifield has said goodbye to her philandering husband and her swish West London house to live in an idyllic country cottage in the heart of a postcard-perfect village in Cornwall

Everywhere she turns