The List of my DesiresJocelyne is 47 and runs her own dressmaking shop. She's a bit overweight her husband is very ordinary and her best friends are the twins who run the hairdresser next door. Jocelyn has reached the point where she is examining her life and measuring it against what her teenage self had imagined. We discover that Jocelyn's mother dropped dead suddenly when she was 17 and her father fell ill shortly afterwards so she had to take the job in the shop rather

rarely seen in the most cutting-edge adult fiction

Often shrouded in mystery and misconception

and how far he will go to find it

The book can be used by teachers conducting intermediate courses or as a self-teacher

Occasional journeys farther afield take the reader to truly wild places in the Outer Hebrides and Eastern Europe

An essential coda to the modern classic that is Uncertain Glory Winds of the Night is a Beckettian vision of the traumas of combatants and country hidden beneath the rhetoric of the victors

formidable grandmother

There is one thing that has always been wrong with Threadbear

'In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

written by Sunil Gangopadhyay

Choosing your vegetables

a book-loving girl and the power of books to make a difference in the world