Jodie is a gay woman who works in a publishing house. She is drawn into an intrigue to free her kidnapped brother.  If only Jodie knew who she could trust as old friends help and hinder her mission, and a new romance looks on the cards. Her own life is at risk as she travels Europe confronting the man who has a score to settle with her.  The novel is an absorbing, easy read which should appeal to women of all ages.

Write to Die

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Harwood, Kat

Mystery

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The curious reader who chances on this volume may well wonder why a book that has been out of print for nearly forty years is being republished; and what is more, re-published in its original form, without any attempt at revision. Part of the answer is to be found in the introductory commentary by Lois in its potential interest as an “historical artifact” and there would also have been considerable obstacles to overcome if this work really was to be brought up-to-date. In lieu of any revision, that the original text is accompanied by a contemporary commentary to bridge the intervening years. I can see all too clearly the unconscious omissions, logical difficulties and weaknesses of argument that evaded me at the time and, I note, some of the book’s reviewers. I should perhaps stress that the reason I did not continue to pursue an interest in the study of irreligion after 1972 was not because my colleagues in the profession failed to share my enthusiasm for this field of study. Rather it was due to a growing belief on my part – one I still hold – that phenomena such as religion and irreligion cannot be properly understood except in their larger socio-cultural context, a context that is necessarily both diachronic and synchronic in nature. In other words, that such phenomena need to be examined in terms of both their historical context (something I had already attempted) and their current socio-cultural systemic context (something I had not). So it was that, in the years after the publication of this work, I turned more and more to the study of the larger Western cultural system of which these phenomena were components. . This change of focus did not mean that I lost all interest in the sociology of irreligion, for my youthful enthusiasm for the topic meant that the subject still held a fascination for me. It was merely that it had ceased to be the focus of my research. Consequently, whatever the reason is for the current and long-overdue upsurge of academic interest in atheism, secularity and non-religion, I am naturally delighted that it has happened, and especially grateful to Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivant for their part in enabling this process through their far-sighted initiative in launching the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN).

Toward A Sociology of Irreligion

Politics & Social Sciences

Campbell, Colin

Sociology

This is a detailed guide to the basics of beekeeping. It is so good that it has been in continuous publication since 1995. The book is a concise description of how to keep and breed bees.

Better Beginnings for Beekeepers

Adrian Waring

The What, Why & How of Instructional Technique for Driving Instructors (2nd Edition)

Cavanagh, Mary

Stemp, Jane

Lawrence, Linora

Gordon-Cummin, Jane

Reference

The Bodleian Murders and other Oxford Stories

Literature & Fiction

Vetta, Sylvia

Rosser, Heather

May, Radmilla

Costello, Sheilla

Short Stories & Anthologies

<p>Patrick Mitchell is an academic and has had a lifelong love of open fires. He built his first fireplace at the age of 15. After gaining a degree in physics he continued to work on fireplaces of differing ages and noticed that recently installed examples rarely perform as well as those that date from before 1950. This prompted him to study the principles of heat and air flow in fireplaces and to research their history. There is little information available on good fireplace and chimney design which might account for the decline in fireplace performance, and prompted him to write this book. With tables and charts to explain how to design, install and build real, domestic fires. By understanding how open fireplaces work, the reader might even be able to diagnose problems with existing installation. This is essential reading for architects, builders, restorers and ambitious DIY people.</p>

Fireplaces, design and contruction of domestic open fires

Arts & Photography

Mitchell, Patrick

Architecture

The Last Train

Neradin, Thomas

A Proper Family Christmas

Gordon-Cumming, Jane

Women's Fiction

The Lost College and other Oxford Stories

When I wanted to write a ghost story for a competition, I knew exactly where to set it, - the derelict quarry at Shipton-on-Cherwell, one of the spookiest places I know. They’ve broken my heart by surrounding it with a high fence now, so you can no longer climb the secret staircase beside Baker’s Lock, and you’ll have to take my word for it that it’s as unearthly and magical and extraordinary as I describe. I wanted to share my experience of this wonderful place, before they turn it into a housing estate or an eco-town or fill it with unsold cars, or worse, sanitise it into a visitor attraction with steps and nature trails and barricades to stop you getting too close, like poor old Kirtlington Quarry. And having written The Death Trap, I kept thinking of more places and events connected with the Oxford Canal which would make the perfect setting for a ghost story, - the ruined manor at Hampton Gay, the deep lock at Somerton, the Shipton Railway Disaster. In fact, I realised, I could write a whole volume of them. I have loved the Southern Oxford ever since joining my sister Katie and her husband on a cruise from Banbury to Oxford. That was back in the 70s, when the fighter jets still startled one with a sudden deafening roar as they took off from Upper Heyford, and you might still have to operate the old swing railway bridge across the Sheepwash Channel. Katie and Desmond went on to own a pair of hotel boats, and I cadged a trip whenever they had a spare berth. When I married Edwin, I insisted on a canal-based honeymoon, and he became as bitten by the bug as I was. We used to hire from Aynho, and then from College Cruisers, eventually buying one of their boats for our own. Edwin has now converted Worcester to diesel-electric drive, and we can glide through those beautiful wooded cuttings and hear nothing but the birds. In a way these stories are my tribute to the canal. I should say at once that although the places and historical background are real, none of these are accounts of genuine sightings. I’m sure there must have been a few, in a place so full of history and tragic stories, but I have not come across them. I’ve arranged the stories in geographical order, as one might travel north along the canal from Oxford. Edwin has drawn you a map, so you can see where each story takes place. Like their surroundings, the stories become increasingly spread out as they leave the bustle of Oxford, finally ending in that remote, bleak area of countryside between Napton and Braunston, a Landscape of Ghosts where the past seems so much more real than the present.

The Haunted Bridge: and Other Strange Tales of the Oxford Canal

Genre Fiction

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