Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Brooklyn by Colm ToibinIt is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship,

Nadia gets the 7

An unspeakable crime

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia

but his clumsy concern fractures the twins’ relationship

"The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga" brings spirituality back to yoga

here presented as The Way of Life

By letting go of our attachment to self

who has worked for many years as a medical intuitive and physician

she can stop running

Will she ever find love

The voyage into the beautiful and mesmerizing world of poetry in this edition begins in the fourteenth century with an extract from Chaucer’s legendary work Canterbury Tales and stops in the twentieth century with Dylan Thomas’ power-packed poetry

Young Arieka is an unloved misfit