Glenfield BookChats March 2010

"Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds…

Sydney, 1942, the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Surely Australia is doomed to fall to the Japanese. In the confessional, Father Frank Darragh hears how his community is changing -- how the very real fear of invasion is leading people to challenge the teaching of the Church. Especially vulnerable are those whomen whose husbands have been captured. Facing the future alone and unprotected, they are at risk of succumbing to the charms of more subtle invaders -- American servicemen. When one of Father Darragh's 'fallen' parishoners, is found burtally murdered, she takes on the character of a victim of war in the mind of the naive young priest. His obsession with her fate, leads Darragh on a dangerous journey of personal discovery -- one that puts his own life at risk.

As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas…

Wentworth is in Yorkshire and was surrounded by seventy collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian…

For pathologist and forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton, the death of a gang rape victim hours before she is due to give evidence at trial…

Teddy Wendover is a hulking twenty-eight-year-old with the mind of a child. An accident at eight left him severely retarded. But did it turn…

As a child Nora waged war on her mother, Maisie, it relieved the hurt she felt when she overheard Maisie say she preferred her older…

Kate White, single mother and assistant Philadelphia DA, must fight for her life and the life of her son as the terrible events of her past…

Changing the 'Don't do" cells into 'yes do' cells in the brain, relaxing the vocal organs -- Applying the complete technique of scientific relaxation -- Death and life are in the power of the tongue -- Whatsoever I have done unto the least of them so have I done unto thee -- Occupational therapy in its finest form -- Occupational therapy means action now and in the right direction -- Jesus taught modern medicine and occupational therapy -- In our daily living we feel separation because we fail to co-operate -- "The infinite has made me to be"-- "Awake them that sleepeth, arise from the dead" -- The key, how to use your mind to solve your problems.

Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to…

Alex Tremain is a pirate in trouble. The two women in his life one of them his financial adviser, the other his diesel mechanic have left…

A debut collection by an award-winning writer is primarily set in Asia and follows the perils of a young woman who feels bound to the…

The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find…

Sonja Skordahl, a Scandinavian immigrant, finds herself torn between her husband, Henry, and Ned Weaver, an internationally famous artist who uses her as a model, in a novel set against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin.

Through a stroke of luck, Yelena escapes execution in exchange for tasting the food of the Commander, ruler of Ixia. Though confined to a…

"Ribbons of Grace is set in Arrowtown, a frontier town with an explosive mix of inhabitants, during the Otago goldrush of the 1860s. It…

When Mary Bowes' mother dies, it seems that things cannot get any worse. But then she discovers a devastating secret that her father has…

When Tim Ecott's family uprooted from Northern Ireland in 1977, they thought they were leaving behind their troubled lives, including the…

Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has rather large, quirky family. Until now they've been the centre of his universe, but now Frankie's view…

'Taking Liberties' tells the story of how New Labour and Tony Blair have systematically demolished the freedoms of the British people, and the devastating effect this has had on the rest of the world. The story is told through the eyes of ordinary people who have suffered these injustices.

Paramedic Lauren Yates stumbles into a world of trouble the night she discovers a dead man in an inner city alley, for the killer still…

This debut novel is the story of Smithson Ide who grieves the death of his parents by getting on a Raleigh bicycle in his funeral suit and…

Miss Beatrice Penrose-Steel celebrates her twenty-first birthday in style with her family gathered around her. As the eldest of four daughters, Beatrice assumed control of the house after her mother's death. While the three youngest plan to escape by any means, including marriage, Beatrice enjoys directing the servants, dusting imaginary spots of dirt, and trying to please her beloved father, Simon. When Simon is killed in a freak accident, the ugly truth about his financial condition surfaces: he is heavily in debt to gamblers and moneylenders who hold a mortgage on the house. Beatrice, devastated by the revelations, ruthlessly destroys her family's remaining happiness in an effort to maintain her grip on the house and on appearances. Her whole life is built on one obsession after another, but even her family is shocked by the lengths to which she will go to get her way.

After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to…