David John

'Harriet's Eternal Tears' is an emotionally uplifting drama of a mother's love and loss during the First World War, when her two sons went out to face the uncertainties of conflict. Harriet is happy in her close-knit community until the horrors of war descend on her. Her two sons, David and Emrys, go off to fight despite Emrys only being sixteen. He soon discovers that joining the cyclist battalion

I have always been fascinated and amused by the way words sound and came to realise that puzzles could be created using pairs of words to make another word or phrase. For example “Goat” and “Appeases” is like “Go to pieces”; “Hissed” and “Oracle” is like “Historical”; “Totally” and “Clips” is like “Total eclipse” Each puzzle in this book has twenty clues. To answer them you have to pair up words from the 41 given words marked “All the answers”. One of these words is a rogue word and doesn’t figure in any of the answers to the clues. Each puzzle also has an example at the start whose “answer” words are from the word list but are not used together in answering the clues below it. As you will discover some of the answers are diabolical pairings and may well cause you to groan on realising the pun. That is all part of the enjoyment which I hope you will experience from solving the clues. Tick or cross off the words in the list as you use them but remember you might have used them incorrectly. Each word is only used once. Answer lists are given as a last resort and the rogue word in each puzzle is identified. These are on the reverse of each quiz. Have fun!

Hyeonseo Lee växte upp under Nordkoreas brutala kommunistregim. Efter 1990-talets hungersnöd i landet började hon tvivla på propagandan och insåg att hon blivit hjärntvättad i hela sitt liv. När hon var sjutton år beslutade hon sig för att fly till Kina. Lee kunde inte återvända hem eftersom hon och hennes familj riskerade fångenskap, tortyr och offentlig avrättning. Hon lärde sig snabbt kinesiska och anpassade sig för att överleva. Tolv år senare återvände Lee till den nordkoreanska gränsen för att göra ett vågat försök att smuggla ut sin mor och bror ur landet och till Sydkorea en svår, dyr och mycket farlig resa. Den internationella bästsäljaren Flickan med sju namn har givits ut i 20 länder och ger en unik inblick i en av världens mest hänsynslösa diktaturer. HYEONSEO LEE växte upp i Nordkorea men flydde till Kina 1997. År 2008 kom hon till Seoul i Sydkorea. Hon är numer en van talare på den internationella scenen och kämpar för mänskliga rättigheter och att förbättra nordkoreanernas svåra situation. Hennes TED-talk har visats nära 9 miljoner gånger. "Det här är en sådan där bok där man i slutet av kapitlen döljer de kvarvarande orden med handen eller bokmärket för att det är så spännande. Det är helt enkelt en bladvändare."Kommunalarbetaren "En på samma gång spännande och gripande biografi."Ölandsbladet "en substansrik och i många avseenden aktuell skildring av tillvaron i en sluten diktatur. Den bjuder också en bitvis fängslande skildring av en oppositionell persons vägran att underordna sig förtryck. Exilens villkor skildras på ett tankeväckande sätt."Signum "Hyeonsoe Lee berättar trovärdigt och levande om sin uppväxt och om vardagslivet i Nordkorea. [Boken] har blivit en internationell bestseller och det är lätt att förstå varför."Arbetarbladet

A world-weary English reporter and a maverick American female Olympian find themselves caught in a lethal game between the Gestapo and British Secret Intelligence Service in David John's spellbinding thriller Flight from Berlin. While traveling to Berlin on the Hindenburg to cover the 1936 Berlin Olympics, journalist Richard Denham meets socialite Eleanor Emerson, recently expelled from the U.S. swim team. Richard and Eleanor quickly discover the dark power of Hitler's propaganda machine. Drawn together by danger and passion, Richard and Eleanor become involved in the high-stakes world of international intrigue must pull off a daring plan to survive the treachery of the Third Reich. But one wrong move could be their last. Flight from Berlin is a riveting story of love, courage, and betrayal that culminates in a breathtaking race against the forces of evil.

For those who grew up around hockey, it's easy to understand a sentence like, He let loose a howitzer from the hash marks, roofing the puck past the stunned netminder. But for those who have no idea what that means, How to Speak Hockey provides a unique look into Canada's unofficial third language. Even lifelong lovers of the game might just learn a thing or two: - Many hockey fans know about the five hole, but few know that there are seven holes in total - Before the humble rubber puck, people used strange round balls called road apples - Learn the strange and unique origins of common phrases including stood on his head and hat trick - Find out exactly what is meant when a player dipsy doodles through traffic and breaks the ice - In hockey, sometimes a hot dog is not just something you get at the concession stand - Fighting has always been a part of hockey, so it's not surprising that there are so many words to describe it, from a word as innocent as dance to the biggest fight in hockey the bench-clearing brawl. For all those wannabe hockeyists or lifelong rink rats out there, game on!