Jeremy Page Book order (chronological)

A secret pact between four convicts and two prison guards over the division of buried treasure can only lead to one thing: murder and another case for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The Sign of the Four is the second Sherlock Holmes novel and in many ways presents a more human side to the great detective. For instance the reader finds out about his drug habit and we discover that Holmes is not as omnipotent as we might imagine. And for the fortunate Dr Watson there is the opportunity to meet a person who will change his life forever. This edition includes An Introduction to Sherlock Holmes by J. S. Williams.

What must it be like to hold a wild bird not much larger than a small child, and know for certain that within your arms, you are holding the last one of a species? Inspired by a true story of 19th century European explorers who killed an entire species of a beautiful Penguin-like bird called the Great Auk, in order to sell the carcasses to museums around the world, this is a tale of a young man joining a hunting ship to the Arctic in the hope of finding a remaining live specimen. A historical novel about love, obsession and extinction.

"A moving portrait of a father who, unable to save what he most loved, tried to save what could have been." - The Atlanta Journal- Constitution From the acclaimed author of Salt comes this exquisitely written and deeply haunting novel of love and family. When a terrible tragedy changes his family forever, Guy-alone and searching for answers-embarks in his old barge on the stormy waters of the North Sea, writing in his diary about the man he might have been and the family he should have had. His voyage unfolds in unexpected ways, and when he meets two women at sea on a similar quest, Guy realizes that it just might be possible to begin his life again.

Nach dem Unfalltod seiner vierjährigen Tochter Freya und der Trennung von seiner Frau Judy sieht sich Guy mit einem Leben konfrontiert, das allen Sinn verloren zu haben scheint. Um den Bemühungen Anteil nehmender Freunde auszuweichen, zieht er sich von jeglicher Gesellschaft zurück auf sein Boot in die Abgeschiedenheit der rauen See vor der Küste Norfolks. Guy hat nicht vor, sein Schicksal anzunehmen. Jeden Abend trifft er Freya und Judy wieder – in seinem Tagebuch, in dem er das Leben seiner Familie beschreibt, wie es hätte sein können. In dieser erträumten Welt reist er mit der nun zehnjährigen Freya durch den Süden der USA, um Judy bei ihrer beginnenden Karriere als Sängerin zu unterstützen. Doch die Realität holt Guy ein: Zwei Frauen, Mutter und Tochter, ankern mit ihrem Boot in seiner Nähe und üben eine seltsame Anziehungskraft auf ihn aus. Diese Begegnung stellt Guy vor eine schwere Entscheidung. Denn während er sich, inspiriert von Marta und Rhona, vorsichtig dem wirklichen Leben annähert, entgleitet ihm Stück für Stück die gelebte Welt seines Tagebuchs . . .

'These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel and cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes and still darker shadows came over the coast. On one of those nights it all began for me - war, after all, starts many things, and even though I wasn't born for another twenty-five years, my story began there.' It is May 1945 and as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose's daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose's world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound - or so the story goes - for Germany, his home. Forty years later it is Lil's son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family's fragmented history. Who was his grandfather, who fell from the sky into Goose's life and then disappeared as suddenly as he came? What was the truth of his mother, Lil, who lived and lost her way between the creeks and the samphire? And what does it all mean for Pip?

This is an Audio CD Accompanying The Inside Out Upper Intermediate Workbook.

As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, Think Ahead to First Certificate offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills. The course combines high-interest texts with a clear focus on skills and vocabulary building. A reference section encourages students to use the language they have acquired to create their own reference source for prepositions, irregular verbs, phrasal verbs, functions and grammar. Think Ahead to First Certificate has been designed to be used independently of, or as a lead-in to, its companion title, Think First Certificate. The workbook provides additional practice and consolidation of the language and skills introduced in the coursebook. It also aims to develop students' independent study skills by encouraging them to build up their own study reference source as they progress through the material. The workbook material is flexible and can be used for additional classroom practice or for homework.

As a lead-in to preparation for the Cambridge First Certificate examination, Think Ahead to First Certificate offers intermediate students following general communicative courses a bridge to the accuracy required for FCE, particularly in the areas of structure, vocabulary and writing skills.