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The Listening Path is a book for the attentive companion, the thoughtful observer, the restless seeker, or the curious soul. Blending reflection and poetry, it reveals how the simple, everyday act of listening can be a spiritual practice, and become a path of connection and presence, and how moments of stillness can open us to wonder and deeper meaning. It explores how the ordinary practices of pausing and hearing, welcoming and reflecting, can help us discover a richer spirituality in our...

The Quiet Path is a book for the walker, or the armchair traveller, the clear-sighted tourist, or the bewildered wanderer. Blending reflection and poetry, it shows how the simple practice of walking can become a quiet path of wonder, and how a brief pause in a busy day can turn into contemplation. It explores how the ordinary practices of walking and noticing, recognizing and writing can help us discover depth and spirituality in everything we encounter and find a deeper awareness of a Pre...

Book 2 of The Gallery of Unfinished GoodbyesWinter has settled over Alderwick. Amanda's gallery is still finding its feet when Ian, a quiet man who loves a cryptic crossword, falls for one of Virginia Jenkins's paintings. It shows a keeper in a long coat standing beside a raven, one hand resting on the rail.Amanda tells him what happened to the last painting she sold. He buys it anyway.Then the keeper's hand begins to open.As the painting ke...

Book 1 of The Gallery of Unfinished GoodbyesWhen Amanda Tomlin opens a small gallery on Slipway Lane in the seaside town of Alderwick, she needs stock, and quickly. A dealer from a house clearance offers her six paintings by an unknown artist who signed only with the initials VJ. She buys all six, hangs them beside her own work, and waits to see whether the town will come in.The first to sell is a quiet picture of a child in a red coat, standing on a pale s...

Book 4 of The Gallery of Unfinished GoodbyesSince Lyn, the family's old lurcher, died in January, Shaun Dobbins's house has felt too quiet. Her bedding is gone, but the routines she shaped are still there.Then, in Amanda's gallery, he finds a painting of a dog asleep beneath a heap of soft blankets. It is the fourth of Virginia Jenkins's six paintings, and he buys it knowing it may not stay the same.A few weeks later, a blue ball appears at the edge...

Book 3 of The Gallery of Unfinished GoodbyesChloe has just moved into a rented flat and isn't sure how long she'll stay. Her marriage is at a standstill. But the moment she sees the great green seascape in Amanda's gallery, she knows she wants it on her wall.Amanda tells her the truth about Virginia Jenkins's paintings: they change after they are sold. Chloe takes the wave home anyway. Soon a small brass key appears, half hidden among the painted stones on ...

Some objects are made to remember. Some are made to accuse.Sera Vane deals in the beautiful leftovers of Victorian grief — jet brooches, memorial rings, lockets of woven hair — from a quiet, failing shop in the shadow of a cathedral. When a country solicitor offers her the collection of Constance Elmore, a poor relation who died in 1931 at the age of a hundred and three, Sera spends money she doesn't have on forty-seven mourning pieces from a single Wiltshire family.Every p...

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations steal intellectua...

Christmas Kisses is a collection from five bestselling and award-winning authors. Set in the snowy town of Echo Ridge in upstate New York, these inspirational romances are sure to delight while you sip cocoa by the fire and listen to Christmas carols.The Candy Counter Heiress by Lucy McConnellSomeday Reese Gates will own the Candy Counter at Kenworth’s. Unfortunately for Reese, even the best laid plans can melt like chocolate.Christmas Makeover...

Does your DNA have a hidden purpose, and could it be the transformation of consciousness itself? Gene Keys offers a means of unlocking your untapped potential by awakening the sleeping genius inside you.A SPIRITUAL COMPANION FOR LIFESince its first publication, Gene Keys has been hailed as a spiritual classic. It is the hub of a whole interconnected web of online wisdom teachings. Designed...

An authoritative account of Xi Jinping's worldview and how it drives Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage. In his new book, On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage--that of President Xi Jinping, who now hold near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for...

A three-step practice that channels awareness and stillness into insight for navigating life's challenges."...has the potential to help us all live effortlessly powerful lives of ever-deepening clarity, connection, purpose and authenticity" - Jonny WilkinsonIn a world of constant distraction, urgency and information overload, contemplation helps you pause, gain perspective and respond with wisdom.International spiritual teacher and ...