His Holiness the Dalai Lama
How To See Yourself As You Really Are

Like the two wings of a bird, love and insight work cooperatively to bring about enlightenment, says a fundamental Buddhist teaching. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realising that goal is self­knowledge. Now the world's foremost Buddhist leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient shows us how to recognise and dispel misguided notions of self and attain true enlightenment.

Flora Thompson
Over to Candleford

I n Over to Condleford, the second part of the Lork Rise to Condleford trilogy, Laura's family begins to spend part of each summer with cousins in the nearby town of Candleford, which seems to her a very large and grand place. As her schooldays come to an end young Laura becomes a regular bookworm and she and Edmund start to wonder where their grown-up lives will take them.

Suffering from bald patches thanks to a hair conditioner spiked with depilatory cream, Agatha escapes to the coastal resort of Wyckhadden to allow her crowning glory to recover. A local witch provides her with hair tonic - but is then found bludgeoned to death. The elderly residents at Agatha's elegantly faded hotel seem innocuous enough, if a little odd, but as she enquires into the murder she turns up an alarming number of secrets....