All too often beginners are lumped together under the misleading epithet ‘false beginners’. This book dismantles the twin myths which underlie this categorization. The first of these is the convenient belief that there are no ‘real’ beginners any more. (Convenient because it allows us to get on with ‘exciting’ activities with learners, who can be presumed already to be in control of the basics.) This book confronts us with the awkward fact that there are still substantial numbers of real beginners, with problems of a quite different order from those experienced even by ‘false’ beginners.
I've Got You Under My Skin • You Do Something to Me • Get Out of Town • All Through the Night • So in Love • At Long Last Love • Easy to Love • My Heart Belongs to Daddy • Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye • In the Still of the Night
When Fran Varady is approached by Private Investigator Clarence Duke, she mistrusts him on instinct. But she can't ignore what he has to tell her. Her mother, Eva, who walked out on Fran when she was only seven years old, has hired Clarence to find her daughter. And for good reason. Eva is dying. So Fran is reunited with the mother she hasn't seen for fifteen years, and is soon to lose again. But the biggest bombshell of all is still to come...
Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer. When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And there is nothing simple about this death. The murdered man's daughter needs Cadfael's help in more ways than one. There are questions about the arrow. And the burial is the strangest thing of all
