MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;

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Harry willingly goes with him

Pax Roma reigns from Britannia to Egypt

was the particle's retiring namesake - the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them

on to the tour bus and out on to the pitch as he relives the defining moments of his playing career and the games that have shaped his relationship with the sport

and now she brings that sensibility to children and to the act of reading

they discover the complexity

Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes

the garden provided a retreat from workaday labour

Life is what you bake it - so bake is sweet

hired to find a lost child

Sally and Harriet are reduced to working for Quality Cleaners when each of them needs money