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A deeply touching story for all the family of how a little girl befriends her elderly neighbour who has dementia.

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The book follows the author's personal journey of discovery, as he researches the last 7 generations of his Gray family history. It centres on how and why one family travelled from Leicestershire, England to Japan, onwards through the Orient via China and India, back to southern England before returning to Leicestershire some 150 years later. It explores the world events that dominated this shared timeline and speculates as to how such happeni...

Paperback edition of this successful picture book reworking of the myth of the "bogey man", illustrated by Michael Foreman.

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An original and unique literary tour-de-force, HIS STORY - A Novel Memoir - The Life and Times of Dick O'Toole is a blend of memoir, faction, fiction, and radical social and political history that is funny, tragic, playful, iconoclastic, and satirical. The revelations are profound, the humour is black, and the style is a breeze. Dick O'Toole is a rogue floundering on the assault course of life. His attempts at making the world a better place a...

Nigel Gray has breathed new life into an almost extinct literary form, the epistolatory novel. The time is 1988/1989. Adrian is trapped in Thatcher's Britain. Harri has flown to a new life in Australia. The contrast between the old world and the new is sharply drawn. The protagonists come alive in a very contemporary way, warts, muddle, desires, anxieties, jokes, differences and all. Full of contradictions, they show at times great insight and...

A remarkable and delightful book that shows how children are alike the world over, while at the same time celebrating the rich and interesting diversity of their ordinary lives. AWARDS Winner of the Christian Media Children's Book Prize, France Parents Magazine Best Books of the Year Award, USA NSCC/CBS Notable Children's Book, USA Children's Book Foundation Book of the Year, UK IRA-CBC Favourite Paperbacks for 1994, USA REVIEWS "An extraordin...

A compelling, and important social and literary document about ten British writers of note, Brian Aldiss Paul Bailey John Berger Malcolm Bradbury Dick Davis John Fowles Barry Hines, Donall Mac Amhlaigh Roger McGough Peter Vansittart Why do authors write? What fuels their passion to create? And how do background, childhood, and early experiences shape the way they see the world? Reading this book is like spending time in the company of these au...

The classic Greek legend is brilliantly retold for young readers with hilarious cartoon-style illustrations, an engaging text, and entertaining tongue-in-cheek footnotes. Ages: 7+

Where is everybody? It's time to play. Lift the flaps to find the family in some very surprising places!

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