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Five minutes is all it takes. Five minutes of violence in the wartime blackout. Five minutes that cast a very long shadow. After war ends, little Kenny lives with his granny who can't find words to explain where he has come from. He knows not to ask. His friend Gemma only knows her daddy as a framed picture on her mother's dresser.As the children grow up, they become aware of yawning gaps in their histories. They each meet a person offering sh...

Swear, ' Leclerc shouted, 'that you will never lay down your arms until our colours, our beautiful colours, are flying afresh onStrasbourg Cathedral!'Headstrong newspaperman Jack Telford's weapon is his pen, but the oath he's taken at Kufra will still bind his fate to the passions and perils of the men and women who shape his life - his personal heroes, like the exiled Spanish Republicans now fighting for Free France. But from Oran and Casabla...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL RUBERY BOOK OF THE YEAR AND RUBERY FICTION AWARD 2021Within the depths of the Underworld the formidable snake-haired Gorgon has finally had enough. Tired of being eternally and unjustly brandished a villain, Medusa has found the courage to face her tragic past and speak out. Determined to expose the centuries of lies surrounding her name, Medusa gives unparalleled insight into her cursed life, from her earliest memo...

Away from the tourist trails of England lies an ancient path.Beyond the high surf and sandy beaches of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset lies a cornucopia of treasures, hidden along the perilous routes of the South West.In 2018 Chris set out with Moose, his long-suffering canine companion, on a quest to walk around the coastline of Britain.Join them on their adventure and prepare to be enthralled and bewildered by a story so wild, it's hard to believ...

A story of loss, evolving friendship and self discovery.Hilary has never left home and at fifty-five uncomplainingly looks after her progressively disabled but feisty mother.Hilary's mother dies suddenly and she is thrown into a spiral of despair. With support from her friends she lifts herself out of her despondency, and begins to come to terms with the loss, until the discovery of a manuscript amongst her mother's things throws her into turm...

The magic of life really exists! What happens to Jamie and his dog, Puff, when an unexpected visitor turns up?Find out what the secret is that Roland reveals at a boarding school. Enter the caves where demons live. Visit the house on the hill and see how John finds magic on a dull and rainy day...This selection of short stories will spark the imagination of children, wherever they may be hiding! An interesting read, full of difficult moments a...

When Tafren, a mischievous elf, pushes Lucy and Clementine, two Dandie Dinmont Terrier dogs into a well, they expect to drown. Instead, they do something extraordinary: they travel back through time to 1839 to meet their ancestor.'I'm the Grandfather of all the Dandie Dinmont Terriers in your own time, ' said Old Pepper. 'What he's trying to say is this, ' said Tafren. 'If he dies before he has children, then the Dandie Dinmont Terrier breed o...

1700 and East India Company Governor Elihu Yale is back in London, seemingly intent on reconciliation with his wife Catherine after ten years of separation. But those ten years have given her a taste of independence that she's not ready to easily surrender. The ghosts of her previous life continue to haunt her, however - yet another former foe returned with her husband and seemingly still intent on revenge. And a more evil enemy still, in the ...

Do you dream of running your own business in the wedding industry, but falter when it comes to making it a reality? Do you pore over wedding industry magazines and Instagram accounts and feel a strong sense of kinship, but can't work out how or where to start? Maybe you've started your business but you're struggling to gain traction and you're just not sure you're doing the right things in the right order. Don't worry, if you're reading this, ...

SHORT-CHANGED! lifts the lid on how vast amounts of wealth in the hands of just one per cent of the population is misused to control not only our economy but also our politics.This immensely readable account of how we live and work identifies the fundamental flaw in our political economy. Quite simply, money has been misused since time immemorial. Money was only ever intended as a measurement system to facilitate the fair exchange of goods and...

The unloved child, Billy Heron, with a new identity of Sir Ralph Barnet, returns to Tyneside where his mother, Dee Heron, is living a life of drudgery at stately Mrs Hammond's. He hopes to transform the lives of all his family with the wealth he has accrued over his seven years' absence and he comes with a wife, Sophia of the Spanish aristocracy, and a son, Mateo, whom he loves with a passion. But the outcome is not the triumph he visualised. ...

Create your future. Live the life you want. Pregnancy is not the start of a new story, it is the start of a new chapter. New characters are introduced and new settings and experiences, but you are still the lead. You are still the main character in your story, and you can write it any way you want to.Starting a business is often about creating balance, taking back control and manufacturing your own success. Pregnancy and motherhood are frequen...

There's nothing like a puffin, right? Except soon there may not be anything like a puffin left in the United Kingdom. In 2015, the International Union for Conservation of Nature added the Atlantic puffin to the Red List of Threatened Species for birds. This book is a journey to find the last strongholds of the most enigmatic birds in the United Kingdom. Every last puffin.It's a story of scouting for puffins on the remote Hebridean outpost of S...

Dione Sheradon's young love turns to bitter hatred when her betrothed, army officer Sir Ralph Barnet, deserts her on her father's bankruptcy. Sure she is pregnant and despairing of her suicidal parents, she wanders into the arms of simple Jack Heron, a wagon driver for Wylam pit. They are swiftly married and he believes the child is his.Dione has to become Dee Heron, living in a one-room house with her in-laws and never being quite accepted am...

Breast cancer shocked her into asking how she would cope. What resources of body and mind had she inherited from her parents?Self-Portrait with Parents combines original research with a personal understanding of Tyerman's upbringing and its consequences. Looking back at her adolescence and exploring the largely unknown lives of her parents has helped her not only to recover from recurrent breast cancer but also to resist the powerfully negativ...

Ten years after the Second World War, England is broken and labour shortages threaten its recovery. The UK government reaches out to the West Indies. Thousands of men, women and children arrive during the 1950s. They are known as the 'Windrush' generation. A chance meeting in Derbyshire changes the lives of Vincent and Agatha. They marry and build a life that is a far cry from their native country of Jamaica. With better job opportunities in B...

This book shares with you the answers you have been searching for. Kate becomes the friend you never thought you had. She doesn't hold back, telling you exactly how it is ­- just like the random girl you meet in the nightclub toilets who becomes your hype friend. She's here in the pages of this book to help you become the best version of yourself, with so much inspiration on each page. The perfect book to comfort you with a warming hug and be ...

After five extraordinary years in India, April returns to a troubled and divided Britain, now in the throes of negotiating an exit from the European Union. Torn between her desire for a quiet life in Cornwall and the magnetic pull of Italy's charms, she is undecided about where to make her home.Looking for answers, she visits her friend Marcello in Italy. But the more time she spends with him, the more she realises that the social dilemmas fac...

Have you heard of the little shrew that got so greedy he ate an entire forest?

In a career spanning five decades, Dr John Gayner acted as a medical adviser on dozens of TV and film sets. This led to a collection of stories that entertain, and show what went into the making of many well-known films."A Doctor For All Seasons is an engrossing and compelling read, a genuine page turner. A fascinating, profound, informative and, at times, extremely funny memoir of what it's like to be a doctor labouring on the coalface devote...