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In 2020 the former Women's Press editor and literary critic Sarah LeFanu published her group biography of three British writers and their travels to South Africa in the closing days of the Victorian era, Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War, which was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer is a journal that covers the five ...

Frances Thomas was born in Wales, where she now lives, having spent many years in London. She has written various books for adults and children, including a biography of Christina Rossetti. She has won the Welsh Arts Council's Tir na nOg prize four times for her children's books. She has also written two 'poetry journals', A Bracelet of Bright Hair and Dancing in the Chequered Shade. Her most recent work is the Girls of Troy quartet, published...

Learn to stack goals for powerful motivation and drive.

He only sought the truth. But some truths are best left buried. Wrexham, 1876. Meet Alfred Neobard Palmer, an unlikely hero. "It was a death which had brought him here. Death by snake venom, of all things." Palmer - and his more courageous sweetheart, young Ettie Francis. A series of accidental deaths which increasingly seem - well, more than simply accidental. Deaths luring Palmer and Ettie, slowly but surely, towards a terrifying climax th...

Freya Jorgensen is not her real name. Charlotte de Tournet had to hide her true identity when the Nazis rolled into Paris. The SS took over her Avenue Foch mansion, Le Palais, for use by high-ranking Nazis as a place to relax away from the war. She is young and beautiful and is held virtually captive in her Paris mansion. Her only trusted friend is Theodora, a Turkish prostitute and courtesan at Le Palais. Freya unwisely falls in love with ...

An ancient prophecy, 3 forsaken kittens. When worlds collide, will the Trinity of Light survive? Tom Angel thinks he's just an ordinary ginger kitten, but when he discovers that he not only has a sister, but another sibling, the race is on to find them before his nemesis Sophia does. With danger on their tails at every turn will they all survive to fulfil their destiny?

10, 000 years after the Great Ice, evil is on the rise. The Morok, a murderous force, has taken over Erainn, the holy land of the tribes, and enslaved its keepers. Osian, a young hunter, searching for his lost family, comes across a strange object, the Shining Stone, a thing of power, with links to the time before the Ice. He uses it as a weapon against the Morok, but learns it has a mission of its own - and a deadly secret. Now hunted by ...

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Yvette writes about her careers as she lived them - with boundless energy in an open and vivid style. In a unique approach, her story is interspersed with revealing conversations she recorded with many of her close women friends. First, Yvette was an actor, then award-winning documentary and BAFTA drama filmmaker, later an exhibited artist, plus book co-author/editor too. She unveils behind-the-scenes insights into her remarkable careers. S...

Offering a more complete, contemporary, and thorough understanding of this most mysterious of astrological influences. Discovered in 1930, Pluto has always been the most enigmatic of astrological influences. Its astrological meanings have been almost prised out of the Hadean depths, eventually leading astrologers world wide into a greater understanding of how astrology and psychology can be seen as twins, or at least different sides of the s...

It's perfect flying weather around Glossingham Airport, but Charlie is left on the apron all alone and Mr Little, his owner, is nowhere to be seen. After hours with nothing but his dreams to keep him company, Charlie is eventually taken up for a flight and, best of all, it's to one of his favourite places. The coastline comes into view and Green Island is seen on the horizon. There's a rather large cloud in the way, but they just fly round i...

Book 5 in the DI Jeff Lincoln series.

A delightful return to Sophia Cobbs' Wondrous World of Witchcraft!

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An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again presents a collection of John Rigg's wide-ranging sports writing over the last six years. The book captures the thrill of watching some of the elite participants of the modern era - Kevin De Bruyne, Alastair Cook, Sonny Bill Williams et al. But it's not all about the star performers. By describing sporting events within their specific communities - baseball in Toronto, shinty in the Scotti...

Littered under Mercury', set in the '70s, chronicles the persistently turbulent relationship between Jill and Jay. Following the briefest of reunions, she returns to the States whilst he remains teaching in Cheshire, championing the disadvantaged via 'Shakespeare on the Rocks', radical pedagogy which his colleagues hate but his pupils love. Jill, meanwhile, thrives in Virginia and is ultimately reunited with her mentor, Sir Anton Keiter, as ...

Sales needs a rebrand in the creative industry. The creative pound contributes £13M every hour to the UK economy - our creative sector is truly world beating. Yet so many creative businesses and agencies still struggle to find consistent sales and growth. How can creatives rapidly grow their business? The book helps creatives shift their mindset from viewing sales as an afterthought to a fundamental part of their business strategy and provid...

An engaging account of the history, the joy and the personalities of the black bulls of the Camargue...the beating heart of the region.

In July 1798, a Cambridge student set out on a botanical tour and wrote the first guidebook to North Wales. Wearing spectacles and carrying a rucksack, Yorkshire-born William Bingley made notes, sketched and looked for rare plants. He befriended a Welshman with whom he made the first recorded rock climb in Britain on the north flank of Snowdon. Three years later they climbed the iconic mountain Tryfan. Bingley also helped establish the legend ...

Spit was sprayed on her face as he shouted at her shoving her against the wall, his hand around her throat forcing her on her tiptoes. "Kill me then" she said, in a quiet voice. It was the last act of defiance, daring him to do it, so that this would all be over. There could be no more violence, or trepidation. Perhaps peace would finally find its way into her life. She was 15. Surely life wasn't meant to be like this was it? Poignant, shoc...