Based on interviews with former refugee students, this book discusses how & why the students came to Britain after the failure of the 1956 revolution. It chronicles their studies & achievements & their attempts to adapt to British society & recalls the welcome extended to them by British higher educational institutions. ...

Morgan J. Freeman directs this road trip drama. Mark Webber stars as Daniel Carter, a 20-year-old petty thief who is sentenced to a stint of community service as a janitor at a local primary school. There he befriends a troubled eight-year-old boy, Boone (Antonio Ortiz), who is later placed in a care home following the hospitalisation of his mother. Daniel decides to kidnap Boone from the care home & the unlikely pair set out to drive together to Dallas, Texas in an attempt to reunite Boone with his older sister, Charlotte (Roxanne Fox). ...

Fifteen year old Doria is in the misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has gone off back to Morocco to find a wife who can give him a boy. This novel tells the story of Doria who is both clued up & innocent, acutely aware of what's in store for her & powerless to change it. She is funny, clever & tragically trapped. ...

I'm Annabel. My 'best friend' Sophie is spreading rumours about me. My family is slowly falling apart. It's turning into a long, lonely summer, full of secrets & silence. But I've met this guy who won't let me hide away. Will I ever find courage to tell him what really happened the night Sophie & I stopped being friends? ...