Gemma is ready for a change of scene. Her self-imposed exile in America worked for a while, helped her to forget, but now she is returning to Engl&, the country of her birth, for a fresh start. A new job, a new house, a new life beckons, but there are old problems too, the same painful, raw problems she ran away from ten years ago.

Daisy stole Oliver from her. Her beloved sister just walked off with the love of her life. They never talked about it. They haven't talked about anything since. Not even the death of their father, Bertie, & the subsequent suicide of their beautiful mother Estella.

As Gemma & Daisy try tentatively to rebuild the closeness they shared as children, they must begin to confront the reasons why their mother killed herself, & to trace her life story back to the 1950s
- to more innocent times.

This is the story of two pairs of sisters
- Gemma & Daisy, their mother Estella & her sister Shirley. It tells of love & passion, jealousy & secrets, & follows a family mystery back to its origins in the 1950s, but whose consequences stretch into the present & beyond.







...

Katie Morag is back again! Whether she is getting excited about the new pier, trying to cheer up Grannie Island in time for Granma Mainland's big day, singing naughty songs at the Grand Concert or solving riddles to get back in everyone's good books, Katie Morag is always up to something! This beautiful special gift book brings together four more exciting Katie Morag adventures, & is a perfect companion volume to Katie Morag's Island Stories. ...

Katie Morag is back again! Whether she is getting excited about the new pier, trying to cheer up Grannie Island in time for Granma Mainland's big day, singing naughty songs at the Grand Concert or solving riddles to get back in everyone's good books, Katie Morag is always up to something! This beautiful special gift book brings together four more exciting Katie Morag adventures, & is a perfect companion volume to Katie Morag's Island Stories. ...

After a decade of successfully tackling the wide-ranging collection of football queries proposed by its readers, guardian.co.uk's dedicated battalion of sleuths continues to uncover the answers in the weekly online column ' The Knowledge'. Trawling through the archives of nerdvana, this compilation uncovers the truth behind such questions as:

Has a referee ever been sent off?
Which players have attacked their own fans?
Did pigs once force a match to be abandoned?
Is Paolo Maldini the greatest runner-up?
What is the fastest ever sending-off?
Who are the most benevolent players?
How did Alan Hansen get his scar?
And which is the world's greenest club?

All of these posers & many, many more are answered in this second collection of the best & most bizarre questions & answers from ' The Knowledge'.










...

Ted L Nancy continues his gently surreal correspondence with the great & the good. His hilarious & bizarre letters
- as before
...

From the pleasure of escaping our daily lives & finding laughter, to musing on what makes the world go round & finding solace, poets of all ages have helped us find a way there. In 1996 BBC Bookworm held a poll to find 100 of the nation's best-loved poems. They were published in the Nation's Favourite Poems & featured classics, including Tennyson's ' The Lady of Shalott' & Wordsworth's ' The Daffodils', alongside popular contemporary poems, such as Jenny Joseph's ' Warning' & W.H Auden's ' Stop All the Clocks'. This collection continues to delight & move us with its eclectic mix of favourite poems. Yet, while it contains so many of our best-loved poems, there are a wealth of outstanding poems across the ages that we were unable to include in the collection. To celebrate the richness of poetry in our lives, BBC Books is holding another poll to find more of the nation's favourite poems. Perhaps the anthology will include Byron's poignant, ' So we'll go no more a roving', other outstanding pieces by Auden, Lawrence, Wordsworth & Shakespeare or Edwin Muir's ' The Confirmation'. The anthology will be published this autumn. In June the nation will be able to have its say. ...

You can never have enough pants, as this exuberant celebration of lots & lots more pants proves! Giles Andreae's brilliant rhyming text & Nick Sharratt's hilarious, vibrant illustrations will delight children & adults alike. Featuring amongst others, a hippo, a limousine & a dinosaur in pants, plus a rather embarrassed farty pants, this lively picture book is guaranteed to make you giggle! ...

Now readers can sing along with this hilarious book & CD read by Lenny Henry.
You can never have enough pants, as this exuberant
...