Sent to stay with unknown relatives while her parents are abroad, Polly is delighted to discover that ' The Shrubbery' turns out to be the most wonderful house, with an even more wonderful garden.

It's no surprise to Polly that such an enormous garden, full of rare & beautiful plants, needs a full-time gardener to look after it. But Miss Gargoyle doesn't look
- or act
- like a real gardener at all. & what on earth can have happened to Polly's two uncles, who have been missing for days? With the help of her cousin Harry, Polly sets out to keep a close eye on Miss Gargoyle & soon discovers that something very sinister indeed is going on in the Shrubbery garden!





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Summer, 1954. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Isl&, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them.

But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, & neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumours of Ashecliffe

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Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010.

US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Isl&,

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On a wintry night in February 1989, 22-year-old Deborah Copaken Kogan is the lone female among a group of Afghan freedom fighters riding through the Hindu Kush mountains. ' In my lap, hopping atop my thighs as the truck lurches, as my body shivers, sits a sturdy canvas Domke bag filled with Nikons & Kodachrome film, which I'm hoping to use to photograph the pull-out of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Actually, I have no idea how to photograph a Soviet pull-out. Though this is my second story as a professional photojournalist, I'm still not clear on what it is photojournalists actually do in a real war.' What follows is the hilarious & winning memoir of a young woman finding & fighting her way through the war zones of the world. It is a thrilling coming-of-age story, told with humour & uncommon wisdom, about how one woman fought her way on to battlefields, & the danger, pain, truths & love she discovered there. ...

Joris has lived with his aunt & uncle in a village since his early childhood; his father died young & his mother moved to Spain. He is a quiet & introverted child who, his relatives fear, resents the loss of his parents deeply. The gentle rhythm of life, however, is about to be disturbed, awakening in Joris charged memories of his dead father.

With the past swathed in obscurity & rumours circulating about his parents, Joris feels insecure & vulnerable & his attempts to reconstruct his family history from photos are continually frustrated. On one occasion the village teacher, an amateur filmmaker who records local events & celebrations, accidentally threads a film into the projector backwards. So Joris is offered a rare glimpse of his father only to see him disappearing backwards into the past. As Joris grows up & his aunt & uncle age, the end of his youth approaches, as does a definitive confrontation with his father.

In a style marked by extraordinary elegance & subtlety, Erwin Mortier brings a lost world back to life. Shutterspeed is an enchanting novel which evokes all the mystery, wonder & confusions of childhood.



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The breakthrough guide to solving SIBLING RIVALRY
* Do your children ever argue, fight or wind each other up?
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Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on a 'real world' that seems meaningless & absurd. Instead she lives in her own head. Then she meets Newton, a care-worn American wanderer with a drinker's face & an angel's smile. Newton changes everything. But for how long? ...

A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, & weak. It's four o'clock, & she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other h&, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this.' She checks her teeth for lipstick &, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, & operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is the world's most hidden & dangerous form of child abuse, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness & rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman. ...

A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, & weak. It's four o'clock, & she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other h&, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this.' She checks her teeth for lipstick &, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, & operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is the world's most hidden & dangerous form of child abuse, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness & rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman. ...

Covering Sid's early years in South Africa & life as a ladies' hairdresser, his obsession with gambling & women, his questioning by Scotland Yard in a murder case, Hancock's Half Hour & the Carry On films, & Sid's death on stage at the age of 63, Cliff Goodwin reveals the amazing truth behing the legend. ...