It is known as the Discworld It is a flat planet supported on the backs of four elephants who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A' Tuin as it swims majestically through space & it is quite possibly the funniest place in all of creation As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star the Discworld has only one possible saviour Unfortunately this happens to be the singularly inept & cowardly wizard called Rincewind who was last seen falling off the edge of the world ...

Published in Britain at the end of 1986 this & its prequel (The Colour of Magic above) were among the top five best-selling books on the 1986 Andromeda list Moreover Pratchett was Andromeda's best-selling author for the same year It was also chosen as a lead title for Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club ...

'I promised that I would one day write a book & tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers I have at last kept my promise' In Ireland 1951 the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years It was a place of secrets lies & cruelty A place where women picked grass by hand & tarred roads whilst heavily pregnant Where they were denied any contact with the outside world; denied basic medical treatment & abused for their 'sins'; where after the birth they were forced into hard labour in the convent for three years But worst of all was that the young women were expected to raise their babies during these three years so that they could then be sold
- given up for adoption in exchange for a donation to the nuns Shocked by the nuns' inhumane treatment of the frightened young women June risked her job to bring some light into their dark lives June's memoir tells the story of twelve women's experiences in this home & of the hardships they endured but also the kindness she offered them & the hope she was able to bring
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The brand new read-in-one-sitting mystery from the bestselling author of The Goldfish Boy 2017's breakout children's book hit Nate & his mother are running away hiding out in a tumbledown cottage in the middle of a forest When Mum heads off for provisions & then doesn't return Nate is left alone & afraid with the dark closing in all around him But comfort can come from the most unexpected of places
- a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a treasure hunt & the reappearance of an old friend from his past Will Nate find the bravery needed to face the troubles of his present & ultimately illuminate the future? A story of fear & hope loneliness & friendship
- full of the heart engaging characters & propulsive page-turning mystery that has made THE GOLDFISH BOY the breakout children's books hit of 2017

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Arthur Simpson
- ' British to the core' but without a passport to prove it
- lives in Athens scraping by as a driver journalist

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The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles Home Place Sussex 1937 The English family at home For two unforgettable summers they gathered together safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games lavish family meals & picnics on the beach Three generations of the Cazalet family Their relatives their children & their servants
- & the fascinating triangle of their affairs Read the next books in the series Marking Time Confusion Casting Off & All Change
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The Lighterman is the third book in the bestselling series of legal thrillers starring barrister Charles Holborne Simon Michael's follow up to the bestselling The Brief & An Honest Man continues the adventures of criminal barrister Charles Holborne The Lighterman provides more of Charles' personal history dating back to the war years when he worked on the River Thames with his cousin Izzy Gangland leader Ronnie Kray is not a man to forgive or forget Holborne has "taken liberties" & revenge will follow But how to get at a tough & resourceful Brief with his own history of criminality & a penchant for violence? The answer find a man who can't be hanged twice Now Holborne must dig up the secrets of the past to save two livesone of them his own Simon Michael brings the past vividly back to life across a beautifully rendered 60s landscape & delivers a gripping piece of thriller fiction that will excite any fan of the genre ...

From Robert Eggers the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece The Witch comes this hypnotic & hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe & Robert Pattinson) on a remote & mysterious New England island in the 1890s As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock & strange apparitions emerge from the fog each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light When Hamish the lighthouse keeper's cat hears that Mr & Mrs Grinling are going to put him on a diet he decides to find somewhere else to live Soon though Hamish realises that there's no place like home The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH published over thirty years ago It is now a modern picture book classic & his adventures have been loved by children ever since ...

When Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper locks himself out of the lighthouse he tries everything to get back inside Not only is Hamish the cat trapped inside he also needs to switch on the light to warn the ships that they're near the rocks on the coast Luckily Mrs Grinling has an ingenious plan to get back in but will it work? ...