The Second World War has officially ended but the streets are still a battleground
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From the illustrator of Owl Babies comes a new classic
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The New York Times Bestseller' Space elevators gold asteroids & fusion-powered toasters
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' An enticing & clever book inside & out' Book Of The Month
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Learn your ABC with Sooty &38; Sweep in this brand new dvd featuring Richard Caddell Actors Richard Cadell Brenda Longman Wink Taylor Wendy Abrahams Nick Bennett Directors Adrian Hedley Writers Richard Cadell Wink Taylor Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play With the aid of his magic wand Sooty everyone&s favourite TV puppet conjures up a magical experience for all the family! Join Sooty Sweep Soo & the rest of the gang for three hilarious fun filled action packed episodes of madness mayhem & mishaps! Izzy Wizzy Let&s Gets Busy! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Join Sooty Sweep & Soo in this double festive mayhem As poor Richard struggles to keep them all in in check! Features the following Episodes Panto Palaver Pranks & Presents Disco Disco! Sooty Takes Off Record Breakers Squeaky Clean The Farm The Great Outdoors The Great Race The Souvenir Stall ...

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This title was previously called " The Winter Sea" When bestselling author Carrie Mc Clelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle she is enchanted by the stark & beautiful Scottish landscape The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel using the castle as her setting & one of her own ancestors Sophia as her heroine Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own & the lines between fact & fiction become increasingly blurred As Sophia's memories draw Carrie more deeply into the intrigue of 1708 she discovers a captivating love story lost in time After three hundred years " Sophia's Secret" must be told ...

Winner of the Eastern Eye Alchemy Festival Award for Literature In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty Her father Maharajah Duleep Singh was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass & included the mighty cities of Lahore & Peshawar It was a territory irresistible to the British who plundered everything including the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond Exiled to England the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace its grounds stocked with leopards monkeys & exotic birds Sophia god-daughter of Queen Victoria was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman presented at court afforded grace-&-favour lodgings at Hampton Court Palace & photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pages But when in secret defiance of the British government she travelled to India she returned a revolutionary Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice & inequalitya far cry from the life to which she was born Her causes were the struggle for Indian independence the fate of the Lascars the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World War
- & above all the fight for female suffrage She was bold & fearless attacking politicians putting herself in the front line & swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to tend wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefields Meticulously researched & passionately written this enthralling story of the rise of women & the fall of empire introduces an extraordinary individual & her part in the defining moments of recent British & Indian history
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