Kito provides an anchor in his parent`s incompatible marriage. Chubby & dark-skinned, Kito is ruthlessly bullied at school, but at home he says nothing about what he is going through. retreating further into himself whilst constantly succumbing to the will of his mother, a psychiatrist who struggles to empathize. After a class outing to the beach, Kito goes missing. Days later his lifeless body is discovered washed up on the s&. As her marriage dissolves & her innate maternal instinct grows, Kito`s mother becomes obsessed with finding the person responsible for her son`s death. Her search leads to drama teacher Hannah, who seemed to have had a special relationship with her son & who was in charge of overseeing the field trip the day he disappeared. Hannah has begun a new life in the Bulgarian countryside, & unsuspectingly welcomes Kito`s mother into her new life. As the snow begins to fall the two women become entangled in a claustrophobic relationship, trust between them grows & Hannah hesitantly begins to tell the story of Kito... ...

` Boy 87 is an original & beautifully written page-turner of a novelabout love, survival & the strength that can be found in a hopeful humanspirit` -- Sarah Crossan, Carnegie Medal Winner` Shif is anunforgettable character, & his story should be read by everyone who caresabout one of the unfolding tragedies of our time` -- Award-winning author Elizabeth Laird Shif is just an ordinary boy wholikes chess, maths & racing his best friend home from school. But one day, soldiers with guns come to his door
- & he knows that he is no longersafe. Shif is forced to leave his mother & little sister, and embark on a dangerous journey; a journey through imprisonment & escape, new lands & strange voices, & a perilous crossing by land & sea. He willencounter cruelty & kindness; he will become separated from the people heloves. Boy 87 is a gripping, upliftingtale of one boy`s struggle for survival; it echoes the story of young peopleall over the world today.
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Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution & the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do & no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence & who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno`s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. & in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process. ...

” The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets & Lies in Wolverhampton” is a hilarious & heart-rending reinvention of the modern British memoir. ” It`s 1979, I`m three years old, & like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-h&, floral-patterned settee, & lean forward, like I`m presenting myself for execution.” For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one h&, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV &, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory & the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot. & then there was his family, whose strange & often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage & a glorious sense of humour, he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past
- from his father`s harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office
- trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets. Praise for ” The Boy with the Topknot”: ”I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking & wonderful. He writes beautifully”. (Maggie O` Farrell). ” Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving”. (” Observer”). ” Tragic, funny & disturbing. It will challenge you, & may even change you”. (Carole Angier, ” Independent”). Sathnam Sanghera was born in 1976. He is an award-winning journalist who was previously chief feature writer at ” The Financial Times” & now works for ” The Times”. He lives in London. Published in hardback as ” If You Don`t Know Me by Now”.

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Kidnapped & drugged, Ash wakes up on a remote tropical isl&. His mum
- a genetic scientist
- has been imprisoned & infected

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Just when Sam thinks life has returned to normal he`s bundled into a black van by agents of the Apocalypse Intelligence Agency who send him off the remote jungle island of Fin del Mundo to appear on a celebrity reality TV game show. One of Sam`s rival `celebrity` contestants is none other than evil music mogul Nigel Cruul, who the A.I.A. suspect is planning to bring back the Horsewomen of the Apocalypse. Luckily his best friend Milo & kick-ass sister Lexi are starring in the show too. But they`ll have to survive everything from alligator-infested swamps to public vote offs, if they`re to save the world once more. Perfect for fans of MY BROTHER IS A SUPERHERO, HAMISH & THE WORLD STOPPERS & THE PARENT AGENCY
- & anyone who`s ever watched a celebrity reality TV show.
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Boyface Antelope has been waiting his whole life to turn ten & be allowed to enter his parents` stripemongering shop so he can take stripes off animals & put them on something different. Like tartan onto badgers, or removing the stripes of zebras to make ponies. On the morning of his tenth birthday he finds his parents ill, & they ask him not just to go in the shop but to look after it on his own! Will he be able to keep the stripemongery running smoothly? ...

Rabindranath Tagore is famous for the school & university he founded in the Bengal countryside, but he spent much of his early childhood in Calcutta. Seen through the amused eyes of a precocious young boy, Tagore`s memoir describes the joint family he grew up in, the city he played in, & the school he was sent to
- much against his will. Boyhood Days is an exquisite portrait of both Tagore`s childhood, & his country, India, at a turning point in its history.
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” Rare & Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times”. (Guardian). Childhood is exhilarating & terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes & friends are met with manic excitement & creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories & defeats are felt keenly & every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory & how we never become quite what we set out to be. ...

Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature `A masterpiece of reportage` (New York Review of Books)- A new translation based on the updated & expanded text
- From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a `peace-keeping` mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors & nurses, mothers, wives & siblings who describe the lasting effects of war. Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing & the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war.
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