When Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage. With two young children, the rent overdue & almost nothing to live on, she has no alternative but to turn to his estranged family for help. She sets off on the long & arduous journey to Yorkshire, but is met with hostility & soon realises she has little choice but to return to London. Virtually destitute & desperate, Eloise is faced with her worst nightmare: she must either go to the workhouse, or abandon her children at the Foundling Hospital. But she is determined to keep them safe & under her protective wing at all costs. ...

Pious young Grace Kettle escapes the world of her unsavoury & bullying father to train to be a nun.

But when she meets

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When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister & brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be. But despite the threat of being turned out onto the streets by the unscrupulous tallyman & the never-ending struggle just to exist, Hetty is determined her family will never starve or want for a roof over their heads. Longing for something better out of life than the daily grind of making matchboxes for a pittance, she dreams of setting up her own business. With the help of friends she sells hot potatoes on the streets & things begin to look up for them all. But when the tallyman comes calling, they are faced once more with a future full of hardship & despair. ...

Destitute. Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with her ailing mother, Laura. Their small Yorkshire farm is run-down & isolated & when the only way to take their goods to market is lost, Quinta is prepared to sacrifice almost anything for both of them to survive. Coveted. Noah Bilton, a wealthy neighbour, has designs on Top Field as well as ideas for the future of Laura & her daughter. He offers an uneasy solution to keep them out of the workhouse, but Laura Haig will have nothing to do with it, or him. When strangers appear at Top Field looking for shelter, Quinta's hopes are renewed
- but Noah is resolved to take what he wants by fair means or foul. Deserted. Quinta finds love against all odds, but is deserted at her most vulnerable. The hardships that follow give her a steely determination to seek retribution from the man who has wronged her
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Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with her ailing mother, Laura.

Their small Yorkshire farm is

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Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus & Buddhists alike as the home of their gods & the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej & Tsangpo-Brahmaputra. For centuries Kailas remained an enigma to the outside world. Then a succession of remarkable men took up the challenge of penetrating the hostile, frozen wastelands beyond the Western Himalayas, culminating in the great age of discovery, the final years of the Victorian era. A Mountain in Tibet is an extraordinary story of exploration & high adventure, full of the excitement & colour. ...

It’s time for Bear’s winter sleep, but he’s hungry.

Millie Mouse is determined not to let her friend go to bed with a

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Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, & an introduction by the editor & grandson of the author, Sean Hemingway, this new edition also

Includes:: a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, & his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ford Madox Ford, & insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. Sure to excite critics & listeners alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I & the unbridled creativity & unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.

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Books Kids Adventure Books Five days, five tasks, no technology. How will Holly survive in the woods? Holly's second 'dadventure' is a screen-free challenge
- Mum has packed her & Dad off to a log cabin in Fir Forest for five days with NO technology. There are other people camping in the woods, though
- Zeb & his show-off dad who are camping 'properly' in tents & fishing for their dinner. Holly's dad is treating her like a baby & being more embarrassing than ever, but Zeb & Holly soon hit it off & enjoy exploring the forest together. A few days in Zeb's dad goes missing, & they discover there is a bear on the loose from the local safari park. It's up to Holly & her new friend to work together, save the day & prove themselves to their fathers
- all without their phones or any tech gadgets!   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781848125896 •†Author:†  Dave Lowe •†Publisher:†  Bonnier Publishing Fiction •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 182 •†Dimensions:† 19.7...


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1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. The training is hard, the cells are bleak & a thick skin is needed. But

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