On 3rd December 2005, 13-year-old Charlotte Thompson & her school friend were killed by a train at Elsenham station in Essex. They were crossing the tracks to catch a train to Cambridge to go Christmas shopping. There was no footbridge at the station. Following her death, Charlie's father began writing a series of remarkable letters to his lost daughter. The letters were his way of continuing to talk to Charlie, of keeping her close to him after death. In them, he writes of his terrible grief, & of family life in the wake of disaster. Through his letters he creates a powerful portrait of his beautiful, vivid & unpredictable daughter. He also describes a family struggling to survive tragedy & the challenges & triumphs of daily domestic life in a world that will never be the same again. Dear Charlie is a moving family memoir, an account of mourning, & a biography of a lost girl. Above all, it is a powerful love letter from a father to his daughter. The size of this book is 19.7cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 332 pages ...

Who is going to look after the class pet over the holidays? Micheal is offering a balloon ride, but Nicholas is planning a Pets v Humans football match. It's going to be a tough decision for Miss Brooks. A hilarious tale of rivalry, rabbits & friendship told through letters. ...

Dear Dylan Thanks SO much for your email & I’m sorry about my last one when I said I love you.

I hope you don’t think

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Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses, encompassing a vast & brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries & challenge stereotypes. This title chronicles the rise of this complex, dynamic & unstoppable woman. ...

Alfie the deerhound is a large grey puppy. He loves his boy Charlie, & cheese & he's very good at digging holes. But poor Alfie has got lost & he's scared
- of thunderstorms & being hungry & never seeing Charlie again.. . Meanwhile, Charlie doesn't know what to do
- but one thing is for sure.

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender & deeply personal memoir that finds

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Nostalgic, witty & filled with characters & situations that people of all ages will recognise, Dear Lupin is the entire correspondence of a Father to his only son, spanning nearly 25 years. Roger Mortimer's sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching, always generous letters to his son are packed with anecdotes & sharp observations, with a unique analogy for each & every scrape Charlie Mortimer got himself into. The trials & tribulations of his youth & early adulthood are received by his father with humour, understanding & a touch of resignation, making them the perfect reminder of when letters were common, but always special.A racing journalist himself, Roger Mortimer wrote for a living, yet still wrote more than 150 letters to his son as he left school, & lived in places such as South America, Africa, Weston-super-Mare & eventually London. These letters form a memoir of their relationship, & an affectionate portrait of a time gone by. ...

Roger Mortimer's generous letters to his son are packed with anecdotes & sharp observations, with a unique analogy for each & every scrape Charlie Mortimer got himself into. This title

Includes:: 150 letters written to his son as he left school, & liv

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If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say? In Dear Me, some of the world's best loved personalities have written just such a letter. Dear Me

Includes:: letters from three knights, a handful of Oscar winners, a bevy of Baftas, an intrepid explorer, a few teenage pop stars, an avid horticulturalist, pages & pages of bestselling authors, a dishy doctor, a full credit of film directors, a lovey of top actors, a giggle of comedians & an Archbishop! The letters range from the compassionate to the shocking via hilarity & heartbreak, but they all have one thing in common: they offer a unique insight into the teenager who would grow up to be... Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Paul O' Grady, Jackie Collins, Fay Weldon, Alan Carr, Peter Kay, Debbie Harry, Brenda Blethyn, Jonathan Ross, Liz Smith, Will Young, Alison Moyet, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Yoko Ono, Emma Thompson...to name but a few. It is the PERFECT GIFT for your mum & dad, sister or brother, gran or granddad or someone who is a teenager, even turning 16

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In the weeks & months following the assassination of her husb&, Jacqueline Kennedy received over 800, 000 letters. The impact of President Kennedy's death was so immense that people from all walks of life wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy, sharing with her their feelings of sympathy, sorrow, grief & hope. These letters have been tucked away in the Kennedy Library's archives for almost fifty years. Filled with emotion, patriotic sentiment, & insight, they are a poignant time capsule of one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. Dear Mrs Kennedy is a diverse portrait, not only of the aftermath of the assassination, but of the Kennedy mystique that continues to captivate the world. ...