Bullied. Taunted by everyone around her, 15 year-old Mavis Jackson is devastated when her only ally, her father Ron, leaves home to beat his gambling addiction. Forced to walk the streets in search of junk to sell, the future seems bleak. Bribed. Until an unexpected fairy godmother arrives in the form of invalid Edith Pugh. She needs help around the home & sees Mavis as the perfect solution. especially as she has ulterior motives... Blamed. Meanwhile, Ron has fallen off the wagon & disappeared. Best mate Pete doesn't know where he is & has to break the terrible news. But does he have another reason for his sudden interest in the Jackson family? Betrayed. Back at Edith's, Mavis revels in her new job. But when she learns of Edith's true motives, she faces a monumental decision, one which could change her life forever... ...

Details: In the heart-warming Lost & Found, discover tales from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that celebrate the power of
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THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS was selected for the Richard & Judy Book club when it was published in paperback. Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, it is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace & her eccentric family at the start of the rock'n'roll era. Penelope longs to be grown-up & to fall in love; but various rather inconvenient things keep getting in her way. Like her mother, a stunning but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age, her younger brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that isn't Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, & her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry. ...

In Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper & hundreds of exquisite pens wait for someone who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the true emotions felt to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. When Clara discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of her own journey. ...

Raleigh doesn't have a soul. A cat stole it
- at least that's what she tells people
- at least that's what she would tell people

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Winifred Rudge is a writer who is struggling to get beyond the runway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. When she arrives in London she discovers that her step-cousin John Comestor has disappeared & a ghostly presence has invaded his home. Winifred has to investigate & finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of spectres & shades. This book is 19.7cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 401 pages. ...

After the oil company that employs Arthur Dashwood fails to protect him from a kidnap attempt in Baghdad, he returns to his traumatised family in London. But everything is not as it should be. Having quit the blistering heat & swimming pool luxury of Saudi Arabia for fear of terrorist attack, Arthur finds that danger is closer to home. Arthur's young son Timothy is struggling in the hostile terrain of his new public school. Bullied by other pupils & neglected by his preoccupied parents, he withdraws into a fantasy world, a hybrid of computer-generated guerrilla warzone & exotic dreams of his time in Saudi Arabia, a place where boys can fight & escape their teachers & families. As one middle-class boy from Timothy's school & then another disappears, so evidence emerges of an extreme & disturbing rejection of the adult world. & then it is Timothy's turn to disappear. Haunted by memories of post-Saddam Baghdad, Arthur embarks on a terrifying search for his son, one that will reveal his own complicity in the brutal consequences of Western power. ...

Bristol for centuries was England's second city &, as a thriving port, its past is steeped in its involvement in trade, whether of cloth, wine, pottery, glass
- or slaves. This book presents an exploration of Bristol's hidden past, its ways of life, legends, relationship with the sea, & its role in English history.
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Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth & romance. This title tells the story of this once-great city
- its rise & fall & its place in the history of the Peloponnese & the Byzantine empire.
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A victim? Or a killer?

One icy cold morning, the remains of a woman are discovered. She has been abused, then butchered.

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