Stateless & destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself & her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once cherished for herself; dreams cruelly snatched from her by the war & its terrible aftermath. But 1960s Pontypridd is a place of opportunity
- at twenty-one, Magda's daughter has beauty, confidence & prospects beyond even her mother's wildest imaginings. With a university degree behind her, a coveted teaching post in her old Grammar school, & marriage to the love of her life, Dr Eddie John, the son of an old Pontypridd family to look forward to, Helena couldn't have been happier. Until tragedy strikes. A tragedy that robs Helena of the only family she has ever known & everything she has ever believed in; Helena uncovers a bitter secret, so explosive that her mother carried it to the grave.
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Dozens of inventive ways to use rubber stamps, inks, papers, & festive embellishments to great effect from Magenta, the world-renowned paper craft company. Techniques include: ghost stamping, colouring & embossing, making paper beads, die-cut windows, pieced paper, Bargello, swivel panel card, layered Peel Off ...

When most of Maggie Jordans family are killed in a freak flood in the small coastal village of Heymouth, she is forced to find work in one of Glasgows carpet mills.

She becomes engaged to Nevil Sanderson, who suddenly decides he must go to Spain & join the Republicans in their fight against Franco.

Although she struggles on without him, Maggie eventually realises her place is by his side & journeys to Spain to join him. But the newly promoted Nevil has become distant & ruthless, & is fiercely jealous of her new friendship with American journalist Howard Taft.

Years later, married & with an eight-year-old daughter, Maggie has returned to Glasgow. Astonished when Howard reappears, bringing light & laughter back into her life, she is forced to take decisions
- decisions which threaten to destroy even the vibrant & courageous Maggie Jordan.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780751573589
• Author: Emma Blair
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 512
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm














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Maggie May has had a difficult start. Born in the slums of Liverpool at the end of Queen Victoria's reign, she has to contend with a drunken father who hates her for not being a boy, the fear of violence from her father's criminal associates, & the grinding poverty of their circumstances. Worst of all, she must come to terms with the early death of her beloved mother. & she must bear the shame of her name, a name given to her by her father out of sheer spite
- the name of the city's most notorious prostitute. Left to raise her younger brother, Maggie escapes to the countryside. She builds a new, idyllic life for them both, but her happiness is to be short-lived. Fate is to draw her back to Liverpool & to a man who will bring her heartbreak
- & the greatest happiness she will ever know.

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A gorgeous collector's set of this addictive & hypnotic trilogy exploring the all-consuming romance between two star-crossed loers: a yellow-eyed wolf boy & a human girl. For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods. Especially the yellow-eyed beast whose chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Every winter she watches him, but every summer, he disappears... Sam leads two lives. In winter, he stays in the frozen woods, with the protection of the pack. In summer, he has a few precious months to be human, until the cold makes him shift back again. When Grace & Sam finally meet, they realize they can't bear to be apart. But can they find a way to stay together as the stakes grow higher & death comes closing in? ...

A title that began as a vision the author had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another
- a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth
- which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths & wrong turnings, disappearances & revelations.

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The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. This book takes us into this magical underworld to reveal the astounding stories of some of the world's greatest magicians. From the astrology of the three wise men to Harry Houdini's escapology, it illustrates the changing perceptions of magic. ...

Suitable for readers who are growing in confidence & are beginning to enjoy longer stories, this book tells the story about a boy who hates having to choose, Green shirt or blue shirt? Feeding the ducks or going on the swings? It also gives a strange object that might just be the answer to his problem. ...

In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac & the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment & a bit of cheap dope. This work retraces the path of the once well-worn 'hippie trail' from Turkey to Iran, Afghanistan to Pakistan, & from India to Nepal. ...

Three cakes in one, this is every cake-lovers dream! Composed of just eggs, sugar, flour, butter & milk, & with a super simple preparation method, at first glance these recipes look just like any other cake recipe. But the magic in these cakes is in the cooking. ...