At an exclusive girls' boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her obsession is her room-mate, Lucy Blake, & Lucy's friendship with their new & disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious presence with pale skin. Around her swirl dark secrets & a series of ominous disasters. ...

These cute & fluffy Mother & Chicks in nests will add the perfect finishing touch to your Easter craft projects. No Easter display will be the same without these little fluffy chick decorations. Why not add them to gifts or make beautiful Easter bonnet.

Ideal for avid crafters.

Pack measures: 23 x 10 x 4cm approx.

Individually measures: 5.5 x 5.5 x 4cm approx.





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Mother Knows Best: Precious words of wisdom from mothers to their children.

Our mothers shape us in so many different ways,

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One little girl.
Mirabelle’s mother loves her. She’s her ‘little doll’. Mother dresses her, paints her face, & plaits

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Mary, the mother of Jesus, is one of the most powerful, influential & complex of all religious figures. The focus for women, the inspiration of faith, the subject of innumerable paintings, sculptures, pieces of music & churches, Mary is so entangled in our world that it is impossible to conceive of the history of Western culture & religion without her. Miri Rubin's " Mother of God" is a major work of cultural imagination. Mary's role in the Gospels is a relatively minor one, & yet in the centuries during which Christianity established itself she emerged as a powerful, strange & ungovernable force, endlessly remade & reimagined by wave after wave of devotees, ultimately becoming 'a sort of God', in ways that have always made some Christians uneasy. Whether talking about the vast public festivals celebrating Mary that sweep up entire communities or the intense private agony of individual devotion, Rubin's book is a triumph of sympathy & intelligence. Throughout Christianity's journey from mysterious origins to global religion, the " Mother of God" has been a profound presence in countless lives
- " Mother of God" is the story of that presence & a book that raises profound questions about the human experience.
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Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven
- but with the outbreak of war, Barney volunteered to fight, & the couple were separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person
- & neither was Amy. How could things have become so twisted that one day Amy would kill the husband she once so adored? & what happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at the time? In 1971 Amy is released from prison
- although her freedom will change the lives of others, not least that of her daughter. But Pearl has her own demons to exorcise in her quest for happiness. & the greatest question she must ask herself is this: can she ever love her mother after what she did?


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Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling & pronunciation, this book covers curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn & as flexible to use. ...

Presents fourteen of the author's short stories in English translation alongside the Lao originals, marking his formal debut for an American audience. Rather than writing through an ideological lens, the author focuses on the passions & foibles of ordinary people
- their poignant conversations reveal the subtle textures of Lao culture.
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It’s 1942 & Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rovers Return on Coronation Street. With her husb&, Jack, away fighting for King & Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy.

Gracie Ashton works behind the bar at the Rovers & thinks all the girls swooning at the American soldiers flooding into Weatherfield are plain daft. But when she meets the handsome GI, Chuck Dawson, Gracie wonders if she has her own head screwed on right.

With rationing, air raids & blackouts, the wives & mothers of Coronation Street are determined to count their blessings, but when an unwelcome face from the past turns up at the Rovers it looks like Annie will have more to worry about than Hitler’s bombs…

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780008256531
• Author: Maggie Sullivan
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 375
• Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 3.5cm











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Growing up in London's tough East End, young Sara Porter has had to learn to take care of herself. Her mother resents her maternal responsibilities & has never shown her daughter the slightest bit of love. Starved of affection, Sara vows not to let anyone get close & focuses instead on getting out of the East End. ...