When Maddy Belfield loses her family & home in the Blitz, she is sent to live with relatives in the Yorkshire Dales. En route, Maddy befriends Gloria Conley & her brother Sid, abandoned by their desperate mother. Although Maddy & Gloria are chalk & cheese, they vow to be 'forever friends'. Slowly Maddy adjusts to her new life. Eager to help the war effort, her Aunt Plum has opened up a home for 'difficult' evacuees & Maddy & Gloria quickly become part of a motley crew, including headstrong Greg & flighty Enid. The friendship endures into adulthood, until a tragic event tears them apart & Maddy flees to London. Years later, fate reunites them all. But a visit to Yorkshire reveals the truth about the past
- a revelation that has unimaginable consequences.
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Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered.

So, for that matter, are wolves & racoons. A man, once named Jimmy,

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Details: Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator & producer who created the characters of Astro
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Osama Bin Laden is dead. The President of the United States knows it. The world knows it. & SAS hero Joe Mansfield knows it. He was on the ground in Pakistan when it happened. He saw Seal Team 6 go in, & he saw them extract with their grisly cargo. He was in the right place at the right time. Or maybe, the wrong place at the wrong time. Because now, somebody wants Joe dead, & they're willing to do anything to make it happen. His world is violently dismantled. His family is targeted, his reputation destroyed. & as a mysterious & ruthless enemy plans a devastating terror attack on both sides of the Atlantic, Joe knows this: his only chance of survival is to find out what happened in Bin Laden's compound the night the Americans went in. But an unseen, menacing power has footprints it needs to cover. & it will stop at nothing to prevent him uncovering the sinister truth. ...

When Kate Allans beloved black cat, Oscar, is found lying severely injured in a field near their Jersey home, she is sure the accident-prone boy has met his end. With both hind legs severed by a combine-harvester, his life hangs in the balance; luckily for Oscar, his vet knows Noel Fitzpatrick, star of BBC Ones The Bionic Vet, who agrees to try pioneering surgery to replace his legs with specially created prosthetics. This is the amazing true account of a loving family faced with agonising decisions & unexpected twists of fate, & a courageous black feline destined to become the worlds first bionic cat. ...

Meet Oscar the Talking Dog! He has found a home with Sam but their adventures are only just beginning...

As Sams dad is

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The second book in a brilliantly funny new series from bestselling Dirty Bertie author Alan Mac Donald, about a boy and his incredible

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You can lead the charge, Oscar!

Its your time to be brave. Be the guardian of the seas & save the rolling waves.



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In OSCAR WILDE & THE DEAD MAN'S SMILE, the third in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde & Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar risks his life to solve a series of deadly murders in bohemian Paris...' Intelligent, amusing & entertaining' Alexander Mc Call Smith Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah Bernhardt & to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, & is confronted by murders both foul & bizarre. To solve the crimes, to unravel the mystery, Oscar risks his life
- & his reputation
- embarking on a dangerous adventure that takes him from bohemian night clubs to an asylum for the insane, from a duel in the Buttes de Chaumont to the gates of Reading Gaol.

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In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde. When the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer, the game is once more afoot. ...