Liverpool, 1940.

When nurses Nancy Kerris & Jess Williams both lose their lovers in the trenches during the Great

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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. ...

Sam had a very ordinary life, until Oscar the dog arrived on his doorstep. Because Oscar has a big secret – he can talk! 

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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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