This book shows children how to set themselves goals, get organised & keep track. Whether it is a virtual bookshelf of books to read or a year wheel to remember important birthdays, they can find out how to make the most of pictures & images. ...

Enthralled by Dorian Gray' own exquisite portrait, he exchanges his soul for eternal youth & beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. ...

Alison Glasby is 25, ambitious & lonely. She's a journalist on the Sunday Herald but her career is going nowhere. & despite the best attentions of Scotland Yard murder squad detective John Redgrave, neither is her personal life. Then she gets the ch ...

Jennie feels the tingling presence of something unnatural in the house now that Will is dead.

Her heart aches without him,

...

' Will you marry me?' I think of you, then. I think of you every day. But usually in the quietest part of the morning, or the darkest part of the night. Not when my boyfriend of two years has just proposed. I look up at Richard with his hopeful eyes. ' Lily?' he prompts. It's been ten years, but it feels like only yesterday that you left. How can I say yes to Richard with all my heart when most of it has always belonged to you? I take a deep breath & will myself to speak... Ten years ago when Lily was just sixteen, she fell in love with someone she really shouldn't have fallen in love with. Now, living in Sydney & engaged to another man, she can't forget the one that got away. Then her past comes back to haunt her, & she has to make a decision that will break her heart
- & the heart of at least one of the men who love her. Read by Jane Collingwood
...

Details: As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young
...

Offers an account of the author's life during a racially turbulent period in Detroit. This memoir tells the story of the author's childhood with subversive allusions to the Victorian-era coming-of-age stories she consumed while growing up & the moral lessons she absorbed in such readings but could not reconcile with her own experience. ...

Andrea Oliver's life is about to change in a split second when a mass shooting breaks out in her local mall.

But this shocking

...

In the town of Hamelin, the rich & greedy live like kings & queens while the poor & sick scavenge rubbish tips for scraps. A lame orphan boy tells the classic tale of how a plague of rats take over the town & how a fantastic piper offers to rid Hamelin of its rats for a single gold coin, then lures away the town's children when the greedy mayor breaks his word. Masterfully weaving contemporary social & environmental themes into a gripping tale, & celebrating it with breath-taking illustrations, former British Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo & illustrator Emma Chichester Clark team up to create a compelling new take on this timeless story. ...

Two friends, Jon & Danny, embark on a hare-brained journey to see all the surviving pleasure piers in England & Wales, recruiting Midge (a man they barely know) as their driver, even though he has to be back in two weeks to sign on... Join them as they take a funny & nostalgic look at Britishness at the beach & friendship on the road. ...