Who knew that in the battle against oppression a woman's greatest weapon would be a cricket ball? A determined young woman's plan to escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan (and a cruel Taliban commander who is determined to marry her) depends on the outcom ...

Our communal spaces are overrun with ads. Buidlings, bus stops, phone booths & subways scream one message after another at us. Once considered "public", these spaces are increasingly being seized by corporations to propogate their messages solely in the interest of profit. Armed with heavy budgets, their marketing tactics are becoming more & more aggressive & manipulative. We, the public, are both targets & victims of this media attack. The Bubble Project is the counterattack. The Bubbles are the ammunition. Once placed on ads, these stickers transform the corporate monologue into a public dialogue, encouraging anyone to fill them in with any expression free from censorship. More Bubbles mean more freed spaces, more sharing of personal thoughts, more reactions to current events, & most importantly, more imagination & more fun. Cover Colour may vary. ...

The village is bedevilled by talk & all is not as it seems in the village of Turnham Malpas.. . Does pushy newcomer Venetia have her eye on Peter, the handsome rector? Is Jeremy, her husb&, really making a success of the new health club? & why does Willie's new love set a vicious tongue wagging? In the Royal Oak, the usual banter has turned to bitter wrangling as the rector's wife Caroline makes a challenge over an ancient country tradition & splits the village her husband had so recently united. As the people of the village use the power of words to reconcile or divide, Peter finds it is what isn't talked about that threatens to cause madness, confusion & tragedy. ...

Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out, many of them dangerous. But the panic that grips her is not because she has been caught. She knows there has been a terrible mistake
- she didn't commit any of these crimes. As Dana & her lover Bridger set out to clear her name & find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense, they begin to test the life they have built together to its limits.
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For years, Tom Cox might have seemed like a regular, hard-living sort of bloke -- a lover of late nights, rock music & beer -- but he had a dark, furry secret. Tom was a cat lover. For a while, he kept his passion in check, but there was only so long he could postpone his true dream. He left London & his job as a rock critic behind, & he & his wife Dee, her cat Janet & three new kittens, moved to a remote part of Norfolk. They thought it would be easy. They thought their cat madness had reached its limit. They were wrong. In Under the Paw, Tom records the chaos of owning seven of the most charismatic, idiotic & duplicitous cats in the country. Suddenly on call around the clock for multiple sets of whiskers, Tom encounters death, depression, flying fur & the first human sentence spoken by a feline. Running through all the maelstrom is the heartbreaking story of his relationship with The Bear, his oldest cat: a 'painfully sensitive' survivor moggy who may or may not be an evil genius. ...

Why do dogs behave the way they do? What makes one breed so different to another? & how can owners work around these inborn personality

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Since the attacks in Tunisia, Paris & Brussels, & with regular news headlines about teenagers leaving Britain to join ISIS, children as young as 7 are aware of terrorism. They have questions to which they expect answers, & teachers need resources to help them respond. The Prevent strategy urges schools to create 'safe spaces' for the discussion of controversial issues. With Ofsted inspections evaluating their efforts in this regard, primary schools are being placed under increasing pressure to teach about terrorism. Alison Jamieson & Jane Flint are following up their highly successful ' Radicalisation & Terrorism: A Teacher's Handbook for Addressing Extremism' with a brand new resource book for teachers of 7-11 year olds. Structured in a question & answer format, ' Talking About Terrorism: Responding to Children's Questions' will help teachers to face the most difficult questions children ask. Parents will also find it invaluable. Aimed at meeting the needs of lower & upper KS2, the book

Includes:: a full range of classroom activities including brain storming, group discussions, role play, hot seating, responding to visual stimuli & evaluation, together with a guidance section for teachers.

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Make bedtime extra fun with this Talking Glow Peppa Pig.

The perfect bedtime friend, simply press Peppa's tummy

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Take a stroll in the deep dark wood & recreate the fabulous Gruffalo stories with this talking Gruffalo figure. 

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'I've been talking to brick walls' says Lacan, meaning: ' Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. & this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me. ' These brick walls are those of the chapel at Sainte-Anne hospital. ...