This stunning & creative colouring book is a visual treat, packed with intricate, beautiful & mysterious pictures in a sophisticated ...

Brighton, 1965 When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play. But when the postmortem reveals that he was poisoned, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-Music Hall star Verity Malone. Frustrated by the police response to Bert's death & determined to prove her innocence, Verity calls in private detective duo Emma Holmes & Sam Collins. This is their first real case, but as luck would have it they have a friend on the inside: Max Mephisto is filming a remake of Dracula, starring Seth Billington, Bert's son. But when they question Max, they feel he isn't telling them the whole story. Emma & Sam must vie with the police to untangle the case & bring the killer to justice. They're sure the answers must lie in Bert's dark past & in the glamorous, occasionally deadly, days of Music Hall. But the closer they get to the truth, the more danger they find themselves in... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781787477605 • Auth... ...

Twins Pam & Tom return home to stay with their grandmother during the holidays.

On the first night of their stay, they

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Between life & death there is a library...

When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance

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From the author of How to Stop Time & Reasons to Stay Alive comes this touching, funny & heartwarming new novel where ―  between

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LONDON, 1940. As enemy planes fly over the city, twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond is trying to make the best of things. She has a dull but steady job at the Ministry of Information, a friend to share gin & secrets with, & an attic room of her own.  All she has to do is keep her head down. She knows where her father will send her if she makes a nuisance of herself again. But amid the chaos of the Blitz, Charlotte's grip on reality starts slipping. Is someone following her in the blackouts, or is her mind playing tricks on her? In a city where nothing is safe, it's hard to know who to trust
- until she meets the boy who feeds the birds… Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781399602266 •†Author: Jo Baker •†Publisher: Phoenix •†Format: Paperback •†Pages:†432 •†Dimensions:†12.8 x 2.8 x 19.2cm
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The book begins with a chase through the streets of Calcutta in May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies
- twins, a boy & a girl. Pursued by his would-be assassins, Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, & his group of friends the night before they are due to leave St Patricks orphanage. They have formed a secret club, The Chowbar Society, that meets each week at midnight in the old ruin they have christened The Midnight Palace. Their final meeting is due that evening but then Aryami Bose turns up at the orphanage with Sheere, Ben's sister, & tells them the story of the parents they never knew. Their father was an engineer & writer who died in tragic circumstances at the inauguration of Jheeter's Gate station. But as the novel unfolds, there is more to this story than meets the eye & they are lured by a shadowy figure from the past into a final showdown in the ruins.
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Details: A little girl who loves unicorns. A beloved statue that comes to life. An unforgettable & exhilarating journey.
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LOST DAUGHTER & THE LIES WE TOLD. 'I don't know how to tell you what I did.' The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara & Emerson have to the reason behind Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle
- her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her family
- described a woman who embraced life. But they didn't know everything. Because the unaddressed letter reveals a terrible secret...and a legacy of guilt that changes everything they thought they knew about the woman who delivered their children. A legacy that will irrevocably change their own lives
- & the life of a desperate stranger
- forever. Diane Chamberlain gets to the heart of the story. The size of this book is 19.9cm in height & 12.6cm wide with 417 pages Show More



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When 20-year-old Linda Fairley had her first taste of midwifery as St Mary's Maternity Hospital, Manchester, it was a place from a bygone era. Nurses in full skirts & starched caps hurried around steaming laundries & milk kitchens, Matron's commands booming after them. Outside the hospital walls, Manchester was in full sixties swing; colour filled the streets; the moon landing dominated the headlines & the Beatles blasted from every radio. Little did Linda know then the trials she would face. As the years passed & Greater Manchester changed around her, she dedicated herself to its parents, often racing along the cobbled streets to the aid of women rich & poor
- most times delivering a little miracle, but others the hardest of news. Forty years & over 2000 babies later, Linda is one of Britain's longest-serving midwives. Told with warmth & a good dose of Mancunian humour, this is the story of babies & parents, of a time long gone, & of one truly inspiring woman.
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