Learn how a plum tree changes with the seasons in this charming non-fiction picture book, beautifully illustrated by Charlotte
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How did the most ordinary of couples pull off one of the most outrageous frauds of modern times? & why did they carry on with the lie for so long? Drowning in debt & facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwin did the unthinkable
- he paddled out to sea in his red canoe & disappeared. After a massive search & rescue operation failed to find his body, he was assumed dead, lost in the bleak North Sea. But everything was far from what it seemed. Nearly six years later, after John miraculously returned from the dead with a strange tale of 'amnesia' & sporting a suspicious golden tan, the police & the Press were desperate to discover the truth behind his remarkable resurrection. Journalist David Leigh was despatched to Panama, where he tracked down John's wife, Anne Darwin, who had started a secretive new life with the insurance money claimed from her husband's 'death'. But what lay behind her decision to move to Central America, thousands of miles away from her family &...