After a lifetime of plotting each others demise, orphan twins Lorelli & Ovid Thornthwaite have reached an uneasy truce.



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Everyone has to make decisions about love. Wilfred Price, overcome with emotion on a sunny spring day, proposes to a girl he barely knows at a picnic. The girl, Grace, joyfully accepts & rushes to tell her family of Wilfred's intentions. But by this time Wilfred has realised his mistake. He does not love Grace. On the verge of extricating himself, Wilfred's situation suddenly becomes more serious when Grace's father steps in. Up until this point in his life, Wilfred's existence has been blissfully simple, & the young undertaker seems unable to stop the swirling mess that now surrounds him. To add to Wilfred's emotional turmoil, he thinks he may just have met the perfect girl for him. As Wilfred struggles in an increasingly tangled web of expectation & duty, love & lies, Grace reveals a long-held secret that changes everything... Wendy Jones's charming first novel is a moving depiction of love & secrecy, set against the rural backdrop of a 1920s Welsh village, & beautifully told. ...

Set your imagination free!

This engaging book offers a wide range of gorgeous designs for you to colour in & make your

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My mum would never leave me.

This has been Mariah Dunning's motto. So when she glimpses her mother
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When three billy goat brothers reach the bridge to the meadow, a slobbering troll blocks their path.

The brothers are

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The three Billy Goats Gruff want to eat the green grass on the other side of the river. But will they dare to cross the bridge that the big, bad troll lives under? Familiar stories help to build confidence, whilst the large, clear type, carefully chosen vocabulary & easy to read speech bubbles make these books ideal for beginner readers. ...

Details: A fun pop-up story about the classic fairy tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff, with full text story in large
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Magical retellings of three classic fairy tales. The Three Billy Goats Gruff: The two younger Billy Goats Gruff want to be as big & fat as their older brother. They long to munch the tasty grass in the meadow
- but first they must cross the stream & face the fierce troll under the bridge. Beauty & the Beast: Beauty is kind & loving, even though her two sisters tease her & her merchant father is too poor to buy her presents. All she wants is a rose: so when her father sees a beautiful rose bush in the grounds of the Beast's castle, he plucks a flower for her. The Beast is angry, & demands something precious in return... The Emperor's New Clothes: The Emperor loves to wear the most fashionable & finest clothes in the l&. However, when two strangers suggest that they can weave him a special suit
- which is invisible to anyone who's not worthy & wise
- it has to be seen to be believed...


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Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan, a young schoolmistress, is enjoying her work & the intellectual atmosphere that pervades the town when things take a dramatic turn with the murder of a Fellow of Mathematics. Intrigued by the circumstances surrounding his death, & Sir Isaac Newton s unsolved n-body problem upon which the man had been working, Vanessa is drawn into the mystery with a theory of her own. ...

The players are novices of different religions, trying to collect as much good karma as possible. They take turns being the high priestess, who is the only one who knows the basics of her religion. Maybe treating the high priestess in a certain way is advantageous or perhaps the way you handle artefacts is important. Each religion has its own rules. During the ritual, the novices take turns in trying to act appropriately to get karma. The high priestess tries to win over one especially zealous novice, because this will earn her extra karma. The player with the most karma will win. ...