Jersey, 1943. When the German Army invades the tranquil isl&, librarian Grace La Motée is determined to keep her services running. Ordered to destroy books which threaten the Nazi regime, she refuses, instead hiding them away & fighting back by forming a book club: a lifeline to help islanders escape the terror of war, one chapter at a time. But soon Grace’s quiet acts of bravery become even more perilous. She’s harbouring dangerous secrets – ones that put her life in danger – & when tensions turn to violence, she is forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance... Based on astonishing real events, The Wartime Book Club is a love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times – as well as a moving page-turner that brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399714976 • Author: Kate Thompson • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm ...

Mary Vale, a grand & imposing Mother & Baby Home, sits on the edge of the Lake District.

Its doors are open to unmarried

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Mary Vale, a grand & imposing Mother & Baby Home, sits on the edge of the Lake District.

Its doors are open to unmarried

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The Waste Lands is the third volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series, now a major motion picture.

In the

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Keanu Reeves ignites this action-packed, superbly crafted thriller that zooms along like a sinister video game of hunter & prey! (Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER & THE MOVIES). After years of pursuing psychotic killers in Los Angeles, FBI agent Joel ...

Growing up in Preston's poorest area, Kate Shaw knows just how harsh life can be. With her father unable to do his night watchman rounds, Kate does all she can to help her family survive. But when Andrew Pitt comes into her life, everything changes. True happiness seems to be on the horizon for Kate as she & Andrew make plans to marry. Then tragedy strikes & Kate takes the only course she can to protect the people who depend on her. With her future looking hopeless, Kate must find a way to escape
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Bernard Cribbins reads Charles Kingsley's much-loved tale about a little chimney-sweep who is turned into a water baby. Tom the chimney-sweep has a hard life. He is beaten by his master, the cruel Mr Grimes, & forced to climb up dark flues where he bruises his knees & elbows & gets soot in his eyes. He is always hungry, for there is never enough to eat, & always dirty, as there is nowhere for him to wash. One day, he is so tired from sweeping flues that he comes down the wrong chimney & lands in the bedroom of a beautiful young girl, where he is mistaken for a thief & runs away. He falls asleep near a river
- & when he wakes up, the fairies have transformed him into a water-baby. He loves his new life swimming in the stream & having adventures, but he has no one to play with. So he sets off on a journey to the sea, to find the other water babies...
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Four lives. Four defining moments which will bring them together. Owen Abingdon is haunted by nightmares of the Merfolk. He believes they have stolen his little sister who vanished while he was meant to be minding her on the beach, but he was only a child himself. Is it fair for his mother to blame him? Catherine Hoyle's perfect Christmas with her cousin from America was blighted when they went skating on thin ice & Rosalyn nearly died. Somehow, instead of being praised for raising the alarm, Catherine gets blamed. Sean Madigan grew up on a farm in Irel&. Learning to swim in the Shannon was his way of escaping the bitter poverty of his childhood, but it also incurred his father's wrath. He flees to Engl&, but his heart belongs to the Shannon & her pulling power is evernear ...

In the bleak snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens, a car is winched from a frozen river.

Inside, locked in

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Details: When eight-year-old Kirstie brings home a strange egg from the Scottish shore, her family never expects it to
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