The lizards are alarmed. The snakes are scared. The antelopes are apoplectic. Why? The meerkats have turned mean. Sure, they look cute with their little noses in the air. & some of them are. But have you ever paused to wonder what's really going on in those cosy communities? This title reveals the darker side of the cuddly meerkat. ...

WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES is the surprisingly funny, dramatic & often poignant story of Britain s most distinguished newsreader. An Iranian Fatwa hanging over him, shot through both legs during the Nigerian Civil War, Sissons has some fascinating stories to tell. He has sparked debate & controversy not least thanks to a media maelstrom over his choice of tie while announcing the death of the Queen Mother. Now retired from broadcasting, he can finally lift the lid on his thoughts about the state of the British media, global affairs & what he really thinks of the BBC. ...

Its May 1941 & Liverpool is taking a hammering from the German bombers. For young Mary Bradshaw & her widowed mother life is full of rationing, blackouts & the wail of the air-raid siren. Despite the gloom, Marys heart is light as she counts her blessings
- shes got her loving mother & Bob, her soldier boyfriend whom she adores & hopes to marry soon. During the worst air raid Liverpool has ever suffered, fate deals Mary the first of many cruel blows it has in store for her. She is devastated as her whole world collapses. But Mary doesnt have to face the knocks alone. Her best friend Eileen has a heart & a sense of humour as big as her eighteen stone body
- heaven help anyone who hurts her mate! Harry is the boy from up the road whos loved Mary since they were kids & hell not desert her now. Soon Mary finds that when one door closes, another one really does open.

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We all know what it's like to feel anxious, worried or panicky. If any of these thoughts sound familiar, you can change the way you feel. This book gives you the information to defeat various kinds of anxiety, including chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety & phobias without lengthy therapy or prescription drugs. ...

Mischievous reindeer Twinklestar has bolted
- leaving his Christmas caravan to fall from the sky. Luckily, the extraordinary passengers
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When Adam Smith's wife goes into labour with their first child, he hits a crisis point. He swore that his life would be nothing like his mother's
- a life he believes was destroyed by the demands of raising him & his brothers & sisters. Now he's backed into a corner, unable to find a way out. But how much does he really know about his mother?
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In this book Julie Summers tells the story of when children were returned to their families after the Operation Pied Piper in 1939. She explores how they coped both in the immediate aftermath of the war, & in later life. This book contains interviews, written accounts, memoirs & weaves together a collection of personal stories. This book is 24.2cm in height & 15.8cm wide with 345 pages. ...

When the Comics Went to War is a colorful, authoritative history of the British war comic-book genre, from the first publications to appear in the 1860s to the last wave of new titles in the mid-1980s. Featuring a wealth of material sourced from the original boys' comics & story-papers, this lavishly illustrated book charts the evolution of warfare as children lived through it, from the Boer War & the Great War of 1914-18 to the rise of the Nazis & the Second World War ...

Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice. Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss & heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps
- even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a woman. & then there's Archie, Jessie's older brother, whom Isabel just can't stay away from. After an unsettling encounter in the woods, Archie disappears, & all their lives are irrevocably changed... Years later, Isabel is a qualified doctor & Jessie is a nurse & when their paths cross again, neither is certain what the other woman knows about that fateful day. But when war breaks out & they find themselves working shoulder to shoulder, they have no option but to confront all they have kept hidden. Taking in Skye & Edinburgh, France & Serbia, When the Dawn Breaks is a sweeping wartime story of two determined women & the dark secret that will bind them forever...
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Secrets can be fatal. But so can the truth...

When the murdered body of Lauren Shaw is discovered laid out on the altar

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