At Home with Reasoning Skills
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At Home with Reasoning Skills
- Verbal Reasoning contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their verbal reasoning
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Haworth Parsonage is the world-famous home of the Brontes. Crowds of tourists are drawn to Haworth every year to discover what inspired Anne Charlotte & Emily. Ann Dinsdale explores their lives there the impact of the sisters' home on their writing & their lasting legacy. However the Parsonage has also been home to several other families. This book begins with the early history of the house & those who lived there before the arrival of the Brontes. After Patrick Bronte's death in 1861 the Parsonage became home to four of his successors before being purchased by the Bronte Society in 1928. Thereafter it became home to four museum custodians & their families. All of these later occupants witnessed the development of tourism in Haworth which had begun in Mr Bronte's own lifetime & experienced the trials & tribulations of living in a literary shrine. Using a variety of sources mostly unpublished Ann Dinsdale also tells their stories. ...

THE FIFTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL As friends relatives & foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends & the family gathers one last time amidst the social niceties & the social horrors the calms & the rapids Patrick begins to sense a new current: the chance of some form of safety -- at last. ...

Paul O' Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known & adored by millions whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite Lily Savage or the presenter of the fantastically successful award-winning Paul O' Grady Show" on Channel 4. Now in his own unique voice Paul O' Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long & winding road from mischievous altar boy to national treasure. It is a brilliantly evoked hilarious & often moving tale of gossip in the back yard bragging in the corner shop & slanging matches on the front doorstep populated by larger-than-life characters with hearts of gold & tongues as sharp as razors. " At My Mother's Knee" features an unforgettable cast of rogues rascals lovers fighters saints & sinners
- & one iconic bus conductress. It's a book which really does have something for everyone & which reminds us that when all's said & done there's a bit of savage in all of us..."
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A 'one-off' from the best-selling creator of the Dr Kay Scarpetta series based on the serialisation in the New York Times. Moving between the chill of Cambridge Massachusetts & the sultry humidity of Knoxville Tennessee Winston Garano a police investigator is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority he gets on with the task unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. With her hallmark qualities of deft characterisation perfect research & tense story-telling Patricia Cornwell has created a novel which entertains intrigues & satisfies. ...

When Lady Enid
- a woman in need of a project & a husband
- throws in her lot with dashing Bernard Finch she thinks shes found

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Two sisters. One man. One moment that will change all their lives forever... Living in the shadow of their domineering father Rhianon & Sabrina Webster plan two very different futures. Edwin dotes on his youngest daughter beautiful flighty Sabrina but it is homely steady Rhianon who holds their little family together. Until one fateful day when Pryce Pritchard the man Rhianon loves gets into a fight & all their worlds are thrown into turmoil. Pryce is arrested
- & Sabrina disappears... Months later Rhianon chances upon her sister & is shocked to find her pregnant living in squalid lodgings in the poorest part of Cardiff. When Davyn is born Sabrina will have nothing to do with him & kind-hearted Rhianon looks after the little boy patiently awaiting Pryces release. But when Pryce is finally set free he brings with him secrets that will devastate them all.
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Flann OBriens first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas mythology & nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates plots within plots giving full rein to OBriens dancing intellect & Celtic wit. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin drinks too much with his friends & invents stories peopled with hilarious & unlikely characters one of whom in a typical OBrien conundrum creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Flann OBriens blend of farce satire & fantasy result in a remarkable astonishingly innovative book. ...

Its summer & time to head to Crabby Spit for a camping holiday. Dont forget to write! says Grandma. & sure enough the postcards come thick & fast detailing all the timeless pleasures of playing on the beach paddling & surfing finding treasures dancing to the glow of a bonfire. But look out for the mischievous family dog who makes it his business to collect all the belongings of an absent-minded artist. Full of Roland Harveys beautifully observed characters this is a humorous & hugely enjoyable picture book. ...