Doon in the glen there were three ferms. The men that had these ferms were aboot as scunnersome & grippy as ony men ye could meet. They were cried Fermer Bodge Fermer Bauchle & Fermer Beek. On a brae above the glen there wis a widd. In the widd there wis a muckle tree. Unner the tree there wis a hole. In the hole steyed Mr Tod Mrs Tod & the fower Wee Tods. Ilka nicht as soon as it wis gloamin-time Mr Tod wid say tae Mrs Tod Weel ma deerie whut itll be this time? A sonsie fat cookie fae Bodge? A deuk or a goose fae Bauchle? Or a braw bubblyjock fae Beek? And when Mrs Tod had telt him whit she wantit Mr Tod wid jouk doon intae the glen in the mirk o the nicht & help himself. And so the scene is set for a grand confrontation between the scunnersome fermers & the tremendous Tods. Following on from the phenomenal success of the bestselling The Eejits & Geordies Mingin Medicine Scots translations of Roald Dahls The Twits & Georges Marvelous Medicine Itchy Coo presents another Scots version of a Roald Dahl classic. This time Fantastic Mr Fox has been transformed into Sleekit Mr Tod & hell require all his wily wits to escape Fermers Bodge Bauchle & Beek while at the same time raid their well-stocked stores for a full-scale banquet. But who will win? ...

As haunting as Susan Hill's The Woman in Black & as dark as James Herbert's The Secret of Crickley Hall F. R. Tallis's The Sleep Room is where your nightmares begin.. . When promising psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk Richardson doesn't look back. One of his tasks is to manage a controversial project -- a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. As Richardson settles into his new life he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients -- six women forsaken by society. Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? & what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? It's not long before Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of The Sleep Room.. ...

One issue dominates the lives of many new parents
- sleep. Why wont their baby sleep? What is the best position to put him down
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This is a gentle heart-warming bedtime tale featuring the popular Big & Little Bear. Little Bear has found a little-bear-sized cave to play in...and when night falls he decides to sleep there too. But as he looks out of his cave at the moon shining through the dark trees Little Bear starts to wonder whether Big Bear might not be lonely without him... This is the fifth book in the award-winning Big & Little Bear" series that has sold over six million copies worldwide." ...

Sleep
- or lack of it
- is one of the most common 21st century health complaints. Only 1 in 10 of us say we always sleep well;

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A tense gripping psychological thriller with Hitchcockian overtones perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL & Sophie Hannah. Lara Finch is living a lie. Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall married to the devoted Sam but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train she meets Guy & starts an illicit affair. But then Lara vanishes from the night train without a trace. Only her friend Iris disbelieves the official version of events & sets out to find her. For Iris it is the start of a voyage that will take her further than she's ever travelled & on to a trail of old crimes & dark secrets. For Lara it is the end of a journey that started a long time ago. A journey she must finish before it destroys her... ...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber however investments are made that make him the richest & most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor & more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed & uneducated the masses cling desperately to one dream that the sleeper will awake & lead them all to freedom. ...

Sleeper is the critically acclaimed graphic novel series written Ed Brubaker & illustrated by Sean Philips the Eisner Award-winning creative team of Criminal which tells the story of agent Holden Carver a reluctant double agent without hope of rescue. Tao
- the criminal mastermind whose organization Carver has infultraited
- had Carvers only lifeline spymaster John Lynch shot leaving him in a coma. Taos cut off every means of escape & hes persuaded Carver to join him...for real this time.

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The true story of a group of four boys brought up in New Yorks notorious Mafia-run Hells Kitchen" during the 1960s. After nearly causing a mans death they were sent to a reformatory where guards routinely brutalized them leaving them with nothing but an undying loyalty to one another." ...

I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good the bad the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands. Catherine Townsend describes herself as part slut part hopeless romantic. Her quest is to have her cake & eat it
- an intelligent dinner date followed by a passionate one-night stand; to combine sleeping around with finding a soul mate. Sex in the City meets Girl With a One Track Mind in this candid sexy funny take on looking for love in unexpected places & how to find Mr Right
- or at least Mr Right Now.

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