This new title in the popular Look & Say" series is designed to introduce very young children to birthday words. Five colourful scenes show how people can celebrate birthdays. Crammed with real-life objects this book provides a fantastic way for children to recognise & talk about their own experiences giving hours of entertainment. Illustrated with Jo Litchfields handmade models each page features a robust tab enabling children to locate their favourite scenes quickly & easily." ...

Fiona Cairns turns her attention to birthdays adding a touch of bling to her trademark pretty style. Every day of the year is someone's birthday the chance to celebrate with close friends or family or maybe an excuse for a larger bash. A birthday cake is the centrepiece ablaze with candles cut with a secret wish & shared to create precious memories. Many families have a treasured recipe baked for every birthday. Perhaps you'll find a new family favourite in these pages. Whether you are one or 100 a Goth or a gardener there is the perfect cake for you here. The Birthday Cake Book has 52 new recipes & 61 cake decorations including 16 cupcakes. Every recipe is delicious. Try the sensational masala chai cake with ginger fudge frosting or a sophisticated pistachio Grand Marnier & olive oil creation. Many require no sugarcraft skills at all. Fiona also gives five spectacular themed parties from Vampires with an eye-popping crystal skull cake to Vintage Tea Party with a super-realistic crocodile handbag cake. So bring a special gift to a birthday party & get baking! ...

Birthdays are important yet the gift giving part is always difficult. We believe that this oversized birthday candle is a great way of celebrating the passage of years without starting a fire. This is one classy candle that looks really cool on the cake. ...

Perfect for reading together or for children who are just starting to read alone. Filled with gorgeous illustrations. Willow Valley is a very special place. Nestled in a hidden valley trees of all shapes & sizes grew on the rolling green hills & pretty flowers dance in the meadows. Only the animals who live there know their way in & out but they hardly ever want to lave because theyre having too much fun! Riley the mouse Starla the badger & Horatio the hedgehog are the best of friends. Its Rileys birthday & they cant wait for his party! What will his present be ...

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter the perfect all-American girl & the past is another country. Or so it seems. But Mersiha has been trained to kill. & when she discovers that Freeman's company is subject to a sinister takeover bid she decides to help. Whatever the risks. The consequences of her actions are lethal for Mersiha has unearthed a conspiracy of terrifying proportions.. . ...

Its late spring of 1990 & a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatchers Conservative government & Hebe Furnal a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home however is amply compensated for by the well-bred & intensely attractive Tesham
- an ardent womanizer & ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than say the costly string of pearls hes already lavished upon her. Involving a fashionable new practice known as adventure sex a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street bound & gagged & delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.. . Set amidst an age of IRA bombings the first Gulf War & sleazy politics The Birthday Present" is the gripping story of a fall from grace & of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy greed & self-obsession of a troubled era."
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Alfie cant wait to turn seven like his friend Tim but something strange is happening. When on his birthday under the light of the full moon he sprouts fur grows fangs & develops a wolfish appetite its clear hes doing more than turning seven
- hes turning into a WEREWOLF! But its not all bad
- now Alfies great at gym has the guts to stand up to the school bully & is invited to parties. Maybe being a werewolf isnt so bad after all?

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The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart Mac Bride. A bloody brilliant & brutal story of murder kidnap & revenge. Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret... Five years ago his daughter Rebecca went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: home-made with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front
- Rebecca strapped to a chair gagged & terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. Hes been snatching girls for twelve years always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday sending the families his home-made cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasnt told anyone about Rebeccas birthday cards
- they all think shes just run away from home
- because if anyone finds out hell be taken off the investigation. & hes sacrificed too much to give up before his daughters killer gets what he deserves...


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The gritty new standalone crime novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones & Dark Blood Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret! Five years ago his daughter Rebecca went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front -- Rebecca strapped to a chair gagged & terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him The Birthday Boy. Hes been snatching girls for twelve years always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasnt told anyone about Rebeccas birthday cards -- they all think shes just run away from home -- because if anyone finds out hell be taken off the investigation. & hes sacrificed too much to give up before his daughters killer gets what he deserves! ...

When Conrad Harrison impulse-buys a big old house in Wisconsin his wife Jo doesn't share his enthusiasm reluctant at the idea of leaving their LA life
- so Conrad is left to set up their new home as she ties up loose ends at work. But Conrad's new purchase is not all that it seems. Soon Conrad is hearing the ghostly wailing of a baby in the night seeing blood on the floor & being haunted by a woman who looks exactly like Jo. With his wife away Conrad becomes obsessed by the pregnant girl next door Nadia who claims to be a victim of the evil in the house. The crying leads him to a bricked-up body & the mystery of the Birthing House unravels pulling in Jo Nadia & leading Conrad to a nightmarish conclusion...
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