' This story of friendship love grief & growing up will yank on the heartstrings. & then some' Look Alice Bliss is fifteen. She's smart funny & clever. Not afraid to stand up for the things she believes in. She also idolizes her father & when he leaves home to fight a war she doesn't believe in Alice is distraught. She & her mother negotiate his absence as best they can -- waiting impatiently for his letters throwing themselves into school & work respectively bickering intermittently & in Alice's case falling for the boy next door -- but then they're told that he's missing in action & have to face up to the fact that he may never return. 'A powerful coming-of-age story of love family & grief' Big Issue 'I put down this book & thought there is no one like this girl so fully has Harrington brought a new Alice to life' Sarah Blake bestselling author of The Postmistress ' Compassionate & intelligent.. .strong storytelling & a rich emotional core' Jenny Downham author of Before I Die ...

Looking for love? Call in the expert. Alice Brown is a matchmaker extraordinaire. She has never ever failed to find her clients the man of their dreams & she doesnt intend to start now. As she tells her clients: Lifes more exciting when you let yourself be surprised. But Alices latest client Kate is proving her biggest challenge yet. Kate is a on a mission: she wants the perfect man. Trouble is Kate could find fault with George Clooney & reject Johnny Depp. Will Kate be the first client for whom Alice fails to find love? Truth is Alice has failed once before
- she is the one person who remains resolutely single. In helping Kate will she finally learn to take her own advice too?
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Alice Cooper: Golf Monster is the full account of how Cooper became one of the biggest rock stars on the planet with hits like School's Out" & " Elected" nearly lost it all to alcoholism & then turned things around by finding a healthy obsession (golf) to replace his unhealthy addiction to alcohol. While most will be familiar with his wild mascaraed visage & vaudevillian on-stage theatrics perhaps few will have been aware of the double life Alice Cooper leads. He still tours the world with his band playing a hundred gigs a year; snake coiled round his neck beheaded by guillotine at the end of every show...but three hundred days out of that year Cooper is on the course. Alice Cooper: Golf Monster is an unlikely & captivating tale of wretched excess life-saving redemption ghoulish make-up power chords & five-irons to the centre of the green. Both humorous & candid this book reveals another dimension to a man who has epitomised rock 'n' roll for the last forty years." ...

Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregorys acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal revenge & liberation! Alice Hartley can no longer arouse the interest of her pompous husband the adulterous professor. Despite her efforts she still leaves him cold. Just as she is compelled to face this chilling truth she meets Michael a young student with an excessive libido. In Michael Alice discovers an endless supply of all she has sought: revenge sex & a large house suitable for conversion. Soon the house is thigh-deep with women joyfully casting off the shacles of their oppression. Sadly some narrow-minded neigbours & numerous forces of the law seem completely impervious to all those healing vibrations! ...

Alice in Sunderland" is a graphic novel like no other. Bryan Talbot takes the city of Sunderland & the story of Lewis Carroll & Alice Liddell (the 'real' Alice) as the spine of his story & around them spins a spectacularly diverse range of different stories. He explores Carroll's links with Sunderland & shows how the city inspired his masterpieces. He delves into the city's history from the Venerable Bede to George Formby from its heyday as the greatest shipbuilding port in the world to its present multicultural mix. Talbot's artwork is a spectacular mixture of different styles: black & white ink line & pencil drawing watercolour collage & digitally manipulated photographic artwork. His stories are told from the stage of the Sunderland Empire theatre an Edwardian music hall & the book is a genuine variety performance. In " Alice in Sunderland" he shows
- triumphantly
- how local history is national history in microcosm how one story begets another. The result is a landmark book in the graphic field."

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Kidnapped by a handsome man with rabbit ears Alice Liddell finds herself abandoned in an odd place called Wonderland & thrust into a game " the rules of which she has yet to learn. Alice ever the plucky tomboy sets off to explore & get the lay of this strange land intent on finding her rude kidnapper & giving him a piece of her mind (and her fist). But little does she know that shes wandered right into the middle of a dangerous power struggle involving just about all of Wonderlands attractive weapon-happy denizens. & the only way for Alice to return home is to get acquainted with the lot of them?! How in the world will she manage that & still manage to stay alive?!" ...

Kidnapped by a handsome man with rabbit ears Alice Liddell finds herself abandoned in an odd place called Wonderland & thrust into a game " the rules of which she has yet to learn. Alice ever the plucky tomboy sets off to explore & get the lay of this strange land intent on finding her rude kidnapper & giving him a piece of her mind (and her fist). But little does she know that shes wandered right into the middle of a dangerous power struggle involving just about all of Wonderlands attractive weapon-happy denizens. & the only way for Alice to return home is to get acquainted with the lot of them?! How in the world will she manage that & still manage to stay alive?!" ...

Building on his reputation as one of the most innovative paper-engineers working in childrens books Robert Sabuda dazzles us with his reworking of Alice in Wonderl&. The book consists of 7 spreads with breathtaking super-size pop-ups & additional pop-ups contained within mini story books. Special effects include printed foil acetate pull-tab scenes & on the first spread a peep show of Alice falling into Wonderl&. ...

One hot summer's day Alice tumbles down down down a rabbit hole
- & finds herself in Wonderland where everything is topsy-turvy
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This is a new paperback edition of the picture book based on the beloved classic by Lewis Carroll. It is retold for younger children to provide an ideal introduction to the story. Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole & finds herself in Wonderl&. Faced with a magic cake a grinning cat & a noisy Queen Alice doesn't know what will happen next. Featuring fabulous artwork by Mauro Evangelista this gorgeous book with its vibrant illustrations is sure to enthrall & delight very young children as well as those just beginning to read. ...