Nostalgic witty & filled with characters & situations that people of all ages will recognise Dear Lupin" is the entire correspondence of a Father to his only son spanning nearly 25 years. Roger Mortimer's sometimes hilarious sometimes touching always generous letters to his son are packed with anecdotes & sharp observations with a unique analogy for each & every scrape Charlie Mortimer got himself into. The trials & tribulations of his youth & early adulthood are received by his father with humour understanding & a touch of resignation making them the perfect reminder of when letters were common but always special. A racing journalist himself Roger Mortimer wrote for a living yet still wrote more than 150 letters to his son as he left school & lived in places such as South America Africa Weston-super-Mare & eventually London. These letters form a memoir of their relationship & an affectionate portrait of a time gone by." ...

Nine-year-old Max an only child who lives with his widowed mother writes to his favorite author D.J. Lucas. The two begin a correspondence of short mostly humorous letters & postcards sharing personal experiences & suggestions about writing (Max wants to become an author while D.J. Lucas is agonizing over her latest book). ...

When Katy Simmons packed all three of her daughters off to their grandmother's house for a few days during their school summer holidays in order to get some work done in peace & quiet she expected to talk to them on the phone she knew that her eldest would send her a text now & again she was even thinking about getting granny to set up Skype
- but she never expected them each to send her a letter. She realised that Granny was responsible. Letters are such old-fashioned things after all.. .or are they? Talking to her friends she soon realised that writing to Mum wasn't such a rare occurrence for other kids who were away from home. Some were encouraged to do so at school & others even liked to leave notes around the house for their mothers to find. Of course when embarking on the huge task of writing a letter you don't waste too much time on trivia. Letters are for important stuff
- & it's what the children who wrote the letters that are featured in this book found important that make them so fascinating to read.

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Have you ever wondered what your Father was like as a child? Intrigued to know about how your gr&-parents met? Do you wonder what school life was like for your Mum? These are questions that lead to precious answers. Award-winning 'from you to me' Journals of a Lifetime gift range is made up of beautifully designed hard back journals
- the perfect gift for every loved-one for every occasion. Available in Dear Dad Dear Mum Dear Grandma Dear Grandad Dear Son Dear Daughter Dear Sister Dear Brother & Dear Friend. We all have our own story to tell. Each 'from you to me' gift journal contains around 60 fun & inspiring questions carefully designed to inspire your family to enjoy telling their story
- to help you to find out amazing things about them.

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Have you ever wondered what your Father was like as a child? Intrigued to know about how your gr&-parents met? Do you wonder what school life was like for your Mum? These are questions that lead to precious answers. Award-winning 'from you to me' Journals of a Lifetime gift range is made up of beautifully designed hard back journals
- the perfect gift for every loved-one for every occasion. Available in Dear Dad Dear Mum Dear Grandma Dear Grandad Dear Son Dear Daughter Dear Sister Dear Brother & Dear Friend. We all have our own story to tell. Each 'from you to me' gift journal contains around 60 fun & inspiring questions carefully designed to inspire your family to enjoy telling their story
- to help you to find out amazing things about them.

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Exploring the history of the home of Celtic this title

Includes:: details of famous players & managers. It

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In this fascinating follow-up to the highly successful Dear Francesca" Mary Contini writes to her other daughter Olivia to tell the story of her great-grandparents the humble Italian shepherds who emigrated to Edinburgh & then helped to transform Britain's food culture. Sharing some of the recipes that they brought over
- the tomatoes the garlic the sausage the wine
- this is a mouthwatering memoir of family & food. It is also a brilliant evocation of life between the wars a triumphant story of survival against all the odds that captures the sights & smells of Italian life & culture at home & abroad."

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A moving story of a brother a sister & a swallow & how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. Olly's brother Matt wants to go & work with children who have been made orphans through war in Africa. He wants to be a clown & make them laugh. His mother & sister want him to stay in England & go to university. Hero a swallow has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult & fraught with danger. Three separate stories are woven into one powerful & moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war & of landmines but also the endurance of the human spirit. ...

: A funny moving & absorbing story about a young girl's attempts to learn more about her dead father through the objects she finds in a cardboard box he's left her. Scarlett & her friend Ellie go on a sometimes hilarious sometimes scary journey of discovery following the clues & always remembering to 'keep looking up'. Was Scarlett's dad a thief? Was he a spy? & what does it mean to be his daughter? Fleur Hitchcock is a great new voice in children's literature & Dear Scarlett is a great book. ...

Through his alcoholism & her mental illness his career highs (and lows) & her institutional confinement Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. Now for the first time the story of the love of these two glamorous & hugely talented writers can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds' marriage the 333 letters
- three-quarters of them previously unpublished or out of print
- have been edited by the noted Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer & Cathy W. Barks. They are illustrated throughout with a generous selection of familiar & unpublished photographs.

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