Emily is a helpful little girl so when her mummy is worried that Daisy the cow will escape into the clover field through a hole in the fence she offers to go & look after Daisy for the day. On the way she meets a big dog a boastful boy & an old man with a sack. But when she gets to the meadow she realises she needs help with Daisy & to mend the fence. Who can she turn to? This is a delightful springtime picture book from Elsa Beskow. Young children will enjoy following Emily through her day as unexpectedly good things keep coming her way. ...

Sarahs full of nerves when she arrives at Sunnyside Stables but shes not the only one. Sprite a new addition to Sunnyside is flighty & anxious. Together they must work to rebuild each others confidence
- but in order to help Sprite Sarah must first conquer her own nerves... Written in diary form this is the fifth book in a brilliant series that is perfect for all ponymad girls.
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Wuthering Heights is one of those rare books that appeals to a general audience as well as inspiring endless academic enquiry. Baffling & fascinating its first readers it has been read as a great love story a tragedy of hatred a promise of spiritual sublimity an intriguing textual puzzle an analogue of the class war a feminist protest a poem a drama a dialogue. It has inspired hundreds of interpretive versions in other media & the image of Catherine & Heathcliff on the hill-top (despite not appearing in the novel) has become a cultural icon. In this Readers' Guide Patsy Stoneman has devised a careful route through the bewildering profusion of critical writing on Wuthering Heights. After a chapter on 19th century responses the Guide links together a selection of extracts demonstrating the major critical developments of the 20th century from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Subsequent chapters working within this general framework focus on psychoanalytic readings source studies readings using discourse theory work on dissemination & political readings including Marxism postcolonialism & feminism. By combining thoroughness & accessibility this Guide aims to be useful to both undergraduates & more advanced scholars. ...

Disaster has struck Fairyland! Jack Frost has stolen all the jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them the fairies are losing their magical powers. Rachel & Kirsty have to help India the Moonstone Fairy Scarlett the Garnet Fairy Emily the Emerald Fairy Chloe the Topaz Fairy Amy the Amethyst Fairy Sophie the Sapphire Fairy & Lucy the Diamond Fairy to get the jewels back before it's too late... In this story it's time for Kirsty & Rachel to help Emily the Emerald Fairy find her magical missing jewel. ...

The magic ring that Emily Windsnap
- half mermaid half ordinary girl
- finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune & he wants

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Emily Windsnap is thrilled to arrive at her new home
- a secret island near the Bermuda Triangle where humans & merfolk live together
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Emily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans & merfolk together seem doomed. Thrown out of mermaid school & scorned by her old enemy Mandy Rushton Emily goes in search of the lost sirens who were banished by Neptune to a top secret undersea cavern. Only when she uncovers the sirens' true story can she put the pieces of her own life back together. ...

Emily Windsnap is part ordinary girl & part mermaid. Join Emily as she uncovers a new world under the sea finds her long-lost father meets a terrifying sea monster visits a mysterious castle & encounters a beautiful siren. This enchanting fantasy with its vivid scenes of a brilliantly realized underwater world tells the story of a delightful & wholly believable girl. Strongly plotted it deals with universal themes of families friendship love & justice
- all handled with a lightness of touch & an assurance that marks Liz Kessler out as a highly accomplished writer.
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After more than a decade in the game Eminem endures as one of the most popular celebrities. The worlds most successful rapper continues to break records in the modern era recently reinventing himself after a drug overdose to hold his own against viral sensations like Lady Gaga & Justin Bieber. Controversy is one quality that Marshall Mathers III has never failed to deliver in spades. From his fledgling rhymes with New Jacks & D-12 through to Billboard chart-busting epics like My Name Is" " The Way I Am" & " Stan" his body of recorded work has been an exercise in lyrical genius satirical wit & enjoyably gratuitous offensiveness. This book examines for the first time the entire oeuvre of the immensely gifted poet & street culture purveyor that is Eminem. This is the definitive critical study of the man dubbed by Newsweek as "the most compelling figure in all of pop music": its a quest for the visceral troubled raison detre of Eminem." ...

Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like' but Emma is irresistible. ' Handsome clever & rich' Emma is also an 'imaginist' 'on fire with speculation & foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement & imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy & the end is a triumph of understanding. ...