Far Beyond ABC completes an invaluable set of three books which together hold the key to learning to read. Beautifully illustrated it opens up the secrets of 20 more major English spelling patterns. The best of it is that the child-friendly story logic draws on childrens thinking skills & their imaginations so they easily remember the phonic facts that the stories carry. ...

Has your child learned their ABCs? This activity book will help your child to confidently go on to learn how even more letters come together to make new sounds in words
- with the help of the friendly Letterland characters. Far Beyond ABC Activity Book is packed full of fun activities & puzzles helping your child to confidently tackle & enjoy hundreds of new words. It also also comes with 50 reusable stickers that your child can use time & time again!
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A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: & the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson crooning For The Good Times to the accompaniment of a midi organ THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism & human frailty passion & the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers. ...

Ruth & Simon Pierces rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter Heather on holiday in Cornwall with a friends family has disappeared... The loss is more than they
- or their marriage
- can bear. But time does heal & slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself. A new husband Andrew
- even a second daughter Beatrice. The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible
- that is until years later a desperate phone call launches DI Will Grayson & his partner DS Helen Walker into an investigation which will test their professional & emotional resources to the very limit. Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently released child-abuser & Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague there is a real danger that their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands...



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The Far Eastern Fells of Lakeland rise to the east of Kirkstone Pass & the Patterdale valley. To the north & south they run down into low country & eastwards they merge into the high ground of the Pennines. many of the heights are relatively inaccessible & lonely but the scenery here & the excellence of the walks rank in Wainwrights view with the Lake Disctricts best. This second edition of The Far Eastern Fells has been brilliantly revised by Chris Jesty a trained cartographer who worked with Wainwright on some of the maps in his later large-format guides. All footpaths have been rewalked all routes checked all maps & text updated. Paths & routes have been picked out in red to make them easier to follow & parking information has been added. This new edition of the classic walking guide is Wainwright for the 21st century. ...

You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from a telephone directory & calling for their mothers. It's certainly a town & certainly grubby
- except for the squeaky clean parts
- but everything else we know about the place comes from Beardy Ardagh town resident & author of these tales. As Beardy Ardagh reports when the local lighthouse is plunged into darkness & a ship runs aground
- flattening The Rusty Dolphin
- it's hard to imagine things can get much worse in Grubtown. But then there's a jail-break & the Police Department (all three of them) need all the help they can get from the (often bonkers) townsfolk. No wonder more trouble is waiting just around the corner.



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As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries & she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily theres work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool & soon Kitty has a job in a grocers where she also catches the eye of the owner. With Kittys input the business is soon thriving -- but tragedy lies ahead & she must endure many trials & tribulations before she can find true happiness! ...

It is 1940 & Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband Adam. But her decision has meant that she has had to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter Alice who is travelling to safety in Canada. Polly's heart is torn in two as she says goodbye to Alice & heads to the Beach View boarding house in Cliffehaven where she throws herself into her work. But as she confronts the fact that Adam may not survive his injuries a telegram arrives at Beach View. The boat Alice was on has been torpedoed by a German U-boat... ...

A moving family drama of one young womans fight to survive & to find a place to call home 1938: Sixteen-year-old Kate Monroe is living in Birmingham far away from her family in Irel&. Her parents have always doted on her siblings Sally & James leaving no time for her. Kate harbours a dark secret a deep longing for her cousin. Feelings she must suppress in this deeply staunch Irish-Catholic community -- even if they are reciprocated. Crazed by her infatuation Kate is left with no option other than to up-roots once more & seek out a new life far away from the temptation of Tim Monroe. Will Kate find true love or will distance make the heart grow fonder? ...

When Georgiana Gregory & her maid Kitty make the long sea journey from their native Hull for New York they are expecting to begin a new life in the heady freedom of the newly-formed United States of America. Georgiana wants to escape from the confines of English life & to savour a land of emancipation & opportunity. But in New York she encounters a man passing himself off as her brother-in-law Edward Newmarch a local mill-owners son who has abandoned Georgianas sister & fled to America. Georgiana recognises the man standing before her as Edward Newmarchs valet Robert Allen
- Edward himself appears to have vanished. But Edward having escaped from a disastrous marriage in England is now in further trouble with women having agreed to marry the difficult daughter of a powerful landowner & businessman while pursuing his beautiful wife Sofia. As Georgiana & Kitty pursue the adventures of the frontier & Edward tries to flee his enemies the dangers of this new country seem too much to cope with.
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