In this cracking Christmas counting book Father Christmas cant help but help himself to the tasty treats he finds as he delivers present after present. But it isnt long before he really really really needs a wee... This is a festive mini hardback book with a soft toy Father Christmas that doubles up as a Christmas tree decoration! ...

This mini hardback edition of this Christmas bestseller is the perfect stocking-filler. On Christmas Eve every child leaves out a drink & a snack for Father Christmas. Before long he really really needs a wee but what can he do about it? There's a long time to wait before he can get home & when he finally does he's lost his house key! This is a hilarious take on a dilemma that every toddler will identify with. ...

The naughty step is the place Sam has to sit when he has done something he knows he Really shouldnt have. & Sam isnt alone. Captain Buckleboots is sitting on the naughty step too & so is Father Christmas
- uh-oh oh no! Whats going to happen on Christmas Eve now?
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Father Unknown" is the latest from bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had... Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies she finds her secure existence thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a scrapbook. Inside it is information about her real mother. However when Daisy drops everything to go in search of her roots she uncovers a harrowing story of greed misery & corruption. She also risks hurting her adored Dad the only true family she has left. Can she cope with the truth about her real parents? & more importantly who is the real Daisy? Lesley Pearse author of the UK & international best-sellers Hope & Charlie tells a moving story of family adoption & identity in her compelling novel " Father Unknown". Susan Lewis fans will swiftly become Lesley Pearse fans too. Praise for Lesley Pearse: " With characters it is impossible not to care about.. .this is storytelling at its very best". (" Daily Mail"). " Lose yourself in this epic saga". (" Bella"). " An emotional & moving epic you won't forget in a hurry". (" Woman's Weekly"). With her gripping & moving storylines best-selling author Lesley Pearse has captured the imaginations of millions in the UK & abroad. Her other titles " The Promise" "A Lesser Evil" " Till We Meet Again" " Secrets" " Charlie" " Father Unknown" " Gypsy" " Trust Me" " Faith" " Never Look Back" " Remember Me" & " Hope" are also available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol & has three daughters & two grandchildren." ...

A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear! A bad man can never come good! Thirteen years have passed since Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for robbery with violence. In the meantime his ex wife Pearl Button has divorced him & remarried determined to protect her son from knowing who his real father is. Then she hears two pieces of terrifying news -- Kevin Dolby is up for parole & that her dear friend Bessie is gravely ill. Bessie has taken on Nora Dobbs a young woman & she asks Pearl to take over her care when dies. Pearl thinking that Bessie will recover from her illness & live for many more years agrees but less than a week later Bessie passes away. Pearl will now have to take over Noras care & plans to take her to Winchester. However when Bessies will is read she has left the shop & premises to Pearl yet with a proviso. Pearl not only has to take over Noras care she must do it in Battersea moving into the shop & premises & living there for the rest of Noras natural life. Then & only then can she sell up. While Pearl is persuaded to move back to Battersea Kevin is granted parole but desperate for money approaches his parents. Once he gets what he wants Kevin intends to see his son & nothing is going to stand in his way. ...

Fathers & Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels & has long been acclaimed as Turgenevs finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context with a universal theme the generational divide between fathers & sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social & political reform the novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies & their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. At its centre is Evgeny Bazorov a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist & believes in the need to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel develops Bazarovs political ambitions become fatally meshed with emotional & private concerns & his end is a tragic failure. The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862 & this a year later drove Turgenev from Russia. ...

Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life & how being a father has changed since the time of his father & grandfather. In Fathers & Sons Richard looks back at his own family to illustrate just how far British men's relationships with their sons have moved. Richard's grandfather had a childhood of almost unimaginable betrayal & sadness. His family abandoned him as a child to older relatives & emigrated without telling him. He grew up in a miserable situation & without any positive parenting role models yet managed to marry & have a son of his own. Richard's father was aware of his own father's discomfort & occasional frustration & anger & grew to understand that this was due to his upbringing. He remembers no affection or endearments from his dad & was packed off to a desolate boarding school in an echo of his own father's betrayal. In a bucking of the family trend Richard's mother a Canadian introduced more loving & demonstrative relationships which Richard has continued with his own son & step-sons. Both a family story & a wide-ranging look at Britain's evolving social character Fathers & Sons is a uniquely honest & touching exploration of how our families operate. ...

Celia Reynolds is the youngest in a set of triplets & the one with the least valuable power. Anne can see the future & Jane can see the present but all Celia can see is the past. & the past seems so insignificant
- until Celia meets Lo. Lo doesn't know who she is. Or who she was. Once a human she is now almost entirely a creature of the sea
- a nymph an ocean girl a mermaid
- all terms too pretty for the soul-less monster she knows she's becoming. Lo clings to shreds of her former self fighting to remember her past even as she's tempted to embrace her dark immortality. When a handsome boy named Jude falls off a pier & into the ocean Celia & Lo work together to rescue him from the waves. The two form a friendship but soon they find themselves competing for Jude's affection. Lo wants more than that though. According to the ocean girls there's only one way for Lo to earn back her humanity. She must persuade a mortal to love her...and steal his soul.


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This is the thrilling sequel to The Shadow of Malabron" & Book Two in the fantasy trilogy " The Perilous Realm". When Will learns that his friends in the Perilous Realm are in danger he realizes that he must go back to Fable their world of Story where Malabron the Night King threatens all who live there. But Wills friend Rowen has journeyed further than the rest of his companions into the Weaving an ever-changing place of mystery & untold dangers from which none return... The " Fathomless Fire" is the second in " The Perilous Realms" trilogy. The author is an award-winning writer of adult literary fantasy whose work has been translated into several languages." ...

A fat boy with a passion for sweets & a loathing for games the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter & a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates Fatty Batter is the bestselling & hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket. ...