Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Childrens Czar by the new government. He sells his flat & moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Childrens czar network is put on hold but it is too late to reverse the decision to employ Norman. So he is given a P.A. & a spacious office in a new business park on the banks of the Tyne. He settles down in his new leather chair behind his new desk to wait for the green light to begin his mission. The green light never comes. What does happen is that two children go missing. As childrens czar surely this case should fall within his remit but Norman has built a career on doing nothing on stamping pieces of paper with send to the relevant department. Now faced with a campaigning journalist & a distraught mother he is forced to become involved. The search will take him to dark places & will make him ask questions about the system he is supposed to uphold. ...

They were their fans believe the best band in the world. Critics & sales figures told a similar story: six albums between 1984 & 1988 made number one or number two in the UK charts. Twenty-five years after their break-up the band remain as adored & discussed as ever. To this day there is a collective understanding that The Smiths were one of the greatest of all British bands. The Smiths
- Morrissey Johnny Marr Andy Rourke & Mike Joyce
- were four working-class youths who came together by fate or chance in Manchester in the early 1980s. Their sound was both traditional & radically different a music that spoke to a generation & defied the dark social-economic mood of the Thatcher years. By early 1984 barely a year after their first headlining gig they were the hottest
- certainly the hippest
- name in modern music. In the years that followed the group produced an extraordinary body of work: seventeen classic singles seven albums & [some] seventy songs composed by the team of Morrissey & Marr. Yet for all their brilliance & adoration
- their famously energetic live shows routinely interrupted by stage invasions
- The Smiths were continually plagued by their own reticence to play the game & by the time of 1987s Strangeways Here We Come they had split. The Smiths have never played together again
- their enormous contribution to pop culture forever condensed into a prolific & prosperous halcyon period their legacy intact & untarnished. Thirty years after their formation twenty-five since they broke up The Smiths firmament remains as bright as ever. Its time their tale was told. Tony Fletchers A Light That Never Goes Out is a meticulous & evocative group biography
- part celebration part paean
- moving from Manchester in the nineteenth-century to the present day to tell the complete story of The Smiths. Penned by a contemporary & life-long fan & the product of extensive research dozens of interviews & unprecedented access it will serve to confirm The Smiths as one of the greatest most important & influential rock groups of all time.








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This new edition of the highly successful Light Vehicle Maintenance & Repair" series has been fully updated in line with the new QCF structure at Level 2 & provides full coverage of this qualification. The easy to use spiral bound format makes this the perfect companion for the course enabling learners to use the workbook in-class & while carrying out practical tasks. Learners will be inspired by the full-colour diagrams & images illustrating key techniques & the Tip Boxes weblinks activities & questions will ensure learners have full understanding of all the essential information." ...

Home Place Sussex 1937. The English family at home.. . For two unforgettable summers they gathered together safe from the advancing storm clouds of war. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games lavish family meals & picnics on the beach. Three generations of the Cazalet family. Their relatives their children & their servants
- & the fascinating triangle of their affairs.. . The Light Years is the first volume in The Cazalet Chronicle. The next novel in the series is Marking Time.
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Nedra & Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners ingenious games with their children enviable friends & near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life
- flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive witty tender & resonant Light Years is an exquisite novel of lost lives & the elusiveness of happiness.
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Winner of the 2013 Mc Kitterick Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards The Lighthouse" begins on a North Sea ferry on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh a middle-aged recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small family-run hotel he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman. In the morning Futh puts the episode behind him & sets out on his week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage & his own. But the story he keeps coming back to the person & the event affecting all others is his mother & her abandonment of him as a boy which left him with a void to fill a substitute to find. He recalls his first trip to Germany with his newly single father. He is mindful of something he neglected to do there an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time around. At the end of the week Futh sunburnt & blistered comes to the end of his circular walk returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the Hellhaus hotel unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absence." ...

Hear all about Lighthouse Keeper
- Mr. Grinling & his adventures in these seven exciting stories read by Jean Waggoner. The stories
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Hamish the lighthouse keepers cat has been neglecting his duties & the mice are running wild all over the lighthouse. With the lighthouse inspector due any day now Mr & Mrs Grinling decide to put Hamish on a diet until he catches the mice... So Hamish sets off to find someone who will appreciate him better. Soon though Hamish realizes theres no place like home. ...

When Mr Grinling locks himself out of the lighthouse he tries everything to get back inside. Not only is Hamish the cat trapped inside he also needs to switch on the light to warn the ships that theyre near the rocks on the coast. Luckily Mrs Grinling has an ingenious plan to get back in...but will it work? ...

This is a new title from the best-selling Read & Respond" series. It offers differentiation advice & assessment guidance. It features plot character & setting speaking & listening activities. It

Includes:: guided reading notes & texts for shared reading. It also features extended writing projects."

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