READ BY ANTHONY HEAD. The second hilarious story about Splat the Cat the irresistible character from Rob Scotton bestselling creator of Russell the Sheep READ BY ANTHONY HEAD. Splat the cat is desperate to become friends with one of the girls at school! But hes much too shy to talk to her. However will he get her attention? Perhaps Valentines Day will provide the perfect opportunity? ...

The second hilarious story about Splat the Cat the irresistible character from Rob Scotton bestselling creator of Russell the Sheep Splat the cat is desperate to become friends with one of the girls at school! But hes much too shy to talk to her. However will he get her attention? Perhaps Valentines Day will provide the perfect opportunity? ...

Bill Hicks was arguably the most influential st&-up comedian of the last 30 years. He was funny out of hand impossible to ignore & genuinely disturbing. His work has inspired Michael Moore Mark Thomas & Robert Newman among others. The trade paperback published in February 2003 was the first collected work & included major st&-up routines diary notebook & letters extracts plus his final writings most previously unpublished. This smaller format paperback has extra material discovered subsequently. ...

Maddy Kiernan knows her situation is desperate. With her parents dead her brother Thomas is left as guardian to her & her sister Carmel & Thomas Maddy is all too aware only cares about himself. When his plans to marry the daughter of the Protestant canal agent backfire Thomas takes off to Liverpool leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Taking the momentous decision to follow their brother Maddy leaves for Liverpool. Within days the girls are destitute reduced to living in a cellar their money gone. Eventually Maddy finds work as a maid to an old lady becoming her unpaid companion & sole beneficiary of her will. But Maddy has to promise not to marry until the woman who has rescued her & her sister dies. When Maddy meets a young seaman she realises she may have to choose between love & that promise... ...

Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life
- a satisfying career her own flat & a new boyfriend who respects her need for her
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Love & Summer"
- a remarkable heart-rending novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor. " Lingers in the memory as a beautiful meditation
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Over the fifteen years Rosemary has been living in the region the more she realised she didn't know about the war; about the French during the Occupation the real role of the Resistance the level of collaboration the concentration camps in the Pyrenees & the treatment of Jews & other refugees. It is still very much a veiled history & most of the archives remain firmly closed. LOVE & WAR IN THE PYRENEES is a portrait of human tragedy heroism & cruelty that will create a picture of the period from a contemporary angle the history linked to sights that can still be visited & brought to life by letters interviews & encounters with people today including the historians currently trying to investigate what really happened. ...

Olivia Donatellis dream of a normal life was shattered when her son Anthony was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didnt speak. He hated to be touched. He almost never made eye contact. & just as Olivia was starting to realise that happiness & autism could coexist Anthony died. Now shes alone in a cottage on Nantucket separated from her husband desperate to understand the meaning of her sons short life when a chance encounter with another woman facing her own loss brings Anthony alive again for Olivia in a most unexpected way. In a piercing story about motherhood love & female friendship Lisa Genova offers us two unforgettable women on the verge of change who discover the small but exuberant voice that helps them both find the answers they need. ...

Over five hundred years ago Esperettas soul was bound to her husbands by dark magic & when Velkan became a Dark-Hunter to her horror she became immortal as well. Now they must come together to fight an old enemy...and the passion that threatens to consume them once more. In Ride the Night Wind" by L.A. Banks dark dreams haunt Jose Ciponte dreams of a woman so beautiful he aches for her-and a deadly enemy who stalks them in the night. & now those dreams have become a reality... In " The Gift" by Susan Squires all Major Davis Ware wants to do is propose to the beautiful Emma Fairchild. Instead he is called back into battle & a desperate fate. & Emma will venture into hell itself to save him. In " The Forgotten One" by Ronda Thompson Lady Anne Baldwin longs to break free from her proper bonds. When she meets the mysterious Merrick whose eyes glow like a wolfs she may have found more than she bargained for." ...