An emotional portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine's day approaches in 1941 wartime London ' Life brought enough problems & upsets for young hearts especially young female hearts without them having to carry the added burden of the war...' Tilly is passionately in love with the dashing American journalist Drew. But he is harbouring a secret that threatens their burgeoning love. At the same time Dulcie's brother Rick walks back into her life the man who she longed for all those years ago... Agnes is comforted by the loving arms of her caring train driver fiance Ted. & Sally could not be happier with her talented surgeon boyfriend at her side especially since he's risked his life to visit her at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. For Tilly's mother Olive the cold heart that had been frozen since her partner died is beginning to thaw. But the man she pines for is betrothed to another. The net curtains on the well-to-do Article Row have been twitching & prying eyes have seen the way she's been looking at Sergeant Dawson... When the clock strikes midnight at the Hammersmith Palais three couples stare deeply into their lovers' eyes. The confident & stunningly beautiful East Ender Dulcie is left alone once more abandoned by her boyfriend at this most precious of precious moments. But the women of No. 13 Article Row know that joy is short lived in the London of 1941. It's a treacherous place especially for the tender-hearted. As Valentine's Day approaches the perils of war threaten life as they know it & all matters of the heart. ...

In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas & his son Peter arrive in Chust & despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this nor why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go & why he is forbidden to know its contents. But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess Sofia intoxicated by their love of life & drawn into their deadly quest. For these travellers are Vampire Slayers & Chust is a dying community
- where the dead come back to wreak revenge on the living. Amidst the terrifying events that follow Peter is stunned to see his father change from a disillusioned man to the warrior hero he once was. Marcus draws on his extensive research of the vampire legend & sets his story in the forbidding & remote landscapes of the 17th century. Written in his usual distinctive voice this is also the story of a father & his son of loss redemption & resolution.
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Touch feel look listen & watch dinosaurs come to life on the page in this interactive book for dinosaur loving toddlers. Look at all the things dinosaurs can do; watch a giant reach up high see a flying dinosaur in the sky look a tyrannosaur in the eye. Then press the button & just listen to the noises they make Roarrrrrrrrrrr! Join in the fun with your child as they lift flaps pull tabs touch & feel textures listen to sounds & learn all about the wonderful world of dinosaurs using all their senses. ...

Touch feel look & listen
- interactive tractor fun for everyone! Chugger-chugger-chugger. Tractors are AMAZING. Now see them come
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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling
- My Third Word Book is aimed at ages 6-7. This write-in book allows children to build up their
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To millions of people around the world Norman Wisdom in his cloth cap & ill-fitting suit is the living embodiment of the little man battling against the forces of authority & pomposity. His career in comedy making people laugh for over six decades has been the fulfilment of what Charlie Chaplin predicted
- that Norman Wisdom would be the man to take his mantle. Still working as hard in his late eighties Sir Norman
- he was knighted by the Queen in 2001 in an hilarious episode described in this book
- has become a cult hero to todays young cutting edge comedians.


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Clarice Beans mum & dad are going away on Important Business so Uncle Ted comes to stay. Everything goes really well at first but before long theres a guinea pig on the loose Granddads gone missing & Clarices little brother is stuck in the railings like a giant squeaking tomato. Luckily Uncle Teds around. Hell come to the rescue.. .wont he? A hilarious look at family life starring the inimitable Clarice Bean. A ticklish title & a ticklish book.
- Guardian
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Jonathan Chester & Patrick Regan's My Unflappable Mum is a loving tribute to the most rare of birds-the incredible unflappable mum." Chester's striking & intimate nature photographs of tuxedoed penguins & their young beautifully illustrate Regan's charming verse that honours those incredible unflappable mums who nurture & instil a spirit of adventure & independence in their young. While it's a mum's job to be ever watchful fiercely protective & deeply engaged in her children's lives it's also a mum's job to let go-to send her young into the big scary world-whether that means walking away without looking back on the first day nursery or nudging them gently out of the nest as young adults. In My Unflappable Mum Chester & Regan celebrate the relationship between mother & child while praising mum for being the rare bird that she is-and that's definitely something to flap about." ...

Able to ride wield a sword & throw a dagger as well as any man flame-haired Ainslee of Kengarvey is more warrior than lady. Yet even her awesome skill as a horsewoman won't help her outrace the knight who pursues her. An Anglo-Norman who has won favour with the King Sir Gabel de Amalville must prove his loyalty by crushing the rebellious Mac Nairn clan. Seizing the youngest daughter of the chief gives him a necessary advantage. But having sequestered Ainslee in his isolated castle keep he soon finds himself the prisoner of a passion he never could have foreseen. Now as the shadow of war descends upon the Highlands Gabel will follow his heart into battle
- for the love of the sensual woman who has captured him mind body & soul.
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Goolish is suffering a bit of an identity crisis. After hundreds of years of ghouls spectres vampires mummies zombies & all manner of spectral folk living happily alongside one another so-called ordinary people have started to move to the town
- attracted by the cheap houses & country life. The Fang Gang are working very hard to develop their gruesome skills in an effort to foster good relations between the new residents of Goolish & their grisly neighbours. But things dont always go as planned. With a new recruit to the gang perhaps things will go a little more smoothly. Or perhaps not as Johnathan is about to find out.
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