A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. Its quite a change from the Met where he dealt with riots on the capitals streets & drug gangs in Battersea & found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers hes chasing runaway bullocks holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road & combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonels balls. Mikes first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons & some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire its breathtaking scenery & wide variety of characters & communities. ...

These high quality editions of the original Milne & Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh The House At Pooh Corner Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young are essential titles for every child's library. A. A. Milne's stories about Pooh & his forest friends have been loved by generations of children & their parents since the publication of the first book of stories Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Pooh first appeared as a character in Milne's poetry but it was the timeless tales of the Hundred Acre Wood that struck a chord with readers- & continues to do so today. ...

These high quality editions of the original Milne & Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh The House At Pooh Corner Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young are essential titles for every child's library. A. A. Milne's stories about Pooh & his forest friends have been loved by generations of children & their parents since the publication of the first book of stories Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Pooh first appeared as a character in Milne's poetry but it was the timeless tales of the Hundred Acre Wood that struck a chord with readers- & continues to do so today. ...

When Christopher Matthew was six the poems of Milne always reassured him that other children were as naughty as he was so on reaching sixty he decided that he should adapt Now We Are Six for an older audience. Now We Are Sixty is often hilarious sometimes rueful & always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising we are not as young as we thought while some are about the more disconcerting problems of modern life; mobile telephones on trains anti-social behaviour traffic jams & the internet. ...

This amusing & affirming book enables a grown up & child to share together the excitement bewilderment & possible problems associated with having a new baby in the house. It brings a positive message of how love & patience build a family. Simply worded & attractively illustrated for even the youngest child to sit & think with. Now available in a board book format for even easier sharing. ...

Were all familiar with the trials & tribulations of the current British Royal Family but there are more than 25 royal families that still wield power in the world today from Japan & Thailand to Saudi Arabia & Scandinavia. The crown prince of Q&A Doug Lennox is at it again this time with a cornucopia of facts & frivolities about the escapades excesses & extravagances of the worlds monarchies past & present. From betrayal & beheadings to pageantry & privilege discover the truth about life behind the castle walls. Which wife of Englands Henry VIII had six fingers on one hand? What royal connection does Thomas Crapper inventor of the flush toilet have? What is the royal residence in Monaco known as? What royal family in the world today has ruled the longest? Who was the Hammer of the Scots"? Why are members of royal families said to have "blue blood"? Which member of the British royal family competed at the Olympics? Where did the word czar come from? What did Marie Antoinette say before she was executed?" ...

A successful lawyer & loving mother Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York
- including lying
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Is Jack back? More cunning more illusive & ready to play new games.. .A savage murder on Londons streets 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. A crime with all the hallmarks of a copycat killer. Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case. Now she must outwit a brilliant psychopath whose infamous role model has never been found. When the murderer claims another victim Lacey agrees to be the bait to lure out the monster. But this killer is already one step ahead & fixated on Lacey... ...

With his richly praised sequence of novels featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick John Harvey created not only an unforgettable character of great depth & complexity but a realistic & richly peopled inner-city world of struggling heroes & feckless villains. A woman is beaten; a charred body is found in a warehouse: another 4 a.m. call for Charlie Resnick. Gathered together in Nows The Time are twelve short stories featuring Resnick including a new story written especially for this edition. Billies Blues reunites Resnick with the troubled & beautiful Eileen former stripper & mistress of a gangland boss & now on the run & in fear for her life. From old foes to upstart pretenders the city & the jazz-soaked night-time world of Charlie Resnick come vividly to life. ...

Nowhere is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller by debut author Jon Robinson. ' No one's coming for us. Not our families not the police. No one.' Alyn Jes Ryan & Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? & how will they ever break free...? An intensely gripping conspiracy thriller for 11+ readers. A phenomenal debut novel for readers who love Jason Bourne & Alex Scarrow. Jon Robinson was born in Middlesex in 1983. When he's not writing he works for a charity in central London. Nowhere is his debut novel. ...