No ordinary fairy tale... Linden is a feisty faery with a lot on her mind. She her fellow faeries are under threat: their magic is fading & if they do not act fast they will die... When Linden meets Timothy a human staying in the house opposite her Oak she knows he can help. Together they embark on a dangerous journey to seek more magic
- & discover that there is more to fear from other faeries than they could ever have imagined.
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The Rebel" is Camuss attempt to understand the time I live in & a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951 it makes a daring critique of communism how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain & the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing the French Revolution of 1789 & the Russian Revolution of 1917 that had resulted he believed in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice & a chance to achieve change without giving up collective & intellectual freedom." ...

In this thrilling sequel Gemma continues to pursue her destiny to bind the magic of the Realms & restore it to the Order. Gemma & her friends from Spence use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world of Victorian London (at the height of the Christmas season) to the visionary country of the Realms with its strange beauty & menace. There they search for the lost Temple the key to Gemmas mission & comfort Pippa their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana & the handsome but clueless Simon a young man of good family who is courting her. This is the second book in Libba Brays engrossing trilogy set in a time of strict morality & barely repressed sensuality about a girl who saw another way. ...

Ricky Rocket loves flying through the Canyons & Spin Tubes in the park. But whos that zooming past in the Rebel 250 Flyer with the Evil Lord Vorg badge? & will Rickys little sister just keep quiet? Join Ricky on his exciting space adventures! ...

Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders the rebel girls demanded new freedoms & new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales & fishing harbours to win Edwardian hearts & minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as Baby Suffragette. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday
- then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks.
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Born into a world seething with treachery & suspicion Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars heiress to her late mothers estates & daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history
- & for butterflies in particular. Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all time. But it is her passionate heart which will lead her into a consuming love
- & mortal peril.

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What is the meaning of love & death in a remote forgotten impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land" the acclaimed author & journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out. Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of Varto a place left behind in Turkey's march to modernity medieval in its attachment to race & religious sect he explores the violent history of conflict between Turks Kurds & Armenians & the maelstrom of emotion & memories that defines its inhabitants even today. The result is a compellingly personal account of one man's search into the past as de Bellaigue mistrusted by all he meets & particularly by the secret agents of the State applies his investigative flair & fluent Turkish to unlock jealously-guarded taboos & hold humanity's excesses up to the light of a very modern sensibility." ...

THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER REBEL IN THE WEST! Bounty hunter Zane Coldridge
- infamous dangerous & revered
- does not do distractions.

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THE WAR HAS NOT BEEN LOST The countries of Cython & Hightspall are at war with centuries of resentment & evil magic fuelling the flames. Rix has lost everything to traitors on his own side
- his family his reputation even his right h&. Even so he must fight. If he can reach his family's mountain fortress perhaps he can save the refugees who follow him & begin his own resistance. Tali has been imprisoned by those who wish to use her healing blood but they may take even more than that. Her life will be forfeit if her captors discover her secret
- that she holds the key to winning the war itself. But Rix's fortress holds secrets too & his arrival sets off a chain of events that will bring old powers & figures out of myths back to the land.. .

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Rebellion is brewing in Napoleonic Paris in the new action-packed novel from the author of the bestselling Ratcatcher October 1812: Britain & France are still at war. France is engaged on two battle fronts
- Spain & Russia
- & her civilians are growing weary of the fight. Rebellion is brewing. Since Napoleon Bonaparte appointed himself as First Consul there have been several attempts to either kill or overthrow him. All have failed so far! Meanwhile in London Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood has been seconded to the foreign arm of the Secret Service. There he meets the urbane Henry Brooke who tells him he's to join a colleague in Paris on a special mission. Brooke's agent has come up with a daring plan & he needs Hawkwood's help to put it into action. If the plan is successful it could lead to a negotiated peace treaty between France & the allies. Failure would mean prison torture & a meeting with the guillotine!

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