Noel Streatfeild is best known as a writer for children but had not thought of writing for them until persuaded to re-work her first novel as Ballet Shoes; this had sold ten million copies by the time of her death. Saplings (1945) her tenth book for adults is also about children: a family with four of them to whom we are first introduced in all their secure Englishness in the summer of 1939. Her purpose is to take a happy successful middle-class pre-war family
- & then track in miserable detail the disintegration & devastation which war brought to tens of thousands of such families writes the psychiatrist Dr Jeremy Holmes in his Afterword. Her supreme gift was her ability to see the world from a childs perspective & she shows that children can remain serene in the midst of terrible events as long as they are handled with love & openness. She understood that the psychological consequences of separating children from their parents was glossed over in the rush to ensure their physical survival... It is fascinating to watch Streatfeild casually & intuitively anticipate many of the findings of developmental psychology over the past fifty years. A study of the disintegration of a middle-class family during the turmoil of the Second World War & quite shocking wrote Sarah Waters in the Guardian. Saplings was a ten-part serial on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
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Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron but its memory torments him because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside Claudia insists he must be king but Finn doubts even his own identity. Is he the lost prince Giles? Or are his memories no more than another construct of his imprisonment? & can you be free if your friends are still captive? Can you be free if your world is frozen in time? Can you be free if you dont even know who you are Inside Incarceron has the crazy sorcerer Rix really found the Glove of Sapphique the only man the Prison ever loved. Sapphique whose image fires Incarceron with the desire to escape its own nature. If Keiro steals the glove will he bring destruction to the world? Inside. Outside. All seeking freedom. Like Sapphique. This refers to the newly jacketed edition available 2 May 2013. ...

Sapphire Jones doesn't believe in relationships anymore
- not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire
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Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl & was given her name when she was left there as a baby. When she is reunited with her mother she hopes her beautiful new name Sapphire Battersea will also mean a new life! But things don't always go as planned... Follow the twists & turns of Hetty's adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man. She longs to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Jem
- but also finds a new sweetheart Bertie the butcher's boy who whisks her away from her chores to experience the delights of the funfair! But Hetty's life may also take a darker path. Can she cope with the trials ahead?
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A fascinating funny & moving Victorian-era novel featuring Hetty Feather. Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl & was given her name when she was left there as a baby by her mother. But she always longed to be called Sapphire after her sapphire-blue eyes. When she is reunited with her mother she hopes her new name Sapphire Battersea will also mean a new life! But life doesnt always go as planned... Follow the twists & turns of Hettys adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man. She longs to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Jem
- but also finds a new sweetheart Bertie the butchers boy who whisks her away from her household chores to experience the delights of the funfair! But Hettys life may also take a darker path. Can she cope with the trials ahead?
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Build confidence for exam success with Pas Test. SAQs for Dentistry 2e delivers subject-based chapters with completely updated questions to provide valuable revision practise for students taking their undergraduate & postgraduate examinations in dentistry. Following on the success of the first edition the authors have once again produced high quality short answer questions with detailed explanations to test knowledge recall application of knowledge & understanding principles. As you work through the book you will become familiar with the various question formats encountered in dental exams from the more traditional note writing to filling in blanks enabling you to consolidate knowledge & approach each question with complete confidence. The aim of this new edition is to help candidates assess their knowledge & identify the areas that need more revision. SAQs for Dentistry 2e is also a valuable tool providing examination practice. ...

Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian & early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford she was photographed by Lewis Carroll as a child along with her close friend Ina Liddell sister of Alice of Wonderland fame. The critic John Ruskin taught her art & she also knew many of the Pre-Raphaelites holding Rossettis palette for him as he painted the Oxford Union murals. At the age of nineteen she met the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron whose influence is evident in her early work. Following in the footsteps of Cameron & Carroll Miss Acland first came to attention as a portraitist photographing the illustrious visitors to her Oxford home. In 1899 she then turned to the challenge of colour photography becoming through work with the Sanger Shepherd process the leading colour photographer of the day. Her colour photographs were regarded as the finest that had ever been seen by her contemporaries several years before the release of the Lumiere Autochrome system which she also practised. This volume provides an introduction to Miss Aclands photography illustrating more than 200 examples of her work from portraits to picturesque views of the landscape & gardens of Madeira. Some fifty specimens of the photographic art & science of her peers from Bodleian collections are also reproduced for the first time including four unrecorded child portraits by Carroll. Detailed descriptions accompany the images explaining their interest & significance. The photographs not only shed important light on the history of photography in the period but also offer a fascinating insight into the lives of a pre-eminent English family & their circle of friends. ...

Sarah Jane & friends battle a deadly computer virus in this exclusive audio story read by Elisabeth Sladen. Sarah Jane is in a Christmassy mood but her cosy afternoon listening to carols is interrupted when Mr Smith suddenly announces that danger is imminent. The supercomputer has detected abnormal internet activity in the vicinity of Bannerman Road. Something alien is downloading into two PCs on the street
- a computer virus over 50 times more destructive than any other on the planet. Both residents were chatting online when they started the download: but who were they chatting to? & what does the mysterious chatterbox want? It is up to Sarah Jane & friends to find out before the deadly download takes over the Earth... Elisabeth Sladen who stars as Sarah Jane in the CBBC TV series reads this exclusive audio story written by Jason Arnopp. The cover photograph shows Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane with Anjli Mohindra as Rani Thomas Knight as Luke & Daniel Anthony as Clyde.
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Elisabeth Sladen who stars as Sarah Jane in the CBBC TV series reads this exclusive audio story by Scott Handcock. A camping trip spells trouble for Sarah Jane & friends when both the school bus & Sarah Janes car break down in Snowdonia & the gang find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere. Exploring by a lake Rani sees a shadowy figure that looks exactly like her. Then Sarah Jane hears a voice asking for help & sees a mysterious figure outside her tent. Who is watching them & why? How can Rani be in two places at once? & what secret does a nearby cave hold? ...

In the year that saw her nominated for two British Comedy Awards complete a nationwide sell-out tour & become a regular face on the UK s top comedy shows Sarah Millican has ascended to become one of the nation s best loved comedians. Recorded in London earlier this year Chatterbox Live invites you to enter the wonderful world of Sarah Millican--where living alone drives your parents to put you on suicide watch; where a cup of tea in the bath is the epitome of luxury & where free family planning clinic condoms make perfect stocking fillers. ...