From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child & Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of one teachers determination to turn a chaotic group of damaged children into a family. They were all just somebody elses kids" -- four problem children placed in Torey Haydens class because nobody knew what else to do with them. They were a motley group of kids in great pain: a small boy who echoed other peoples words & repeated weather forecast; a beautiful seven-year-old girl brain damaged by savage parental beatings; an angry ten-year-old who had watched his stepmother murder his father; a shy twelve-year-old who had been cast out of Catholic school when she became pregnant. But they shared one thing in common: a remarkable teacher who would never stop caring -- & who would share with them the love & understanding they had never known to help them become a family." ...

Angeline is brilliant! She knows way more than a child of her age ought to. When she is moved up a class at school she finds that her intelligence doesn't equip her entirely for dealing with the pressures of being with the older group. Soon she is finding refuge with a teacher & her tropical fish & another unlikely student. With Louis Sachar's hallmark twist-&-turns of plot & lovely humour this delightful novel is thought-provoking & brilliant. ...

How can you face your future when your past it a lie? When Rosie Kennings mother Trudie dies from Huntingdons disease her whole world falls apart. Not only does Rosie desperately miss her mum but now she has to face the fact that she could have inherited the fatal illness herself. Until she discovers that Trudie wasnt her biological mother at all.. . Rosie is stunned. Can this be true? Is she grieving for a mother who wasnt even hers to lose? & if Trudie wasnt her mother who is? But as Rosie delves into her past to discover who she really is she is faced with a heart-breaking dilemma
- to continue living a lie or to reveal a truth that will shatter the lives of everyone around her...
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Quiet Halley & popular Scarlett have been friends for years balancing each other perfectly
- until the summer of their 16th birthdays.
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Penguin Audiobooks presents a brand new recording of Someone Like You" Roald Dahls first collection of his world famous dark & sinister adult stories brought to life by an all-star cast including Julian Rhind-Tutt Stephen Mangan Tamsin Greig Derek Jacobi Richard Griffiths Willl Self Jessica Hynes Juliet Stevenson Adrian Scarborough & Richard E. Grant. A wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly becomes anything but; a curious machine reveals a horrifying truth about plants; & a man lies awake waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach. Through vendettas & desperate quests bitter memories & sordid fantasies Roald Dahls stories portray the strange & unexpected sending a shiver down the spine. Stories include: " Taste" " Lamb to the Slaughter" " Man from the South" " The Soldier" " My Lady Love" " My Dove" " Dip in the Pool" " Galloping Foxley" " Skin" " Poison" " The Wish" " Neck" " The Sound Machine" " Nunc Dimittis" " The Great Automatic Grammatizator" & " Clauds Dog". It is also published in paperback ebook & as digital audiobooks." ...

An enthralling novel about families friends & finding love from the ever-popular bestselling Sheila O' Flanagan. Romy Kilkenny loves her life in Australia
- she has her dream job an active lifestyle & best friend Keith who understands her better than anyone. Best of all she couldn't be further from her family. But when her family needs her back in Ireland at short notice Romy's world is turned upside down & she is thrust back into the lives of her mother & half-siblings again. Romy has never fitted in with her family & now with Keith too far away to give comfort she feels like more of an outsider than ever. She also worries that the accidental half-kiss with Keith at the airport may have lost her the greatest friend she ever had. Will she ever find someone special?
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The harrowing true story of the young boy who captured the heart of the nation when he testified in court to find justice against those responsible for his brothers death. Terry ONeill was just ten years old when he stood up in court to testify against his brutal foster parents accused of the manslaughter of his twelve-year-old brother Dennis. Terry & his brother had been taken into care & moved through many foster homes until they came to live on the Shropshire farm owned by Reginald & Esther Gough in 1945. There they were to suffer brutal beatings & little care or love
- they survived as best they could looking out for each other until the terrible morning when Terry couldnt wake Dennis. In a time when the country was united by war & struggle the case shocked the nation & made headlines around the world. Terry a small figure in the courtroom captured the hearts of mothers & families everywhere & the public outcry against the foster services led to the instigation of the first provisions to protect other vulnerable children from neglect & cruelty.
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Leigh Kendall revelled in her Broadway acting career & her marriage to Logan Manning scion of an old New York Family. When her husband finds an old country cabin he decides to build their dream house & surprise Leigh with her first view of the mountain property. Following a Sunday night performance Leigh heads north to join him but is run off the road fighting the elements of a blinding blizzard. When she awakes in the local hospital seriously injured she asks for her husb&. The police arrive to inform her that he has mysteriously disappeared & Leigh although obviously distraught becomes the focus of their suspicions. Leigh plunges into a desperate search to find him...and into a menacing web of secrets deception & danger. The more she uncovers about her husband & his business affairs the less she realizes she knew about Logan Manning. Now with no one to help her she is heading deeper & deeper into unknown territory...where friends & enemies are impossible to distinguish & where the truth becomes the most terrifying weapon of all. ...

A haunting & compelling debut novel that will appeal to readers who loved Sister by Rosamund Lupton & Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson. She closed her eyes & he was gone
- who is watching him now? When Carries five-year old son Charlie disappeared on a Norfolk beach her world was destroyed. Now three years on she is persuaded by her mother to visit a local medium. Initially sceptical Carrie is blown away when he appears to reveal something about Charlies disappearance; something that nobody could ever have known except herself. Single mum Molly is worried about her young son Max who has been having more of his little accidents at school & has recently starting talking again to his imaginary friend. Molly knows that Maxs problems stem from his very real anxieties about his father
- a violent & unstable man
- who they are now in hiding from. Little do the women know that their worlds are about to converge
- & both of them will have to face the thing they fear the most. But could the truth destroy them?



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A creepy compelling thriller Someone to Watch Over Me is the fifth Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa ' Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson' (Daily Telegraph). Berglind hurried to her son & pulled him forcefully from the window. She held him close & tried at the same time to wipe the windowpane. But the haze couldn't be wiped away. It was on the outside of the glass. Pesi looked up at her. ' Magga's outside. She can't get in. She wants to look after me.' He pointed at the window & frowned. ' She's a little bit angry.' A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home & killing five people but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it who did? & how is the multiple murder connected to the death of Magga killed in a hit & run on her way to babysit? ...