Meet Splat the Cat! An irresistible new character from Rob Scotton bestselling creator of Russell the Sheep Its Splat the Cats first day of school & hes worried. What if he doesnt make any new friends? Just in case Splat decides to bring along his pet mouse Seymour & hides him in his lunch box. The teacher Mrs Wimpydimple introduces Splat to the class & he soon starts learning all his important cat lessons. But when Seymour escapes & the cats do what cats do (they chase mice!) Splats worried again. Maybe now hell lose all his friends old & new! Just in time wise Mrs Wimpydimple takes charge & teaches everyone an important new lesson! Maybe Cat School is going to be ok after all! ...

Alexander Ridgely the Duke of Ashbourne is determined to avoid marriage. Unfortunately his family is just as determined to see him wed. Emma Dunster in London for a season is determined to return to Boston to run her fathers shipping company. But Emmas British cousins are just as determined to see her settle in Engl&. Sparks
- & laughter
- fly when all these terribly determined people cross paths during one very splendid London spring...

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Stunning illustrations capture the exasperation of Bear whose solitary reading & writing are continually interrupted by persistent Goose. In the end Bear is won over & to his own surprise declares Goose a Splendid Friend Indeed! A very funny story with a warm message about not judging others. ...

The war to end all wars people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919 White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country & Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism strangled in its cradle. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron flying Sopwith Camels went there to duff up the Reds. Theres a splendid little war going on a British staff officer told them. Youll like it. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big & it was brutal a grim conflict of attrition marked by incompetence & corruption. Before it ended the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke nobody was laughing. ...

Sylvie Davies is a ballerina who cant dance. A broken leg ended her career but what broke her heart was her fathers death & whats breaking her spirit is her mothers remarriage. Still reeling Sylvie is shipped off to stay with relatives in the back of beyond. Or so she thinks in fact she ends up in a town rich with her familys history.. .and as it turns out her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving though are the two guys she cant stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox the resident golden boy is the expected choice. But handsome & mysterious Rhys has a hold on her that she doesnt quite underst&. Then Sylvie starts seeing things
- a girl by the lake & a man with dark unseeing eyes peering in through the window.. . Sylvies lost nearly everything
- is she starting to lose her mind as well?

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This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land as well as a girls pangs of first love & independence. ...

Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs & flowers precisely the problem that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. Surely she tells herself it has nothing to do with the fact that she is directly descended from Alice Liddell the real life inspiration for Alices Adventures In Wonderl&. But when her mother takes a turn for the worse & the whispers grow too strong to bear Alyssa learns that shes not mad but she must find the origins of a secret family curse. A series of clues leads her through a cracked mirror into the real Wonderland a place far darker & more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There she must decide whom to trust: Jeb her gorgeous best friend & secret crush or the sexy-but-suspicious Morpheus her guide through Wonderland who may have dark motives all of his own. A high-concept romantic YA with huge potential. ...

The story begins on the Welsh Marches where Tancred has been given land by his new lord Robert Malet in return for his services in the battle for York. Now a lord in his own right he has knights of his own to command & a manor to call home. But all is far from peaceful. The Welsh are joining forces with the English against the Normans & when skirmishes turn into a full scale battle at Shrewsbury Tancred is betrayed by a rival border lord & taken prisoner by the Welsh. Meanwhile the woman he loves is taken hostage by enemy English forces & the Vikings invade the east coast. Never has Tancred faced a more impossible situation. ...

Splat the Cat makes waves at the pool in this hilarious new picture book
- perfect for children learning to swim! Splat does not
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A Gothic tale of suspense & submission set in the Yorkshire Dales A visit to Heddlestone a remote village in the Yorkshire moors changes librarian Kate Carters life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge & when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum she leaves London & her boyfriend to take up the post. Jake the strange & beautiful curator & puppeteer draws her into his secluded sensual world & before long shes sharing his bed & discovering a new & frightening side of love & lust. But Heddlestone is a village with secrets & Kate is haunted by a surreal holiday memory of a cool handsome man dominating a woman dressed like a crazy ballerina. The man is Eddie Jakes brother & when Kate is seduced by him & his reckless Ukrainian wife she becomes involved in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality. ...