A young boy visits a tropical rainforest in Queensland Australia. My father says there has been a forest here for over a million years " he tells us & we follow him through the ancient forest as he makes believe it is a time long ago. But how much longer will the forest remain he wonders?" ...

A fabulous drama of the Campion family struggling to stay together as World War Two rages over Liverpool Lou Campion has joined the WAAFs against the wishes of her parents & twin sister Sasha. Lou's always been a rebel but now finds that if she wants to succeed she'll have to follow extremely strict rules. Can she do this or will it all end in deep disgrace? Tragedy haunts the other members of the family as Katie's plans for the future are dashed Fran's young husband is close to death & Bella's impossible passion has to remain a close secret. Yet even in the darkest hour there is hope. The Campions find that they have a hero in their midst & while their city is crumbling their pride is intact. ...

Penelope Ashford may be rich but she also has a social conscience. As Portia Cynster's younger sister she is forceful wilful & blunt to a fault
- & she has for years devoted her considerable energy & intelligence to caring for the forgotten orphans in London's East End. But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing & in desperation Penelope turns to the one man she knows might be able to help her
- Barnaby Adair. Handsome scion of a noble house Adair has made a name for himself in certain circles where his powers of observation & deduction have seen him solve several unsavoury crimes. Despite his skills
- or perhaps because of them
- he makes Penelope distinctly uncomfortable but the stakes are too high. Throwing caution to the wind defying every rule for unmarried ladies she appears on his doorstep late one night determined to recruit his talents. However soon the pair are in more danger than they could have ever imagined.



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February 1941. Julie Harris is working in Londons East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destroys her family & the house she grew up in. All she has left is her motherless baby nephew William. Determined to uphold her promise to her sister to keep William safe until his father Bill returns from the war she accepts a post as a midwife in Cliffehaven on the south-coast of Engl&. Here they are taken under the wing of the Reilly family at the Beach View boarding house. But all too soon Julie learns that Bill is missing in action & William falls dangerously ill. As she begins the long vigil by Williams beside she fears she will lose the little boy she has grown to love as her own. ...

In November 1942 two nights after the Battle of El Alamein a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery the Allied Commander who had just inflicted the first serious defeat on the Third Reich... This gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy
- the same camp made famous by Eric Newby
- & of his subsequent escape. Having decided to risk making his way back to Allied HQ in the south he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory evading capture again & again & ultimately being saved by a family of brave Italian peasants who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to hide him. In the winter of 1943 a year after he disappeared he staggered back into Army HQ to be greeted by his now famous stepfather with the words ' Where the hell have you been?' This is a great adventure story
- a reminder of a lost age when in the face of terrifying challenges a generation rose to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.


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Claire's husband has been keeping secrets. About the whereabouts of the witness to the murder trial he's prosecuting. & about the letters he's been getting threatening to kill their four-year-old unless he tells the blackmailer where the witness is hiding. With their daughter's life at stake it is left to Claire to untangle the web of lies & half-truths & find out just who might be responsible. & to stop them. Before it's too late. ...

One night Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief of one kind & another so his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room & an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things & crowns himself as their king & then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed & everything is quiet he starts to feel lonely & realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all. ...

When Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without any supper. Alone in his room Max enters a magical world & sets sail across the sea to the place where the wild things are. The wild things roar their terrible roars & gnash their terrible teeth & roll their terrible eyes & show their terrible claws.. . But Max tames the wild things & is made their king. Will he ever want to go home? ...

Sandra Brown was eight when her friend & neighbour twelve-year-old Moira Anderson disappeared from the small town of Coatbridge near Glasgow in 1957. Moira has never been seen since. Twenty-seven years later at a family funeral Sandra's estranged father confessed to her that he had been involved in the girl's disappearance. Appalled & fascinated by his curious half confession Sandra began to delve into the case & in so doing discovered that her father was an acknowledged child molester whose activities were known not just to everyone in Coatbridge but also to the police. The horrifying jigsaw she pieced together along with the admission her father had made ultimately convinced Sandra that he had indeed been responsible for Moira's disappearance nearly fifty years ago. Where There Is Evil" is the remarkable story of Sandra's quest to unravel the mystery & see justice done. ' Completely gripping... Sandra Brown found evil in the person of her own father; & she confronted it as few could have done... Everyone will want to read this amazing story.'
- Andrew O' Hagan. ' Inspirational... This book is not only important but unique.'
- Jimmy Boyle."

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The frighteningly hip teenage children of the world's most famous monsters have gathered together under one roof...to brave the horrors of high school! Always overshadowed by her six brothers & her fab friends Clawdeen Wolf plans to finally strut her stuff in the spotlight at her upcoming Sweet Sixteen bash. But after The Ghoul Next Door goes viral it's into the woods for the family Wolf. Clawdeen goes stir crazy lying low at her family's B&B with her annoying brothers until Lala shows up to keep her company. But is the vamp flirting with Claude?! ...