Kathleen Fidlers classic story is set in the ancient Stone Age village of Skara Brae on Orkney now a major tourist attraction. This is a fascinating & vividly portrayed story of life nearly 3 000 years ago. Kali & Brockan are in trouble. They have been using their stone axes to chip limpets off the rocks but theyve gone too far out & find themselves trapped by the tides. Then an unexpected rescuer appears a strange boy in a strange boat carrying a strangely sharp axe of a type they have never seen before. Conflict arises as the village of Skara must decide what to do with the new ideas & practices that the boy brings. As a deadly storm threatens the very survival of the village is in doubt. The daily life landscape & rituals of Skara have been meticulously researched & are brought to life in striking compelling detail. ...

Edinburgh 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen Little Jack is born with a frozen heart & immediately undergoes a life-saving operation. But Dr Madeleine is no conventional medic & surgically implants a cuckoo-clock into his chest. Little Jack grows up different to other children: every day begins with a daily wind-up. At school he is bullied for his 'ticking' but Dr Madeleine reminds him he must resist strong emotion: anger is far too dangerous for his cuckoo-clock heart. So when the beautiful young street-singer Miss Acacia appears
- pursued by Joe the school bully
- Jack is in danger of more than just falling in love...he is putting his life on the line.

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Timmy Twinkle is chubby. That means he gets bullied at school & hasnt any friends. He longs to play football but hes hopeless at games. Hes miserable. & it doesnt help when Gramps tells him about Great-Uncle Vernon a chubby boy who grew up to be a famous footballer. Then his grans friend May comes to stay. May is a fitness fanatic who knocks Timmy & Gramps into shape in no time & Timmy discovers theres magic in his toes
- he can kick a ball just like Great-Uncle Vernon. & when Timmy performs on the football field everyone wants to be friends with him. A lovely story of a child whose unhappiness is dispelled by the discovery of a magical gift.
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Its 1979 Im three years old & like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand floral-patterned settee & lean forward like Im presenting myself for execution. For Sathnam Sanghera growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes Dallas on TV & if he was lucky the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory & the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot. & then there was his family whose strange & often difficult behaviour he took for granted until at the age of twenty-four Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage & a glorious sense of humour he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past
- from his fathers harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office
- trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets. This book is published in hardback as If You Dont Know Me by Now"."

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Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1940s & 50s Terry Wilson spent his school days hunting down Just William books cutting up apples to help with fractions & staring out the window dreaming up new schemes. But it was on the Dales themselves that Terry came into his own. Whether he was 'out-fishing' the adults with his homemade rod grouse-beating for the lady of the manor helping to bring in the farmers' hay in exchange for rabbit shooting rights or growing his own prize caulis his idiosyncratic & inventive mind is only matched by his love of nature. Told with affection dry humour & a respect for the landscape & its people through Terry's eyes we meet farmers mill owners & 'gentlemen of the road'. Beautifully illustrated with newly-commissioned line-drawn illustrations by Don Grant A Boy's Own Dale is a magical memoir of a long-lost world. ...

Five cities. Five escorts. Five bullets in five heads. Catherine Hamilton was a high-class hooker. Now she is dead. Jack Till private detective has linked her murder to a string of other killings: the cities may be different but the girls all look uncomfortably alike. Now he knows the killer's type it's a race against time to find the next victim before it's too late... Who will the boyfriend seduce next? ...

Allan Ahlberg's The Boyhood of Burglar Bill" is a nostalgic autobiographical story about football schooldays & growing-up in the '50s. Allan Ahlberg is the internationally bestselling author of children's classics that include " Peepo!" & " Each Peach Pear Plum" illustrated by Janet Ahlberg. Archie was a wonder dog in all our eyes. Nearly a year ago he had got run over. They found his foot in the street but the rest of him ran off. Mr Purnell mourned for a while; Mrs Purnell offered to beat the motorcyclist up or at least wreck his bike. Then lo & behold a fortnight later back came Archie. Coronation year 1953. The boys from the bottom pitch
- a great soup of boys
- play football. When the ' Coronation Cup' is proposed they put their heads together pool their pocket money & get a team up. There's no chance they'll win of course. They're just the odds & sods in Mr Cork's opinion. Besides he'd go berserk if they did; menace them with his one good arm & pulverise their desks with his cricket stump. They'd be better off losing. " The Boyhood of Burglar Bill" is the second in a sequence of stories in which Allan Ahlberg explores his own childhood. " My Brother's Ghost" shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize was the first. Allan Ahlberg has published books for children of all ages from the picture books " Peepo!" " Each Peach Pear Plum" " The Jolly Postman" & the " Funnybones" series
- illustrated by Janet Ahlberg
- to his books for older readers including " Woof!" & his books of verse: " Please Mrs. Butler" & " Heard it in the Playground"."



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Boyle & Birds Company Law is a well established leading textbook based on Gore-Browne on Companies. It combines a comprehensive & authoritative exploration of law & practice with an examination of the theoretical issues making it ideal reading for both students on degree courses & those taking professional examinations. Now in its 8th edition it has been revised in light of the UK Corporate Governance Code 2010 & case-law developments including: A X The Supreme Court decision in Re Paycheck 3 Services Ltd on meaning of de facto director A X Recent decisions regarding derivative claims
- Kiani v Cooper Mission Capital v Sinclair Iesini v Westrop Holdings A X Consideration of the implications of Eurosail Bloom v Pensions Regulator Goldacre & Re Stanford International A X Important new case-law on schemes of arrangement including Re Bluebrook & Re Lehman Bros International (Europe)
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This title offers a crash course in understanding boys. Boyology 101" delves into these & other mysteries of teen guys dissecting flirting tactics offering dating suggestions & providing tips on forming solid friendships with guys. Its an up-close-&-personal look at guys in their natural habitats with profound analyses by other teen girls-and boys themselves." ...

From the sick & twisted mind of Garth Ennis co-creator of Preacher" & the vicious pencil of Darick Robertson artist of " Transmetropolitan" comes a darkly hilarious story that will change the way you look at superheroes forever! Hughie goes undercover as Scottish mutant Bagpipe to join the G-Men a mysterious & huge group of supes led by the shadowy John Godolkin with a history of internecine conflict which Butcher is all too happy to exploit. Meanwhile Annie sees even more of the darkness in her own super-team the Seven... This controversial series continues to explore the dark side of superheroics!" ...