Throughout six years of conflict beginning 3 September 1939 military manoeuvres bombs & exhortations to greater dedication to the War Effort became the normality for children. For the young this was a time of great excitement. Imagine the thrill of Anderson Shelters built in back gardens concrete blocks & barbed-wire sprouting on beaches soldiers & tanks in the streets the Battle of Britain & those spectacular dogfights the Blitz & masses of shrapnel to collect searchlights lighting up the night sky American servicemen appearing & their inexhaustible supplies of chewing gum! From Dunkirk to D-Day through Doodlebugs to Victory there was hardly a dull moment & remarkably little fear for children as they learned collected & played under these bizarre circumstances. ...

Most parents photograph their children growing up but Doodlemum (Angie Stevens) posts a drawing of her children & their family life on her blog every night (after the kids have gone to sleep). She draws everything from holidays to pets tantrums to camping. All captured in a few key strokes of the pen. Angie Stevenss enthusiasm for drawing developed in childhood & she went on to study illustration at the Unviersity of Westminster. After shis she says came the tsunami of children & marriage but her passion for drawing never left her. After the birth of her third child a bit exhausted sleep-deprived & probably suffering from a bit of post natal depression her husband bought her a collection of Moleskine notebooks & suggested it might help to start drawing again. It did & in 2010 the Doodlemum blog was born. Over 1000 illustrations later Doodlemum is established. This is the book her fans have been asking for
- perfect for them & for those who will fall in love with this tender & funny picture of family life in all its messy glory.
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Sharpen your pencil as well as your brain with this interactive colour-in doodle book Doodlepedia". Once youve taken out your pens & pencils you wont want to put " Doodlepedia" down. Add your own drawings & scribbles to the amazing designs & images & learn as you doodle. Each subject is brought to life with original photography & images on every page from the wings of symmetry on a butterfly to whats on your TV. " Doodlepedia" is a fact-packed drawing & colouring book that you will love so use your imagination & get doodling." ...

Sharpen your pencil & take a trip to the animal kingdom with this interactive colour
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Once youve taken out your pens & pencils you wont want to put Doodlepedia For Girls down". Full of gloriously girly ideas from ponies & flowers to clothes & puppies. Add your own sketches & scribbles to the beautiful designs & images & discover & learn as you doodle. Each subject is brought to life with original photography & images on every page. Go digging for diamonds & draw your own dazzling jewellery colour in beautiful butterflies & draw the reflections of what you see on a peaceful riverbank scene. " Doodlepedia For Girls" is a gorgeous fact-packed drawing & colouring book that you will love so use your imagination & get doodling!" ...

Seth Crow has lived a thousand lives & in each one he's been murdered before he turns thirteen. & now he's being hunted again. But this time it's different. Enter Lily who tells him of his fate: Seth is CONQUEST. The first of the four riders of the Apocalypse. & people want him dead before he can fulfil his destiny. Seth's only hope lies in finding the other riders
- Strife Famine & Death. Together the fate of the world lies in their hands.. .' Complete adrenalin rush. Dystopian meets horror
- grabs you by scruff of neck & does NOT let go.' Lee Weatherly author of the ANGEL series

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The European project is in collapse. Far from bringing prosperity & peace the euro has catalysed an economic crisis & stirred up national antagonisms. We can now see clearly that the intellectual basis of European integration was false. Here is an alternative vision adumbrated from first principles: a statement of the case for national self-determination & parliamentary supremacy. Daniel Hannan is a committed European. He speaks French & Spanish has lived & worked all over Europe & has served in the European Parliament since 1999. He believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer less democratic & less free. It is time to rediscover the virtues that raised Europe to greatness: diversity pluralism personal freedom national independence & parliamentary democracy. ...

The final book in the series that counts down to the end of the world. After ninety-nine days of lockdown the annihilation of the human race is right on schedule. Luke & Jordan are fighting a losing battle. Peter has escaped Bill has disappeared & Co-operative Security are moments away from storming the Vattel Complex. As the battle rages on in town an offer of help arrives from the last place anyone could have expected. But can it really be trusted or is this just another one of Shackleton's deceptions? & with murder still looming over Luke will he even live long enough to find out? One way or another it's all coming to an end. The clock is still ticking. There are seventeen hours until the end of the world. ...

The Doomsday Code: the third book in Alex Scarrow's exciting Time Riders series. Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared & said ' Take my hand.. .' But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history... In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam's name get in there.. .and why? Confronted by Adam in 2001 the Time Riders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message. But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future... Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist then he became a graphic artist then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally he grew up & became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers & several screenplays but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas & concepts he was playing around with when designing games. He lives in Norwich with his son Jacob his wife Frances & two very fat rats. The Time Riders series: Time Riders; Day of the Predator; The Doomsday Code; The Eternal War; Gates of Rome; City of Shadows; The Pirate Kings Alex's thrillers for adults: A Thousand Suns; Last Light; october Skies; Afterlight; & The Candle Man.
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OPERATION DOOMSDAY...ACTIVATE... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerl&. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he too is being hunted by an unknown lethal force...that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening. ...