Has your child learned their ABCs? This activity book will help your child to confidently go on to learn how even more letters come together to make new sounds in words
- with the help of the friendly Letterland characters. Far Beyond ABC Activity Book is packed full of fun activities & puzzles helping your child to confidently tackle & enjoy hundreds of new words. It also also comes with 50 reusable stickers that your child can use time & time again!
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A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: & the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson crooning For The Good Times to the accompaniment of a midi organ THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism & human frailty passion & the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers. ...

Ruth & Simon Pierces rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter Heather on holiday in Cornwall with a friends family has disappeared... The loss is more than they
- or their marriage
- can bear. But time does heal & slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself. A new husband Andrew
- even a second daughter Beatrice. The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible
- that is until years later a desperate phone call launches DI Will Grayson & his partner DS Helen Walker into an investigation which will test their professional & emotional resources to the very limit. Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently released child-abuser & Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague there is a real danger that their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands...



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The Far Eastern Fells of Lakeland rise to the east of Kirkstone Pass & the Patterdale valley. To the north & south they run down into low country & eastwards they merge into the high ground of the Pennines. many of the heights are relatively inaccessible & lonely but the scenery here & the excellence of the walks rank in Wainwrights view with the Lake Disctricts best. This second edition of The Far Eastern Fells has been brilliantly revised by Chris Jesty a trained cartographer who worked with Wainwright on some of the maps in his later large-format guides. All footpaths have been rewalked all routes checked all maps & text updated. Paths & routes have been picked out in red to make them easier to follow & parking information has been added. This new edition of the classic walking guide is Wainwright for the 21st century. ...

The Far Eastern Fells of Lakeland rise to the east of Kirkstone Pass & the Patterdale valley. To the north & south they run down towards low country & eastwards they merge into the high ground of the Pennines. Many of the heights are relatively inaccessible & lonely but the scenery here & the excellence of the walks rank in Wainwright's view with the Lake Disctrict's best. The Pictorial Guides by A. Wainwright written half a century ago have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Far Eastern Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright's original h&-drawn pages. ...

As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries & she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily theres work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool & soon Kitty has a job in a grocers where she also catches the eye of the owner. With Kittys input the business is soon thriving -- but tragedy lies ahead & she must endure many trials & tribulations before she can find true happiness! ...

It is 1940 & Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband Adam. But her decision has meant that she has had to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter Alice who is travelling to safety in Canada. Polly's heart is torn in two as she says goodbye to Alice & heads to the Beach View boarding house in Cliffehaven where she throws herself into her work. But as she confronts the fact that Adam may not survive his injuries a telegram arrives at Beach View. The boat Alice was on has been torpedoed by a German U-boat... ...

A moving family drama of one young womans fight to survive & to find a place to call home 1938: Sixteen-year-old Kate Monroe is living in Birmingham far away from her family in Irel&. Her parents have always doted on her siblings Sally & James leaving no time for her. Kate harbours a dark secret a deep longing for her cousin. Feelings she must suppress in this deeply staunch Irish-Catholic community -- even if they are reciprocated. Crazed by her infatuation Kate is left with no option other than to up-roots once more & seek out a new life far away from the temptation of Tim Monroe. Will Kate find true love or will distance make the heart grow fonder? ...

When Georgiana Gregory & her maid Kitty make the long sea journey from their native Hull for New York they are expecting to begin a new life in the heady freedom of the newly-formed United States of America. Georgiana wants to escape from the confines of English life & to savour a land of emancipation & opportunity. But in New York she encounters a man passing himself off as her brother-in-law Edward Newmarch a local mill-owners son who has abandoned Georgianas sister & fled to America. Georgiana recognises the man standing before her as Edward Newmarchs valet Robert Allen
- Edward himself appears to have vanished. But Edward having escaped from a disastrous marriage in England is now in further trouble with women having agreed to marry the difficult daughter of a powerful landowner & businessman while pursuing his beautiful wife Sofia. As Georgiana & Kitty pursue the adventures of the frontier & Edward tries to flee his enemies the dangers of this new country seem too much to cope with.
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Saga magazine" ' Life Story' competition winner. From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far " From the East End". Born in 1938 under threat of looming war Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day & cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty & the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents' indifference. She prayed that just once her mother would hold her when the bombs rained down. But loneliness only intensified when she was evacuated. Finding the nurturing home she had always dreamt of in her adopted Welsh parents she wonders what when she returns to London after the war will be waiting for her. Will she ever be able to love her philandering father depressive mother & an angry bullying brother? Will her family even survive? Or will she have to look farther afield for the affection she so longs for? Prepare to be taken on a beautiful & emotional journey with Iris Simantel's nostalgic memoir " Far from the East End". Iris Simantel is the acclaimed winner of the " Saga Magazine" ' Life Story' competition telling of her evacuation from Dagenham to Wales & her family's post-War move to South Oxney. She now lives in Devon." ...