' David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was certainly different from his last set of lodgings where all you got were spiders & the occasional mouse. It's perfect " he said.' When David arrives at Wayward Crescent he has no idea what lurks inside the Pennykettle house. Only when he's given his own special dragon does he begin to unlock their mysterious secrets & to discover the fire within..." ...

The No 1 Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist & The Nightmare One girl is dead Detective Inspector Joona Linna has been called to a home for troubled girls north of Stockholm. A young girl has been brutally murdered her body arranged in bed with her hands covering her eyes. One girl is missing Vicky Bennet is the only girl unaccounted for. Did she run away to escape the chaos or does a bloody hammer found under her pillow make her the prime suspect? One girl claims to have witnessed it all In Stockholm Flora Hansen works as a medium pretending to commune with the dead. When she begins to suffer crippling visions of the young girl's murder will anyone believe her? As Joona refuses to accept the easy answers his search leads him into darker more violent territory & finally to a shocking confrontation with his past. ...

This is the second title in Toby Forwards Flaxfield" quartet. When an old dying wizard steals magic from his young apprentice Bee he changes his own life & nearly destroys hers. But he also releases Wild Magic into the world. Flaxfield & his apprentice young Cabbage set out to rescue Bee & make sure the old wizard doesnt use the Wild Magic against them all." ...

When the phone rang Parker was in the garage killing a man. He makes it in time to pick up the call
- & is immediately dispatched
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Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul & author of Fireflies" & " The Chip-Chip Gatherers". " Fireflies" his first novel published in 1970 & longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Award in 2010 is set in Naipauls native Trinidad. It

Includes:: a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. The Khojas are Trinidads most venerated Hindu family. Rigidly orthodox presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane & hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja they seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver proves an exception to this rule. Her heroic story
- of resourcefulness strength & survival
- is the gleaming thread in Shiva Naipauls ferociously comic & profoundly sad first novel."



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On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly Noel Coward's peaceful retreat. Here between sundowners & sunsets brandies & cigarettes the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days
- a comforting frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts reluctant walks graceless dips in the pool
- in the company of his manservant Patrice. Both of them dream of a London that is long-gone or imagined: Noel's peopled with glamorous friends
- Redgrave Olivier O' Toole
- & Patrice's a picture-postcard vision of elegance & opportunity. Set over a series of summer days in the early 1970s Firefly flits through Coward's dreams & memories his successes & regrets against a sultry seductive backdrop of blue skies & glistening water. Colourful & contemplative this is a moving & poignant portrait of old age & friendship & a life well lived.



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Kate & John Ryan have four children of whom the eldest are Michael & Dara. Their small town is peaceful & friendly an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long hot summers Michael & Dara & their friends fish & swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt when the great house burnt down during the Troubles... No one in Mountfern has the slightest inkling of what it will mean when the ruins are bought by Patrick ONeill an Irish American with a dream in his heart & a great deal of money in his pocket. It is not until the very end of this drama with its interlocking stories of love lost & won ambitions nurtured & secrets betrayed that Patrick ONeill will understand the irony & the significance of his great dream for Mountfern. ...

Marked as special at an early age Jacinda knows her every move is watched. She longs for the freedom to make her own choices but when she breaks the 'no flying' rule she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki a descendant of dragons whose greatest defence is her secret ability to shift into human form. & her rare ability to breathe fire makes her desirable & important to the survival of the draki. Forced to flee into the mortal world with her family Jacinda struggles to adapt to her new surroundings. There she meets gorgeous elusive Will who stirs her inner draki to life. Although she is irresistibly drawn to him Jacinda knows Will's dark secret: he & his family are hunters. She should avoid him at all costs. But her inner draki is slipping away & if it dies she will be left as a human forever. She'll do anything to prevent that. Even if it means getting closer to her most dangerous enemy. ...

This title presents Rainbow Magic with whiskers! Kara is so excited to be at adventure camp for the summer
- shed thought about
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1001 Stickers Fun Books" are packed with stickers along with loads of puzzles games & activities for hours of entertainment. They offers guaranteed fun for sticker lovers! " Fireman Sam 1001 Stickers Fun Book" is bursting with never-ending stickers of Fireman Sam & his friends ready to come to the rescue. Have fun sticking them here there & everywhere." ...