Gerald would love to join in with the other animals at the Jungle Dance but everyone knows that giraffes can't dance.. .or can they? 2009 sees the 10th anniversary of the bestselling picture book & this sturdy board book edition of this funny touching & triumphant story from an award-winning creative team will delight & entertain every toddler. ...

Gerald would love to join in with the other animals at the Jungle Dance but everyone knows that giraffes can't dance.. .or can they? This classic & bestselling picture book with its fabulous story about daring to be different is brought gloriously to life in an irresistible new pop-up edition. ...

Gerald would love to join in with the other animals at the Jungle Dance but everyone knows that giraffes can't dance.. .or can they? A funny touching & triumphant story from an award-winning creative team. 2009 sees the 10th anniversary of this bestselling picture book loved by children everywhere. ...

In 1967 after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi & sent to Mc Lean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele
- Sylvia Plath Robert Lowell James Taylor & Ray Charles. A clear-sighted unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane & insane Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror & razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients & their keepers.
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Lauren has always known she was adopted but when a little research turns up the possibility that she was snatched from an American family as a baby suddenly Lauren's life seems like a sham. How can she find her biological parents? & are her adoptive parents really responsible for kidnapping her? A family trip to the US gives her the chance to run away & try & find the truth. But the circumstances of her disappearance are murky & Lauren's kidnappers are still at large & willing to do anything to keep her silent... ...

In A Girl & Her Pig April Bloomfield takes us behind the scenes of her lauded restaurants
- the Spotted Pig the Breslin & the John
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Spring 1944 & Europe is in the grip of war. For Alice Todd it is the start of her second year as warden of the Land Army hostel in the Devonshire countryside & a time of change as she recovers from her broken marriage learning to balance her new working lifestyle with her continuing role as a mother to her only son. Her leadership has won her the affection & confidence of the land girls in her charge & as the seeds of friendship are sewn she finds herself increasingly caught up in the lives of the women who surround her. The Girl at the Farmhouse Gate" continues the story begun in the much-loved " Muddy Boots & Silk Stockings"." ...

Hurt & confused by the sudden end of her strange love affair with Venetian millionaire Marco Donato Sarah Thomson takes her bruised heart to Paris where she tries to forget her yearning for Marco by throwing herself into a new project: a study of the life of notorious nineteenth-century courtesan Augustine Levert whose sensual charms parted many a man from his fortune. It is while she is in France that Sarah meets her ex-boyfriend Steven who is hoping for a reconciliation. They rekindle their psychologically & sexually tortured relationship but when her life begins to parallel Augustine's story Sarah realises she will never erase Marco from her heart. Faced with a choice between safety & overwhelming passion will both women make the right decision? ...

Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Despite their deepening relationship however the handsome playboy persists in playing a secretive game. What exactly is Marco hiding? The subject of Sarahs research is eighteenth-century Venetian Luciana Giordano. At a time when debauchery is the citys favourite pastime virginal Luciana is kept out of trouble by a zealous chaperone
- until she meets a man who promises to help her escape her restraints. But just what does the worldly stranger want to teach her in return?
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Born at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 Mary & Walter Tilfords baby daughter is named Thursday. It was meant to be a message of hope for the future
- but they could not foresee that by the time Thursday celebrated her 21st birthday Britain would once again be at war with Germany. Thursday is determined to help in the war effort & volunteers as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She is attached to the Royal Navy & begins her service at Haslar Hospital on the shores of Portsmouth Harbour. The realities of war are brought home to her when the casualties begin to arrive from Dunkirk & Thursday begins to understand the true meaning of courage. While experiencing all the natural hopes & dreams of any young woman finding pleasure & joy as well as sorrow in her work Thursday is given her own opportunity to show strength & bravery in the face of war
- & find a lasting love.

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