Previously published as All in a Day's Work Becky Hope works on the front line of child protection. Every day her job takes her into the heart-breaking lives of the most defenceless children. Although Becky has witnessed some horrific things her courage optimism & wonderfully warm sense of humour help her through the most difficult days. But the thing that really keeps her going is the children & her dedication to the fight against their abuse. This is the gripping story of one woman's battle to protect our most vulnerable children & to give them the safety & love they deserve. ...

Pirate Pete: I'm a New Big Brother" is part of Ladybird's successful " Pirate Pete" & " Princess Polly" toddler range
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Princess Polly I'm a New Big Sister" is part of Ladybird's successful Pirate Pete & Princess Polly range
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In 1990 spurred on by the success of his writing & his marriage to the writer Aileen Armitage Deric Longden made a momentous move to a foreign country. Huddersfield in Yorkshire with its distinctive manners & customs & its wealth of remarkable characters would surely provide him with all the material he needed for his planned book one of the great classics of travel literature. But two years later when he sat down to write the major events of everyday life kept intruding: the demands of a houseful of cats the problem of getting the cooker repaired the memories evoked by sorting through old clothes in the wardrobe.. . Still I'm a Stranger Here Myself" is a travel book of a kind where the most hilarious adventures can happen between the kitchen & the bathroom & where a morning's shopping can provide enough anecdotes to last a lifetime. Once again Deric Longden demonstrates his genius for taking the most ordinary materials of life & transforming them with his own special brand of gentle inspired humour." ...

One of a series for young children that explores what it is like to go through a number of significant new experiences this sensitive & entertaining book thoughtfully helps children to understand their feelings about the addition of a baby to their family. Written from a child's point of view it shows how negative feelings about the birth of a baby can be dealt with & how there are many good things about it too. The humourous illustrations not only enable the reader to relate the book to their everyday life but also stimulate discussion about the experience. Notes for parents carers & teachers help adults use the book most effectively with their children & include ideas for using it in literacy classes. Mike Gordon is a highly successful illustrator whose work for Wayland has established a respected information book br&. ...

This practical guide to Transactional Analysis is a unique approach to your problems. Hundreds of thousands of people have found this phenomenal breakthrough in psychotherapy a turning point in their lives. In sensible non-technical language Thomas A Harris explains how to gain control of yourself your relationships & your future
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" is the most listened to comedy programme on British radio. It regularly attracts an audience of 2.5 million listeners on Radio 4 a figure that would put it comfortably into the top ten programmes on BBC2 or Channel 4. The format of the game is very simple: four players
- Graeme Garden Tim Brooke Taylor Barry Cryer & a guest are given silly things to do by the Chairman Jack Dee with Colin Sell setting some of them to music. " Clue" continues to enjoy a long & successful run on BBC Radio 4 & in 2007 the show took on a new life with the first of many national tours playing to 2500-seat theatres across the country. With the 40th anniversary this autumn the world of " Clue" continues to expand & evolve constantly creating new games & welcoming a new generation of " Clue" players attracting new fans along the way."
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Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall & Bill Oddie star in highlights from the groundbreaking BBC Radio series. Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices catch phrase & innuendo revolving at breakneck speed & with a complete disregard for logic' I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" pre-dated "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" & showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall & Bill Oddie. This compilation of classic sketches

Includes:: " Full Frontal Radio" " Prune Manifesto" " Buffers" " Critics" " News in Welsh" " Listening to Flowers" " Eddie Waring Impersonation" & " Taming of the Shrew"
- all on a special vinyl-look CD. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs now reissued on CD."


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'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw & his mother have come to live with Hooper & his father in the ugly isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper Kingshaw is an intruder a boy to be subtly persecuted & Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror. In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be. Kingshaw cannot win not in the last resort. He knows it & so does Hooper. & the worst is still to come... This extraordinary evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood & won the Somerset Maugham Award. ' Hill's exploration of a juvenile ghoul & his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force'
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