Winner of the 2013 Mc Kitterick Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards The Lighthouse" begins on a North Sea ferry on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh a middle-aged recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small family-run hotel he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman. In the morning Futh puts the episode behind him & sets out on his week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage & his own. But the story he keeps coming back to the person & the event affecting all others is his mother & her abandonment of him as a boy which left him with a void to fill a substitute to find. He recalls his first trip to Germany with his newly single father. He is mindful of something he neglected to do there an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time around. At the end of the week Futh sunburnt & blistered comes to the end of his circular walk returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the Hellhaus hotel unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absence." ...

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- Mr. Grinling & his adventures in these seven exciting stories read by Jean Waggoner. The stories
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Hamish the lighthouse keepers cat has been neglecting his duties & the mice are running wild all over the lighthouse. With the lighthouse inspector due any day now Mr & Mrs Grinling decide to put Hamish on a diet until he catches the mice... So Hamish sets off to find someone who will appreciate him better. Soon though Hamish realizes theres no place like home. ...

When Mr Grinling locks himself out of the lighthouse he tries everything to get back inside. Not only is Hamish the cat trapped inside he also needs to switch on the light to warn the ships that theyre near the rocks on the coast. Luckily Mrs Grinling has an ingenious plan to get back in...but will it work? ...

This is a new title from the best-selling Read & Respond" series. It offers differentiation advice & assessment guidance. It features plot character & setting speaking & listening activities. It

Includes:: guided reading notes & texts for shared reading. It also features extended writing projects."

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Every day Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper cleans & polishes his light to make sure it shines brightly at night. At lunchtime he tucks into a delicious & well-deserved lunch prepared by his wife. But Mr Grinling isn't the only one who enjoys the tasty food. Will Mrs Grinling think of a way to stop the greedy seagulls from stealing the lighthouse keeper's lunch? This special paperback edition has been created to mark the 30th anniversary of the modern classic beloved by children everywhere. ...

Ronda & David Armitage take us back to the charming warm-hearted world of the lighthouse keeper in this br&-new visit to the lighthouse
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An exciting new edition of Bella Bathursts epic story of Robert Louis Stevensons ancestors & the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. Whenever I smell salt water I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father! Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons but not by any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons all four generations of them built every lighthouse round Scotland were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction & optics & achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson put into writing his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas. The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high endeavour beautifully told; indeed this is one of the most celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory. ...

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew who reveals to her a world of myth & mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless & anchorless Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing & rootlessness of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life Babel Dark's a nineteenth-century clergyman opens like a map that Silver must follow & the intertwining of myth & reality of storytelling & experience lead her through her own particular darkness. A story of mutability talking birds & stolen books of Darwin & Stevenson & of the Jekyll & Hyde in all of us Lighthousekeeping is a way into the most secret recesses of our own hearts & minds. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary & original writers of her generation & this shows her at her lyrical best. ...

A simple introduction to the Hindu festival of Divali. Follow a family as they make rangoli patterns light divas & watch a brilliant fireworks display to celebrate their amazing festival of light. This pre-school series introduces young children to world religions & focuses on the way the festival is celebrated today. There is detailed historical & cultural information at the end for parents & teachers. ...