Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Deep in a forest of thorns lies a beautiful princess cast into an enchanted sleep by the wicked seventh fairy. Can the spell ever be broken? ...

LYNDA LA PLANTES FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL OF POLITICS. SCANDAL & AN ISLAND PARADISE... Fabulously wealthy entrepreneur Sir William Benedict has always dreamed of being accepted amongst societys elite despite his working class roots. When fast-rising Tory MP Andrew Maynard enters his life William suddenly finds that he has gained the social status that he has always craved. But when a political scandal erupts around him William is shunned by the socialites he once called friends & his reputation is left in tatters. Now the worm is ready to turn... With the help of the wild & enigmatic Justin Chalmers & his exquisite yet reclusive sister Laura Williams island paradise will become the scene of his revenge. ...

California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But shes up against Daniel Pell a master of control who mesmerises seduces & exploits people for his own murderous ends. A convicted killer who is known as The Son of Manson for the chilling parallels between him & the notorious ritual murderer. To track down Pell before he destroys yet more lives Kathyn Dance must enlist the help of four people from the killers past. The three women who lived under his sadistic sway in the cult he once headed. & the young girl known as the Sleeping Doll the only survivor of her familys slaughter at Pells hands.. . ...

The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past! Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs! In fear Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them they were to solve a perfect crime committed many years before. ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance & to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930 little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie already famous for her early Poirot titles was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years with Miss Marples Final Cases published in 1979 three years after Agathas death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marples first appearance & to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels & two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting & formats from the first editions from the Christie familys own archive copies these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. ...

Selina Bruce has impulsively left behind her lawyer fiance in London & flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She is searching for the father she has never known but what she finds is an unexpected truth about herself & the man she plans to marry. For exotic San Antonio offers Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offers the mysterious George Dyer who holds the key not only to her past.. .but to her heart. ...

Coco Chanel high priestess of couture created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple & elegant designs freed women from their corsets & inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms & had amassed a personal fortune. But at the start of the Second World War Chanel closed down her couture house & went to live quietly at the Ritz moving to Switzerland after the war. For more than half a century Chanels life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in rumour. Neither Chanel nor her biographers have told the full story until now. In this explosive narrative Hal Vaughan pieces together Chanels hidden years from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of the Liberation. He uncovers the truth of Chanels anti-Semitism & long-whispered collaboration with Hitlers officials. In particular Chanels long relationship with Spatz Baron von Dincklage previously described as a tennis-playing playboy & German diplomat & finally exposed here as a Nazi master spy & agent who ran an intelligence ring in the Mediterranean & reported directly to Joseph Goebbels. Sleeping with the Enemy" tells in detail how Chanel became a German intelligence operative Abwehr agent F-7124; how she was enlisted in spy missions & why she evaded arrest in France after the war. It reveals the role played by Winston Churchill in her escape from retribution; & how after a nine-year exile in Switzerland with Dincklage & despite French investigations into her espionage activities Coco was able to return to Paris & triumphantly reinvent herself
- & rebuild the House of Chanel. As Hal Vaughan shows far from being a heroine of France Chanel was in fact one of its most surprising traitors."
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Amy Bella Chloe Daisy & Emily are friends at school & have their own Alphabet Club (just look at their initials!). Daisy is the newest member & is desperate to fit in even though Chloe is very unfriendly to her at times. When the girls begin planning sleepover parties for their birthdays Daisy is dreading her own
- she doesn't know what her friends will make of her rather special older sister.. .
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This is not a play. This is a poem in several registers set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise which happens five times in five different forms: new moon half moon full moon no moon & moon reborn. Various characters some living some dead all based on real people from the Severn catchment talk towards the moment of moonrise & are changed by it. The poem which was written for the 2009 festival of the Severn aims to record what happens when the moon moves over us
- its effect on water & its effect on voices
- Alice Oswald A Sleepwalk on the Severn" is a poem for several voices set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise which happens five times in five different forms: new moon half moon full moon no moon & moon reborn. Various characters some living some dead
- all based on real people from the Severn catchment
- talk towards the moment of moonrise & are changed by it. Commissioned for the 2009 festival of the Severn Alice Oswalds breathtakingly original new work aims to record what happens when the moon moves over the sublunary world: its effect on water & its effect on language."



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An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism but they're getting nowhere. A distressed twelve-year-old calls a police hotline & blames his father for the explosion. It could be a breakthrough but there's no hard evidence & the boy has a history of violence & emotional problems. Only CHERUB agents can unearth the truth. They're trained professionals with one essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...