Based on the classic bestseller Son-Rise which was made into an award-winning TV movie viewed by 300 million people worldwide this expanded & updated journal continues the story of Barry & Samahria Kaufmans efforts to reach Raun their autistic child. 22 photos. ...

This bright & colourful birthday card for your son has in large colourful blue & green text on the front ‘ Son have the best birthday ever! printed on a white background. Greeting inside reads ‘ Happy Birthday’. Comes complete with a blue envelope ready for posting. Approximate dimensions: 22.5 x 10.5cm ...

Back in the land of Oz the adolescent boy Liir was last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised comatose & left for dead Liir is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by a silent novice called Candle who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphabas son? He has her broom & her cape
- but what of her powers? In an Oz that since the Wizards departure is under new & dangerous management can Liir keep his head down long enought to grow up?
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First a symphony & then a song.. . Mozart can never stop composing. It's as if his life depends on it. But this deeply angers his employer the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg who will not tolerate the slightest disobedience. So the rebellious young musician decides to get away from the court of his oppressive patron once & for all by moving to Vienna where he will finally meet the love of his life Constance Weber. Meanwhile Thamos Count of Thebes & Mozart's ever-faithful Egyptian companion accompanies him to the city. One of the last members of a spiritual brotherhood keeping alive the secrets of the pharaohs his mission is to find & protect the ' Great Magician' foretold by Osiris a genius whose works will save humanity. Convinced that he has found the one in young Mozart there is no time to lose in instructing his young protege in the Masonic rites inspired by the Egyptian Great Mysteries. But in doing so Thamos & Mozart find themselves in great danger. For the governing powers will not tolerate what they take to be the first steps towards revolution.. . ...

Son of My Father" explores the changing relationship between father son & their beloved football club
- Derby County. Along
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We sat & stared balefully at the walnut buffet. A rich customer had complained it was making strange noises in the night. It was around midnight & we strained our ears to hear hardly daring to breathe. & there it was a kind of crunch crunch crunching sound. John's life as a travelling brocanteur (antiques dealer) in rural France is decidedly less colourful as his unscrupulous yet affable partner in crime Serge Bastarde marries & decamps to Martinique. But like a bad penny Serge returns his personal life in tatters. What follows is a madcap adventure which sees John being coerced into striking deals with the Romanian 'mafia' re-roofing a huge Basque house & getting trapped in a skip in the dead of night while Serge rides an emotional roller coaster. Serge may be as faux as some of his antiques but with John's help he eventually strikes gold in this laugh-out-loud romp. ...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize Deeply humane & acutely truthful Peter Kemp Sunday Times After the upheavals of the Second World War the Richardson family -- Sam Ellen & their young son Joe -- settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of Wigton. Yet for them as for so many life will never be the same again. As the old order begins to be challenged & new vistas open Sam & Ellen forge their future together with differing needs & desires
- & conflicting expectations of Joe who grows up with his own demons to confront. It is as if these were the novels he was always waiting to write... He catches brilliantly the volatility of emotions -- how happiness can curdle anger flare guilt build into terrror. Nicci Gerrard Observer A novel about being alive the kind of slice-of-life novel that everyone feels they have inside them but few could write Brandon Robshaw Independent on Sunday This sequel to The Soldiers Return -- widely acclaimed as Melvyn Braggs best novel -- is every bit as convincing & enjoyable.. . This seems likely to become not only an outstandingly good series but one of the finest & most authentic records of the changes in English society life & manners since the Second World War Allan Massie Scotsman Shot through with blazing integrity & authenticity Val Hennessy Daily Mail
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On a sharp winter's morning a man turns his back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his term. He's lost almost everything: his career as a teacher his wife the future he'd envisaged. All he has left are his three children but he is not allowed anywhere near them. This is the story of Joseph who killed his wife Zoe. Of their three children who witnessed the event. Of Zoe's parents Hannah & Frederick who are bringing up the children & can't forgive or understand Joseph. They slowly adjust to life without Zoe until the day Joseph is released from prison... ...

In the sixth century Celtic Christian monks are thought to have made dangerous & difficult journeys from the west coast of Scotland to seek solitude in Icel&. This evocative pared-down sequence of poems
- the imaginary fragments of a lost manuscript
- tells their remarkable little known story of faith courage & determination. A Song among the Stones was first commissioned by BBC Radio 3s The Verb.

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Lovers are torn apart in World War Two & a mother & daughter separated by guilt & shame in a stunning new novel from the author ...