Lev needs to support his mother and little daughter back in Eastern Europe, so he travels to Britain to find work so he can send money back to them. He struggles with the English rituals, the fashions and the fads of the London scene. Through this book we share his dilemmas: the intimacy of his friendships, old and new; his joys and sufferings; his aspirations and his hopes of finding his way home, wherever home may be.
This essential gardening book combines the clear, practical advice of the Royal Horticultural Society with the trade secrets of Matthew Wilson, one of Britain’s leading and most innovative gardeners. With detailed close-up step-by-step photography and fascinating text, this volume is a definitive reference book for a new generation of gardeners.
Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging, made it’s cinema debut this summer. Here is your chance to own the complete Louise Rennison collection so far, right up to the most recent ‘Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing…’ Eight absolutely hilarious books!
With this book the whole family can put their wits against each other in the ultimate generation game, contrasting the schooling of old with modern educational practices. It tests you on these old-school topics: English Language, General Science, Geography, History, Household Cookery, Mathematics, and Music. “The O Level Book” encourages you to dust off your slide rules and get your thinking caps on to see who will come out top in your family!
A heartbreaking true story of a brave little girl’s escape from violence.
Maria’s dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and street walkers, he forced her into prostitution at an early age. Her mother, tiring of turning tricks for her husband, walked out, leaving Maria in his chaotic, violent and sometimes cruel care. Her father was abusing her when she was just nine years old. He was getting a prostitute friend to dress her up in stockings and make-up. By the time she was fourteen he was selling her on the streets of the red light district in Norwich. Despite everything, she still loved him. At fifteen she ran away to King’s Cross with an older lover who turned out to be just another pimp. Furious at losing a nice little earner her father involved the police and both he and the other man were jailed for living off Maria’s immoral earnings.
This is Maria’s shocking story and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons.
The gruffalo, published in 1999, has very quickly become a classic of children’s literature. In this book it’s the Gruffalo’s child who is feeling brave! Will the tiny mouse be able to outwit the Gruffalo once more?
Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler’s detailed illustrations and fast, rhythmic tale will add to the excitement of this fabulous picture book.
Edgar Freemantle doesn’t expect to find much at Duma Key when he moves there to escape his past, but the shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to paint with the hand he has lost…
Dr Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist is called to the scene in an underground chamber in a seedy, dilapidated house in Charlotte, North Carolina. She fights her claustrophobia and the awful smell of rotting flesh as she descends the very precariously steep, makeshift wooden steps. A ritulistic display awaits her: slain chickens, a goat and a skull, ghostly pale with the lower jaw missing and the empty orbits staring back at her. Beads and antlers are suspended above two cauldrons.
The skull is confirmed as that of a young black female - but how did she die and when? Then, just as Tempe is working to determine the post-mortem interval, another body is uncovered - a headless torso carved with Satanic symbols. Citizen vigilantes blame Devil-worshippers and begin a witch-hunt, intent on revenge.
Tempe makes another chilling discovery and the more she learns, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger…
This book by Alison Reid, not only shows how to make simple stitched projects, it also teaches the basics of simple alterations, such as putting up hems and pretty decorative techniques including applique. It has a comprehensive section on basic techniques followed by a section of 15 easy, contemporary projects, with step-by-step instructions.
Damaged: The heartbreaking true story of a lost little girl.
Jodie has been through numerous foster families. She is eight years old, violent and aggressive. Cathy glass, an experienced foster carer, is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to do it to protect Jodie from being placed in an institution, even though her behaviour has seen off five carers in four months.
After arriving, Jodie’s first act is to soil herself and wipe it on her face whilst wickedly grinning. She greets Cathy’s teenage children with a sharp kick to the shins. She cuts her own wrist, then smears the blood on her face on her first night in Cathy’s care.
As time goes by Jodie begins to trust Cathy and her behaviour improves. She reveals details of her abuse at the hands of her parents and others. It becomes clear that Jodie’s parents were involved in a sickening paedophile ring, with neighbours and Social Services not seeing what should have been obvious signs. It’s also clear that Jodie needs psychiatric therapy as she becomes increasingly withdrawn. Cathy urges the Social Services to provide funding, but instead they decide to take Jodie away from her, and place her in a residential unit.
Jodie’s future is still up in the air, even though the paedophile ring is investigated and brought to justice. Cathy promises that she will stand by Jodie no matter what. Her love for the abandoned child is unbreakable.