Bøger af Lauren Davies

Joyride is the remarkable story of former World Champion Trials Cyclist, Martyn Ashton, paralysed while at the top of his sport. Martyn believes we possess an inner strength to cope with any challenge. Joyride reveals the strategies of an athlete, husband, father who faced one of life's greatest challenges and still blazed a trail.

Jen Summer is all set to qualify as a lawyer, her snazzy hot shot boyfriend, Jack, in tow. But then she blows it by mucking up a deal and her man ditches her. What does she do? She turns to her friend, Maz, barmaid in the Scrap Inn, chat show presenter manque. Maz and Jen carry on life behind the bar, and Jen discovers the regulars are as good and loyal a family as a girl can get. So when the girls hear, inadvertently, that the pub has been put into the hand of developers, they are horrified but take comfort in the free tickets they've been given to a newly launched daytime TV show. Only when they hit the studio do they realise they've been set up: Jen is destined to hit the screen as ' problem girl', alongside the magenta hued 'marriage buster' and the teenage 'child of the devil'. Maz and Jen hit the roof and storm out - all captured on camera, all witnessed by the hunky work experience guy Jen has been making eyes at. And back at the Scrap Inn, it turns out that smarmy Jack is the guy behind the development deal. That's it: there's nothing like the wrath of a Geordie lass when crossed - nor the humour - nor her canny knack for sweet revenge...

Angel Knights - radio DJ, closet karaoke fan and shoe fetishist - has a problem. Her boyfriend of thirteen years, Connor, has just proposed to her in a flash restaurant and presented her with a rock the size of Gibraltar. Great, you might think, except he's also announced he's off to LA for six months to film a fly-on-the-wall documentary of Essex glamour models chasing fame in Hollywood. Angel can't leave her daily chat show on Glasgow's Energy FM to go with him. What should her answer be? As Connor jets off to LA, Angel asks for time to think and turns to her best friends - Ceri and Meg - for help. Meg, the eternal romantic, is already picking out her bridesmaid's dress, but Ceri advocates caution before commitment (and sex with a few more people first). But before long, Angel is receiving advice from another source: the listeners on her show, most of whom are regulars and either lonely, alcoholic, insane or a combination of all three. Suddenly Connor's proposal is a matter of city-wide discussion, but then Angel meets Didier, French pop star and David Ginola lookalike. Angel is vulnerable, Connor is abroad, Ceri is encouraging and the temptation is great.

This is the story of Little Turtle, who finds himself swimming in an ocean of plastic debris. So he sets off on a journey to make a difference, with the help of his friends and the children of the world. Beautifully illustrated Little Turtle Turns the Tide will appeal to young children who love the ocean, and inspire them to be heroes.