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In August 1914, the lives of two young people seem mapped out in front of them. Frank, happily employed as a bank teller, is to marry his fiancee in the spring. Emily is also to marry around the same time. Both are natives of Jarrow. Their homes are about a ten-minute walk away - but they have never met. Then, everything changes.
Raised among the Cambridge intellectual elite with a distant father and authoritarian mother, Eliza grows up feeling inadequate and alone. But her parents' friends offer support - notably the Rothschild family and Lord Bob Boothby.
When an asylum seeker is discovered sleeping rough at an allotment site, the plot-holders are alarmed and hostile. However, in secret, Walter begins to leave out food for Osama. Thus, a friendship begins on a garden bench, between a grieving widower and an asylum seeker on the run from the authorities.
When alcoholic housewife Julia begins to pack up her grandmother's house, she unleashes a nightmare from her past, long buried in her memory: the spirit of a dead child with a story to tell.
Women as seen through the eyes of men! Set in a Paris restaurant, a reunion of old school friends provides a vehicle for the telling of after-dinner anecdotes on the theme of male-female relationships. A chance meeting, a moment of love, a tender memory, a bitter one.
Isaac is a twelve-year-old human, George is a talking pig, and together they've been on many outlandish adventures, most of which have been given to them by the Queen. This time, she's sent them to kill the deity Thunder. Why? I don't know. They don't know either. They're just trying to have a fun day trip.
King Alfred is dead and the achievements that made him great are in jeopardy. Rebels challenge the succession of his son Edward to the Wessex throne, and his old ally in Mercia is sick. The Vikings in the Danelaw sense the time has come to complete their conquest of England. It falls on Alfred's firstborn, his daughter, Æthelflæd, to unite the Anglo-Saxons. Reluctantly, she takes up the challenge. But can a woman rebuild ruined towns and lead men into battle against hardened Viking warriors? And can Æthelflæd fulfil her father's dream of uniting England?Based on contemporary sources and archaeological evidence, King Alfred's Daughter is rich in drama, family conflict and historical achievement.
Middlewood County High School is a failing 'seat of learning' near Manchester. As the work force braces itself for another week of confrontation, an inane conversation about wasted weekends drops into something more significant. Instead of marking time and books until the next school holiday, a few chance remarks provide some with a new focus. It emerges that no one has a good word for the Head - the inappropriately named Mr Wright. The dour Ron Sidebottom, the charismatic Fred O'Nions and the formidable Mary Mee quickly gather damning evidence to show their 'leader' isn't competent enough to lead a conga. However, securing a vote of no confidence proves as problematic as eating soup with a fork. Inspired by the author's own long career in teaching, Mutiny in the County is a fresh and original comic novel that provides an insight into the secret world of the secondary school staff room.
Cornish Villages is a unique book exploring twenty-two villages within Cornwall. Many are archetypical Cornish fishing villages, others have been built to serve the mining and quarrying industries. Each chapter includes photographs taken by the author and a section on places to see nearby.
PEP Talk is designed to provide proven psychotherapy techniques for readers to work with themselves in order to improve their positive mental health which hopefully delivers psychological support that helps prevent negative mental health issues.
The Sun Shines Through is a compelling and extraordinary memoir from Sharon King. Told from the heart, it is a true account of love and loss and the use of Cannabis Oil to treat Lung Cancer (his) and Breast Cancer (hers).
A society based on the equality between the genders is slowly being established. Free of the harsh and rigid control of the old regime, many of the imperfections of a free society emerge. But not everybody is happy and below the surface, a body of women resent what Sorak is trying to do.
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