A vivid and moving portrait of Lily Budge, who overcame poverty and class to become the 13th Countess of Galloway, and one of Scotland's most colourful eccentrics.
Coming of age in rural England in the1980s is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, inthis hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets, and dead ancestors in the attic. Gr
On the eve of World War IIin Liverpool, life is about to change forever for one girl. As war breaks out so too does Molly Dearden! Molly is used to living in the shadow of her older sister, Jun
Even though Tash and Emily go to an all girls' school, they are into boys in a BIG WAY. They're also stepsisters and the best of?friends. So when their mom and dad have to go Peru for work for a coupl
On a small island way out in the middle of a silver lake there once lived a sad young man. He was sad because he had grown up into a giant of a man, very big, very strong, and very frightening. Becaus
A new Dalai Lama is born. The infant god-king of Tibet. And around the child explodes an international conspiracy that will carve a trail of death from the slopes of Mount Everest right to the heart o
In the?third outing for Tom Goodfellowe, following Goodfellowe MP and The Buddha of Brewer Street, he is caught up in a national crisis as the capital is held to ransom by one angry man. In the world
That Britain's industry has been in decline for 50 years is hardly disputed, yet the causes of this slide are still hotly contested. Some have attributed it to poor management, over-weening trades un
The first book?in the?fourth arc, Sword of the Canon, finds Arithon and Lysaer?on an unstoppable path toward direct conflict. Half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer were laid under a curse of lifelong
Fernando Torres is one of the hottest properties in world football. From local Madrid idol to Kop hero and European Championship winner, he talks here for the first time about the unique challenges fa
Drawing upon on a wealth of knowledge, discovery, research, and technical advances, this historical book dispels the common misconception of the "Dark Ages" as an era of chaos and violence. Redefining
To accompany the third series of the award-winning BBC television series, this book gives the amateur genealogist all the tools to trace their ancestors back over six centuries, taking them on a fasci
Even writers of the best prose get stumped occasionally. So whenever you need a level of vocabulary above the ordinary, beyond the humdrum, ahead of the pedestrian, this reference provides all th
