![]() The Worst Witch stories have become some of the most outstandingly successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than 3 million copies. However, Jill continued working as a nanny until the publication of The Worst Witch Strikes Again prompted her to devote herself to full-time writing. The book was published when Jill turned 24 and proved an instant success. Mildred Hubble is very much a self-portrait! She put the book on hold as she attended both Chelsea and Croydon Art Schools, but continued to write it whilst living in a village in Togo, West Africa for a year and then whilst working as a nanny back at home. ![]() ![]() Jill Murphy was born in London and attended the Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon which, together with the boarding school stories she enjoyed reading, provided much of the material and inspiration Miss Cackle's Academy in the The Worst Witch, which she started when she was 15. She has been described as "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land." ![]() Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. ![]() ![]() ![]() As they hope for liberation, Elspeth and Nancy become ever closer, relying on their courage, faith, friendships, and each other both of them determined to see themselves and everyone around them through to the very end. But worse is to come when the group is forced to leave the school and sent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger await. Under this frightening and bewildering new regime, Elspeth Kent, a teacher charged with the care of the girls, must confront her own fears, failings, and regrets as she struggles to keep the children safe. No longer protected by their status, the students and teachers now find themselves the enemy at the mercy of their captors. But everything changes in an instant when Japan declares war against the United States and Britain following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and soldiers march into Nancy's school, placing it under the control of Japanese forces. As students at the esteemed China Inland Mission School, they study Latin and algebra, have daily prayers, and attend meetings of their beloved Brownies and Girl Guides. Nancy Plummer and her young friends feel safe and protected, far from the war raging across Europe. ![]() ![]() Heyer remains a popular and much-loved author, known for essentially establishing the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance. While some critics thought her novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset. Her Georgian and Regencies romances were inspired by Jane Austen. ![]() She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin. She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year. Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. ![]() Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() So Tara Abernathy, a junior associate from Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao whose whole professional future depends on success, gets called in to help with the resurrection of Kos, a recently-deceased god. ![]() This book basically has necromantic wizard lawyers dealing with contract law with gods. Set in a phenomenally built world in which justice is a collective force bestowed on a few, craftsmen fly on lightning bolts, and gargoyles can rule cities, Three Parts Dead introduces readers to an ethical landscape in which the line between right and wrong blurs. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb's courts-and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb's slim hope of survival. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who's having an understandable crisis of faith. Tara's job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Without Him, the metropolis's steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. "A god has died, and it's up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is sure to scratch an itch for fans of dark, soapy romance. Sexy, brooding Samson, especially, is just the kind of hero Hoover readers thirst for. Hoover goes thick on the pathos, and tenderhearted readers will ache for both protagonists. Samson is not what he seems, however, and when the police come calling, secrets come out all around-most notably about Samson’s and Beyah’s tragic pasts. ![]() So it was beyond clever that Colleen Hoover found a way to make even the simplest saying into something poetic. Because we all say they broke my heart, but hearts don’t have bones. After a hungry childhood spent fending for herself for basic necessities, Beyah doesn’t want any messy emotional ties, but she soon forms a tight bond with her new stepsister, Sara, and falls for the wealthy but haunted next-door neighbor, Shawn Samson. One of the other conversations that was wholesome between Beyah and Samson was the heart bones. After recent high school graduate Beyah Grim’s neglectful mother dies of a drug overdose in their Kentucky trailer park, Beyah, in need of a place to stay for the summer before she heads off to Penn State on a volleyball scholarship, reaches out to her estranged father, Brian, but she’s unprepared for her father’s swanky new life in the Houston suburbs. Bestseller Hoover ( It Starts with Us) delivers an angsty and somewhat overwrought new adult romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to prove herself, Ness cons her way into what's supposed to be a simple job for the organization - only for it to blow up in her face. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim, even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul, a questionable organization that may or may not be a cult.īut being a member of this maybe-cult has a price. Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that's monstrous only in appearance, or transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Price - £16.99 hardback £9.99 Kindle ebookĮver since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified - terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. I would like to thank Hodder and Stoughton for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review ![]() ![]() The Crown Kitty and Friends Cordially Invite You. 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The word of Danish author Linda de Haan and illustrator Stern Nijland, King and King is a modern classic. ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+). ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. A quirky, romantic origin story of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. But in a land thriving with magic, madness and monsters, fate has other plans. Cath is determined to choose her own destiny. At the risk of offending the King and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into a secret courtship. At a royal ball where Cath is expected to receive the King's marriage proposal, she meets handsome and mysterious Jest. ![]() A talented baker, she wants to open a shop and create delectable pastries. ![]() A rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who won the hearts of Depression-era. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland and a favourite of the unmarried King, but her interests lie elsewhere. Book Summary West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles 'In Heartless, the nonsense that is Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character.' Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, the infamous Queen of Hearts, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Heartless is the second book in the Chestnut Springs series and it has all the sentiments of steamy chemistry and an adorable found family. Heartless is a steampunk paranormal romance novel by Gail Carriger. ![]() ![]() I dreamed of ‘Old Forbidden Place’ and ‘The Mortuary House’, which feature very powerfully in the novel. “It actually sounds like you know what you’re talking about”, she said. I was sitting up in bed and apparently speaking in this strange language. I created an Ice Age language, words that had the ‘ring’ of the past about them (rajathuk, Tig, cruig-morn etc.) The book really began to come together one dawn when Sarah woke me. ![]() In fact, I’d been planning on writing an arcane murder mystery of tremendous age, and that story - an Ice Age murder witnessed by a boy who would be the first ‘storyteller’ - slotted effortlessly into the plot. I would have to break away from the characters of the first novel. I had been planning to write a direct sequel to Mythago Wood, but now I realised there was a more profound and ‘timeless’ story to tell. ![]() He referred to it as ‘”The realm guarded not against Man but against Man’s curiosity. ![]() But equally surprising was Christian Huxley’s reflections on the nature of Lavondyss, the mysterious realm that lies at the heart of Ryhope Wood. ![]() The last scenes came as a complete surprise to me, in particular the true nature of the primal ‘mythago’ which I called the Urscumug. I finished Mythago Wood in the late summer of 1983. ![]() |