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Author
Publisher
Mountain Leopard Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
As the new Millennium beckons, Eadie is turning 30 with a marriage in tatters. She must travel back to where she once lived for a funeral she can't quite comprehend. As she journeys from the North to the South, from the present to the past, Eadie contemplates all that was then - and all that is now.
4) Kidnapped
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Language
English
Description
Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Balfours only relative is his guardian and uncle, Ebenezer. Ill-thought of and disliked by many, its not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship.He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule. A tale of high-seas adventure, loyalty and fighting,...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Miss Christina Goering is a young woman from an excellent family with a peculiar, almost mystical temperament. She presumes that she is approaching sainthood, but curiously finds that she must struggle against the attentions of the opposite sex.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to return. Not everyone is happy at her arrival, particularly her estranged sister Liv, their relationship broken after a childhood trauma. As Evie clears out her father's neglected house to prepare it for sale, lonely Evie finds herself drawn to a group of cold-water swimmers led by her old friend...
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Language
English
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When Anne Shirley 'erupts' into their lives, the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny, red-haired orphan. Both entertained and exasperated by her constant chatter and imaginings, they soon find it hard to remember what Green Gables was like without its irrepressible adopted daughter.
9) Oliver Twist
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Language
English
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Description
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books and Subsidiaries
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Be enthralled by the world of Arthurian legend in this lavishly illustrated, masterful retelling. From King Arthur's childhood to his final battle, the timeless tales of the sword in the stone, the quests of the Knights of the Round Table and the wizardry of Merlin are woven together into a breathtaking feat of storytelling. An extraordinary collaboration between the world-renowned Kevin Crossley-Holland and the three-time Kate Greenaway Medal-winner...
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Series
Publisher
World of Eric Carle
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Very Hungry Caterpillar has eaten its way into the hearts of millions. In this interactive, lift-the-flap take on the classic story, children can search for everyone's favorite caterpillar.Where Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar? With a lift-flap on every spread, this sturdy casebound board book lets little readers join in the fun as they search for this beloved character. Is he hiding in the grass? No, that's a chirpy cricket. Is he nibbling the...
Author
Publisher
avon
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
When a body dressed in a Santa Claus suit appears in the snow just outside a small village in Cumbria, DCI James Walker is the first to appear on the scene. Almost a year has passed since something so tragic has happened in the close-knit community, and James is hopeful that it's just an accidental death. But when he uncovers the body, he discovers something that chills him to the bone. The man, a former police officer, was murdered. And it's not...
Author
Publisher
Hemlock Press
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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Description
England, May 1945. Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely, decaying grounds have witnessed a murder. Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, left for the holidays and never came back. Both teachers and girls assume she simply walked out, but the truth is quite different. Her body tumbled from the Maiden's Leap, a viewpoint on the clifftop Gothic Walk,...
17) Therese Raquin
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
19) Inneal na time
Author
Publisher
Follais Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
Gaelic
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Description
When H.G. Wells first wrote 'The Time Machine' in 1895, he created a whole new genre of English fiction. Using a framing narrative, the story is told through the narrator, who is a dinner guest of the Time Traveller. The party is introduced to the machine he claims can allow him to travel forwards and backwards in time. No-one believes him, but when they meet again, they hear a story that leaves them questioning everything.
20) Fell murder
Author
Publisher
The British Library
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Lancashire during wartime, the animosities of closely-knit farming folk take a murderous turn. Initially published in 1944.
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