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Author
Publisher
Abacus
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank, no ordinary 16-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. His elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital. When news comes of Eric's escape, Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return.
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
ALL SHE WANTED WAS A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
London, 1936
Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven year old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her . . .
As Cora continues her recovery on a farm in the beautiful Norfolk countryside, tragedy strikes her family and she moves back to London with her new guardian, Eliza.
Here...
7) The donor
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Will's 47. His wife bailed out when the twins were in nappies and hasn't been seen since. He coped OK by himself at first, giving Georgie and Kay all the love he could, working in a boring admin job to support them. Just after the twins turn sixteen, Georgie suffers kidney failure and is placed on dialysis. Her type is rare, and Will immediately offers to donate an organ. Without a transplant, she would probably never see adulthood. So far so good....
13) Bad dad
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are fat ones and thin ones, tall ones and short ones. There are young ones and old ones, clever ones and stupid ones. There are silly ones and serious ones, loud ones and quiet ones. Of course, there are good dads, and bad dads. A high-speed cops and robbers adventure with heart and soul about a father and son taking on the villainous Mr Big - and winning!
14) Clownfish
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dak's dad has been dead for seven days when suddenly he reappears. He's the same in almost every way, with one startling exception: Dad has turned into a clownfish, and now lives in a tank at their local aquarium. Dak is delighted by the news - he has Dad back, even if he isn't quite as he was before. Deciding to keep Dad's transformation a secret, Dak visits him at the aquarium as often as he can, and ends up spending so much time there that they...
15) Fear the worst
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his 17 year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job. When she goes missing, Tim doesn't need to simply track her down - he needs to know who she really was.
16) Disgrace
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms...
17) Ayesha's gift
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling 'Philomena', made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of suicide, but why would Ayesha's happy, gentle father kill himself? Ayesha's quest to find the truth takes her right away from her safe London existence...
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