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Max Stafford-Clark, former artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre and founder of the award-winning company Out Of Joint, touches on the highs and lows of a fascinating fifty-four-year career in a series of letters, both professional and personal.

Millie and Oscar are ordinary children, but it all changes when they are introduced to Mr Wallatt, an eccentric scientist. They and their friend Derek, learn that Mr Wallatt is an eco-warrior and a hoarder, who believes that everything should be recycled so the planet is deeply cherished...

Fourteen years ago, on the day Lauren was born, the first Tremors Day changed the world. Ever since that unprecedented day, every Tremors Day that has followed has brought with it destruction and unrepairable consequences. The world has changed - it had to.

Prague. It's l942, and all Jews are being summoned to the Death Camps. Ernst's wife dies in childbirth, and he escapes to London with his two-year old daughter Sophie. Grieving and guilt ridden he believes the pain of their loss can only be dealt with by remaining silent about their past. A decision that determines Sophie's future.

A trip to the chocolate groves at Barnaby's Mill should have Fleur bringing in her seventh birthday with style, but when a band of hideous savages attack the party, seize Fleur and carry her away with them, an unimaginable nightmare unfolds. Can Fleur be her own saviour, and hatch an escape plan?

It should have been simple. Fly from Moscow to London, help steal from some Prince, fly back home and get paid. When best laid plans go awry, Mikhail finds himself torn between conflicting loyalties, to Alexander, to the mission, and to what he knows is right.

This is a book about awkward moments, impossible situations and desperate circumstances; it's about red faces, cold sweats and serious cringing; it's about putting your heart on the line and hoping it isn't squashed by the first train into the station. In short, it's a book about being a teenager.

Two forcibly segregated, separate sex and rurally isolated schools are inhabited by malevolent masters, petrified pupils, more-kindly matrons and a handful of true heroes - including The Ice Cream Terrorist. This titanic tale of redemption shows how pupils and staff escape and reform the brutal system.

Kabul 2005: the body of Waheed, a UN agency driver, is found in a vehicle riddled with bullet holes. Gil Moncrief searches for Waheed's killer in a city of intrigue and insecurity. In the centre of it all is a small plastic figure of Elvis that dangles from the windscreen; the key to unmasking the killer.

For the Love of a Life is an intimate and searching novel that explores the deepest emotions of a girl who wants both success and true love, but at what cost?

Would you risk everything for a single wish? Nelson Hitchcock's life is forever changed when a stranger begs for help during a school trip to the museum. The reward is his heart's desire and Nelson's only wish is the return of his father, who mysteriously disappeared three years before.

Despite his relatively young age, John McDaid, a young Gardai officer, has risen to the rank of Detective Inspector in the serious crimes squad based in Dublin. Then he is asked to lead in what again appears to be nothing but a simple and routine enquiry, that of a runaway teenager, albeit the son of the US Ambassador.

Begins with the auctions of Babylon and ancient Rome and goes on to describe the slave auctions of the 17th and 18th centuries, then on to the rise of the giant auction houses. This second edition takes the story from there to the decades that have followed, including the emergence of China, Japan and Russia and their influence.

White Scar is the story of 14-year-old twins, Ralph and Alba Milway who find themselves battling with dark forces to secure a wand and the safety of the world. It is a coming-of-age novel as the twins forge their place in an uncertain world.

It's 1970, and Lucy is lonely. Stuck in a boring job, at 23 she's never had a boyfriend and is beginning to despair of ever finding the husband she so yearns for. A story about love, life, relationships and forging your own path in a society that's so set in its ways.

Ollie & Ada cross paths in a bereavement support class. There's an instant attraction but both are lost broken souls who need to find the road to recovery.

Back Stories is a collection of more than thirty, highly personal traveller's tales, embracing adventure, comedy, disaster, romance, stupidity and a miscellany of mishaps, spanning more than five decades on the road.

10 years ago, Ches was left on a Cheltenham doorstep in a plastic bag, with a letter from his birth mother. The letter is his to read tomorrow, on his birthday. Ches panics, not ready to face his fears, and runs away from his unusual but fiercely loving adoptive family.

Longhorne lived alone and understood that he would die alone. Only behind the walls of his isolation could he attain the order and calm he required; find the peace that made his existence bearable. Insulated also from his feelings and memories, he hoped for nothing, demanded nothing, expected nothing. Until his thirty-first birthday...

Anna Ogilvie lives in a Scottish castle surrounded by a deep forest. She's just celebrated her 10th birthday - a birthday like no other for she is visited by a live piece of tree bark whose name is Lyric. He says he is her Sixth Sense. How could this be?

Follows a dragon family's journey through loss and grief following the death of the youngest sibling, Little Dragon. Covering life before Little Dragon dies, his death, and then the period of time after his death, the book supports children preparing for or coping with the death of a sibling, including those with rare or undiagnosed conditions.

Everything that is going to happen already has. During a disruption in the timeline of a sleepy Lake District village, the erratic and strung-out artist Haruki Kensagi cannot help but feel that he's been here before, either in his past or in his future.

When the body of Timothy Wall, a Private Detective, is found in his office, the querulous Inspector Carmichael discovers some surprising revelations and curious contradictions about the dead man. Loved by many and seemingly despised by others in equal measure, Timothy Wall's whole world seems to be strewn with paradoxes.

Charting Derfal's illustrious career, leading to his appointment as a squadron commander as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), this tale traces the growth of a young boy into a man against the background of the First World War. Alongside the action is a tender love story between Derfal and the Stationmaster's daughter, Ruby.

Emily, a down-on-her-luck intern, is recruited by the State Department to solve the Palestinian problem. Only this time they want it handled as a divorce settlement. To pull off the most acrimonious divorce of all time, she must let go of the family trauma that has tainted her whole life... but what if it won't stay in the past?

Set in the Indonesian rainforest, Blind Eye is a fast-paced political environmental thriller exploring moral predicaments and personal choices.

Sarah Braintree is the best Chief of Police that Jersey has ever had, but someone starts killing people. Cryptic notes left on the victims' pique Sarah's interest, and she breaks all protocols by deciding to lead the investigation herself. Will Sarah ever catch this killer and find out why they are doing it?

Summer of 1938 and Veronica and her fascist boyfriend Billy attend a pro-German event. Amid the evening's glamour and fervour, Veronica meets Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, who invite her on a trip to Berlin. All over Europe, evil triumphs as good men do nothing, but for Veronica, doing nothing is no longer an option...

In the blink of an eye, Rachel Vincent can be anywhere. It's easy for her because she's dead. But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died. Who killed her, and why?