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We used to get standing ovations. Now we get ovations for standing. The last place in which that great lady of the theatre Elspeth Quest wishes to spend her final years is Dustingford Hall, rest-home for retired actors and entertainers.

Mary's own story is here revealed and given value in its own right, not merely as 'the wife of ...' or 'the mother of ...'. This remarkable woman deserves her own place in history.

As if managing your career was ever easy, the post-Covid era of remote working in a destabilised global economy has made it a daunting challenge. Moreover, the political and business leaders don't know how the 'new normal' will pan out.

Christopher is the eldest of seven in a middle-class English family. Theresa is the thirteenth child of Chinese immigrants in the British colony of Singapore. This is the story of how they met after the war, having grown up on opposite sides of the world.

Ronnie and Jake are twins - obviously not identical, but close as. They even have that twin intuition thing going on.

1955. Five naive students are on an expedition from Oxford University to Southern Morocco, a country in the throes of a Nationalistic uprising.

This is a wedding that will change lives - and not just the lives of the bride and the groom.

"That tree has a history. In the old days people called it the See-Saw Tree. Just imagine how that community will feel should it be threatened. Just imagine what might happen if any of the Council's plans went ahead and they cut down that oak tree, that special oak tree..."

Can love overcome death? A pharmacy storage room. The grim sight of the body of a youngster, eyes frozen into black holes and face livid. From the top of his ear spreads a bloody gunk - it's clear that the Grim Reaper has taken his bounty.

April, 1944. A man is waiting to assassinate a prominent figure. He is not motivated by revenge or profit but by his belief that this one act of violence will save many lives and secure a greater peace for the whole of Europe.

Kenny spills his love of Cornwall onto the pages of All Summer Long. His four years as a lifeguard on Cornwall's gorgeous beaches during the 'swinging' Sixties and Seventies saw him reveling in the liberating glories of surf, sand and their sensualities.

In ancient times, epilepsy was a condition felt to be sacred. Early myths and mystique surrounding it led to persecution, demonisation, incarceration and social rejection.

WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT OURSELVES CAN MAKE OR BREAK US Two sixteen-year-old girls. Formerly best friends.

Two women, separated by two generations and continents, both trapped in their grief and unable to move forwards. Upon inheriting Stazzana, a crumbling farmhouse in the wilderness of northern Tuscany, Emma flies out to Italy in the hopes that unravelling the truth of the past will heal her present.

Who were the victims of Jack the Ripper? And what was the impact of his killings on women at the time, and over the last 150 years?

Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal, telepathic powers 'the gift'. Randal had been anticipating the arrival of his special child who would bear the hallmark of his spiritual legacy.

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.

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.

The London Gay Teenage Group was a unique and ground-breaking youth group. It emerged in the heady days of the late 1970s and achieved registration as an official youth club catering mainly for gay and lesbian young people, at a time when gay male sex was still totally illegal for anyone aged under 21.

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.