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Without fear there cannot be courage. James's first year at high school had an inevitability even he couldn't have predicted. Having a mind that stopped him talking freely and a strong desire to be invisible, was always going to be a challenge in the rush to make new friends.

Following Charles Dickens's death, his friend and biographer, John Forster, discovers a 'lost' manuscript that provides a radically different view of the year the young author spent working in a blacking factory. But is the account fact or fiction?

The Second Vatican Council ('Vatican II':1962-65) sought to bring Church tradition into the present and to provide a renewal for our time of all that is Catholic.

Lorraine is a wife, mother of 7 children. Inner Journey, offers an insight to her travel through life as a medium, healer and spiritual teacher.

After almost drowning while playing cricket on the Goodwin Sands, Rod Edmond sets out to walk the East Kent coastline from Thanet to Folkestone, to explore its geography, its history of invasion and defence, and investigate how its fabled White Cliffs mark a border that has sometimes offered refuge and at other times refused entry.

For the first nine years of her life, she was held in modern day slavery. She saw violence, she knew cold and hunger, she experienced the death of those close to her. It was no life for a child. And now she is free.

We need your help! Archie has escaped and is nowhere to be found. Can you come and seek with us and have a look around? Born without the ability to hear anything, Archie was left sad and alone in a rescue centre waiting for his furever home. This book follows the 'almost' true stories of Archie the rescued Staffie dog.

Billy Atherton volunteered to join the British Army at its darkest hour in 1942 to defend his country and his people. When Billy reached Germany in 1945 Hitler committed suicide. When he set off to fight Japan Hirohito surrendered. This left him stranded halfway, in Jerusalem, and his real troubles then began.

David Stocks played in an era few fans today would recognise: one where World War Two was still a recent memory, where players didn't necessarily have to be professional, and where fry-ups were a perfectly acceptable pre-match meal.

Into the Distance is a first-hand description of a world of truck driving that has long-since disappeared. Back in the 1970s and early 80s, drivers had to be independent and resourceful, in a world without mobile phones (and often even accessible landlines).

'The Poetry of Mr Minevar, Book 2' is a collection of easy reading poems that would appeal to anyone interested in History, Literature or Science.

Have you ever watched a black and white war film, made in the 1940's or 1950's and asked yourself, did this really happen during the war or was it simply a fictional Hollywood action story made to entertain?

Bill Leader's big idea, to go where the music is playing and catch it on the wing, is comparable to the moment when technology freed film directors to shoot on location. It gets great results if you don't mind roughing it.

Melanie grew up in a humble loving working-class home. At school she's limited but later wins a beauty contest leading to a top modelling career.

In this collection Paul Berry continues to be inspired by landscape and his Norfolk heritage. Other poems highlight a growing reputation as a chronicler of love, loss and longing.

Nobody is perfect and that is the beauty of life and, crucially, what makes us all so amazingly unique. Just like Tamoye. Being young can be hard enough, but for Tamoye, navigating school and everyday life can be even harder because of her disability - clubfoot, or 'talipes' to give it its official name.

This isn't just another self help book.. it's a book about our real lives,and our unvarnished lived experience. It's about what has hurt, what was joyful, and what works for us today in this ever more uncertain world. Where life seems to be more about the challenges we are facing on a daily basis.

The title of the book Smithereens captures the grief caused by the death of Sharon, my best friend. However, this is no misery memoir. In essence, it's about wringing the most out of our short lives!

Barbara Kastelin is a story-teller - assured narratives in vivid locations with compelling characters, and a surprise at the end. From the refuse dump sweet music rises, a hungry mountain cavern roars, secrets hide in furniture in a hotel corridor, and a monk lets himself go.

Barbara Kastelin is a story-teller - assured narratives in vivid locations with compelling characters, and a surprise at the end. A dove falls from the Sicilian sky, the green pullover is a problem, a big-nosed statue is abused, while rats pile up in the bedside table.

Moved by devastating media coverage in 1985, John Tomlinson packed his bags to volunteer for the Save the Children Fund with the intent to help rebuild, and run, a small hospital in a town on the border with Ethiopia. However, faced with diminishing supplies, poorly trained staff and civil unrest, the enormity of the task became clear.

All too often, pain in ridden horses is labelled as 'bad' behaviour. The apparently 'sound' horse is 'naughty', 'lazy', 'difficult', 'explosive', 'spooky', 'nappy', and more. These labels are wrong.Pain impacts all aspects of a horse's performance, including its partnership with the rider, and its potential to progress.

I grew up hearing tales of a great-great grandfather, a Catholic man of the cloth from Cork who eloped with a nun. As a child I found ancestors dead-boring, living relations bad enough.

The year is 2060, springtime is missing and Britain hasn't seen snow for over twenty years...Unbeknown to the creatures of the wild, Human 'Beings' have been destroying their homes for centuries. But will they discover the truth in time?

Mum is off to school with the girls, so she sets out some house rules for Izzy before they leave. unfortunately, Izzy's so excited it's Christmas she forgets the rules the moment they have gone and proceeds to break them one by one.

Set within 4 woods this is book containing two separate stories (that should be read as one) with many similaraities that occur some twenty years apart from each other.

'Quite unlike anyone, Bright is hard to fit into the contemporary poetry scene. Late Modernist? Anti-populist, certainly. Skilful, undoubtedly.

Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. In his memoir, Miller goes back to 1950, growing up in the manse at Kirriemuir. After some troubling experiences, he finished schooling in Glasgow determined to lead a humanitarian life.

Meet Egg. Egg is not like any other egg you've ever seen. Egg is gold and white, and can fly and talk and be seen by children and special grownups. It lives in a place of stillness and silence until one day a girl's hand suddenly picks it up and sticks it in her bedroom. Egg is amazed. What is this place?