It’s Okay to Feel Happy is about a little girl who is finding it difficult to know if she can be excited, pleased or look forward to things now that her mummy has gone. Although she struggles with her loss, she soon learns that her mummy would want her to still enjoy her life.
From the minute she wakes up, Sophie misses her mummy and wants to hug her, feel her stroke her hair and tell her how she's getting on at school. Sophie loves her daddy very much but... Læs mere
Mary Lefley was the last woman to be executed in Lincoln, arraigned for the alleged brutal poisoning of her husband in 1884 with enough arsenic to kill... Læs mere
Covers the moment in history when the English Government was trying to introduce a form of Irish self-rule that would unite the whole country. Set in late nineteenth century Ireland, this is a fresh and original story told by ten-year-old narrator, Brede.
This is the story through the centuries of a Highland Clan with its ancient homeland on the mainland facing Skye in northwest Scotland. It is a story of survival against the odds.
On a very usual day, on a very usual school trip to Hampton Court Maze, there is a very unusually named girl called Victoriana Elizabeth Alice Royal. At least she can concentrate on history today... Læs mere
J.C. Squire (1884-1958) bestrode the literary world of the inter-war era like a colossus. A poet, journalist, editor of the New Statesman... Læs mere
When some hear about what I’m writing, they often say “Oh, mindfulness?” To which I say I explain there is more to it. There are references to mindfulness, and you’d expect so, given its popularity; but ‘Being’ is more expansive.
Dark Dante unfolds in Florence in the spring of 2000, exactly seven hundred years after Dante Alighieri set his Inferno there; disgusted with the corruption of his contemporaries, the poet decides to punish the ill-doers of his day in his magnificent poem.
The son of a charismatic and charming proprietor of the best hotel in Newark, I was never much of an academic.
Widower Simon Deveraux is finding his personal and professional life complicated as he tries to bring up his young daughter Joanna and run his financial business empire.
Sachin is a young boy who dreams. He lives and sleeps for the game of cricket. His whole family lives for cricket. He idolises his cricket mad father.