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London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café and a theatre offering shelter, solace and escape from the bombs that fall above. Along with her glamorous best friend and library assistant...

A gripping and heart-wrenching novel set in London in World War Two, following the two women who run a secret underground library

A rhyming tale about normalising fear and finding inner powers by realising there's a hero inside of us all.

Neben Clint Barton nutzt im Marvel-Universum auch die junge Kate Bishop das traditionsreiche Alias Hawkeye. In Los Angeles erlebt sie als taffe, furchtlose Superheldin mit Pfeil und Bogen sowie hochmotivierte Amateurdetektivin nun eigene Abenteuer, wobei man wohl eher sagen sollte: Fälle! Und zwar in der Tradition der großen Hardboiled-Crime-Literatur und des klassischen Hollywood-Kinos. Doch natürlich kommt Marvel-Action in Kates Fällen trotz...

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All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there.

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Should you believe what you see with your own eyes, even if it can't be explained?When Laurie is arrested for setting fire to her father's research lab she's unsure what to say in her defence. Should she say that she's an animal rights activist? Or should she tell the whole story, about the mysterious horsemen that she saw in the woods, and the terrifying truth which lay behind their appearance?In the eyes of the police she is a criminal, but ...

The second novel in the Homefront Girls series set in wartime Stratford, from bestselling author Kate Thompson

When Martina Keane's horse returns home to the family farm without her, the entire neighbourhood goes into action to search the surrounding area. Plans are drawn up, maps are made, and the police are brought in to investigate the disappearance.But in Martina's shocked and disorientated family, each member is compelled to look inwards as well as outwards, and to question their assumptions about the world they live in and their place in it.Set i...

Sarah is taking a break from her eco-warrior activities, looking after her sister's wholefood shop in a small west of Ireland town. When a dying calf is found on the local dump, she begins to make some enquiries. Before long, the dark shadow cast by modern beef production begins to emerge in another, more sinister form, and Sarah finds that her path keeps crossing that of the town butcher, Malachy Glynn. Their outlooks on life are clearly pola...

Down Among the Gods is an urban romance with a difference. A tale of immortals acted by mortals, it is an extraordinary, disquieting tale of human powerlessness in the face of the games played by the gods of classic mythology.

Provenance is set in and around a fictional Warlpiri community at the western edge of the Tanami desert in central Australia. It is the story of an English doctor, whose love of the red desert country brings him to work in the remote community. When a patient asks him to sell some of her paintings for her, he finds himself engaging with the wheelers and dealers who make their living out of Aboriginal art, and the ethical issues which surround ...

Superheroes Don't Get Scared... Or Do They? is an awesome rhyming tale about normalising fear and finding inner powers by realising there's a hero inside of us all.

Noah Cathcart's first 34 years have gone according to plan, his dad's plan. Now it's time for Noah to become pastor of Rolling River Ministries of JESUS Church of the Mighty Miracles. Noah has it made. He married the Pinup Girl of Pastors' Wives, has an eight year old son, a three-legged Chihuahua and a mortgage. Noah's life takes a turn the morning he's arrested.. With the companionship - she has his back - of his childhood friend and fellow ...

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The real stories of working class matriarchs in the East End of London across the Second World War, from standing up to the Krays to taking over the London Underground, are given in this personality-driven history of contribution and resilience.

The real stories of working class matriarchs in the East End of London across the Second World War, from standing up to the Krays to taking over the London Underground, are given in this personality-driven history of contribution and resilience.

Young Dublin actress Deirdre O'Dare has just landed her first big role and desperately wants to shine - and to impress David, the director she has fallen madly in love with.