Orion When We Were Young Roper Richard

After the hardships of World War II, the 1950s were the perfect opportunity to resume normal boring everyday life. Lots of new things came in: TV in people's homes, Andy Pandy, The Archers, American imports such as 'the teenager', Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Cartoonist Tony Husband transports you back to a lost world of free school milk, beatniks and teddy boys, men in homemade jumpers who smoked pipes and Saturday morning cinema for the kids. It's guaranteed to make you laugh

Meet Andrew • Everybody likes Andrew. But they don't really know him. They know what he's told them - that he's happily married with two kids. Living the kind of life that's either so boring it's true, or so perfect it's a lie • Enter Peggy • Peggy arrives in Andrew's life in a burst of kindness and possibility. For the first time in ages, Andrew feels alive again. So now that he has everything to lose, can he risk it all and tell Peggy the truth?

A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad • Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the departed. Darwin and Yejide's destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the ancient cemetery at the heart of the city, where trouble is brewing and destiny awaits • Embedded with a timeless, mythic magic, and yet alive with a fresh, modern sensibility, this hypnotic literary debut is a masterpiece of rhythm, exuberance, heart, loss in cycle with renewal and darkness with light: a reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets • Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejide's family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead • Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of the island, where trouble is brewing

Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover man' • Through talent and charm, he has escaped small town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night and receiving boilerplate rejection emails for his work, propped up by a constellation of the women and ex-lovers in his life • In the last weeks of the year, Cormac meets Caroline, an ambitious young dancer, and embarks on a miniature odyssey of intimacy. Simultaneously, he must take responsibility for his married brother, whose mid-life crisis forces them both to reckon with a death in the family that hangs over those left behind

A body washed up on the beach… • Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets… • An animal rescue service… • Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new characters, as well as revisiting some familiar settings, these adventures are sure to win over new readers, as well as fans of old favourites such as Letters from the Lighthouse and Frost Hollow Hall

«В Букингемский дворец на прогулку собрались • Кристофер Робин с нянею Алис» • Великолепные стихотворения из этого сборника гарантируют начинающим читателям комфортное и весёлое знакомство с детской поэзией. Здесь они смогут познакомиться с самыми первыми детскими стихами Алана Милна, повествующими о приключениях простоватого, но очаровательного медвежонка по имени Винни-Пух • «Когда мы были совсем маленькими», сборник стихов Алана Александера Милна с оригинальным оформлением художника Э. Х. Шепарда, станет замечательным подарком для детей • По мотивам произведений Алана Милна были сняты культовые американские и советские мультфильмы • Книга на английском языке • 'They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice

«В Букингемский дворец на прогулку собрались • Кристофер Робин с нянею Алис» • Великолепные стихотворения из этого сборника гарантируют начинающим читателям комфортное и весёлое знакомство с детской поэзией. Здесь они смогут познакомиться с самыми первыми детскими стихами Алана Милна, повествующими о приключениях простоватого, но очаровательного медвежонка по имени Винни-Пух • «Когда мы были совсем маленькими», сборник стихов Алана Александера Милна с оригинальным оформлением художника Э. Х. Шепарда, станет замечательным подарком для детей • По мотивам произведений Алана Милна были сняты культовые американские и советские мультфильмы • Книга на английском языке • “They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person • Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?

When war breaks out in September 1939, Laura, Andy and Tim Clark are evacuated to the countryside. The Colonel's comfortable home in Dorset is a huge contrast to their cramped terraced house in London, where their loving parents struggle to put the next meal on the table. Though unused to having children around, the Colonel proves to be a kind and generous, if gruff, guardian until a terrible turn of events means the kids must move on. When they discover they are to live with Miss Justworthy, who is rumoured to feed her evacuees on cat food, Andy insists they can't risk staying. He persuades his sensible older sister and their little brother that they must run away, back to London and their mum • The children are shocked to see London now pitted with craters and ruined buildings

Secrets from the past are the keys to the future...if two children can find them. Bold adventure, timely themes and breath-taking writing from award-winning author, Sita Brahmachari • Usha is devastated when her grandmother Kali Ma passes away. Then straight-talking Imtiaz arrives - her new adoptive sister - and the two girls clash instantly. They both feel lost. That is until Kali Ma's ghost appears...with a task for them • Immy's and Usha's home is full of history and secrets. Many years ago it was The House of the Ayahs - for those nannies who couldn't return to their Indian homeland - and Kali Ma made a promise she couldn't keep. She can't pass on to the other side until the girls fulfil it • Today, Usha and Immy's over-worked parents run the house as a home for refugees, but eviction threatens

12-year-old Ben has a bully in his brain who tells him what to do. It makes dealing with a new school, new town and parents who are falling apart seem impossible. This heartfelt story about a boy with OCD celebrates how friendship can make you brave and find the strength to overcome anything • New town, new school, but the bully is in Ben's head • There are 4 things you should know about Ben • 1. He's 12 years old • 2. He's the new kid at school • 3. His special number is 4 • 4. He has a bully in his brain • Sometimes Ben's brain makes him count to 4 to prevent bad things happening. Sometimes it makes him tap or blink in 4s. Mostly it makes the smallest things feel impossible. And with a new school, a moody big brother, an absent dad and a mum battling her own demons, Ben feels more out of control than ever