Bloomsbury

On Friday next, pub owner Jack Steadman would hang for the murder of Alfie Goode, drunkard and ne'er-do-well. The case was open-and-shut to everyone but Miss Harriet Unwin, who had less than a week to prove that Jack, a Crimean war hero, was innocent. Her snooping soon took her to the ballroom of a retired general's stately manor. But there,...

'"e;And the name of the girl through to next week is..."e; says Stina, and I want to kill her for pausing once again. I want to see her bludgeoned to death with her own stupid mic, her even stupider skin tight dress all stained with oozing gore...'Thousands of wannabes are auditioning to be part of mega-girlband Purrfect in a new...

The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in...

reissued&'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on.&' Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work. After a disastrous start involving a botched fence and an accidental murder, the three move to a damp...

Book 6 - RejacketedMarvin cannot get to sleep. It's late, the ground is hard in Nick Tuffle's garden, he is far too full on cake and he has drunk too much punch. Then he hears a low humming noise. He feels the earth shudder beneath him and there is a bright flash - sort of the same colour as the green icing on Nick's birthday cake....

An Open Letter to the Mothers Feminism ForgotThis work explores why feminism comes into conflict with women who have children, and why women with children suffer when they try to put feminist ideas into practice....