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This classic tale, translated into Easy English by Dave Mckay and beautifully illustrated by his son, Kevin, allows those who are new to the English language a chance to enjoy the dangerous and exciting adventures of Robinson Crusoe, originally written by Daniel DeFoe in 1719.Robinson Crusoe's father said he should studyhard, learning to be happy with his life.But Robinson disobeys his father and sails away.He travels the world looking for an easy way to becom...

Those averse to magic need not apply...The perfect novel for Halloween!1880Witches Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St Clair have opened a tea shop in Manhattan specialising in cures, palmistry and potions.When an enchanting woman called Beatrice joins the witches as an apprentice, she soon proves indispensable, but her new life is marred by strange occurrences.She sees things no one else can see. She hears voices no one ...

Gold Dust Brides Series, Book OneViolet Webster is a bride on the run. The last thing she wants is to get married, especially to a stranger twice her age. However, agreeing to be a mail-order bride had been her only option and it paid the steep passage to San Francisco so she could locate her father. She'd find him too, if only her betrothed's son would stay out of her way.Garrett Sutherlin is on a mission. Delivering the striking, ebony haired beauty to his father's doorste...

Get ready to fall in love with the heart-warming second chance, small-town, seasonal romance that's as sweet and nostalgic as apple pie! Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, B.K. Borison and Elsie Silver.Sweater weather is better together.This September, Rebecca McIntosh is back in Bramley Hollow and she’s not sure how she feels about it.The crisp air and golden light usually fill her with that delicious back-to-school sense of ...

Divulging lost secrets can be murder.In his first mission for the Crimson Dragon Society, Nick Severance finds himself drawn into a situation where events of the past have a murderous impact in the present. Can he deal with that impact and emerge unscathed?When Nick Severance gets his first assignment from the shadowy Japanese intelligence agency he joined after fleeing the UK, it seems easy enough. All he has to do is play the babysitter and escort a retir...

From the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister? comes another gripping thriller that follows seven teens stranded together on a trip in the mountains, cut off from civilization, and hunted by an unknown killer who wants them dead.Maggie Atkins will never forget what happened in that cave ten years ago when she and six other elementary school kids were kidnapped b...

When the only form of justice that counts is your own.A tense tale of murder, conspiracy and revenge.One sunny summer morning in the City of London, an archaeological researcher just back from India is gunned down as he leaves a coffee shop. Who did it, and why? That’s the question facing DCI Nick Severance as he investigates his latest murder case.When the answers lead to a terrorist conspiracy that could endanger the lives of thousands of innocent...

A Buzzfeed Best Gift Book of the Year"A dark, atmospheric, and feminist story of three women in New York City's Gilded Age, each determined to thrive in a society hell-bent on keeping them down, and using their coven to do so." —BuzzfeedINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERRespectable Lady Seeks Dependable Shop Girl. Those averse to magic need not apply.New York in the spring of 1880 is a place...

Timing is everything.Is revenge really a dish best served cold? Nick Severance is about to find out, the hard way.When pharmaceutical researcher Julian Frost is brutally murdered, Nick Severance is asked to investigate. Julian had recently returned to England from the Amazon rainforest in Peru, where he was looking for plant samples that could be developed into profitable new drugs. What he found there apparently sealed his death warrant.Nick retrac...

Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, Susan McKay talks again to the people she ‘uneasily’ called ‘her own’, those from a Protestant background in Northern Ireland.Against the backdrop of social justice movements, Brexit, the centenary of the foundation of the Northern Ireland state, and the prospect of a poll on Irish Unity, McKay interviews a wide range of people from all over Northern Ireland. The...

How far would you go to serve your country?Take a woman, whose physical abilities have been enhanced by the latest genetic technology. Train her to use them to kill enemies of the state. Put her out in the field and let her do her job. And when she’s done your bidding and she’s no more use to you, decommission her with extreme prejudice. If you can.Nick Severance has a new assignment. When his wedding celebrations in Japan are interrupted by news of a local...

Emily McKay's The Farm is an addictive novel about twin sisters and their fight for survival in a world nearing chaos.For Lily and her twin sister Mel there is only the Farm . . .It's a prison, a blood bank, a death camp - where fear and paranoia rule. But it's also home, of sorts. Because beyond the electric fence awaits a fate much, much worse.But Lily has a plan.She and Mel are going to escape - into the ravaged l...